Holly's First Day at Pre-School

Yesterday was another land mark day in Holly’s life as she had her first afternoon in pre-school at the TOPS foundation in the Wick Community Centre. She has been so excited about starting school and loves wearing her little blue TOPS t-shirt. From this week onwards she will be doing two afternoons a week on a Wednesday and Friday.

What is funny is that Holly is so used to seeing the boys stand by the garage wall for school pictures, that when Tina said she wanted a picture of Holly all ready for school she immediately ran over to the garage and pulled a pose. She walked off to school with her little back pack on and when she arrived there was no tears, no tantrums, no clinging on to Mum’s leg. Instead she just ran off in without so much as a goodbye and got on with it.

I think Tina was a little upset to see Holly going off to pre-school and even more so that she didn’t get a kiss or goodbye. But what you have to remember is that Holly is a 3^rd child and as such is so much more independent than Joshua and Brandon. Plus she gets to do the school run every day and see’s the two boys going to school without making a fuss. So to her it is already a natural progression she is looking forward too and just wants to be like her bigger brothers.

Anyway she seemed to really enjoy her first afternoon there and did me a lovely little drawing. Now all I have got to do is figure out how to pay for it given that the government support for 15 hours a week does not kick in until the January term!!! Doh!

Holly pulling a pose against the garage wall whilst wearing her TOPS Foundation t-shirt.

Such a big grown up girl already and all excited to be heading off to school.

Off she goes with her little ruck sack on her back.

I think there is room for her to grow in to that t-shirt! Tina said she looked so small compared with the other kids in the class.