Groundbreaking Ceremony

Last week was the groundbreaking ceremony for Sydney's school. In September 2011 she should be moving into a new & improved school. I am looking forward to all the rewards of your child being educated in a brand spanking new building, but the one part that I am a little overwhelmed by is....the size. Sydney's current school has a population of 168 students. The new school is projected to be 636+ students...ikes! If I am feeling a little overwhelmed by the thought, I can imagine what it will be like for her & Jason.

Since it will be a new school, Jason will be in full time kindergarten for his SK year. I am very thankful that it is not for this year, because I personally think JK is too young for kids to be in school all day every day. Good grief, some of the kids will only be 3.5 when they start school. Time will tell if this gives kids the step forward they need in today's environment.

Since the school currently only goes to grade 6 & has no music program to speak of, but the new school has the facilities for grade 7 & 8 students and a bone fide music room- there is a team doing fund-raising with businesses to try and get some donations to fill our library with appropriate reading for the older grades & get instruments to complete a music program. On top of this there is the technological teaching tools that you would also like to have available to your kids & all this costs $$$. The t-shirts that kids are wearing in these pictures indicate that we currently are in the red for where we need to be to fill the school & with efforts from the community we are confident we can get where we need to be.

It was a little rainy for the ceremony, so we eventually moved indoors.

I sent Sydney over to Robb & Michele with an umbrella & saved them from the downpour that started minutes after they got their umbrella up.

The symbolic breaking ground turned out to happen in the gym & transferring dirt into another bucket. After all the kids left, Sydney & Jason were happy to do their part in cleaning up.