School awards in the middle of a flood!

It's hard not to write about flooding at the minute. The water dropped quite a bit today - enough that they opened the road past the Lagoon Bridge & Bohena Creek was opened again. Yes - probably means nothing to anyone who doesn't know the area, but it means there is a way in & out!! Not that we are rushing to do either (we don't have a 4WD & would prefer not to have to put our cars through water). There is another flood peak coming tomorrow morning. Hopefully it will drop as quickly as it did today.

The bigger news for today was that E got an award at school. Presentation night was going to be on Tuesday night. Over half of the school can't get into town, so decisions had to quickly be made about what to do. As a part of the presentation night is each class doing a dance it was a difficult decision to make. In the end they decided to postpone the dance part of the evening & go ahead with the awards. E was home sick today & we don't find out who gets an award until they are announced. I was there & was very proud when she was given a class award for improvement in 2010 - to put it in perspective each class has 3 book awards & 2 certificates given out. She has worked so hard this year & it has shown in everything from her speech to her reading & writing. Even though I had to give it to her, she knew it was a bigger deal than normal because of the special paper it was on.



I love the cheeky look here
Her teacher has put so much work into the small group she's been a part of this year. They have written their own readers which has been fantastic for her reading. Their confidence has increased a lot too. When she's talking, she is thinking about what she's saying & trying hard to make it so we can understand her speech. The aides that work with the group are fantastic. Her class is amazing too. They are treated like they are always in the classroom even though they have a large amount of time in an adjoining classroom. I'm really hoping it continues next year!!

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