Getting Ready For The First Day Of The New School Year!

It was a long summer holiday!

Even though last year the holiday feeling lasted even longer due to the few months of prepping our emigration to Spain, I was super busy with all sorts of things at the time that time simply flew by. This year was different, the lady finished her first year on the Spanish public school and after working very hard and thanks to an amazing tutor who guided her 6 hours a week, she ended school year one with a banger of a report card. Proud parents!

To make it easier for everyone and less boring for our daughter, we signed her up for summer school, the full month of July she went to English summer school and had a blast! She didn't miss a day and it was great to know she was having so much fun every morning until we picked her up at 1. It was an expensive month but well-worth it!

Sadly, for August you can hardly find anything to send your child to, all these activities are in July. It's for good reason that the schools have such long holidays obviously because it's simply way too hot in August normally.

Dealing with the heatwaves

I said normally because this year, I experienced it the other way around. In July, we faced a heatwave and there was a very high humidity as well. Some days were unbearable and I feared August if I'm completely honest. Of course, we had some high humidity days (even now in September) but we also had cooler days and evenings, so everything was more in balance. Thankfully this was helpful to keep our daughter occupied mostly inside during the weekdays as I could not drive myself and her dad had to work during the day.

Books and supplies

I already turned in the form to get the new books when school ended in June so the new books have been waiting to be used since two months lol. While I got that covered very early in the summer, I also made sure to order new supplies for this year, meaning she has been waiting patiently until school starts to use these new supplies.

I allowed her to try the new pencils and markers out while being crafty as she clearly enjoyed testing these new (better) supplies. Luckily for me, most books come with a ring binder so luckily I only have to cover a few books this year. Covering them was quite stupid last year honestly because it turned out the books didn't need to be returned and most were workbooks anyway.

Going through the wardrobe

A few days before school started, I took the time to go through my daughter's wardrobe to see if we are missing some items so that I can buy them before school starts. I also took the opportunity to throw out some old/stained/too small clothes. Gosh, this girl has so many dresses it's insane. LOL. As for the wardrobe I have a new system in place so I will not have these last minute laundry sessions in the weekend and to make sure some unused clothes will also be used because if it's up to her, she picks the same things over and over again.

Un-dust the trolley!

As all kids go to school with a small trolley instead of carrying heavy backpacks (thankfully for them!) I yet have to pull the trolley out of the closet and clean it up because every corner here is filled with dust within hours after doing a great cleaning. This also goes for the storage area we have, the cats also used it to play so now I will have to take it out after 12 weeks of holidays and make sure it looks brand new! I'm happy we bought the bigger model trolley last year because most trolleys are a bit too small to fit the bigger books and she has several of them this school year. Fingers crossed it will all fit again..

Evaluation exams

By the time of finishing this post, the first week of school just ended and it will be fun to find out in the next weeks and if they were all ready for a new year and remembered anything from the first class. Time will tell, thankfully we still have an amazing tutor for her to guide her with school work.

Apparently, they already had exams on most classes so I guess soon the evaluation grades will appear in the parent app. So far I've heard no complaints from our daughter, and I'm happy for her she's back in school.

How did your kid(s) do going back to school this September?

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