Celebrating efforts instead of results

Exams came and went. So glad we don't have to rush to do and mark papers after school anymore! But that doesn't mean all play and no work too.

The week after exams, they started getting their results back. Kai did quite well, with AL 11 for four subjects. He would tell everyone that he almost got AL 10 as he scored 159/200 for Chinese. Yang did not do as well, with AL 15. I think the school will probably still use bands for P3 but we decided to count AL early. 

So we continue to let them do practices to reinforce their learning. Definitely not as siong as the exam preparation work but better to regularise learning than to have to pick up after slacking off for two months!

But before that, we celebrated their efforts - and parents' too! - with a nice BBQ. At first we thought of going for our usual Korean BBQ + hotpot but the boys wanted this Japanese BBQ with soft serve. Sito and I were happy with their choice coz the meat there was better!

Happy with dessert!

Yu was less happy as he could not have soft serve - we said no ice cream if he did not drink soup at home, and he did not. But he had marshmallow and fruits in chocolate fondue!

Still happy to crowd around the soft serve machine

Went to NTUC to buy some stuff. Always happy to go to the big ones coz the ones near us are so small! And we ran out of our usual salami for pizza days - crisis! :p Also hit Donki for curry roux. We bought a lot as they were on sale and we finish a pack every month. Maybe I'll make more during the holidays since it's easy and I can hide a whole big head of broccoli inside!

Don't know why they were so captivated by baby toys in the supermarket!

Oh ya, Mama was lazy - let them drop bags and change shoes after school and left without changing out of their uniforms so there would be less laundry :p

There is no plan to celebrate their results. While we can make them put in efforts, they may not all get the desired results. Won't be fair or nice to celebrate results so we made an early decision to always celebrate efforts only. 

But as an encouragement, we told them that their phone privilege during the school holidays would depend on their results. So Kai will get 70min of play time while Yang will get 50min. Yu doesn't have exams so he's stuck with the lower of the two. 

Just one week left before school holidays, and it's a short week with Deepavali make-up and no school on Friday. It's also a gan cheong week as I must buy textbooks early so I can chope a good delivery date!