Orientation

We went for the P1 orientation last evening. From what I know, our school seems to be the only one who holds it on a Friday evening. I'm not sure of the reason for it, but I really find it's a bad timing. It's scheduled to begin at 6.30, so even though Princess has her dinner pretty early, around 6 or sometimes 5.45 if I finish cooking earlier, it was way too early to be eating at 5. So when we got to the bus interchange, we managed to buy some buns for her and her daddy. However, there were a few glitches along the way which did not allow her to eat anything, such as the fact we didn't know the shortest way to walk over. So we had to go a longer way which took a bit more time but we did get into school just a few minutes before 6.30. So poor girl didn't get to eat dinner till 10pm. She did have a piece of bread after leaving class at 8.30. She's made a friend in class she says, so that's great. :) And there's also one bearing the same name as her.

We submitted our forms which were sent out to us earlier and proceeded to send Princess to her class to meet with her form teacher and classmates. We were to leave her there for an hour while we made our way to the school hall to listen to a talk and filled up forms etc. What I was really surprised to see was that she wasn't the only tall girl there. She's 6 but she really looks like 9 in terms of height, so great that she doesn't stick out like a sore thumb. :) We were joking last evening that when she reaches Secondary school, she'd be looking down at mummy, and I am not short to begin with. ;P

The other thing is that I didn't know that the teachers have been switched so I had told her that it was one teacher but it turned out to be another. Well, but good thing is she seemed quite nice.

What I am really very pleased with the school is that they are really concerned that our kids do not carry heavy bags to school and thus we are supposed to pack the recommended list of books for first day, which will be kept by the teacher in class. Wow, I'm so glad, as any parent can tell you, those books weight a ton and the poor little mites have to drag them to school every day. The advice was to buy a lightweight not big bag, as well as they discourage trolley bags as they do weigh a lot because of the trolley part, even with no books in them. Also, like KY's kid, they do not have English textbooks next year so that is another weight off. :)

They are starting single session the year after (2010), thus the enrolment has slowly been getting less but unfortunately we missed it by a year. I am looking forward to her starting school but I also know that once they start P1 they grow up so fast. And one other thing I'm very pleased is that she is in the yellow team just like I was in Primary school and she's very happy to learn that her aunt and godma were also in the same house. :)

Got to go now to do orders for books... ciao!