1st Excursion

Zethan went for his very 1st school excursion on 23 Feb 2012 for a puppet show @ Esplanade; Hello Elly!

We have decided to let him join the school bus as we gathered it will be much more fun as opposed to driving there even though the early timing to gather was quite a turn off.

Amazingly, there are only 2 children from the Pre-Nursery joining the excursion.

By and large the puppet show was pretty interesting but crowd control was terribly managed by the organizer. The place was too crowded with insufficient seating space on the floor for all the children so much so that the teachers had to retreat in a corner leaving the children on their own. As you can imagine the children are fascinated and excited over the props moving around especially that of Elly Elephant so naturally they try to inch and touch Elly which the staff frown on badly!

It was a pretty short play and after the show, the children were lead to have their snacks and a short trip to the library. The coach picked everyone up at around 11.30am and we reached school shortly after 12pm.

On the other hand I witness unpleasant and upsetting incidents which left mi in shock. His classmate aka best buddy in school actually uses his school bag to hit Zethan on the head out of which Zethan innocently smile at him, guess he assume his friend is playing with him. I stopped his friend and gave him a stern warning but this boy did not stopped at that. Next, he uses his fist and hit Zethan repeatedly on the chest and again Zethan did not stopped him and smile at him again. Even the older children seated together with them shook their head in disapproval.

The above incident was brough to the attention of the principal subsequently after much consideration and definitely had to be careful with my choice of words. I had qualify that Zethan could have done something to irritate him to warranty such a strong reaction and hope the school will keep a lookout for both of them to prevent such incidents from happening again. At the same time I did emphasize that it is normal for incidents of such nature to occur so the intention of me highlighting to the school is more for prevention purposes.