Someone say, Duck?

Monday

This morning we met with the school council to talk about the school. Before we knew it, Miss Davids was asked for here autograph by the children as they said "you are like a celebrity to us". As Mr jones reached for his pen! he realised Miss D the celeb had finished the autograph session and the girls has vanished off to lessons. Never mind Mr Jones. WE then threw ourselves into our last lessons. Miss Davids taught Year 5 some literacy games, whilst Mr Jones got stuck into a bit of cheerleading and netball. He will be holding cheerleading auditions for the next football game.

Just as Mr Jones had put his pom poms down, it was time to visit Canberra Secondary school. The school had almost 1,400 pupils and was a modern, fresh building with a great team of staff who explained their values and gave us a tour. 

Mrs Tang used to be the head teacher here and was so proud of all the developments made since she left for primary school. There was a zen garden with over 50 coy carps to relax the environment, how about giving our pond a 'zen' make over Mrs Pilgrim? They were also lucky to have a mirrored dance studio and fully equipped gym, which a majority of the staff used. Mr Jones pondered how many of our staff would use a facility like this? Mr Ludlow....the next Bannantyne? 

As Miss Davids had not even seen a duck in Singapore, never mind eaten one, Mrs Tang kindly fulfilled her wishes taking us to the best Pecking Duck restaurant in Singapore. Absolute heaven. What a treat for all our hard work. We took this time to reflect upon our schools' similarities and differences, drawing upon each other's strengths and planning exciting ventures for the future. 

From then, Mrs Tang had another treat in store for us as she made a speedy pit stop on the Singapore F1 track dropping us off in pole position! 

We're not sure who was most excited to walk around the pit stops and track. 

We'd seen a lot of Singapore in just a week and felt it was only right to see the concrete jungle from the top of the country's highest skyscraper - the MBS. Yes, we climbed our way onto that big boat on the top! The views were breathtaking and we rewarded ourselves with an ice cool lemonade. 

From the top we spotted a stadium... A floating stadium. When we had hot footed it down from the MBS, Miss Davids imagined watching Bradford City playing on the pitch and got rarer carried away. 

We took in the sights, and found one sight which we knew Mrs Adams would have snapped up. Thee may be a present Mrs A! 

Walking home on our weary feet, Miss D had another brilliant idea - pedicures. As she was relaxing, out of the corner of her eye she noticed Mr Jones, also having a pedicure. He said it was down to all the PE he had done this week in the heat making his feet hurt. Anyone believe him?

Just one more morning left in school but 2 more days left in Singapore which we intend to make the most of after saying some sad goodbyes to our new friends at school.