Madeline's honour certificate

I kept Madeline home for a few days from last Friday. She has had the most terrible cough - and although she has been to the Dr and he has confirmed it's croup, with all the covid going around in WA right now (and cases in our school too!) I told her she could stay home. Plus the schools have asked that anyone with "covid symptoms" remain home.

So, when the senior assembly was livestreamed on Friday, we watched it and when the honour certificates were handed out, she heard her name called and lost her crap. "Mummmmmmmm. How could you do this to me? You should have known I was going to get one. I missed out! Didn't Ms. Berman tell you?" (Side note, Ms. Berman did email me, but for some reason it didn't go through and she didn't notice until Monday.) Then she slid under the table, had a bit of a cry and then reminded me hourly until I let her go back to school today. 

Personally I don't think it's that bad, her teacher made a huge fuss over her when she came back, apologised profusely about not letting us know in advance and then presented her honour certificate in class with a flourish and took a photo with their adorable therapy dog Sasha.

"This certificate is awarded to Madeline Kendall for: making a fantastic start to Year 5. Madeline completes all tasks in a timely manner to the best of her ability. She produces work of a high standard with neatness and accuracy as a high priority. Congratulations, Madeline!"

Not bad for being the first one given this year! I am super proud of my girl! ❤

rugby colours dressup and an honour certificate

seeing as the bledisloe cup is tomorrow and being held here in perth, yesterday madeline and joseph's school had a "wear your favourite rugby colours day" to celebrate. they've done it for the wa derby (our local term for the two perth afl teams playing each other) multiple times and one of the teachers from new zealand was like oh hey, when is it our turn, so the principcal decided it was!

we were a household divided, but not as we thought... joseph was really into watching the olympics and cheering on australia, so he insisted on wearing the australian wallabies jersey, but maddie wasn't having a bar of that and set out on a hunt to get herself an all blacks jersery, finally finding one last minute from a friend of ours. she was so proud to be wearing "dads team." it was a cool dress up day and i'm stoked that our school offers so many extra bonus fun things for the kids.

and to top off the fun, maddie was awarded an honour certificate! she was so thrilled as she's been working really hard in class and it's obviously paid off.

it was given for "being an active learner and attentive listener in class. madeline is consistently on task and completes all work to the best of her ability. keep up the sensational work, madeline!"

lockdown accomplishments

soooooo we are in lockdown again... but our kids are still at school? we are all so confused. the schools have all their restrictions in place but are saying that the kids can still attend and we are all confused, but also happy for that normality. 

i got stuck into my ironing and got the whole lot done. the basket was my biggest one and stacked double its size on top. crazy. i can't even remember when i did it last. but it's done and i feel very accomplished, especially when madeline handed me an honour certificate for completing my ironing. it was covered in stickers and all and then she told me to pose with it for some photos like i was back at school. she's a crack up.

oh well, here we go again, what will our covid future bring?

 

what an honour - double whammy edition

i am the proudest mum today! i got two separate emails from the kids teachers earlier this week, to tell me that both kids would be receiving an honour certificate at this weeks assembly. double whammy! it was a little sad that i couldn't be there to watch, but with covid restrictions it's all being done digitally now (so that there aren't too many people on the school grounds at once), so i just got the joy of them racing over to me with them at the end of the day instead.

as you can see, they were pretty stoked too!

madelines said:

for always taking on every challenge with a strong growth mindset and in a delightfully mature way. we are so proud of how exceptionally kind and confident you are. thank you for being you, madeline!

and josephs said:

for writing a well structured and entertaining version of jack and the beanstalk. joseph used a range of punctuation to keep the reader hooked!

so proud of these kids! ❤

what an honour!

well the day has come, miss madeline received her first honour certificate today at their junior school assembly. it was adorable, they don't tell the kids beforehand, so she went up to get it with a look of absolute joy on her face, she was thrilled beyond words. of course i am a proud mum over here too... especially seeing as her teacher miss hannah said something so lovely about her "being a kind and caring classmate who is always striving to bring the best out of herself and those around her!" wow. lucky miss hannah has never seen her at home! hahahaha.

we celebrated (shhh there's no need for her to know that it was already planned) with the pinker girls this evening watching mamma mia 2 at the cinema. maddie and i love the first one and we have watched it over and over (and listened to the soundtrack in the car a million times) so it was a perfect movie to take her to. we loved it. i especially thought the younger cast were amazing, i feel like they got it so perfectly spot on when they chose the actors. it's just lovely. cheesy, but great. a definite must see if you like musicals!