We went to see the school that the boys will be going to today. They are starting on Thursday, so we'll have been in the country for just a week. It'll be good as they'll be able to start getting to know some other kids and we'll be able to get on with sorting out various bits of bureaucracy.
The school is named after Lord Strathcona (will have to look up who he is) and is on the edge of Chinatown. For Vancouver it's a fairly old school, but not as old as the archetypal Victorian school that Rowan was going to before.
Once we move to our apartment it'll be walking distance, but for now it's a walk, a trip on the seabus and a bus journey. It'll be great commuting to school by boat but I guess the novelty will wear off in a couple of weeks....
There's more info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Strathcona_Elementary_School
We went to register the boys for school today.
It was at somewhere particularly out of the way and registration was only open 8am-11am. We were slightly late but they let us register anyway, which took about an hour.
The main thing to sort out was which school Josh was going to go to. Children start school a year later in Canada and move to Secondary school when they are a year older. So although he was in his second year at Secondary school in the UK, children his age are in the final year at Elementary school here.
Eventually we decided it'd be best for him to get to know other kids his own age before moving to big school, rather than being with those a year older than him who have already got established there.
And apart from it being nice for them having each other at the same school, it'll also be easier for us getting them there....