The penultimate school week for the year and we are reaching the end of BB & GG’s primary school journey.  The past week, both children were busy preparing for their school year-end performance as well as a charity drive that the graduating class does in their school. Every primary six class had to come up with a theme and within a budget the provided them with, had to put up a stall and sell products and services to their peers and juniors with the proceeds going to a charity of the class’ choice.

Both BB & GG belong to the school choir and they were supposed to stay back almost every day this week to practice for their school awards evening next week. Unfortunately, since BB’s voice has been breaking the last few weeks (more about that tomorrow), he told his choir teacher and she sent him back home as singing at this point will damage his voice!

Both BB & GG received awards at their year end awards evening which was along with their year-end performance. GG received an award for being best in music and will win another award for being the best in music across all classes next week and BB received his for being the top in Science, second in Maths and overall third in the class. I really wish he sees the potential he has. If I discount his pathetic Hindi marks, I am sure he has so much more better scores!

The rumors for the PSLE results are going around furiously and as the tentative dates released by MOE at the beginning of the year comes closer, I am getting more and more nervous. I know there’s nothing I can do at this point, except pray, but I am really scared about the results….

The children are having a blast, preparing for their year-end concert which happens next week. They went for another Learning Journey this week which was basically a swap of last week – so BB went to the National Museum and GG went to the Discovery Centre.

The school also had a Parenting Talk this week on how parents can help children transition from the primary school system to the secondary one. The talk was very informative, especially since more than three quarters of the people in the room were first time parents of children who will move to Secondary 1 next year. The speaker, a medical doctor with three adult children had enough anecdotes about her own children which made it quite informative and useful.

After the talk, the school had invited a dozen secondary schools, both in the neighbourhood and beyond to have small booths in the school hall. When we reached the hall, we also found the primary 6 students there. I managed to catch hold of GG and we walked around a bit checking out some schools. We need to identify some schools and then go for open houses so that we can narrow it down to the six we need to select for the Secondary 1 Admission Exercise.

That was pretty much what the children did. Next week is the penultimate school year, with the last day of school on 20th November. Then we have to gird our loins for the results. I am just praying that they do decently and we don’t end up crying when the results are declared!