The School Trial II

Today's the last day of the 1 week school holiday programme and, wanting to have a word with the Principal about Renee's progress/level of learning with the school, I went along with papa to pick her up.('cos I've heard from Renee that the Principal has been working with her personally)

Parents/guardians were already waiting outside the school when we arrived and I've overheard some parents commenting to 1 of the teachers that their kids had enjoyed the holiday programme very much.

Unfortunately, the Principal had already left for London today but luckily, teacher Karen is aware of Renee's progress and thus, I managed to get a brief idea of what/how Renee's been doing so far.  English is quite simple but  I find it ok for her to re-enforce(as long as she's not complaining of being bored) but the mathematics concept is pretty similar to E.nopi's and as such, we might drop her off Enopi when she starts school after the June holiday.  To re-enforce Renee's Chinese, we were encouraged to let her take on extra lessons and for that, I told the teacher that since they provide the option, we would most likely choose the 4days a week school schedule with the school(more costly in terms of value) so that we could keep to her Friday morning Berries class.  Teacher Karen recommended that we should let her come in for the Monday classes if she's to 'miss' the Friday classes 'cos there're 'show and tell' session on Mondays - that's no problem at all, since we're going for the Mondays to Thursdays schedule.  Renee was alittle upset at first when she learnt that we're opting her out of the Friday classes(she's overheard the teacher telling me that Fri lessons are more 'fun', that's why) but was comforted when I reminded her about their 'show and tell' session on Mondays.

There's also an option of 'creative art' on Friday mornings and they actually outsourced this to Nafa arts!  OMG, imagined we had to que up at Nafa arts in the past, hahaha but in any case, we're opting out of the Friday classes so there's no issue here...(perhaps if we're still staying around here, our #2 can go there! heee, but oh, I don't like their phonics, hahaha, nvm, still got a few more yrs to go before we have to think abt this :>)

What's Renee's reaction to the school, well, she said she likes it and would like to go back after the June holidays(even though I've reminded her that it may not be as 'fun' as the holiday programme anymore), :)