Thursday...
Each morning at CHIJ begins with raising the flag whilst singing the national anthem. However, today was not just any day, we were officially introduced to the whole school in assembly by Mrs Tang.
It reminded us a lot of our school with all the children packed into the hall, the only differences - there were double the amount of little faces staring back and Mr Jones was wearing a shirt!
After our quick introduction we were whisked off with the Year 3s on a school trip to the National Science Centre - Mrs Davies, you would have been in heaven.
Stange things happened in the Science Centre:
1) Miss Davids pondered over her second job offer in two days.
2) Mr Jones began attaching springs to ears...
... The craze caught on...
Can you guess what we're learning about?
3) We had to begin using cups as phones
Again the craze caught on...
4) Miss Davids became an international DJ - watch out Mrs Mould! 
The fun couldn't last long though, as it was time to get ready for a very important presentation to a group of 30 Superintendents (head teachers) and the Board Members of the W8 Cluster. Do you think we scrubbed up well? Can you see the nerves.... Oh no of course you can't we were as cool as Mrs Lobb with an office full of poorly Y2s!
The board members wanted to hear about our school and academy group, our schools direct link and how our Singapore link is benefitting both schools. They were treated with a short video from Mr Ludlow, who they thought was a natural in front of the camera. What an act to follow. We thought the only way to tackle this would be to turn off our strong West Yorkshire accents and replace them with the Queen's English.
Phew... The Superintendents were impressed and yet again, over dinner, job offers from all over Singapore came flooding in - Mr Ludlow you really should start getting worried! And yes-we used this opportunity to shamelessly dish out the Ebor Academy Magazine.
As it is the last day of Chinese New Year today, we celebrated with another LoHei (the traditional Chinese New Year meal where you toss the food around).
We spent the afternoon observing and taking part in the CCA activities, yes, Miss Davids is behind that Tuba!
The school choir sang beautifully. Mr Jones almost shed a tear!
Here are the Brownies, we made orange and cream cheese cupcakes. There is a mirror strategically placed over the desk at the front, so all the girls can see exactly what the teacher is doing from all over the kitchen, a handy tool don't you think Mrs Seabourne, Mrs Brooke? When the school built the kitchen, the girls were allowed to name it, they choose "The Cooking Palace"...Should we remane cook school?
Even though the weather here is above 30 degrees, we told the girls about the weather at home at the moment, they thought it was "so cool" and begged to come back in our suitcases to Robert Wilkinson!
There's more to come from today but we haven't decided what yet, I suppose the pool will help us decide!
Bye!
PS: green crepe anyone?
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