Registering Rory's Birth

Today we made the trip in to town to register Rory's birth. Usually we'd go to the Registry Office in Canterbury which is situated just outside of the town center but they've changed where the births and deaths are registered to the updated library on the high street.

Rory is an official person!

We had to ask a couple of times where we had to go to register a birth and finally reached our destination. It was very strange sitting in a library and can't imagine sitting there if you needed to register a death. It didn't feel very warm and welcoming it was quite cold and unfriendly in our opinion. 

We were given a little book bag with two books, Making Friends! Just Like Us by Jess Stockham and What a .. Busy Baby! by Rebecca Patterson, baby's first shapes booklet, a book start rhymes booklet and a guide to books for babies.

Once we'd registered Rory we then headed to buy something to eat and bought some pasties from the West Cornwall Pasty Co. We've had pasties from there before so know just how lovely they are. I had a Sunday Lunch pasty, Darren had a chicken and bacon pasty, Darren's mum, Trish, had an original Cornish pasty and Kellan had some mini pasties which were pork and apple. They were delicious and Kellan loved eating his mini pasties whilst sat in the park.

We then found a little bakery on the high street and bought some cakes and a biscuit for Kellan. 

Kellan attacked his before I managed to take a photo

Cerys received a post card from school today in the post. It's from her English teacher.

Cerys didn't know she was getting a post card so this cheered her up. It's nice hearing from teachers. We are so far from her school that we can't get there for parent teacher interviews so these let us know how she's doing.

Harvey came home from school with his e-safety ambassador certificate today, it's now pinned up in our hallway.

What Harvey Is Up To At School

Harvey is now a year 6 and he's a favourite with his teacher and he's a busy little bee lately.

In July he visited another primary school to attend an e-safety ambassador day. He was one of five children from his class invited to be trained in e-safety.

Teachers from the primary school lead the children in making e-safety cartoons and helping the children learn about e-safety. 

The five children would then be ready to give talks and advise children and teachers in their school when they went in to year 6. They also have their own page on the school website.

Harvey also has a reception class buddy. The primary school has a system that pairs a year 6 child with a reception age child to help them get to know the school and gives them an older friend to help them with problems or to just play with at play time. Harvey's buddy is Gwen which we were all surprised about and they are loving being paired up.

Harvey has also been picked to operate the sound system and projector in the school hall during assemblies with one other child from his class.

On September 11th and 12th Harvey took his Kent Test. It's a test taken by year 6 pupils in Kent to see if they can enter grammar schools in the area. Cerys took these in year 6 but didn't pass them. If Harvey passes it opens up our school choices for him but we have told him that we won't be disappointed if he doesn't pass. We find out October 16th at 4pm via email if he has passed and then we can get his secondary school application filled in before the deadline of October 31st.

Another job that Harvey has is to order stock for the Fair Trade tuck shop the school holds every Friday at 10:45am. They order the items via a website and Harvey had his first try last Friday.