SEED Alive!

Nic came back with a letter to parents from school informing us that this Sat morning is the briefing for parents for the SEED Alive! Program. What does the acronym SEED stands for?Strategies for Effective Engagement and Development. Oh gosh! Another hazy and confusing term for Mummy to cope with. On careful examination of the contents of the letter, it says "the briefing session aims to update the parents on the P1 SEED curriculum, new assessment mode for Semestral Examination (SA1 - or commonly termed Mid-year exam) and Strategies that parents can use to prepare their child at home for the project based assessment." Ah hah! Now that translates into "project work" instead of the purely 100% written assessment for the mid-year exam.

I think my parents should thank their lucky stars that when I was still schooling yonks ago, the word 'project work' had yet to come into existence. Otherwise, they'd be racking their brains trying to get the necessary groundwork done each time there was a project work assignment. I recalled a long-time friend of mine years back whose children's projects were all proudly placed in the back of his car - there was the bus terminal model, the airport model and the farm model. He said his wife and him spent hours every weekend hunting for miniature buses, bus stands, glueing ice-cream sticks together laboriously, painting the miniature model trees and trying to get hold of plastic cows, pigs, horses and other farm animals. Now his children have all grown up and the eldest is awaiting admission into a polytechnic.

Indeed, that I predict, would be my upcoming fate once the briefing is over. I shall be hunting down suitable miniatures that Nic would use for her SEED project and spend my weekends hunched over, painting each tiny tree or shrub with oil-based paint.... the joys of parenthood eh?