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Tag Archives: education
The Primary School Interview Diaries: Part 1
Here’s where I break the many months of silence… Choosing a school for your child (or watching your child be chosen or not) can be extremely…… Counter-intuitive. Every fiber of the mum in me just wants to reach for the … Continue reading
Posted in Rockstar Thoughts, School For Rockstar
Tagged boss, choosing a school, cuckoo, education, elite, experiences, future parents, harvard, hype, ivy league, one flew over the cuckoo s nest, personality, primary school admissions, school interview, school meetings, silence, strengths weaknesses, urban legend
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Notes on Learning to Read – How To Help Your Child by ESF Kindergarten (Part 2)
List of stuff you can do to help your child learn to read: 1) Lots of pre-reading experiences. Listening to stories repeatedly, rhymes, songs. 2) Point out text in the environment. Exit signs, billboards. 3) Cover the rest of the … Continue reading
Posted in Rockstarisms, School For Rockstar, Talking To Rockstar
Tagged alter ego, billboards, child time, comprehension, education, encyclopedias, esf, exit signs, gestation periods, hamster, hamsters, last word, learning to read, nouns, personal experiences, play games, reading experiences, reading materials, rockstar, Rockstarisms, room 8, stapler, story books, verbs
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The Real Reason For Teacher’s Day
Before he was awarded a strong First in Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics, before he founded the Financial Markets Society (which became the largest club in LSE in its first year – it was really a … Continue reading
Posted in aileensml
Tagged academic success, banks in london, blackboard, derivatives, education, english teacher, financial markets, grammatical mistakes, investment banks in london, london school of economics, lse, mentoring program, mr chan, o levels, promising candidates, ridiculous sums, seremban malaysia, shambles, spm, stints, teachers, tertiary education
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Happy Birthday Rockstar (Again)
It’s a bit of a problem, when your birthday is a little too close to that of a bigger superstar’s. Especially when whole countries go on holiday and 4 Sundays before that Christians light candles. Even though you are a … Continue reading
Priceless Pic #123 a.k.a. I Thought Men Only Think This Is Funny When They’re Drunk
Rockstar’s best scurrying spider impersonation to the tune of Itsy Bitsy Spider sung as fast as he can… Spiders, apparently, also wear an extra pair of pants on their head… Beats me where he got this one… He’s been doing … Continue reading
Significant Conversation #101: What Makes A Girl
Me: How was school today? Rockstar: It was good <smiling> Me: Played with X, Y, Z? Rockstar: <smiling> Yeeah. But Z wasn’t there today. W got pushed. He cried. Me: So… <cautiously> You like school. Rockstar: NO! There. Are. Girls. … Continue reading
The Effect Of Music On A Rockstar’s Mind
*Warning… Entry may be completely devoid of writer’s usual wit and charm <oh come on, it’s my blog isn’t it> because she’s working things out in her own head about how, when and whether to start Rockstar on music lessons. … Continue reading
The School Parking
There is none, at Rockstar’s school. There’s a busy thoroughfare of traffic whizzing by at what looks to me, Mummy that I am, like 90 km/ hour right in front of the school’s doorstep and, unfortunately, I watched Pet Sematary. … Continue reading
Dear Rockstar, So Life’s Not Fair. Do Well Anyway.
Dear Rockstar, Mummy recently received feedback from a reader who’d had a lot of experience in the field of education internationally for a long time, and it was a real eye-opener. There was a little “Oh Wow”, but there was … Continue reading