Ellie’s off to School

We got good news today. Ellie has been accepted for a place at the local infants school for a place at their nursery in September.

Ellie will attend the morning session, 9am to 11.30am. This will get her prepared for going to Infants school proper in the following September.

Before she starts we will all go for a pre-visit. This will be to have a tour of the nursery and discuss things with her teacher. Her teacher is a man, which I was surprised at, as its not really a position you expect to find a man in.

I’m sure that it’ll be an emotional day, that first day when we actually have to leave her there, on her own. I’ve no doubt that she’ll be fine as once she gets in there and starts playing etc. then we can relax.

With Ellie going to school, it makes you realise how fast she is growing up.

Our little girl is growing up

Yesterday, Gemma took Ellie to an Open Day at the local primary school. This is where we hope to enrol Ellie in nursery next September.

Thinking of our little girl going to school, made me realise that Ellie is growing up. But, she will always be our “little” girl no matter how much she grows up.

Ellie is turning into a cracking little girl. Like every other 2-year-old in the world she has her share of tantrums, but the vast majority of the time she is really good.

Her speech and talking is really coming along, and we can have real conversations now, which is fantastic. She is beginning to recognise the letters of the alphabet and can even tell us something that begins with that letter.

Gemma said that Ellie really enjoyed going to her “new school”, joining in with all of the older children who were drawing and colouring. She was not shy with them at all which was very encouraging. We think she’ll be happy there, we should know in the next couple of weeks whether she has got in.

Soon though, she is going to be “big sister”, and this will be another step along the road of growing up.