First day fun? It’s all smiles at All Hallows

The
Catholic Weekly
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Sydney
8 February 2004

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First day fun? It’s all smiles at All Hallows

If the experience at All Hallows Primary School, Five Dock, is any indication, there were very few tears – and lots of smiles – on the first day of school for the kindergarten classes of 2004.

At Five Dock the mood was one of great excitement, as parents and grandparents filmed the littlies walking up the school paths or posed with them for photographs to add to the ones taken earlier at home.

Mums, dads, grandparents and younger siblings accompanied the new pupils into their classroom where there was some time for last minute advice and cuddles.

Then they reluctantly took their leave.

But the children, dressed in their fresh new uniforms and shiny black shoes, hardly noticed them go; they were already immersed in their very first ‘big school’ activity – story time with teachers Katie Coogan and Tanya Vignati.