A-dither

Our Mummies Group was all a-dither this week.  It all started with the lunch on Sunday with Carmen and me at Debbie's place.  Carmen casually asked which school we were choosing for the P1 Government placement round.  "Say what?"

So finally, after an hour an a half of grilling Carmen, checking the website, asking Zhan Laoshi, checking translations, grilling Clark, Natalie's Dad, who already knew all about it, it transpired that this week was the deadline for submitting your first preference for a discretionary place at any Government funded school in Hong Kong.

There followed a scramble to get the forms from the school, fill in the forms and find all the supporting documents, then Debbie and I hightailed it to Marymount Primary School, our school of choice, to submit the forms.  It was quite an exercise in Mummy Power.

I loved Marymount.  It's on Tai Hang Road and freshly painted pink and lemon.  It's an all girls Catholic school originally founded by the Maryknoll Sisters, but now run by a lay Catholic organisation.  It seemed very calm, caring and competent!  And it's free!

Unfortunately, it's an all English curriculum, so we still have Suzhe as our first choice, with Marymount as our back up.