Year 6 dress code dialogue
Wearing a skirt on a bike the cross bar would get in the way. That’s why girls’ bikes don’t have them and boys don’t wear skirts. Yes, they do: kilts! Kilts aren’t skirts. What’s the difference between a kilt and a skirt? Imagine if all the boys came to school wearing skirts! They’d have to hold their skirts up to play rugby! They’d have to wear leggings! Like the All Blacks. The All Blacks don’t wear leggings, they wear skins. What’s the difference between leggings and skins?
School bathroom politics
Upon arrival the teacher surveys the field: one five year old in retreat within the anonymity of a cubicle, the other, round faced, mouth a perfect open o, looking up at me from his position beside the sink. Were you fighting? No, we weren’t. His eyes are round too, and glossy with the righteous light of truth. We weren’t fighting. We were just deciding who’s the boss.
National Standards (Mathematics 2.1.7) 2012 Question 3a:
If one primary school teacher uses on average three coffee mugs each day, by the end of one school week how many of these mugs will have made it into the staff room dishwasher? How many will be left in the classrooms? Of these, how many will be half full? Will some classrooms have more than others? How will you know? Show your workings.
Daily Notices for 29 July
1. Years 6-8 Drama club starts again this term, Thursday lunchtimes. All
students with drama experience welcome (I guess that means all of you).
2. A reminder that Wheels Day is Wednesday. It’s all about the Dubble-Youse,
people. Please work with us to keep wheels out of the playground on days
that begin with Em, Tea or Eff.
3. And would the child who contributed the tin of lamb and liver in gravy catfood
to the school emergency kit donation box please get a teaspoon from the staff
room and report to the school office at morning tea time.
