Parents Engagement Session @ SST

It was on Monday morning, 8am to 10am. I contemplated skipping it but the parents' chat made it sounded like such a big deal. Of course I kiasu and attended the session. 

It was a late day for Zaky but he woke up early, so that we can go to school together. I have been to SST more times in the last few months than the 3 years Nana had been in NH. 

Zaky appeared to like his school as much as Nana's loyalty to NH. He voluntarily stayed back most days after school to work on the class decoration, something that I don't see him doing when he was in Primary school. I was told that he lacks initiative when his Primary School relinquished his Assistant Head Prefect duties. Oh yes, I am still bitter about it. 

Bcos Zaky spent so much time and effort on his class decoration, he excitedly talked about it and asked me to pay attention to this particular board. He said that he singlehandedly put it up, not the design portion, but he fixed it up as per the designer's instruction. He is hoping that his class would win.

The boards were indeed impressive. I peeped at the other classes' board and the others paled in comparison. 

This is the one put up by Zaky. Not bad.

The parents were seated by 8am and the form teachers gave a quick run through of what had happened in the last month, the class' aspiration, etc. We then moved to the auditorium to listen to the school management. 

Now, this part was boring. There wasn't much take back except for this timeline.

Even the questions from the parents were very similar and old. I think I almost fell asleep. The auditorium chair was comfortable, the aircon was nice. Hmmmm... The session overran. I left at 10am sharp. 

I was more interested in the CCA selection. The students went through 3 weeks of tryouts and Zaky kept telling me that he doesn't know what is the next step. Then the same afternoon, Zaky shared that he was shortlisted for basketball and the Singapore Youth Flying Club, with the latter being one of the most popular CCAs in SST and usually only shortlisted students are selected into the CCA. Robotics and media are equally popular. Hmm.. you can tell why these are popular in SST, right? 

What did he choose? Basketball of course. I had been strongly encouraging him, luring him with the idea that he needs the exercise to be tall, lean and strong. Hoho. Speaking of which, he lost weight, largely from skipping lunches. He said that he is not hungry. Losing weight is good but I think growing taller is better. Hoho. 

Nana is officially the shortest person in the Lim Family. Hoho.

Mummy Lim