Tuesday 29th October 2024

We started off the day today with the Junior School's Diwali Assembly, which was held outside in the huge space between the Junior School and the Senior School. Obviously, the climate here allows for such events to be in the open air, which is just as well, as there isn't really a space big enough inside the building to accommodate everyone, as there are 1,544 students in the Junior Department, which is quite an astonishing number to see amassed outside!

The main features of the Diwali Assembly were the acting out of the story behind Diwali - Lord Krishna's victory over the powerful demon king Narakasura, with the very clear message that darkness is overcome by the light - or good triumphs over evil; and a rather beautiful dance performed by a group of boys and girls, which was rather intricate, with gymnastic elements to it that were very impressive. Sadly the photographs I took don't quite do it justice!

More lesson observations and co-teaching experiences followed the assembly, whilst we also started looking through Maths Test Papers for Grades 1 through to 5, which proved to be a very revealing task, and thinking about a 1.5 hour Staff Meeting on 'differentiation' that we have been asked to deliver next Monday. We are being kept very busy, but it's all good fun, and well within our capabilities, with the Staff Meeting the thing that requires the most preparation.

Having had a lovely swim in the lovely school swimming pool last night, we repeated the experience again this evening, which is doing wonders for our fitness levels. We have had problems with the Internet since we got back from Kurunegala, so Sandra very kindly brought her router for us to use this evening, which did the trick! We enjoyed another excellent dinner at Razeena's next door, as we rarely eat the same thing twice, such is the variety of her cooking!

Today's photographs show the Junior School's Diwali Assembly, with a couple from my co-teaching lesson this morning.