Poohy,
The previous principal for ODY was in-charge of the K1 children. But not too sure what happened after she left. Hope their parents would be informed of the plans if not, can imagine the unpleasantness it would caused.
As for the phonics, I am quite contented and comfortable with the progress. The teachers are encouraging the N1-ers to recognise words and I think they drilled Kell quite a lot cos her word recognition as in spelling words ability expanded. She was able to do that with
LV@RP but think the teacher didnt make an effort to capitalise on that so ended up, she only pick up spelling when she is back home with me. Even for her Chinese words recognition, it just shot up, think it is because of the flashcards.
For the outdoor activities, the children in the school take turn. Like N2 and K1 will be playing at the playground, the N1s will be playing with balls or riding the tricycles infront of the atelier.
The biggest change in Kelly was her vocalism eversince she started ODY. Hubby said dun need to send her to speech and drama liao. I also dont know what they do to her but she is now looking forward to performance infront of a big group.
The very regular project works is really good and each of the teachers does do a presentation documenting the kind of works done, what they do, how the children perform at the end of each project work. It is happening but it means leaves get consumed even at a greater pace.
Quality in teaching is quite high, I think also partly because there will be a curriculum specialist sitting in and joining in the class too so that the teachers are kept an eye on yet at the same time, a more senior education is around to help fill in the gaps if any.
So far so good lah, got small incidents happen here and there but it is something that I can my eyes on.
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