Kit's enrollment interview

The principal of the school we hope to send the twins to rang last week. She and the special needs support educator had decided on a date to doa functional assessment on Hannah at the preschool.
Her suggestion was that we do Kit's interview straight away as she had done most of the other ones already. Hannah's would take more time. So last Wed I dropped Hannah at her prep for school program and I took Kit up to complete his enrollment interview. DH left work to meet us there.

All went well. I had no idea what would happen but luckily I ran into a Mum I know through the brats' long day care and she had already had an interview at that school (as well as 2 other catholic ones in our area). She mentioned that the principal tries to gauge where the child is up to.
So given that she has already spent at least 40 minutes with us discussing Hannah's special needs, the niceties of the meeting went smoothly. DH got the impression that the point of the interview was really to assess us - and that may well be true. I don't mind - I felt that it was a positive one and even when Hannah was mentioned briefly I got the sense that it was in a 'planning we need to do for her' kind a way rather than a 'if we take her' kind a way. Fingers crossed anyhow!

So after chatting to us, asking us about Kit's milestones for walking and talking as well as how we'd describe him and what things he likes to do. She asked a few questions about our reasons for choosing a catholic education and her school in particular. She also asked about how we discipline Kit and how we view education.

She then sopke to Kit. She has a lovley manner with the children and obviously genuinely enjoys watching them and educating them. He had to name the colour of various pencils - she asked him about 2 blue pencils (which he'd correctly identified as blue) and he was able to say that one was a lighter blue than the other. He then counted them (24) into the pencil holder and when she asked him to keep counting he went up to 29 before he got stuck. He had to name the basic shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle); demonstrate he understood small and big, short and long. He was shown the numbers 1 - 10 and had to point at the one she asked for. He was then given some blocks to build something with - he built a dog, a tower and a building. She asked him what games he played at preschool (powerrangers ??? I didn't even know he knew anything about those ones - I don't!) and then he named his friends from preschool.

The conclusion of the interview was no surprise. He is 'school ready' as they say in the trade. He certainly is. I think he's gonna love school.

Now we are onto Miss Hannah's paperwork....