Kids, Autumn 2028

Round 28: Autumn 2028

Principal Tatiana Lachance is 45, Pamela Gray is 42 and Finn Romilly is 27.
Students: Anthony and Veronica Moretti are both 11, Noah Gottlieb and Adelaide Sitko are both 10, Mitchell Carmody is 9, Emma Gottlieb, Jessica Royce-Nihill, Eddie and Louisa Gentry and Timothy Lane are all 8, Declan Romilly, Austin and Lauren Carmody and Justin and Xavier Moretti are all 7, Brendan Lachance and Caitlin Romilly are both 5 and Annabel and Georgina Nott are both 4.

It's not even 9am yet and Adelaide is already causing trouble "playing" with Jessica.

Kicking other children in the head is not acceptable at Sullivan Primary and Adelaide is well old enough to know that. When her teacher pulls her into the office to give her a talking to, she plays dumb at first.

But Finn saw her - all three teachers saw her - so there's no denying it. Adelaide's in trouble.

And she's not happy about it either!

Maybe Adelaide can keep out of trouble in class.

Adelaide has been struggling with her school work lately though, which makes it hard to concentrate.

This morning's maths lesson is quite challenging though and Adelaide's not the only one finding it tough. Veronica has almost given up too.

Adelaide tries another tactic and sneaks a peek at Mitchell's work, to see if he understands it any better.

Adelaide's already skating on thin ice and makes sure her eyes are firmly back on her own work when Finn comes around to see if anyone needs his help.

At recess, teachers and students from all grades can mingle together and Xavier is making friends with Emma.

Emma's showing off her air guitar skills and Xavier is really impressed.

Justin uses the opportunity to catch up with his uncle Finn.


Finn is quite popular with the students. As soon as he finishes with Justin, Brendan is lined up to chat with him.

After recess in the classroom, Georgina is getting to know her teacher, Mrs Gray. Pamela is teaching the pre-schoolers and the kindergartners this year.

Story time is everyone's favourite activity, though Pamela isn't sure about the toilet humour in today's book.

The kids love it though, especially Caitlin!

This is Brendan and Caitlin's second year with Pamela and they're getting along a lot better than they were before they started school.

Caitlin is quite enjoying being one of the "big kids" in class this year.

In fact, once again, Pamela has a very harmonious classroom.

She might want to look out her window though, as there's something that would probably benefit from her attention.


Justin and Noah, who should be in their classrooms, are instead playing a game of catch outside. In the middle of the road.

Tatiana spots Justin missing from her classroom and spies the two boys from her classroom window. All she needs to do is look at them the right way and they go scurrying back to their classrooms.

On the whole, Tatiana's class is quite well behaved.


They're still kids and hard to keep motivated at times.

Much of Tatiana's time is spent walking from child to child, making sure everyone is on task.

She never, ever has to redirect Declan.

Declan loves school. He's more likely to speed through his work and then ask for more than he is to wander around the classroom, leaving his work unfinished.

Xavier wishes he found school so easy. Like his cousin Adelaide, he's not having the easiest time at school.

Tatiana has been working with him when she can, one on one. There hasn't been a whole lot of improvement yet but there's still plenty of time left in the year.

Caitlin is first in the cafeteria for lunch. She heard there would be pancakes and she wanted to make sure she wouldn't miss out!

Annabel and Georgina missed out but they're not too bothered. They're too busy gossiping to worry too much about their food.

On the other side of the cafeteria, Lauren lets out a truly heroic burp, which Justin finds hilarious.


Declan finds it disgusting.


Can't imagine where he gets that from!

Declan's just going to try to ignore Lauren's poor table manners. In Lauren's defense, her parents aren't really fabulous examples in that arena.

There are some seriously uppity kids at this school!

It's almost a tradition at Sullivan Primary, that whenever lunch time rolls around, it'll rain.

Not today though! Today, all the children will get to spend their play time outside.

The kids are absolutely relishing the chance to play on the equipment again.

Even some of the teachers join in on the fun!

Outtakes:
This is what happens when I play with allmenus. I was looking to see if the "Lecture" option appeared anywhere (still can't find it) and found Displeasured. I thought it would be some kind of complaining interaction but it seems to be the Pleasure aspiration failure!

I don't know what Caitlin's problem was but she was stuck with this angry face for a while! I had to use "snap reset" to get rid of it.

One of the perils of using stretchskeleton! This was only momentary, by the way - it happens when the kids climb on that cubby house thing.

LOL, I wonder how it will be before Brendan and Caitlin are totally mortified to have their parents working at their school!

Notes:

• I don't know why but a lot of my kids seemed to be working really hard this round! I don't think Declan would have stopped writing if I hadn't cancelled the action - he got to around 203%! Even getting a picture of all my kids writing at the same time is a feat, normally and I could have taken several this time.
• I had so much fun with this play session. I really love this group of kids and it ran so smoothly! When I was setting up the school photo at the beginning, it was really lagging but as soon as I froze the time with Freezer Clock and started playing, it ran beautifully.