Thursday 25 September 2008

Wednesday 27th August - and now the letters start......

Now the letters in German from school start. The school has a good system of an envelope for each child, with a tick box on the front. So what happens is that letters from school come home in the envelope marked up (ie number and type of letters included), and the parent signs the envelope to say it’s been received, and then the envelope goes back to school, ready for next time.

How sensible is that ? Perhaps, more to the point, how obvious is that ? But we’ve experienced 4 schools now (2 in the UK and one private one in CH) and this is the first one with such a system.

J is thrilled to get his fountain pen from his teacher. I had asked at the Besuchermorgen back in June if he would need one, and if so, where I could lay my hands on a left handed one. She had confirmed that they start to use a fountain pen (a Fulli) in Grade 4 and kindly offered to order one for him. It's arrived - there's no stopping him now - and ink all over the place.....

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