School photos

These are the school photos. Norwood primary is considered a small and old fashioned school with an arts focus. It is an inner city suburb school with small grounds and like most public schools it does not have its own pool or theatre. It also does not have a tuck shop. But it is right next to the local Norwood footy oval and it does have its own gym and kids are allowed to play in the gym and on teh oval at breaks, provided they bring their hats to school! School plays are done in the local theatre. Swimming only takes place for 2 weeks of the year (for the whole two weeks) at a local pool and lunches can be ordered from a local cafe. The school has just over 300 kids and just over 30 nationalities are represented at the school.

Aborigine children (of which there are hardly any) are accompanied by their integration officers (which appear to the untrained eye to be adult white males who come and see to their particular integration needs ... not yet entirely sure what these are...for a whole day once a week or so... Daniel is lucky enough to have one of these largely invisible children (except when they are accompanied by their integration officers) in his class. However, when I looked at Daniel's photos today and told him that Richard in his class was aborigine, he was astonished (and quite impressed)...when I asked him why he was surprised he said he thought Richard Indian or something but that he danced well nd was a really fast runner and that he was "really nice" even although he doesnt play much hand tennis (considered by daniel to be the whole point of all education. (Of course Daniel was also quite astonished to find out that Caleb Bianco might possibly be Italian... I reassure myself by reminding myself that Daniel was in Grade 2 when he came home one day and said he had noticed that you got different colours of skin...). So unlike his sister, who started classifying everyone according to very

strict visual criteria when she was three (maybe because she had arather strict  Zimbabwean teacher who felt it her duty to warn teh chldren in her care against the evils of inter marriage) .