This was a very short week for the kids in school. Because of the Jubilee Weekend, Friday was a holiday and Thursday was the National Day Observance ceremony which meant they were dismissed at 10 am. On Wednesday, the school had a National Day musical in evening. The whole school with the exception of the P6s were involved in the musical. So BB, GG and the rest of the cohort were in school for a few hours doing some mass clinics for the PSLE!

Speaking of which the PSLE Orals is in just about 2 weeks time and I am now seriously scared! I am going to work from home the two days to give them moral support!

This week will also be a short one with the school having their English Prelims Papers 1 & 3 (Composition and Listening Comprehension), then next week PSLE Orals!!’

Wish us luck please!!!!

This week was the usual one, except that GG went for her DSA Auditions at the only school she applied for. BB was quite jealous since he didn’t make it to his schools, but she did!

The school is a girls school and one of Singapore’s oldest. We both loved the school when we went there and GG is determined to get there – either by DSA or by her PSLE score! She applied for DSA through Choir and there were around 10 odd girls with her for the auditions. They had been asked to prepare two contrasting pieces which showcases her voice for the audtion, but they were not asked to sing them! What they had to do instead was sing some scales and then the school choral conductor asked them some questions. That was it! We’ll know the outcome sometime by the end of the month. In the meantime, we wait and watch and it’s back to studying for us….

Yesterday was the Hindi Prelims exams and for the very first time I saw BB asking me to wake him up early so that he can study, maybe there is still some hope for him. They woke up about 90 mins early to study. I just hope they’ve done well enough to get a B for GG and a C for BB (not much expectations you see)…

And so it begins…. PSLE got real for us this week onwards. BB & GG had their Prelims Orals this week with English on Thursday/Friday and Hindi yesterday.

GG said she went slightly out of point for English but Hindi was easy. BB as he is wont to say said both orals were ‘OK’!

One happy news. Last week while we were Facetiming with my parents and sis, S came home with the mail. There was an envelope from the school we applied for DSA for GG. I took it saying, “It’s probably a rejection letter” and opened it. But it was an invite for an audition to the school. We had applied under an aesthetics domain to this girls school and so next week she has to go audition for a spot in the school. You should have seen GG’s face when she saw the letter – she was literally jumping with joy – and all this while my family was watching from the other side of the world! Actually they got a bit worried on hearing GG shout, but, of course, were very happy for her.

Quite a bit of children I know have gotten to the next round at BB’s dream school and I am still upset about that. But I need to take that into my stride and focus on the exams. Hopefully BB scores well enough to chance shot number 2 at the schools where he didn’t make it. Otherwise we have identified another school, quite unknown actually, but which has a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) niche programme with an emphasis on Aerospace, not too far. Let’s see what BB does now.