Caity on Statenschool

This is a description of a school day and the differences between Holland and Australia

Monday:

(day one of school in Holland)

When I was dropped off I was greeted by Elske who is going to be our teacher for the two weeks. We started the day off with a play which was in Dutch. We then went inside and introduced our self buy saying our name age and hobbies. For example…

“Hi my name is Caity.

I am 11  years old

And I love to swim.”

We then had maths and we did the maths that mum gave me. After that we had recess and had a book read to us in English which was good. Then we walked to a playground then to gym where we played three games…

1st: we threw a ball to three people and on the third we throw it over a net and if it bounces you get a point and if they catch it you don`t get a point.

2^nd:  There is a ball in the middle of a basket ball court there are two team who have tennis balls and you have to roll the balls to knock the ball over the other teams line.

3^rd: We did tumbles on mats and springs.

After about an hour of gym we went home for lunch. After lunch we need to be back at school at around 1:15-1:20. We then worked on a poem about our stuffed toy I did mine about Jay-lin. It went a little like this…

Jay-lin Jay-lin you run like the wind

and some day I wish I could win.

Jay-lin Jay-lin you eat like the wind

And one day bamboo will come to an end.

Jay-lin Jay-lin you’re white and furry black soft

Always look tired but never stop.

After we did our poems we played some games and went home!

The differences between Australian schools and dutch schools

Australia	Dutch
You stay at school for lunch	You go home for lunch
You don`t have Wednesday afternoon off	You have Wednesday off from lunch time  on
You have sport once a week	You have sport twice a week
You don’t have a smart board in each room	You do have a smart board in each room
You don’t  all drink tea	Everyone drinks tea
You don’t  have a kitchen in your room	You do have a kitchen in your room