Ready to go!

The first day of school is still one week away on January 18^th but we are nearly set to go. The girls have all of their school supplies bought and labeled – not such an easy job when we had to translate words like khoki’s (markers), pritt stick (glue stick), lever arch files (binders) and swimming costume (bathing suit) and we now own an English/Afrikaans dictionary. The uniforms have been purchased for every occasion: winter, summer, athletics (track & field), house league sports and swimming (complete with a bathing cap) and special school hair accessories.

Erin is in the final year of primary school (going into Grade 3) and her daily uniform is a pair of long shorts and she will graduate to a skirt like Danica’s next year. Erin’s grade will be taking an overnight trip to Kruger Park in the third term and Danica’s grade 5 class will be taking a four-day field trip in the last term. Danica’s curriculum includes Natural Science, Social Science and Economic Management Sciences – good thing she likes science!

The girls are starting to admit that they are excited for school to begin and they are looking forward to meeting some new kids. We’ll keep you posted!