Our beautiful teachers: Mrs Joss and Mrs Philp were very happy to receive flowers for being so helpful (I bet they get flowers all the time).

Student of the week: each week someone in our class gets chosen as student of the week. I was lucky enough to be presented the award by Mr Philp at our school assembly. My Dad was pleased with me as he said I looked nice and tidy with my socks pulled up, shoes polished and shirt nicely tucked in. My Nana and Koro came to assembly too. I was very proud.

Free Dress day: Dad wanted to get a class photo of us in our mufti clothes. Flynn was kind enough to make sure the correct TSS uniform was in the photo so that we didn't forget what it looked like. Not quite a full class today with Jack and Hamish away. We missed them. This was as close as we got to a formal picture, and it is especially nice to have our lovely teachers in the photo for the blog too.

Thursday August 3rd, Class Photo's day:
Mrs Philp reckons that after a year with us Prep J boys, she'll be ready to take on a role in a Formula One pit crew (she has such vocational diversity). She and I are having a bit of a test run here to see if we can get our pitstop time down under 7 seconds.

We have three mice (not visually challenged I believe) in class, complete with two cages, tunnels, wheels etc. I love spending time with them after school. This is Mrs Joss showing me one of the mice (affectionately known as "scruff scruff").

We have "wild animals" as our theme this term (Dad reckons there's at least 16 in the class already!). Today we made a paper giraffe each. Over the next few days we will glue and paint them so that they can stand up proud and tall.

We had our class photo today. Luckily everyone in our class made it in today to be in the photo. Quite a few boys have been sick lately.