Charli’s entire school, of 180 pupils, walked down to the beach on Friday morning. Sophie and I picked her up just after lunch, as we knew she’d be pretty tired. She had a great time; though found the walk there quite tiring – carrying her heavy back-pack (bless, she is only a pint size lass – all 15kg of her!).
She brought home a jumping, burrowing sand insect in her lunch box. ‘Lovely!’ I exclaimed, ‘But please keep it outside’.
I took the following photo, of the school down at the beach, whilst I was doing my morning rounds. It really was a top day for the school to be at the beach.
I love her continuing art-work on her white-board. She left this on Thursday evening, when she popped down to the beach to pick up some fish ‘n’ chips for dinner. And the ‘pool’ one she left on Friday ‘avo, when she headed out to the swimming pool with Sophie.
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What an amazing school you go to Charlotte…it was just so lovely to visit it and talk to your teacher….he is great and you are certainly shining like a star in all you do there.
Loving the whiteboard creations…I told my art teacher all about your watercolour paintings and she was very impressed.Sounds as though you had great fun at the swimming pool…again it was just so lovely to come to your swimming lessons too and you both swim like little fishes….we are very impressed with your swimming!! It was also so lovely to come to your Kindi Sophie and meet all your teachers….all your friends certainly enjoyed meeting Alice when we took her along to Kindi.
Well done darlings.
Wonderful photos there of the sweeping expanse of Lyall Bay. I commend and envy your school’s decision to allow the kids a whole day at the beach during this glorious late summer weather. I spent 5 years at Rongotai College(the buildings and grassy bit in your second photo) and although only a stone’s throw from the sea, we were never allowed to go to the beach in school term. Times have certainly changed for the better.