Meet-up with Yuan Yuan Laoshi

Zq gonna starts school on 21st Dec 09. After rounds and rounds of school visitings, browsing through many school programmes, looking through their school philosophy, the schools timetable, campus environment, we finally decided on The Family Learning House 家育苑。

We love the school belief and emphasis on virtue building. And the fact that all the students and even teachers are wearing uniforms. (This is the only international school here at Beijing that it's a must to wear uniform to school everyday). I am pleased with my decision and hope Zq will enjoy his school also :)

He is being assigned to Nursery 2 class. There are a total of 12 kids with 3 teachers. His lead teacher - Yuan Yuan Laoshi called me few days back to arrange a meet-up session today, it is the standard practice of the school to have one-to-one meet up of teacher and the new student, so the teacher able to have some upclose observations of her new student prior to the 1st day of school, and i like this arrangement so much, i think it's a great effort of the school and the teacher.

We reached the school around 430pm. The class was empty except the 3 teachers staying back to receive us and get to know Zq. This is the 1st time i stepped into the classroom. When we visited the school last time round we were not allow to visit the classroom as there was class conducted and the kids were in the room, the school is very strict on this that no visitors allowed during class so as not to disturb the class and avoid contact of the students with visitors for health issue. I certainly pleased with such policy.

I fall in love with the classroom... As everything was WHITE in colour and custom-made according to their size and convenience, little table & chairs, little sofa, little fishtank & birdcage etc.. There is a white piano in the classroom also, beautiful!

There were 2 parts of the sessions today:
1) 30 mins of just Teacher & Zq alone in the classroom - She observed how Zq works on the montessori stuff, how they communicate and his adaptability to the new environment.
She commented that Zq is clever and with good memory, the classroom is big but he remembered where he took the stuff and returned it to the correct place. He was polite and thoughtful also as he pulled in Teacher's chair when she stood up. And he was affectionate as he always hold the Teacher's hand where they moved on from one place to another. Teacher thought there shouldn't be a big problem for him to adapt to the school and i certainly hope so!

2) 30 mins of just Teacher & Mummy time - She asked me tonnes of questions in order to understand Zq and our family more. Ques like: What's Zq's liking & preference? His motor skill & speech development? Anything that he fear of? Our expectation towards the school? And many many more.. Im glad that she noted all down and even prompted me for more details though it was way past her knock-off time. Really appreciate her effort on this.

Before we back home, Teacher gave us a little booklet with photographs of the school, the garden, the classroom, the 3 teachers of N2. She told me to read to him often so he will get familiarise with his new school and i thought it's a very good preparation for the big day! Thumbs up for the effort! Zq was so cute that he flipped the booklet and saw Yuan Yuan's Laoshi photo on one page, he placed the book beside Teacher's face and said "same same" Wahaha!!!