Last Day of Preschool

It's the last day of Renee's preschooling.

Usually, she'd be attending school only on Mondays to Thursdays, Fridays being her Berries lessons day but since it's the last week of school and she's already missed 3 days(2 actually, Tues - Teacher & Parent Meeting, which we didn't attend as well), I asked the Principal if they'd mind if Renee goes in on Friday so that she could have a day more of fun with her friends.  The latter readily agreed and it'd be delightful as they'd be hving a funfare that day for the children!

Although this school does not do what most or infact almost all preschools would, which is a graduation concert, but I'm actually more glad with such arrangements, for I really don't see why we are paying such a high fee(~S$1.5k for a term) for them to get our kid(s) to prepare for the concert instead of learning - preparing them for P1?  I remember seeing K2 children practicing their dance/performance during lesson hours when I sent Renee to her previous Kindy and I was like huh, shouldn't these children be in class learning, getting ready for the next level which is most important? (Since Renee was only in lower presch then, it didn't really bother me but later, this was also 1 of the reasons why I pulled Renee out of their system...)

In any case, Renee had fun today, at the school's funfare, prepared by the teachers.  The children were only asked to make little coupons the day earlier(they just simply wrote the value like 'S$1, S$0.50' etc) out of small pieces of paper which the teachers later stapled up as booklets of coupons for them to make pretend purchases of food at the funfare(this also helps in teaching them to buy food at the school canteen next yr).  They even took turns to tend to the stalls, it had sounded fun when Renee described it to me. Unlike her previous Kindy, everything, including the food the kids would 'buy', were prepared by the school/teachers.  The school even gave them a story book each!  Even though Renee's only been with them for a short 2 terms, I can see that this school has a nice, caring and non-calculative Principal/environment.

Finally got the Green Ambassador Certificate and 'Badge'-Gold
(ya, she's got gold for bugging at me to bring my own shopping bag all the time!)

*Am surprised to receive the deposit refund cheque today - thought we'd have to wait for weeks like with other schools...