Kids, Summer 2026

Round 27: Summer 2026

Principal Tatiana Lachance is 43, Pamela Gray is 41 and Finn Romilly is 25.
Students: Chris Draper, Lucy Gray and Edward Lachance are all 11, Oliver and Sebastian Gentry are both 10, Anthony and Veronica Moretti are both 9, Noah Gottlieb and Adelaide Sitko are both 8, Mitchell Carmody is 7, Eddie and Louisa Gentry, Jessica Royce-Nihill, Emma Gottlieb and Timothy Lane are all 6 and Austin and Lauren Carmody, Justin and Xavier Moretti and Declan Romilly are all 5.

This update is going to be a little bit more commentary-style than usual. The game was not co-operating for this and I ended up playing the school over 3 or 4 sessions. So it all got a little disjointed but hopefully, you can still enjoy some cute pictures!

As there are no pre-schoolers this year, Pamela Gray will be teaching kindergarten, while Tatiana keeps the Grade 1s and 2s.

Luckily, they're a nice bunch of kids. Seriously, Pamela is the only teacher who doesn't have any complete brats in her class!

Declan often sits by himself in class but he doesn't mind.

Kindergarten is serious business and Declan has work to do!

None of his classmates are quite so serious. Austin and Justin are forging a fast friendship.

Xavier seems quite taken with Lauren. Signs of future romance? I guess we'll have to wait about ten years to find out!

Serious or not, all the kindergartners enjoy story time!

Tatiana has a few firecrackers in her class but thankfully, they're all busy at their easels.

The hard work is paying off because for once, the students actually finish their work in the allotted time. There's definitely a difference in ability among these kids.

But Tatiana is sure to praise all the children for their creations, not just the prodigies.

The most important thing to Tatiana is that the kids enjoy their classes and get along with their classmates.

Finn's Grade 3-6 class is hard at work on their creative writing assignment.

Not that they're all happy about it.

It figures Veronica and Adelaide would be the ones who actually seem incensed at the idea of doing work at school.

Finn's onto them though and both girls make sure they're on task when their teacher passes by.

At lunch time, Xavier spends most of his time talking to his new favourite person, Lauren, while his omelette gets cold on his plate in front of him.

Lauren is a very sweet girl (10 nice points!), so it's not surprising Xavier is so enchanted with her. Apparently, not everyone is though!

In general though, Lauren is quite popular with her classmates.

Never a moment's peace, even at lunch time!

Mitchell and Austin should probably fill up now, especially if their dad is cooking dinner tonight!

Jessica is going off on some sort of tangent about bugs.

Or maybe birds. Louisa's not really listening, not that's preventing Jessica from talking.

After lunch, it's time for kindergarten to participate in their first PE class in the gym. With Pamela's help, Declan gives boxing a go.

The other kids are more into basketball.

Austin and Lauren are finding it's a slightly frustrating game, when the hoop is so far above your head!
Austin isn't the persistent type and he gives up on the game pretty quickly.

Unfortunately for Austin, Justin takes this as a sign that Austin is terribly interested in hearing him talk about the sumo wrestling match he saw on TV.

He's not, but 5 year-olds aren't generally great at picking up on these sorts of social cues.

Lauren is still plugging away at basketball, despite Xavier attempting to throw her off with some taunts. Light-hearted taunts, because Xavier's a nice boy!

Lauren's still not having much luck though. Maybe she just needs a couple of extra inches before she can finally sink that ball through the net.

Yep, sorry, you guys are all going to have to walk home in that now. Blame the evil witch. I just figured out that she is the culprit of the constant rain I get every time I play the primary school (she doesn't show up much on my high school lot, for some reason).

Notes:

• Way back when I downloaded Inge's school stuff set, I'd read that a serious Sim would be better at classroom control (ie. keeping the kids on task!) than a more playful Sim. I don't have many serious Sims, so I haven't got to try it out until now. Game play wise, it doesn't seem to make much of a difference though. The kids were still climbing out of their seats every 5 seconds in Finn's class, just as they do in Tatiana's. Has anyone ever got a kid to finish one of those booklets at their playable schools?
• Finn kept rolling wants for Victoria while he was at work. So cute. I had put some family pictures up on Finn's desk but with the crashing, I lost them. I'll have to go in and put them in again. I like the teachers to have some personal effects in their classrooms.
• Timothy was disgusted by Lauren's eating habits. He's a neat freak like his dad Eliot.
• The kids were too cute playing basketball. They all sucked at it, even though Declan and Justin have both maxed out their body points (they had the want to study Physiology). It's kind of realistic that 5 year-olds wouldn't be any good at basketball though, so I was amused.