Updates

Follow us as we embark on improving our environment for our children. Brightly coloured flowers hand-made by teachers light up the staircase when our kids walk up to their classes. Note that decorations are intentionally placed at kids eye-level wherever possible.

Up to the classrooms

Playgroup room

Entrance to office

Computer Room

Our brand new SmartBoard

Nursery Room

K1 Room

Halloween

THS will be celebrating Halloween on Fri 28 Oct 2011 together with TAK.

Some information about Halloween :

• Halloween is celebrated on 31 Oct every year.
• It is a Western festival that is fast gaining popularity in the East.
• Halloween began as a festival from Ireland to ward off evil spirits.
• People carve out scary faces and figures in pumpkins, place a candle inside and set in their windows to scare away evil spirits and enemies on Halloween.
• The traditional colours used for most Halloween decorations are black and orange.
• Characters associated with Halloween : ghosts, witches, skeletons, vampires, werewolves, bats and black cats
• People celebrate Halloween by going trick-or-treating, which means children dressing up in costumes to look like traditional characters, such as witches and ghosts, and go from house to house and say "trick or treat".
• Most will give treats - candy or small toys.
• Many homes will be decorated with Halloween themes to scare away evil spirits

(Source : http://www.teach-nology.com/themes/holidays/halloween/)

THS celebrates the fun part of Halloween by giving out candies and having our children wear costumes of any kind. Nowadays, Halloween is celebrated with all kinds of costumes; it need not be scary. We celebrate Halloween as one of the many international festivals so as to increase the international awareness of our students. Last month The Alpha Schools celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival. In Nov, we will celebrate the Indian Festival of Lights - Deepavali, and in Dec, Christmas.

Over the next 2 weeks, our children will be doing activities, crafts and worksheets in preparation for Halloween.

New playground

The playground is finally up. The order was placed a month ago and we were waiting anxiously for the company to take it out from the port. Before that, the outdoor safety tiles had to be laid and that too was a wait for over a month for it to reach us from Malaysia. Finally, things are coming together.

We're open ... in a week

The Happy Schoolhouse is ready to accept students on Mon 3 Oct 2011. We have not opened our doors as we wanted most, if not all things to be in place before we accept new students. Now that most things are ready, we have just the finishing touches to complete next week. New banners were up today ... thank goodness the weather held up long enough for us to complete the job. Here are some photos of our preparation.

Our international wall with postcards from the world over

The safety net hangs over 3 levels to keep our kids safe

Incy Wincy Spider keeps the sea creatures company

And Old Macdonald too

Charlie Brown and Sally keep the K1 kids company

The new banner at the front

Another at the back

One at the playground with outdoor safety tiles

Our logo on the signboard

THS School Uniform

We're in business

The Education Department officers came to inspect our school today and gave us the green light to proceed. This is indeed a happy day for us. Now we can continue with our plans and we have our name approved : "Mam Non Hanh Phuc" in Vietnamese, "The Happy Schoolhouse" in English.