Finally decided to go look for Renee at the school during their recess time, we went for a short nap(mine's really short, only managed abt 30mins! 'cos I have to 'make' little Rachel fall aslp 1st...)
We drove out at 9:45am and managed to get to the school just a couple of minutes before the recess and many parents were already there waiting. Renee's class is not amongst the 1st few to come down, so we didn't get to see her til awhile later.
Each P1 kid is assigned an older schoolmate as a guiding buddy and we were so glad to find out that Renee's buddy is a very nice girl! She really took good care of Renee and if no one is aware of this buddy system, one may mistook the situation of an elder sister taking good care of her younger sibling.
After their snack, on their way back from the toilet, Renee's buddy saw us and greeted us "aunty, uncle" immediately, a well-mannered girl! Papa and I thanked the girl for looking after our Renee. Told Renee to thank and learn from jiejie whatever she wish to know and also on how to buy food. Then I asked if she'd like to try buying food tomorrow and Renee's very happy. I then told the older girl that Renee's allergic to eggs and asked if she could help watch out for her and she in turn asked if Renee could take those 'maggie' noodles. This showed that she really listened. However, if it's like what Renee's cited, that they may not get the same buddy everyday, then how? Anyway, I've told Renee to inform her buddy(whoever that is) about this and reminded her to ask the stall owners if the food contain any egg. Guess I'd just have to remind her again. Not sure if it's really different buddy everyday but if it's the same one throughout the 2 weeks, then we'll do as Papa's suggested, we'll get a little gift at the end of the 2 weeks for this jiejie. Otherwise, I hope Renee will get nice buddies to guide her for these 2 weeks(she told me that she's had a different buddy on the orientation day and that jie jie's pretty and nice too).
The buddy only settled down to eat her sandwiches after Renee's settled down
Look at how she kept ensuring Renee drank her water? :)
(with e last of these 4 showing Renee kaypohing whilst the jiejie chatted with friend, hahaha)
Renee left alone whilst jiejie went to get herself a drink
Getting Renee ready
Parents crowding the tuckshop/canteen
When the older girl has guided Renee back to the assembly area, she came to us and told us "aunty, uncle, she's already there"(something like that) before she returned to her own classroom, aiyoh, this girl is really nice and responsible!(we were alittle shocked 'cos we didn't expect her to come and inform us)
Again, parents all crowded around the assembly area and the school has to announce over the speakers to get them away, lolz. We both just left, after seeing her settling down in the que.
Feeling hungry, we headed to a nearby coffeeshop and had a super early lunch of porridge(but I still cooked pork cutlet for our lunch, hahaha) before heading home.
Back home, I was back to craziness, preparing and cooking lunch, etc and before I knew it, it's time for jiejie to come home! I was bathing baby when hubby went downstairs to fetch her. She was very excited and all eager to relate her 1st day to us, we even teased her, on what we saw at the school earlier - the buddy jiejie really treated her like a small little mei mei, getting her water bottle ready for her to drink every now and then. I saw Renee shy-ed away and tried to put the bottle nearer to herself but each time, the older girl will reach for it and get it ready for her, hahaha. She's sad to hear that the buddy(ies) will only be with them for 2 weeks but if she's already made some friend, I think it's before long she'd wish to be left alone, hahaha.
Again, parents all crowded around the assembly area and the school has to announce over the speakers to get them away, lolz. We both just left, after seeing her settling down in the que.
Feeling hungry, we headed to a nearby coffeeshop and had a super early lunch of porridge(but I still cooked pork cutlet for our lunch, hahaha) before heading home.
Back home, I was back to craziness, preparing and cooking lunch, etc and before I knew it, it's time for jiejie to come home! I was bathing baby when hubby went downstairs to fetch her. She was very excited and all eager to relate her 1st day to us, we even teased her, on what we saw at the school earlier - the buddy jiejie really treated her like a small little mei mei, getting her water bottle ready for her to drink every now and then. I saw Renee shy-ed away and tried to put the bottle nearer to herself but each time, the older girl will reach for it and get it ready for her, hahaha. She's sad to hear that the buddy(ies) will only be with them for 2 weeks but if she's already made some friend, I think it's before long she'd wish to be left alone, hahaha.
So far so good. From what we saw today, it seems to us that this is indeed a good school(according to several people, including some of our neighours here) but then again, today is just the 1st day, so we'll still need to observe, heee.
*From what I've heard from a gf, I was worried how the school bus would 'mix' the group of students on board, but Renee told me that most of the students are from P1, except one, from P... Also, mostly are staying at Shelford Rd, our area... With this pc of news, I'm more relieved as I've heard that some older kids might bully the younger ones on bus...
She told me that 1 of her friends' also put a HK bag tag and being indecisive, she wanted to change to another design of the HK tags she has. I suggested her to use some of her bag/key charms and then, she decided on these(kept from her Mother Garden bag, :D) :
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