Holiday Program June 2011

Hi All!

Like it says, we are having Holiday Program this June! 2 hours of fun learning everyday from Monday to Friday for only $150.00! Keep your child active and learning even during the holidays. Call us now at 67555650 to register!

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We hope to see you soon!

GT

Calendar of Events

Greetings Parents!

The Calendar of Events is now ready for your viewing here (password needed). Glucklich Trumpets (Newsletter) are also available here (just in case you accidentally deleted the email hehe).
If you are unsure of the password, you may ask any of our teachers for it. Thank you! :)

Christmas Day!

Christmas was a blast. The Thompsons invited us to their lovely home for the Christmas party! They children had a wonderful time playing games, eating delicious food and exhanging gifts with Santa! Hahaha. A picture says a thousand words, and we have a few. :) Enjoy!

Say Cheese! :D

Ryan with Tr Hani

Now young lady, what would you like for Christmas?

Check out the log cake, gingerbreadies and tarts!

Everybody smile! ^_^

Gifts that were exchanged :)

Scrumptious food to munch

Santa deciding how he should go home.

Santa decided to walk to the North Pole :)

Glucklich Schoolhouse would like to thank the Thompsons for inviting us over for the party. We had a wonderful time in your lovely home :) We would also like to thank all parents for bringing the gifts for exchange for your child(ren). :)

There are more pictures here, do help yourselves :) (password needed)

Underwater World!

Underwater World! Yes we went to the UNDERWATER WORLD where the sea creatures of various kinds were there for us to see.

The children were very excited for the visit. We head there early in our bus (we didn't want to miss anything!)

Right after we reached there, we headed to their Dolphin lagoon to watch the dolphin show. Those pink dolphins were amazing! They were so fast! And boy were they able to play ball :D here check out these shots we took!

Pink dolphins taking the ball from the trainer.

Look at it leap!!!

The trainer told us how we could differentiate the sea mammals (like the dolphins and whales) from the sharks. (Check out their tails; sharks tails are vertical and they move left to right to swim forward while sea mammals' tails are horizontal and they move up and down to swim forward) Cool eh?

Anyway, we then head back to have our lunch (mee hoon and bananas? wow!) before heading in the oceanarium to look at the other sea creatures in close proximity (divided by the glass of course) on the travellator. Children pointed out many kinds of sea creatures. They saw the giant Japanese crabs, the jellyfishes (isolated of course), the sea horses, the stingrays and MANY MORE!

Giant Japanese crab

Check out the cute sea horses!

Peek-a-boo!

Teacher Az and Shruthika. Say cheese! hmm or seas?

Glucklich children on the travellator.

After about 3 rounds on the travellator, we went back upstairs to the 1st level. We then headed to the touching pool where we touched stingrays and fed them!

Tr Hani and the children feeding the stingray.

We made our way to the dolphin lagoon one more time to catch the show with the sea lions. We then made our way back to the entrance and waited for the bus to send us back home. It was an enjoyable day indeed. We would like to thank all parents to joined us for the trip and hoped they had as much fun as we did. Thank you!!!

Click here to check out the complete album!

The HMAS Parramatta

Elo people!

Yesterday, 30 August 2010, Glucklich Schoolhouse (it means everyone) got to go onboard an Australian NAVY SHIP! The HMAS Parramatta was one big frigate! The children looked really tiny next to it. Okay so now the story begins...

At 1000hrs yesterday morning, we boarded a chartered bus to the Sembawang Wharves. The bus had to go through several security to get to the ship. The children did not show much enthusiasm (compared to the teachers)... that was until they saw the ship!

From the bus point of view: Going through security


The Sembawang Naval Wharves


Children under beautiful sun and (above?) sparkling sea


The children's first look at HMAS Parramatta. Grand eh. :)

Going up the ship by itself was interesting enough. Most of the children were not afraid at all! Even the littlest one. Check this out:

No trace of fear whatsoever!


Seb's mom taking picture of us!


If theres 's a helicopter pad on the ship, it can only mean one thing... :D


Check out the folded helicopter. Yep folded :) it's called Bundy.


And of course we took pictures inside Bundy :D


In the back seats...

The officer then brought us into narrow corridors and to the side of the ship. We got to see a side of Sembawang Park that we have never seen before! (the blue sky, fluffy clouds and sea breeze were icing on the cake).

Left: Blue sky + Ship. Right: Blue sky + Ship + us :)

Hehe anyway, the officer brought us through some more doors and walkways and she led us up very steep ladders. We are very proud of our little ones! They were able to climb up and down with no problem at all! :)

Seb's mom helping us out :)

After the second ladder, we were greeted with a room full of buttons, knobs and meters! It's called the Bridge. That is where the officers did their navigation and control the ship, and where the captain sat and where MANY THINGS HAPPEN!

Excitement overload :D


When i grow up, i want to be a...

After exploring the bridge and sitting on the captain's chair (sorry captain!), we made our way back down for a little surprise.

Seb's mom brought us to the room where all the officers have their meals. She and the officers gave us (the teachers too) NAVY bracelets and NAVY balloons! Hehe. And they even have a Chef! And that chef prepared us a banquet of snacks!!! They were very very sweet people! They provided us with sandwiches, chocolate cakes, cookies, gummy worms/bears/fruits, fries (with ketchup) and cute little pancakes with cream on top!!! Here's proof:

Yummy!


The teachers with the cute chef. :)

After the meal (thank you for the meal!), we made our way through doors and narrow walkways back to the helicopter pad. Where we took last minute pictures :P


Us with the crew at the back! Smiles! ;)

Making our way back to land ":(

Crew in attention!

After that, Seb's mom gave us one more souvenir; lightsticks that last for up to 12 hours! Apparently, officers carry this when they are onboard the ship. If an accident were to occur and they are thrown off the ship, they will crack the lightstick and this will serve as easy guide for the search and rescue team to find them :) cool eh.

We boarded the chartered bus and headed back to school. It was such an AWESOME tour that the children were still talking about it in the bus.

We would like to thank the Thompsons for organising this very special tour, and the Royal Australian Navy's staff and crew for their very warm hospitality. We are very honoured to have been treated with this rare opportunity. The children had a lot of fun while learning a lot of things. Thank you!

there are more photos in our photobucket here! (password required)

Mila Missing!

Glucklich Schoolhouse is sad to inform everyone that our pet chicken; Mila is missing. We found out that Mila went wandering to our neighbour's backyard on Sunday 1 August (when no one was in school) to take cover from a preying cat. SHE HAS NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE.

Our children have been searching for Mila since we noticed her missing but we have not succeeded. We seek your cooperation to call and inform us if you see any wandering miniature chicken in your backyard. It might just be Mila. She is more than just a chicken. She is OUR pet.

Thank you for your kind attention.