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Brian PAP Nursery Orientation

We are bringing Brian to attend his Nursery Orientation at PAP. He will begin his new journey of learning and nursery class will prepare him for the Kindergarten education.
The Nursery Class is limit to 15 students per class. The teachers were there to answer all the parents queries.

Admiralty Primary 1 Orientation

I am attending my daughter Primary 1 orientation at Admiralty Primary School. The Parent Briefing did not start at 8am as schedule and was delayed till 830AM. The children will be taken care by the school while we attend the briefing talk.
It aims to give us information on how the school operates. In addition, Parents are to work with Teachers to guide their children in the learning process. Gone are the good old days, where we just dump our students in the school. We will just blame the school and teachers if our children failed to made the grade.
Amelia enjoy the Orientation as teachers and others bring them for a tour of the school. They even got a goodies bag on their way home.

PAP Graduation Day

Amelia has spent 3 Years at the PAP Kindergarten and today was her last day at the school. She bid farewell to the Teachers, Principal and Students.
She attended a 2 hour party for all kindergarten students. Every students enjoy the party and K2 students will embark on a new education next year. Amelia got her Certificate and Kindergarten Portfolio today also. She will missed the memorable days she spent at PAP Kindergarten.

Primary School Visit

Amelia will be graduating from PAP Kindergarten this week. The PAP Kindergarten has arrange for all K2 students to visit the Primary School. It will allow the children to see how the Primary School life is.
They will see how students are studying at the school. It will also gives them an insight on how the school functions which will be very different from a Kindergarten. They will even be given a chance to queue up buying food for themselves. It will definitely be a good experience for all the K2 students admitting to Primary School next year.

Primary 1 Textbooks

Amelia has went to buy her Primary 1 textbooks at Admiralty Primary School. The textbooks plus accessories cost $137.50. She was unable to purchase full set of uniform as some sizes were sold out. The price of uniforms will be updated at a later date. From my estimation, family need to set aside at least $500 per child to start his/her Primary 1 education.

Halloween Celebration for Children

The Halloween festival last week was celebrated at Kindergarten. Amelia got to know about this popular festival that are celebrated in USA, Europe and other countries. She even bought a pumpkin back and we cut out the eyes and mouth. It is just like what she saw on TV how other people celebrated the festival.

Halloween Celebration@PAP

Amelia PAP Kindergarten will be celebrating Halloween tomorrow, 31 Oct 2008. We are spending time to dress up Amelia with a bit of Halloween taste.
The PAP Kindergarten will entertain them with tricks and food. It will be fun for the children as Asian do not celebrate this popular festival which origin from USA and Europe. The Kindergarten want the children to have fun and aware of this special occasion.
I wish all my blog readers a Happy Halloween Day.

Kuriya Dinning No Kids Policy

Kuriya Dinning is the latest restaurant on the list in Singapore that does not welcome kids under 6 to the restaurant. The reason cited is it want to provide comfort and good environment for it's dinners.
I am able to understand their concern as kids do create noise at dinning places. As a father, I like other parents will try to pacify our kids while dinning out. It still cannot be prevented as kids are very active and are excited when dinning outside.
All parents you do not need to worry as many restaurants still welcome kids to their places. Remember, families spending are much more than couples or other dinners. They also liven the atmosphere of the dinning place.

PAP Kindergarten Graduation Concert

Another major event, the Graduation Concert where Amelia will be performing on stage. Today and next Tue will be her final rehearsal together with the rest of the Woodlands PAP Kindergartens.. Every Parents has to pay $35 for their children to participate in the event.
She and others students has been practicing for the past few months and is looking forward for the performance. The whole Woodlands PAP Kindergartens will take part in the performance and it will be held at Woodlands Causeway Point.

PAP K2 Graduation Ceremony

Amelia is attending her K2 Graduation held at the Woodlands Community Club. The graduation ceremony is for the Woodlands area K2 students.
Today event was poorly managed as the information given to parents was to attend the event from 630PM to 710PM. It turn out that this was the timing for registration. The organisers were worried parents will be late and wanted to impressed Ellen Lee. The ceremony did not even started after 710PM.
But the event finally kick start after 720PM, it was a special occasion for all the graduating K2 students. After the opening address, every graduating students went up stage to shake hand with Ellen and have their photographs taken. The photographs will be given to the students before the school term close in November.