Extracurricular Activities

We're in a lull (a nice lull) between saturday morning sports. Hockey has now finished. We were a little inconsistent in attendance this year due to sickness or being away. However Ella had a good season scoring for the first time with 2 goals in one match. Katy had fun in her first year of hockey spending most of her time riding the hockey stick, chatting to her team mate who was smaller than her and generally gazing around the place rather than what was happening in the game! I enjoyed the ability to incorporate (and coordinate with Andy) exercise based around the timing and location of hockey. Often we would stop for a post hockey coffee/ hot chocolate at Little Oink to warm ourselves up. And on one of these visits Ella discovered the chess set…challenging Andy to a game…while Katy and I read her favourite cafe book - Growl! A relaxing way to finish an energetic morning!

Swimming at the AIS is continuing. No longer can I enjoy a swim while Katy is in her lesson on Tuesday mornings. We've had to join Ella on Monday afternoons since Katy went up a level which is not offered in the morning program. Katy is now a penguin and Ella also progressed (finally!) and is in octopus.

We are coming to the end of our third term of ballet and had to make some hard decisions. The ballet school performs an end of year concert(s) which I am led to believe is very professional. As a result it requires the students to commit to several rehearsal sessions (along with their parents) plus forking out some more cash for costumes. After a family discussion, Katy was reserved about joining in for the performance so we suggested that perhaps she should wait for next year which she was happy to do. Ella didn't really take the bait of the concert at all which somewhat surprised us seeing though she loves to dress up in her character skirt at home all the time! With this in mind we thought Ella could have a break from ballet for term 4 seeing though much of the dancing I assume would be practice for the concert.

Registrations for Little Aths occurred over the weekend with both girls keen to have a go. The season doesn't start for another month so plenty of time to sew on their new numbers!