Caring School?

I wonder whether Jain's new school is really a caring school?

A few days after school re-open,the class teacher distributed a little book about "Caring Plan" and a lovely notebook to every student.This make me believe that the school really implement some kind of caring system as advertised in the banner hung up in the school compound.

Well,there are a few phenomenons exhibit that the teachers in Jian's school are more caring compare to previous school.

First,free stationary (eraser,pencils and rulers) are given out to students who want.Jian said even Ben10 (favourite Carton) stationary included.But Jian did not ask for its ince he already had the whole set including school bag,eraser,sharper,pencils,ruler,pencil case etc.

Besides,there is teacher appeared to be more concern on student rather than school work.For example,the Arts teacher ask them to prepare art work by cutting Ang Pow at home.But add on that if they need to complete homework till 9.30pm then they should go to sleep and bring the Ang Pow to do it in school.

Finally,the class teacher asks the class to give big applause after student stand up and read aloud. Though the teacher is new and still adapting to the teaching environment and school activities,but I am glad that she encourage her students.

The school also organize class cleaniness competition across different forms.Students from the most clean class will be given some mystery gift. Jian is inspired and determined to help out. He even volunteered to sweep the floor, clean the windows though it's not his duty.

Today when we send Jian to school,surprisingly the PA system in all classrooms played the CNY song. I felt so impressed and enjoyable.Nowadays even Shopping Complex are lack of this kind of music around.

I really hope that this school can motivate Jian in his study and enable him to learn happily in school.

May my wish come true.

Class seating & Home work

Jian classroom is located at second floor and luckily we bring him to school everyday so we can help him to carry the school bag.
In Jian's 2K class,teacher arranged him to sit in the second row ,second column from the left.
I love the seating position that enable him to see better in front. Actually the seating arrangement in the class is quite special whereby the most left and right column actually facing towards the centre of classroom instead of black board.I guess this arrangement is to avoid stress to the students' eyes.

On the other hand,I found Jian's new school is quite systematic.
Besides locker for each student, the classroom has a whiteboard indicate the date and words for Ejaan/Spelling to remind the students.Furthermore, there is an erasable card board titled as "today's homework list" written by respective teachers. So,since three weeks in school,Jian showed great improvement in completing his homework.Last year, we faced difficulty to trace his homework of the day and he would say no homework most of the time.

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School Re-open

It has been a busy week for me to prepare Jian to go back to school,which is a new school for us.
So I am like the parents of standard one student who appeared at school to ensure their child are taken good care of. The tasks inculdes submit student particulars,canteen catering,books purchase,fees/charges,school badges,etc.
Finally,after one week, Jian has settled down with the new school,day care/tuition centre. I felt relief that we had made a right choice to transfer Jian since :-
(a) no school bus needed - we can send him to school ourselves and know better of his everyday work.
(b) in the new school,every student is given a locker to keep their books or belongings -this really help to reduce the weight of school bag.
(c) the school facility is better and I especially love the aircond library which has a computerized system to borrow books
(d) Jian can do his homework and attend tuition at daycare.

School Transfer Approved!!

On 16 Dec we received the approval letter from Education Department. I felt relief. Now we confirm Jian can transfer to new school when school re-open.

Before that we will go back to current school to get Jian's report card, student particulars form,dentist check card etc.I called the headmistress and she said the teacher will be around only on 2 Jan 08.So,we schedule to collect and pass to new school on that same day.

So,there are a few thing I need to do following that.
(a) To register for MRC after school care.
It seemed that Jian like to join the MRC nearby his new school.They had a trip to USM as an Astronomy excursion in Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah on 13 Dec as part of this school holiday program. The objective of the excursion is to expose the students to meteorites, sun gazing and a journey into galaxy.Besides, they also experienced the making of water rocket and parachute.

(b) To cancel the school bus service
We will bring Jian to school so school bus service is longer needed which I will call to cancel.

Little Wei Zhi had high fever and measles

This few days,little Wei Zhi fell sick.First it started with high fever on Thurs morning.The nanny called us to bring him for doctor consultation.It's terrible, the temperature went up to 39.6C and doctor immediately insert half tablet of fever medicine to the back side.Poor little Wei Zhi cried out loudly.Luckily the fever gone after that.
However,starting from Sat morning, we found red spots on Wei Zhi's face. We brought him to specialist again and according to doctor it might not be the real measles.There was no medicine given and the only advice is to drink more water.I am getting a bit worried about Wei Zhi who's weight did not gain since 6 months old and maintained at around 8kg till now at the age of 8 months.

After checking the growth percentile calculator, little Wei Zhi falls into the following percentiles: Weight = between percentile 10 and 25

http://www.loveyourbaby.com/baby-growth-calculator.html

What do the percentiles mean?
If the child is in the 20th percentile for weight, for example, he weighs more than 20 percent of children his age and less than the other 80 percent.

This means that Wei Zhi is under weight at the moment.

1 Dec: Jian goto MRC holiday courses

Tomorrow 1 Dec, Jian will start joining a holiday courses offered by MRC Bayan Baru for writing composition in English,Malay & Chinese.This MRC centre is within walking distance to Jian's new school. If school transfer is successful,our plan is to send him there for after-school care which includes bathing,lunch,homework guidance,tuition in all subjects. For school holiday now,we let him familiarize with the environment and teacher. The fee for holiday course is about RM300 and the duration is four weeks whereas time from 9-12am. The principle is so kind that she let us send Jian earlier there at around 7.30am before we go to work and we will fetch him back during our lunch time. Actually Jian has attended English course in another MRC centre before when he was four years old and completed level 8 when he was six years old. I like the mind mapping teaching method by MRC which create long term memory in kids and I hope this can help Jian to master the study easily and happily.