Moggill State School

This is Moggill State School. It is a primary school but they take kids up to year 7 so Alfie is here with Oscar. Alfie has gone into year 7 and Oscar is in a year 6/7 class. Alfie was so confident about going that on day one, as I drove past to drop Patrick off at work with the boys in the car, Alfie said "you can drop me here and I will go in"! I didn't, just because I had forms to fill in...Oscar on the other hand was more reluctant to go - positively against going at all - partly because I had said that they didn't need to go to school in Australia (especially when I thought that we would have to pay £250 per child, per week). As it is, education is free for them because the type of visa that we are on allows them to study (and me to work) and for all of us to get medical cover 'as if' we are Australians...!

This is a link to the school -http://moggillss.eq.edu.au/wcms/

On day one at school, Oscar did Latin and on day two, he (and Alfie) did Japanese...so lots of new subjects as well as the usual maths, English, science stuff. Plenty of music and drama but Alfie wants to get the opt out on RE because he hated being given lollies (bribery) for identifying what begins with HS 'Holy Spirit' and then thought the teacher was getting desperate when he talked about 'sex' within RE just to make the half-the-class who stay for RE, snigger.

Oscar has already had someone come in to talk about living in Antarctica for 36 months - apparently you get something akin to claustrophobia and a form of colour-blindness because it is so white. Overall though, this guy loved it and recommended it to everyone. I can see Oscar thinking about that one...!