Yesterday was BACK TO SCHOOL at the French school in Budapest. Terence started in 2nd grade (aka CE1). They assign times for each grade to arrive on the first day of school. The 1st and 2nd grades assembled on the playground at 9am whereas Mia's K class started at 9:30am.
We only found out who Terence's new teacher was upon arrival. There are three 2nd grade classes and he has one of the two female teachers who I've heard is very strict but excellent. This works perfectly for me.
The photo above is the list of the 24 kids in Terence's class with their DOBs and their nationality. Unfortunately, it seems Terence is class is made up of mostly Hungarian kids. I'm only saying 'unfortunately' as I worry that Terence will spend more time speaking in Hungarian than he will French but hopefully the teacher will put a lid on that.
After the head master introduced the teachers, he followed up with each child's name who would be in the teacher's class. The kids went over to the teacher one by one until the entire class was standing with her. Together, the class and parents (if the chose) went to their new classroom. I was only one of about 2 or 3 moms taking pictures.
Here is the hallway chaos (kids hanging up their jumpers) and the classroom. There was no assigned seating on the first day and to my disappointment, Terence chose the very last row. I'm sure that will change. He's sitting next to his buddy, Trevor, who also speaks English and Hungarian.
We only found out who Terence's new teacher was upon arrival. There are three 2nd grade classes and he has one of the two female teachers who I've heard is very strict but excellent. This works perfectly for me.
The photo above is the list of the 24 kids in Terence's class with their DOBs and their nationality. Unfortunately, it seems Terence is class is made up of mostly Hungarian kids. I'm only saying 'unfortunately' as I worry that Terence will spend more time speaking in Hungarian than he will French but hopefully the teacher will put a lid on that.
After the head master introduced the teachers, he followed up with each child's name who would be in the teacher's class. The kids went over to the teacher one by one until the entire class was standing with her. Together, the class and parents (if the chose) went to their new classroom. I was only one of about 2 or 3 moms taking pictures.
Here is the hallway chaos (kids hanging up their jumpers) and the classroom. There was no assigned seating on the first day and to my disappointment, Terence chose the very last row. I'm sure that will change. He's sitting next to his buddy, Trevor, who also speaks English and Hungarian.
Here is Mia's new classroom. This is her 3rd year now at the French school and the first year she didn't cry. She was so happy and has a lot of her friends in her class. In Kindergarten and all the Pre-K classes they split the class in half so half started Tues, the other half on Thursday (they all have today, Wed, off) and then combined on Friday. I think this is a little less overwhelming for the students, teachers and parents.
"Okay Mom, you can go now"
