First Day of School (in England)

Sept. 3: a momentus day in the Dobberfuhl family: Amy began Year 1 (1st grade) at the Glinton village Primary School. Surprisingly it wasn't too difficult for me to send her off to school full-time. Maybe it's because we skipped the kindergarten year and went right into the first grade - the children in her class were already seasoned veterans and not too many were crying for their "mummy." I can't get over how darling all the children look in their uniforms. Pictured above: Amy sporting the English school girl look:

Amy's teacher is Mrs. Becki Stevens. You can see that she is young and beautiful and having met her I can also tell you that she has a personality to match. She is very kind and good with the children and Amy really likes her. Here you can see the children at the end of the school day waiting for their parents to pick them up. There's little Amy! (ok, she's the tallest in her class, so maybe 'little' isn't the right word.)

This was just too cute to pass up - Amy and her new friend, Yi Xuen, holding hands and walking to school together. They are both in Mrs. Stevens Year 1 class. This is also a nice view of how beautiful the village is - you can see the spire from the village church in the distance. Amy and Emily call it the "golden rooster church" because it has a golden rooster weathervane on top.

Here is Amy on the footpath home from school showing me her officially licensed Glinton Primary School book bag. Each day she has a book to read for homework and occasionally she has a writing assignment or spelling words to practise (yes, in the UK 'practise' is spelled with an 's' - see, even I am learning something!)