Foreign Perspectives

The P7 class in James’ primary school stop a couple of weeks before the rest of the school in June so he’s only got a few weeks left to go now.

As expected, they’re not really teaching them anything now as they’ve done their bit and it’s the secondary schools which will take the kids on further now. That’s shame in some ways as it would be useful to do some final preparations of them for their new schools as it’s going to be quite a jolt to the system for quite a number of the kids.

At the moment, the homeworks have disappeared and in their place is “the project” which is the final piece of work that they’ll do in primary school. They’ve a totally free choice of subject for the first time ever which I’m sure has left a fair number of kids and their parents floundering. After all, few people would be told to go and do a project – they’d have at least a subject to work with.

Anyway, we’ve talked James into doing his on his school life in France which is probably about ideal as it both gives him a decent subject to work with and it will also give him something to remember his time in France too.

In school, it’s the final assembly and play that the P7 kids are working on with just three weeks to go before the performance. They’re not having a prom this year but instead have a fun day the week after they officially leave primary school. That’s thanks to a vote that the kids were offered months ago, the result of which didn’t go down too well with a number of the parents who were gearing up to top last year’s (Hummers, stretch limos, and little girls made up like stars seemed a bit much for a primary school).