第28期青埔通訊英語專欄

     Amazingly another 3 months have flown by since the last publication! We were however fortunate enough to still host the Parents day on Saturday 26 March. The hype for this day started well in advance. Students were planning and advertising their stalls in the hope to have a profitable day. The homeroom teachers also had their work cut out for them in preparing everything for the perspective groups. If we look back at the past three months, there has been multiple challenges thrown at the staff of the school. The Jumping Rope competition and the Outdoor activities had to be postponed more than once. Various classes stopped attending school and the whole schools’ classes had to be suspended on two separate occasions.

     The big culprit in all this was the COIVID 19 virus. The resourceful team at Qing Pu Elementary school refused to let COVID get the upper hand. They resorted to online teaching, which most of the staff mastered during the previous lock down. Our new teachers had to learn and adapt quickly, which they did, with the help of the rest of the team. Most of the staff will agree that online teaching is just not the same as having students in a class. It makes interaction more difficult and lacks that personal communication that one gets from teaching in a class. That said; we are grateful that we could continue with online classes which is definitely better than no class at all.

     The online teaching was not only a challenge for the teachers, but also for the parents of all the students. They also had to make plans and adapt to the challenge. We thank our parents for their resilience and their help to get the students in front of the screens for the online classes. The closer we got to the day, the more the excitement grew. On the day, it was a huge success. The parents came to support their children. They helped them with the set up and even made sure that everybody sold something. There was an abundance of games to play and a huge variety of items for sale. It was great to experience the children’s enthusiasm. You could also see the future business men/women and entrepreneurs strutting their stuff. Congratulations to everybody involved in this spectacular day.

     The Summer Vacation is around the corner and it will be a welcome break. This will give everybody the time to recharge their batteries. It will give them time to get ready for a new, fun-filled academic year which will surely bring its own highlights and hopefully not to many lowlights. Take care!