The Boys start school!

This is supposed to be our summer break, if we were still in Utah, but in Australia, it's only half way through their school year.
Here in Parkes there are a lot of different schools for you to choose where you want your kids to go. The public school is the first and one of the schools we walked through and took a look at. There is also the Baptist, Presbyterian and Catholic schools to choose from. We didn't have any interest in the Baptist or Presbyterians schools so the Catholic and public were the two we invested our time in.  We ended up choosing the private Catholic school only cause it's class sizes were so much smaller then the public school.  Coming from Utah where the class sizes were 44 for Cody's class and 32 for Luke's class, we really wanted to get the boys in the smallest classes we could. At Holy Family Catholic school there are only 200 kids in the entire school, leaving class sizes under 20! We really hope this makes a big difference in the kind of education our boys get over the next three years!

Every school including the public school wears a uniform. Every schools uniform is different, mostly by the colors they choose. At Holy Family they wear green, blue and yellow! As I stated in my earlier post, everything is a lot more expensive here then in Utah! To get the boys uniforms I spent $600! They have a different uniform they wear on Thursday cause that is their sports day (you will see those in another post).  I only bought two trousers (pants) and two shirts for each boys, a jumper (sweater), ties, socks and their sports pants, shirt and jacket and it came to $600! I still haven't even bought the girls their uniforms yet!

After filling out a long application (this is common out here for everything) to the ministry of transportation the boys were able to take the bus to school! This is their morning routine, walking to the bus stop at the end of our street.

 This is the end of our driveway, where they turn to walk to the end of the street to meet the bus.

 There is this cute bus shed where the boys can sit and wait for the bus to pick them us in the morning and where it drops them off in the afternoon. Now there is no excuse, even when it rains why they can't take the bus to school!
Do you like the fields of sheep all around us? It keeps the boys entertained while they wait for the bus!

 Here is the bus that picks them up for school everyday! Cody complains cause there is a boy on the bus that plays his trumpet while they drive to school and home everyday!

Ok, so I know I took a lot of pictures! I actually only posted a few of them too! But, it's just so dang cute how could I resist!