End of school

 Concentrating hard

Finished product

We had a manic last week of school: Mini Yorkshire show on Monday - Tom baked some biscuits after the branches left and during the final of the cricket world cup which was problematic as it was very exicitng and went down to the very last bowl of the tournament (England won - but by the skin of their teeth).  Anyway, his biscuits came second which was good (first time either of us has come placed in anything)  I did guide him - but verbally - it was all his own work.

Then it was open evening at school Monday evening - this is when you get to meet the new teacher for next year and visit the new classroom.  Doesn't really apply for us - Tom has Mrs Clements again next year and is moving with his teacher to the Year 6 classroom - meaning it isn't set up yet.  We had a look through his books and found one full of comments such as 'is this all you have done Tom?"  "where is the rest of your work Tom" etc etc.  Was the old non-concentrating Tom back?  His school report didn't mention anything like that?  We had a word with Mrs C - turns out he didn't get his work done because of guitar lessons - on realising he wasn't able to do much, she switched some tasks round and he is doing much better now.  We probably came across as really strict parents - but better we sort out anything now.  We then looked at the rest of his books and found some good work and comments - oops!

Reaction to England winning the world cup

Tuesday was a relatively normal day, then Wednesday we had the swimming gala in the morning - which took the whole morning, then dentist straight after school, followed by a cricket match in the evening!  Phew!  The swimming gala was an interesting affair - Tom's not a bad swimmer, but we are all in the dark as to how they chose who does what race.  Tom seemed to be in more non swimmers races than swimmers races - ie doing walking egg and spoon race.  From what we could work out the girls in his house decided what they wanted to do and talked him into doing what was left over - oh hum - he always wants to please bless him!

The cricket match was good and exciting - just like the World Cup and it all came down to the final ball - Ingleton lost by 1 run!!!!!  Not bad considering they are an underage team and were playing a fuller complement of 11 year olds.

Thursday was the last day of school and Vera arrived for the weekend.

Believe it or not, I managed to get 3 cakes done this week - I'm not exactly sure how - although it was stressful!