Year 6 Farewell

It is tradition at our school that Year 5 host the Year 6 Farewell. It is quite a big deal and a lot of effort is put in to this event every year. Daniel, being a Year 5 student, was invited so it is always a good photo opportunity when the boys get semi dressed-up. This is Daniel with one of his best mates, Edward. They scrub up alright don't you think!!

Super Secrets

Tonight Daniel performed in his drama group's play "Super Secrets". Wayne went along and watched the performance and said it was great. Lewis was very, very scared by Daniel's appearance.

The Joker

Daniel is doing drama this term. He is performing in a play, written by the students, in a couple of weeks and he is playing the part of The Joker. The drama school has asked for artwork from the students to use in the program and this is Daniel's contribution.

My Big Boy

Daniel's school competed in a Dance Fever Interschool challenge last night. They have been learning to do ballroom dancing for the last 10 weeks at school and last night was the night it was all on show. They were encouraged to get dressed up and just look at my big boy. He was very particular about his hair style, I wasn't allowed to touch it!

The competition

This is Daniel and his partner / "girlfriend" Georgia. They were couple number 238 and they danced the Tango and the Jive.

This is the show dance where they did a line dance to the song "Kung Fu fighting", hence the costume. Daniel's partner in this dance was Ruby, they are the third couple from the bottom. Their school won the show dance contest, the Year 6 contest and they won the competition overall. It was very exciting!

Grand Final Day

Yesterday was Daniel's Under 9s Football Grand Final. We played the only team that beat us during the season. It was a great match, Daniel played the first half as striker (not his preferred position) and jointly scored the goal for his team. Daniel said "the corner kick came my way and I kicked it over the line, their goalie was behind the line and even though he stopped it, the goal was mine. For good measure Thomas also kicked the ball into the goal so there was no doubt it was an All Saints goal." He then played the second half as defender, the position he feels most comfortable in. Unfortunately they played a lot of the game over the other side of the field so there wasn't that many photo opportunities.
The tense parents on the sideline. Daniel in defence.
As every team player did, Daniel spent some time on the sideline, still happy to pose for the camera.Sue brought the streamers.

Grand Final Day Part 2

During the second half we had 5 or 6 shots at goal, none however connected with the back of the net.
Then the ref blew the whistle, 1-0 our way, yay!

Daniel received his Champions medal from one of the Spirit players.

Grand Final Day Part 3

The Under 9 Div 6 Champions.
Daniel thoroughly enjoyed his football this year. Thank you everyone who came to support him, Uncle Ben, the Kennys (even though they were sick!), the Williams, the Slaters, Amanda and Brett. PS Lewis still loves Uncle Ben.

We went to the farm

Last week we escaped Sydney and visited Sylvia and David for a few days. For those unfamiliar, they live on 1000 acres in the Blue Mountains, right on the crest of the Great Dividing Range. This is the view from their backyard. It was about 1-4 degrees outside and a very, very pleasant 19-22 degrees inside.

Ben came up for the day on Thursday. He hasn't visited there for close on 20 years.

Still at the farm

It was very chilly sitting on the back of the ute. A lot warmer in the cab.
David got the stock whip out and the boys acted out their Indiana Jones dreams.
Under close supervision of course.

Daniel's photos

I downloaded the photos from Daniel's camera this morning and I've found, what I think are, some very interesting photos. Daniel was also very particular about which photos I was allowed to upload to the blog!

Saturday morning

Here's Daniel in action last Saturday morning playing in the Under 9s. He wears Number 10.

No more Little A's

Last Saturday was the final Little Athletics for the season. This is Oliver running through the gates at the end of his 70m.Oliver doing long jump.
Daniel doing long jump.
Daniel finishing his 100m.