Another piece of good news for me..... Elouises school had an OFSTED report conducted on the last month. (OFSTED is a standard gov agency that goes into all schools and measures the effectivness of teaching standards etc)
The school scored 1's ( the highest score) in EVERYTHING!!!
This puts them in the top 5% of schools in the UK, including private ( fee paying ) schools!
We are so pleased. We knew it was a very good school. As Karen can tell you the house prices in the UK can go up ALOT if the local school has good results. However we did look at a private school, that got mostly 1's in its report last year. The fees were alot and we decided it was better for me to be an active part time mum, and go to a local school, than be a full time working mum, just to cover the school fees. Im so pleased we seem to have made the right decision.
The only bad thing for your friends are, that once the school gets a really really good score, EVERYONE tries and gets their kids in there. And at times they have to turn children away. There are only 17 people in Elouises class, but the OFSTEd report said the school could take up to 30 per class!
so next year, the class sizes might increase as people swop their kids schools.
OFSTED are hard to " cheat" or "bluff" as they observe, and talk to kids, who have a way of telling the truth! However it does seem weird to me that EVERYTHINg was a 1- outstanding !
nothing to work towards
Woo Hoo! 50th post! I'm crackin' open the good stuff!
. Your family will certainly enjoy this cruise, we have only cruised the 4 night Wonder before ( last Oct) and that was great! We come from the UK, Im Linda ( will be 40 by thre cruise) Wayne my DH and Elouise our DD who will be 5. 
sorry I didnt ask sooner if you were all OK. Im glad I read on, and read you are all OK. What a shocking incident, and how sad. Prayers are with all families caught up in this tragedy. 
