20th - 24th January 2014
Since we are nearing the end of Jan, you would think we would have sorted my kid's timings for his extra-curricular activities. Well, we haven't. So, we dropped in the school to speak to the teacher in charge of Co-Curricular activities. According to him, some of the clubs/societies have yet to commence anything and as and when they do, it will be announced to the students. The house practise is not scheduled to start till mid-Feb. As for uniformed bodies, it falls on Week 1 and 3 of the month which means for Weeks 2, 4 and 5, my kid has to come in on a Sat for the activities. Looks like one parent has to be home permanently to provide transport. I don't know how other parents' are coping.
The ideal situation will be for a single session school that starts AM and finishes PM. where all extra curricular activities are slotted after school hours and lunch. As the school does not have the space to accommodate all students, right now, the Form 1 & 2 kids (13 & 14 years old) are placed in the afternoon session, hence the messed-up timings.
This week my kid brought home a Geography assignment and he said he needed to type and print out. I was happy to hear this, finally, some work where he can use some brains to work on. But alas, what he had to do was to type out some info from the text book (exact words as in the book) then use the computer graphics to draw a bar chart in colour and print it out. So what he printed was an exact copy of what was already in the text book...what teaching method is this, just blindly copying everything there is in the book?
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