EVIE Moy is the third-born in her family, but on Monday she'll be taking the lead.
The Avondale School kindergarten student, six, will be going back to the classroom a week before her two older sisters as part of the state's staggered return to face-to-face learning.
Her mum Sarah said Evie was feeling mostly excited, with a few nerves.
"She's going to take the lead here which is going to be different for her, she's never really had to do that in her life," said Mrs Moy, who has checked Evie's uniforms and shoes still fit.
"Evie's favourite thing about school is her teacher, Mrs Lawrence, that's the main reason she wants to go back to school at this point - the schoolwork she's not that fussed about."
Mrs Moy said Evie had coped well with remote learning and had relished seeing her teacher and classmates on Zoom.
"She's a bit hit and miss, yesterday she smashed through all her work and had a really great day but today she didn't want to know about it really, we got through maybe half of it," she said.
"She is more hit than miss, but she does have those days."
Mrs Moy said there was no pressure to complete a certain number of tasks each day.
"It's one day at a time, sometimes it's one hour at a time, sometimes you'll go from her being really motivated to going 'I don't really want to do this'," she said.
"She gets her maths done every day and she does her reading every day and that's pretty much all I've expected of her and anything she does on top of that is basically a bonus.
"If she doesn't get it done, she doesn't get it done, that's what I learned from last year, is it's not going to be the end of the world."
Mrs Moy said lockdown meant the family hadn't been able to hold its annual 'yes day' in the September holidays and she was sad for Evie that kindergarteners had missed out on experiences and excursions that made the year fun.
But there have been other blessings, including the arrival of a new pet.
"She's very much enjoying her little puppy," she said.
"My husband is working from home too at the moment, so there's been lots of bike rides and walks and going to the lake and doing all those sorts of things."
She said the Moys missed their extended family, "but they're also the people we're trying to protect by doing this, so they understand that".
Mrs Moy said there was "an element of worry about sending them back out there, whereas I feel like here they're with me, they're protected, it's not going to go wrong, they haven't really been anywhere except for parks and bike rides and those sorts of things".
"I would be happy to keep them home for the rest of the year to be honest," she said.
"I would have liked for [vaccination] to be available. We've talked about it with her and it will be her choice if that's what she wants to do."
Mrs Moy said Evie didn't have jitters when she started school earlier this year.
"On orientation day we got to the carpark and she said 'Just leave me here, I'll be fine'," she said.
"Third child, so she's pretty sassy and independent. I think she'll be okay, she won't sink, she'll probably swim, she'll be alright.
"I think they're more resilient than we give them credit for."
