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Secondary 2 Week 15 Update

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It was the usual sort of week for BB & GG. GG finally finished with her Singapore Youth Festival and so the stress of the past few weeks are finally over!

BB’s CCA has been stood down and they will restart after exams. GG has one more CCA to get through, where they are having an SYF finishing party as well as a farewell to her Secondary 4/5 seniors who complete their CCA for the year so that they can focus on their national exams.

Now, nagging mum mode starts as I start pushing them to study for their exams which start in 2 weeks time! As I have mentioned earlier, this is a critical year for them, and especially for BB as he wants to do science (I have mentioned before how obsessed he is about science). GG has it a bit easier because she wants to do humanities, which should be easier to get in!

So that was our week, have a blessed Easter people!

2017 Secondary 2 Week 14 Update

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GG had a very busy week what with the emceeing duty rehearsals as well as rehearsals for the SYF. She had to stay back after school every single day and came home quite late, especially the days when she had emcee rehearsals. When she’d come home, she would be tired and cranky and would want to just sleep, but homework would beckon. I felt this was a slice of adult life for her. But try explaining that to a cranky, hormonal 14-year old! Thank God all this ends next week with the competition sometime then. Hopefully she then gets time to study for the mid-year exams. 

BB’s week was quite mundane with his teachers racing to complete the curriculum before the mid year exams start at the end of the month. But as usual, he is quite gungho about the whole exam thing. He needs to score well to get into the course of his choice. Ah well, I can only keep nagging him about this. I also attended his school’s speech day representing the parent support group and it was quite an interesting experience. The function was a lot more formal as compared to what I’ve seen in their primary school. 

Anyways this was our school week. Have an amazing Sunday people!

Secondary 2 Week 13 Update

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Nothing really happened this week! 

It was a normal school week with GG coming home late every single day. One day she was out for more than 13 hours and when she came home, she was beyond exhausted. So much so, she reverted to becoming whiny and irritable – just as she used to be when she was younger!

On Friday, we went to BB’s school for the secondary 3 streaming talk. Initially it was just going to be me, but later I realised that students were encouraged to also come and this was also validated by the support group I belong to. So I strong armed BB to come with me. It was an informative talk and we understood the options BB has for next year. 

Given that he wants to do aerospace engineering, he has to take the science course. I prefer him to do a double science double humanities combination (physics, chemistry, history and a social studies with geography elective) and not do a triple science combo with full biology. I’ve heard that biology is very intense in terms of the time you need for it, so which is why we decided on the science/humanities combo. Also if he decides to go to junior college instead of the polytechnic, then his contrast subject can be history which then should not be too difficult. 

A big relief was that for science stream, they have qualifying marks for English, Maths and Science and only these marks will be taken into account when deciding who gets to go to the stream. The good news is that BB’s marks are not too bad in these subjects, but the bad news is that they are not spectacular too! He really needs to work hard and score as high marks as he can in these three subjects!

Secondary 2 Week 12 Update 

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Term 2, week 1 of school. 

A fairly normal week as far as school was concerned, usually term 2 will see the pace slightly intensify as teachers race to complete the curriculum in time for the mid year exams. 

GG has been quite busy in school especially with her choir as the dates for the competition is just a few weeks away. Once they finish the competition, they should stand down CCA until after the exams. She has also been asked by her English teacher to emcee an event in school, for which she is super chuffed. The only thing is that rehearsals for the event clash with some of her CCA practice and so she needs to work this out with her Teachers. 

As for BB, I’m constantly on his case to start getting serious about school. He needs to do well this year so that he can get the science stream next year, but as usual, it’s all white noise to him! Sigh! I really wonder when he grows up! It’s going to be difficult in his school as most students choose this school because of the importance of their STEM Programme, especially in aeronautics and so it’s very likely that a large portion of the cohort will end up wanting to take science next year. But when will this enter this boy’s head?

Anyway happy Sunday people!

Secondary 2 Week 11 Update

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Although this was the term break week, it didn’t feel like that at all. And we didn’t do anything that I wanted them to do – namely getting BB & GG to clean their cupboards.

GG had school every single day with the exception of Tuesday. On Monday they had to go to the venue of their SYF competition performance at the School of the Arts for a practice session. This was a late evening session from 5 – 10 pm and she was exhausted by the time she got home. Luckily S was able to pick her up from the venue itself, otherwise, it would be even later when she got home. Then a couple of days more for choir practice, including a choir exchange programme with another secondary school and then on Friday, the school took the entire secondary 2 cohort to see an exhibition titled, ‘Make the Future Singapore’ which was by Shell (the oil giant).  This exhibition celebrates scientific and engineering innovations and is something that is in line with their applied learning programme of clean energy. GG said they had lots of fun there.

As for BB, he went out with his best friends to see the Lego Batman movie and then spent the day with them at the beginning of the week. Well, that’s all he did the whole week. The rest of the time, he enjoyed his holidays by reading and playing games and then when he was bored of that, he did some holiday homework and when nagged by me, studied a bit!

That was the children’s no school week. They’ll be back in school for term 2 tomorrow and this is a shorter term with more intense work.