C has been preparing a piece of German that he had to read. I’m not sure if he is supposed to read it off the overhead projector, the same as the other children (as they had done during the Besuchermorgen last June) but he comes home and tells me that he read it to his teacher in private, at her request. I’m very pleased that she has handled this with sensitivity - he could easily be embarrassed or open himself up to teasing by reading aloud to the whole class.
They finish school at lunchtime as the staff have a training afternoon (at least I think that’s what the letter said. I don’t think it was talking about an afternoon in the pub for them, but who knows ?)
With WAC homework, music practise and school homework, they are still finished by 1.30pm, with J working at his desk and C at the kitchen table - but me banished from the room. This is incredible - is there something wrong with the clock ?!
What is really reassuring – for me, having had the problems earlier in the year with C’s maths – is that C has 80 sums to do for his homework, he gets 75 of them right first time and instantly understands one particular concept that was like Greek to him 6 months ago. The maths teaching certainly appears to be both rigorous and thorough.
OH has also had the first salary payment without being taxed for the international school fees - he is on a local contract rather than an ex-pat one, and the school fees were a perk. Obviously we knew he was being taxed for the fees, but hadn't realised by how much………..
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