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Preparing for Primary 1- A Four Part Series

*The kids and I are on vacation this week so instead of the normal posting schedule I’ll be running a short series which has been requested by our readers who are looking for a better understanding of our
Singapore Schooling System.

Monkey Boy with his gift from his form teacher.

Six months ago I was asked by a reader on how to prepare her son for Primary One. Her son is currently 4 yrs old and would have to register for primary school in two years time. She was interested to know what were the requirements in terms of education level and syllabus which her son had to cover in order to be on par with his peers before he enters primary school.

At that time I hesitated to answer her query. I wanted to give her  a more detailed account with my first hand experience with Monkey Boy as he goes through the first semester as a Primary One student.

In this four part series I will be tackling the following issues

  1. Registration Process for Primary 1
  2. What is expected of your child.
  3. Before  Primary 1
  4. Preparation for the 1st day of School

Stay tuned!!

TT- The Laundry

5 loads of laundry- checked!!

This week I had to cope with extra loads of laundry which kept piling up due to last week’s vacation to the Phillipines.  When one bring the kids for a holiday so many extra pieces of clothing needs to be packed along. It is also extremely hard to judge the number of pieces to bring along for each kid. I thought a set for each day would be sufficient but apparently it wasn’t enough as they ran out of clothes to wear.

We didn’t manage to wash the clothes during our trip as it was raining most of the time in the wee hours of the morning and it took an extremely long time drying clothes indoors. In the end we had to purchase a new clothes for the boys when they ran out of clean clothes to wear.

Children’s clothes were plentiful and moderately priced in Cebu. There is a wide selection even for boys. However for adults most of the designs were quite dated and not really to my fancy. The boys love their new  clothes and proudly showed them off to everyone.

The next time we go on vacation I’ll make sure to check in advance the laundry facilities at the spot we are visiting.