Meet The Teachers

Time to meet the teachers again..

This year, we are happy when we found out Ace is going to get his form teacher in year three, Ms Roberts..because I find her to be firm and strict :) wahahahaha

Ace went with us and while we went for our session with the teachers, he is free to run around and play with his friends in school.. there he is.. playing with the son of the music teacher...

The session started off with a 10 minute presentation by the head mistress...

I really liked the school's vision... and I really hope that this is the kind of person that Ace will grow into too :)

This year, the headmistress gave a moving talk about letting our children be independent but guiding them with care...

She illustrated this point with a beautiful poem by a famous Lebanese poet/artist...

On Children
 Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

What a beautiful poem about good parenting!

Then it was time to meet the teachers...

Last year, his teacher was away in the first few weeks of school.. in fact the first few months.. so we did not get to do this session with her..

This year, we finally got properly introduced to her.. hahaha :)

And found out that she has been teaching something like 20 years and she has represented UK internationally in literacy... no wonder Ace seems to take a longer time to move up the reading levels when he was in her class.. I just tot it was because she is strict..

Anyway, I think after 2 years here, Ace is finally picking up an accent.. the other day he was playing with his friends in the corridor and I heard his voice but speaking in a totally different accent that I do NOT associate with him at all!:) wahahaha

Also, when we do our nightly reading, I noticed he is picking up pronunciation in school.. eg.. the Singaporean way of saying the word "police" will be "pooh lis"  and Ace will pronounce the singaporean way but ang moh kia now says "pur lis". Oh well, I just wonder how long more before he will actually even talk to us in ang moh accented english...

Anyway, after that we decided to go to this new jap restaurant we discovered for dinner.. it is opened by the same pple who opened the Deans Fujiya Japanese Supermarket here in DUbai..

Good service Ace serving tea..

The food is decent enough.. chefs are japanese..

BUT.. pricey lah.. I rather go to my favourite uncle Ryo.. hahaha.. almost same px eat till tummy burst! :)

On a side note... Ace came home very disappointed and told me that he is not included for extra science lessons.. and so that must mean that he is no longer good in science.. and he is sorely disappointed..

I wrote in his SOS book to ask his teacher about it..

His teacher said that.. Ace was not included becuase this term, they only having extra sessions for Year 5 and 6... and Ace was put in the Science Group cos the person in charge asked for the best scientists and asked for Ace.. wow..  I am very proud of my little scientist.. I just hope he overcomes his fear of exploding chemicals to become a great scientist.. hahaha :)

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