Rayyan's First Day & Sri KDU Trip

Rayyan's first day

Today is Rayyan's first day of school for this year. There was induction day earlier last Friday, so he pretty much had met the class teacher, and his new class. Genius Aulad Kelana Jaya just renovated the place and add 2 new classes... gila buat duit diorang ni... now they have 6 classes. They take in about 15 per class on average over 2 sessions (pagi & petang). So they make more than RM40,000 a month.

This year I enrolled Rayyan in the morning class.. need to teach that guy to wake up early. Kalau tak pukul 12 baru nak bangun. So today he woke up at 7am. Sorta voluntary.

I was supposed to send him to school but was too sick this morning that I couldn't drive. Ja had to take half day to send him at 8.30am and picked him up later at 10.30am (first day jer.. normal hours 8.30-11.30 to accommodate the new students).

Then Ja had to send me to the clinic. Tapi lunch time la pulak. So she sent me to DSH and asked my dad's staff to pick me up later. Had to do blood test. Got a Voltaren jab on the butt.

InsyaAllah will be okay in next couple of days. have to do a followup on Friday to take another blood test. Hope okayla sebab Saturday ni nak gi Pontian for my cousin's wedding. Staying overnight there.


Sri KDU Trip

Okay.. now nak cerita pasal the Sri KDU trip we did last week.

Rayyan LOVES the school. Me & Ja definitely LOVE to send him there if we can figure out how to pay for it.

We got to visit all their classrooms, science labs, music room, speech & drama room, dance room, computer lab, mandarin classroom, library, sports facilities, cafeteria, etc.

I've already mentioned about the fees and the schooling hours in my earlier post on Sri KDU. So all those are true... hehe..

So basically, Primary 1 students will have to take these compulsory KBSR subjects: BM, English, Math, Science, Islamic Studies (or Moral), Art Education, Physical & Health Education. They will be using govt textbooks, following govt syllabus.

On top of that, all students should take these additional compulsory subject: Mandarin, NCC Computer Pioneers Programme (UK), and Structured Performing Arts Programme (Speech & Drama, Dance, Choral Singing, Musical Instruments). Musical instruments is optional that you take up one musical instrument (drums, piano, violin, guitar, etc).

Then all students must take up 2 co-curricular activities from 2 groups (1 from each group)

Group 1: Arts & Crafts, Board & Traditional Games, Chess Club, Cultural Dance, Creativity & Problem Solving Club, ICT & Internet Research Club, KH & Sewing Club, Library Club, Living Skills Club, Math & Science Discovery Club, PBSM, Scouts, Young Voices Choir Club.

Group 2: Aerobics, Artistic Gymnastics, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Football, Hip Hop/Jam Kids' Club, Junior Yoga, Line Dancing, Netball, Swimming, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Tennis.

All the above activities are done DURING school hours. No staying back after school, no weekend activities at all...

On top of all these, there is another group of activities which is optional (after school hours). These activities are graded. There will be additiona charges as they are conducted by professionals. The activities include: Badminton, Basketball, Fencing, Lego Junior Engineer, Lego Gamemaker, Mad Science, Creative Crafting, Pottery, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Science & Robotics, Seasons Drums, Sri KDU-Arsenal Football, Swimming, Taekwondo, Tap-Ballet-Modern Dance, Tennis, Yoshinkan Aikido, Wushudao.

All the above activities are for Primary School. The Secondary School programme has a lot more.

Things that caught my attention:

1. Most of the time, Science subject is conducted in the science lab, even for Primary 1. And the lab looked even more canggih than my MRSM Taiping lab.. hehe

2. Art class is conducted in the Arts & Crafts room. It's like ART ATTACK environment.

3. The computer learning program teaches the students as early as Primary 1 to learn how to use Microsoft products, Word, etc..

4. The computer program is conducted in their computer lab, each student is assigned to his own computer - no sharing.

5. There are also computers in the classrooms for students to search for info on the Internet, etc during classroom learning.

6. The whole school has WiFi.

7. The library has LOTS of interesting books. Books that you would most likely buy for your kids. Rayyan loves the library. Siap nak pinjam some books dah.. hehe

8. At the end of each year, there is a performing arts production that involves every single student. Last 2 years they performed MULAN. Last year they did an ALADDIN production.. so this year tak tau lagi..

9. Students are given some time during class hours to complete any homework given so they would only do minimum homework at home.

10. Each student is given a locker just outside the classroom. So takyah susah2 bawak bag.

11. About 95% of the UPSR students got A's in their Science and Math recently. Not 95% passed, but 95% A's! BM is not so good - about 20% jer A's. English is better - 50% A's.

12. 70% of students are Chinese, 20% Malay, 10% others, including international students.

So camna? Nak join ke taknak? There is an Open Day sometime in April for those who are interested to know even more about Sri KDU. They say it's going to be advertised in the papers.

Will be looking forward to that...