school year winding up for the wind down

The school year seems to getting ready for the end of the year (which is in December).

Barneys school (Longbeach if you remember http://www.longbeach.school.nz/Home) is throwing events thick and fast. Last week was country day. Which was basically an excuse to bring in your best pet. In this case, as its a country school, that seemed to involve dogs budgies or rabbits (if you were a bit townie) or sheep, horses, calves and a couple of chickens for the farm folk. Chaos. But everyone else seemed to know what they were doing.

Yesterday was sports day for all the local schools. No school buses so we all had to get to Hinds School under our own steam. There seemed to be about a million schools there. But on the whole exactly as we remember sports day to be. It was the taking part that counted no matter how fat, unfit or just plain crap at it, you gave it ago. Barney gave it his best. The highlight was the high jump. Not sure how the scoring was supposed to go as no matter if everyone knocked the bar of the ladies still raised it and everyone still went round again till the half hour was up and the whistle went. Jenn unfortunately could only stay for an hour or so because she 'had to help Sean'.

Jack in the meantime is desperately trying to get his points to get his NCEA level 1 - if not he's going to have to do GSCE's all over again and we don't want that now do we (?). So for him its gearing up for exams and he's doing mocks. Last week was science and geography and german. German he's enjoying but will fail as he's so far behind. But we don't care so long as he's enjoying it. The other two he got merits for. Sadly they were just mocks. However, it turns out that if he doesn't turn up for the real thing those marks stand and he can have those. Mmmmm. We wondered. So what exactly is the incentive now to sit the real thing?

The sun is shining and its properly summer now and the local A&P show is on this weekend (A=agriculture P=produce). Awsome.

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