Joshua's First Day at School

Today was a very special day for a couple of reasons. Firstly Tina started her new job which means Brandon starts at Seymour House nursery 5 days a week. Secondly. today I was celebrating having worked for Ford/Visteon for a whopping 24 years. But thirdly, and most importantly, today was Joshua's first day at school in his foundation year.

Joshua was very excited and enthusiastic about starting school. Monday we had the home visit from his teacher (Mrs Goldsmith) and the teaching assistant. Then yesterday he had a small 1 hour introduction to his new class to get his bearings, find his coat beg and tray etc. Last night he asked his Mum to lay out all of his school clothes the night before so that he could dress himself as soon as he woke up. His packed lunch was all made if in his new Phineaus and Ferb bag and he had his new Abacus school bag ready to go.

It seems only yesterday I was feeding him bottles and winding him, now look at my big boy all dressed up and looking smart for his first day at school.

The boys chose their scooters as transportation for their first day with their bags hanging over the handlebars.

And here is Joshua, all smiles standing outside the Abacus School sign.

Anxiously waiting outside his blue room for his teacher, Mrs Goldsmith, to unlock the doors.

 

I was not too worried about Joshua settling into his new school as he has lots of friends there and was really looking forward to it.I wasn't worried about Tina settling in to her new job. My only concern was little Brandon has he was probably going to have the biggest change of all. Not only is his nursery changing from 2 days a week to 5 days, but he will also no longer have his sidekick brother to hang around with at nursery.

 

My fears proved true as Brandon clung to me like a pig on the proverbial when we dropped him off at nursery. It makes you feel such a bad parent leaving him there when he is crying out for you. Apparently he was not himself for the first couple of hours but eventually settled down. He was also looking around for Joshua quite a bit. Poor lad.

 

Joshua thoroughly enjoyed his first day although it is quite hard to get any specific details out of him regarding what he actually did. He is completely shattered after his first day at school and subsequently went to sleep very easy tonight. Once again his uniform is all folded and ready at the end of his bed for day 2 at school.