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Secondary 1 Week 39 Update

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The children are busy in school completing the syllabus for the year before exams start. Both’s exams start in the middle next week and will go on till sometime in the middle of October. Here, exams tend to drag with multiple days between exams. They will have regular school during non-exam days. The last day of school is the end of October, just before Diwali.

They also got the results of their Hindi exams yesterday and results were as expected- GG did ok but not as well as she did in the mid-term exams, but BB failed as usual, spectacularly in fact! I really need to take him into hand and start frol basics. Hopefully this time around, he will take things a lot more seriously.

Ok, need to get them to study, so happy Sunday folks!!

Secondary 1 Week 38 Update

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This was week 1 of the last term of the school year, which is the shortest of all terms.

Yesterday was also their Hindi year-end exam, the one exam which gives me palpitations each time. As usual, BB will not pass (I swear, I will throw a party the year BB finally passes this exam!). GG said it was one paper was quite difficult, but the other one was ok, so hopefully she has done not too badly here.

This week was also the week when GG & BB turned 13! Sometime in the middle of the week, we suddenly decided to let them invite a few friends for a small party. Both kept waffling on whom to invite and when and then suddenly on Friday, we nailed it to around 6 friends coming over later today. I’ll go to the cake shop and buy a cake and maybe some pastries and order pizzas for thr children as the party is more tea than dinner. Hope the children have a good time later today…

Next week will probably be a less full week and then the exam madness will hit us!

Secondary 1 Week 37 Update

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This week was school holiday week, so nothing much to report here. In fact, even though it was school break, both had to go to school 3 times during the week – GG twice for supplementary lessons and once for CCA and BB once for supplementary lessons and twice for CCA activities.

They have their end of year Hindi exams next Saturday and I am super nervous about it, for both, but especially for BB. I do want him to pass this year, but will that happen? I really don’t know!! GG also has to do well as she needs to do well, not only overall, but also in each individual subject to be considered to be promoted to the better stream.

We didn’t do anything this week, though the week sped past us. Hopefully the next few weeks will go by just as fast and when the results come in, it will be good for both of them.

Happy Sunday folks!!

Secondary 1 Week 35 Update

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Nothing much to update this week except for BB once again getting ticked off in school. On Thursday, I got a call from him saying his Geography teacher wanted to speak to me. When I spoke to the teacher, it turns out that Mr BB had not handed over a graded assignment, in spite of the teacher giving him an extra day to do so. His teacher is a nice person who does not want to spoil his overall grades, so even though she was justified in giving him a zero, she will be giving him pro-rated marks based on his classwork, which is around average. I was so mad at him, within the last two weeks, this is the second incident where he has shown zero interest in school!

Next week is the last week of term 3 and then from Friday it’s a 10-day break for the children before they start term 4 or ‘Exam Term’ as I’d like to call it. Both will have to go back to school a couple of days during the term break for supplementary work or CCA or both.

September is a-calling folks!

 

Secondary 1 Week Week 34 Update

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This was another week which just flew past.

I was very upset at BB at the beginning of the week. On Sunday night, just before bedtime, he came to me asking me to get a Science class test signed. He had failed in the test! And this was his strongest and best subject, one that he loves! He got strongly scolded by everyone (including his beloved grandmom and grand-aunt). I ended up revoking all phone privileges, squeezing his phone time to the minimum and also started supervising his studies again (I had given it up when they both entered Secondary school). I also spoke to his Science teacher, who also happens to be his form teacher. End result of that conversation was that his sitting place in class was changed to a seat close to the teacher and also the conversation meant that the teacher will be keeping a keener eye on BB in class.

GG started her first duty as a student councillor and her duty this term was basically patrolling the other exits of the school before the actual start of school and making sure no student enters through those gates when the bell rings. She seems to enjoy this, making new friends with her seniors.

Another two weeks for this term to end and then there is a week long term-break. After the term break, both the children will be busy with the year-end exams….