Cally that's an odd way of doing the best start. Only P has had it - it wasn't around for the other two and they just went to school as normal and they got a casual in to cover the class while the teacher did the assessment. K is going to public school isn't she? My kids haven't needed anything by way of books etc because they supply everything. It's only if you want them to have a pencil case with their own pencils, but that's just a pain because at that age nearly all of it ends up lost broken or stolen :/ But I do know of some larger schools where they have to buy everything and it goes into a 'pool' for rationed use in the class.

I'm like a cat on a hot tin roof waiting for news about Cass. Does anyone know who was posting the big announcement for her?