Week 1 Down

Week 1 is over. Everything went well. Phew. :)
Another 39 weeks to go. 

Orientation Week II

Marieann enjoyed her Orientation Week at St Margaret's Secondary School. I am very happy. It is a good start for her. :)

Orientation Week

For the rest of this week, Marieann will be having Orientation Week at her new school and she will be coming back only in the late afternoon. 
I hope she will make a few more friends, not just from Secondary 1 level but from other levels too and she will learn more about the school and grow to love the school.

PSLE Marking Week

Thank goodness for PSLE marking week! I was able to do two solid days of revision with my girls. I hope it helps them... Why am I more anxious about my girls' exams than they are? I am not expecting Band 1s from them but only that they pass. Sigh.

End of Week 1

The girls have settled down into the school routine again. Marieann is now in Primary 5 and Juliane is in Primary 3. I hope they will have no problem adjusting to the changes in their workload which is considerably heavier than last year.

Week Zero

The girls kept referring to this week as Week One. No, I said, last week was Week One. NO, they said, last week was Week Zero! Huh?! Since when is there a Week Zero?! Well apparently, there is now. The girls showed me the calendar and explained it all to me.
Term 1 started on 2 January 2013 Wednesday and will end on 15 March 2013 Friday. That is actually a total of 11 school weeks. Therefore, last week was Week Zero and followed by this week, Week One and so on and so forth, until Week Ten. Ah, I see. 
However, there are still only 40 weeks of school for the students. Although Term 1 has 11 weeks of school, Term 4 will only have 9 weeks of school to "compensate" the students lol. Thus, the last day of school for 2013 will be on 16 November 2013 Saturday. :)