Hockey training

General 

Elliott was really good today. 

Activities

After he'd had breakfast Elliott got ready for hockey training and then did some more animating and added a new video to his You Tube channel. Then we went to hockey training at Wellington School which is now at 11.30am and on the other astroturf. Training was good and there were about 20 boys there for Under 12s training with only Gareth, Jack and Max there from last year (Lucas has joined Maidenhead, Noah will probably join Phoenix and Ranelagh and Josh has apparently decided to give hockey a miss but they've asked Elliott to try and persuade him to play again because they need another goalkeeper). Elliott was a bit shy due to the new coach and so many new people but the training was good and they did some good exercises before having a game. He did some good tackles but I think was a bit subdued. Afterwards we talked about trying to keep both hands on his hockey stick during play (the coach was emphasising this so that at Under 12s level everyone is ready and invovled whenever the ball is in play). I was thinking he might not like the chat but actually he seemed to listen and understand. Then we headed off to Tescos where we had lunch at Costa Coffee (he had a ham and cheese toastie). 

After lunch we did the food shopping at Tescos and then we headed home where Elliott finished off his Ben 10 animation. Then we watched the first part of Batman Verses Superman until it was time for tea and he helped out by laying out the table. He had pasta with Dolmio stir in bacon sauce for tea. After tea he did some Clarinet practice and then had a bath. After his bath he brushed his teeth, got ready for bed and read some more of "what's for dinner MR Gum" before going to sleep.