Week Eleven Term Two

 Our set for the First Fleet expo.

 The gathering crowd of parents, teachers and convicts.

 The crew and convicts singing Botany Bay.

Captain Phillip and his crew singing Waltzing Matilda.

Goodbye to two great teachers: Michelle and Matt.

June 20-24^th.

This was the last week of term and was very busy. About a third of our students are on early vacation to France, so we didn't do too much new. We had practices for our First Fleet Expo on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and the big day was Thursday. It went off well except that we started a bit early than we had advertised and a number of parents were upset that they arrived after we were finished. Oops.

On Friday we had an end of term assembly where Joel had all the grade teams sing a song they had been working on and we said goodbyes to three staff who are leaving. Nurse Michelle has got a promotion, teacher Michelle is taking a leave to complete her masters and Matt is changing schools. Joel also had the school 'band' play two numbers: Stand By Me and Smoke on the Water. Quite amusing.

All week I had been looking and waiting for my driver's licence. I had sent a photo of the expired one and filled out all the forms electronically but I was worried that they would want to see the real thing when I picked up the car. I even phoned dad again on Friday asking for the tracking number to see if I could pick it up somewhere. The website said it was being delivered today, and it arrived at school just before the assembly and an hour before school ended. If it didn't come today I wouldn't get it until after the two week school holiday.