This was the moment at the end of January 2009, right before Phoebe walked into her classroom on the very first day of her school life. Look at the look of determination...well OK you might not be able to see that, but that's what it was, I can tell you, as her father that that was what she was carrying....that and a bottle of water with ice in it... Matilda was carrying both their bags...in a big sisterly kind of way :-)
I was thinking of this photo tonight as Phoebe graduated from this same school 6 years later. This first pic is of one of her current class teachers Pauline, and one of her close friends, Rosie;
...and this is a group of three great teachers that they both had, John, Tiffany and Natalia.
...Ross, the principle;
Stephanie her robotics teacher;
...and two of a group of four wonderful teachers that they both had as class teachers, Julie and Karen. Karen (in the black dress) was the one that advocated for Phoebe to be moved up a grade, back in the juniors.
At the time, the worry was that she would be just turned 11 when she was going to senior high school if they put her up....but if they didn't she'd be bored. It turned out to be a safe decision to put her up, this week her final report was nearly all A's, warm words about Phoebe as a person, and tonight she got two awards. One for ICT (primarily for robotics) and the other for Production.
She danced in two different dance groups tonight, at the centre front in one of them and she really shone! I was grinning from ear to ear!
Well...needless to say, we are very proud.
....and on top of that she LOOKED gorgeous (well she IS gorgeous!) Her hair was very kindly done by one of our neighbours, and the dress was by yours truly!
Here's a twirl...
After Christmas she starts at Kimberley College... where Tild is already, and she's getting Matilda's current class teacher...so we're sure that she's going to be in great hands!
The end of one era and the beginning of the next.
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