English Summer School Has Started - A Month Long Of Fun Activities

Long holidays ask for good preparation!

I said it before, twelve weeks of summer holidays is very long and we needed to make sure that this was partially covered by some sort of school or camp, even if it was just for a few weeks. Eventually, we decided to register our daughter for English summer school and hope it will help her not get bored early on during the summer holidays. Too bad she's a bad eater otherwise we could have registered her until 4 PM instead of 1 PM every day, but it didn't make sense to do so if she is such a fussy eater. This month was not cheap, but hopefully, well worth the money in the end.

This week was the kick-off

This meant that after having 10 days off as a family and doing some fun stuff every day, while also sleeping in as much as we could. I don't really care much about sleeping in late, it kind of ruins my day when I do but it seemed we all needed this because none of us woke up before 11 AM. I just gave in to that and so did they.

This was about to change though, on Sunday I had to set the alarms again, and this time there was no room for us to sleep in just a little longer than my boyfriend because his office is moved to the bedroom and we needed more prep time for summer school than for normal school. Why? Summer school is not around the corner and instead of a 3-minute walk, it's a 15-20 minute drive to get there. It also starts at 9 AM so this means we have to be up at least 30 minutes earlier, depending on our ability to get up, haha.

Summer school seems a success

My daughter has been enjoying summer school and came home with a smile. Thankfully, we arrived there on time every day and even though it was tough, I was happy to sleep in this morning. Thanks to my boyfriend not waking me up during the way too early hours when he got called out of bed for an incident at work.

Friday they went to the beach and she came home looking like a sandman, lol. But they had loads of fun and my friend who works at the school was joining her class on this trip so it was extra fun for her.

Teacher is super happy with my daughter

It was fun to hear feedback from my boyfriend coming from my daughter's teacher earlier this week. He is the one picking her up, while I bring her to school and therefore I had not seen her teacher so far. I think it was Wednesday when he said her teacher called him with her and said she's doing so good and she's so happy with her in class because she's very good at listening, well-behaved and helpful when needed. My friend told me again yesterday that she's so happy with her and is a true star in class.

Good confirmation

This was obviously great to hear that she's indeed behaving well as there had been an incident at her regular school just before the year ended where two kids pointed at her for something someone else did while I know this is not something she'd done. Some things fit a certain type of child's behavioral pattern and this was something out of the ordinary for her. As this happened several times (the two bullies pointing out her as the one) I had a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth contacting the teacher the last week as I feel she's not seeing what was happening and I didn't want my daughter to face this stuff every time they misbehave.

When her grades came in and she had such a good report, I decided to just enjoy this and focus on the good stuff, the fact that she's capable of achieving this despite the stupid bullies in class. Of course, part of me also knows that we may move back to Granada in the near future so I'm also thinking why the heck bother with a school where she probably will not attend that much longer if we find a suitable home?

I have to admit that I'm already looking forward to the conversation after the holidays when I will point out what her English school teacher said about my daughter's behavior when another incident at the regular school occurs.

Weekly newsletters

It's quite fun to get a weekly newsletter where they highlight everything that's been done in the different groups. This way we can stay up to date about their activities and it's really appreciated that they are so communicative with the parents.

Here's to another successful week at summer school!