I know a lot of you have already done your oral exams and I'm sure you've done very well, good luck for the rest of the exams and don't forget to check out our E-zine which features a video link to our BC trainers giving you a few last minute top tips.
Try and get a good night's sleep before the exam, have a good breakfast and arrive punctually at the exam location.  Don't cram at the last minute and just do your best :)  We look forward to hearing how you get on so don't forget to tell your teacher or come and speak to me and let us know.

All the best! 

In addition to our classes, British Council holds a number of competitions throughout the year.

We're currently inviting submissions for our Global YL Art Competition and this year's theme is "My Favourite Food".  Children can submit their pictures on A4 or A3 paper to their teaching centre by Sunday September 26 (please use pastels, crayons, coloured pens anad avoid coloured pencils as the colours and lines need to be strong).

There will be prizes for the winners in each age category and the winners will have their pictures sent to London to participate in the Global Art Competition.

If you'd like more information don't hesitate to drop me a line or contact your teaching centre / child's teacher.

I look forward to receiving lots of pictures to make my mouth water!

Hopefully your child has given you the leaflet about the parent - teacher day that we'll be holding at our Napier Road Centre on Sunday August 22 - if not then here's the lowdown:

Our Primary and Secondary teachers will be available in the afternoon for appointments to talk about your child's progress and in addition Duncan and myself will be running a series of workshops during the day which we'd love to see you at.

1.30 - 2.30pm Primary - Exciting Writing
An introduction to ways in which students can make their composition work more interesting

2.30 - 3.30pm Secondary - Comprehension
An overview of the types of comprehension questions faced by O-level students

3.30 - 4.30pm Primary - Oral Skills for Primary 3 to 5
Ways to help your child improve their oral skills for the PSLE

4.30 - 5.30pm Secondary - Oral skills
Ways to improve on oral skills for examination

Please contact our Customer Service Executives either by calling them on 6473 1111 or by e-mailing them at contact@britishcouncil.org.sg to confirm an appointment.

There will be a book fair on from 9am that morning as well as refreshments for workshop participants.

Even if you don't have a child at our Napier Road Centre then you can still come along to the fair and workshops, just contact us and let us know you're coming.

It's always great to meet our parents so we really hope you'll come along and see us.

Toa Payoh will be holding their Parent - Teacher consultations on Sunday Aug 29 and Monday Aug 30.  For more information don't hesitate to contact them on 6397 2022 and I'll post some more details in due course.

Dear Parents

First of all I'd like to welcome back our returning students and extend a warm welcome to those joining us for the first time.  I hope you all had a lovely June holiday and are raring to go for the second half of the year. 
Don't forget to contact me if you haven't received the email address of your child's teacher and remember you can contact him / her if you have any questions about what they've been studying in class, what the homework is or if you know your child will be absent from a lesson.

News for this term includes:

1) Primary 5 and 6 students at our Napier Road centre will now be able to use the Learning Zone for the first time.  So many of our students read a wide variety of books (which we're delighted about!) so we wanted to extend this priviledge to them.  They can now borrow books from the book box or the Learning Zone by using their ez link card.

2) As always we've got some competitions to participate in this term including an ongoing Monthly Book Review - students have to read a book from the book boxes or Learning Zone, write a review and send it in to me.  We've got book tokens to hand out every month for the winner.

3) Our annual Art Competition is now open - the title this year is "My Favourite Food".  The deadline for entries is the end of September and we will be posting more details in our centres shortly.

4) We will be sending out information shortly about our Parent-Teacher consultations.  It's a great opportunity to come and meet your child's teacher and find out more about what we do here at the British Council.

Once again, welcome back to Term 3 and I look forward to speaking to you all soon.

Anna

Registration for Terms 3 and 4 is now open to all existing and new students.  Don't forget to reserve your son or daughter's place for the remainder of the year.

A big thank you to all parents who joined us for our Parent Workshops which covered a number of topics that we know are of interest to our Primary and Secondary parents including PSLE and O-level themed ones.  We hope you found them useful and we look forward to seeing you at our next Parent - Teacher get together

In response to feedback from parents we would like to invite you all to a parent-senior teacher focus group to be organised during Term 1 at the Napier Road Centre. We will also be offering a number of workshops on this day. We will confirm the exact date shortly and we look forward to seeing you there.

Take a look at last year's Parents' Day at Napier Road Centre.

Hi everybody. Please note that our next Parents' Day event at Napier Road will take place on Sunday 11 October, from 2.00 to 7.00 p.m. You will be able to book an appointment with your child's teacher from 22 September (please call +65 6473 1111 to make a reservation).

The event will also include parent workshops for those of you with Primary or Secondary children, as well as a book fair with reduced prices on a wide range of storybooks.

Hi everybody. Please remember that registration for our existing customers begins on Monday 31 August. You will have priority until Monday 26 October, at which point we will open registration to the general public.

Please book early to avoid disappointment and to guarantee a slot in your preferred class for next year!

Good luck to all our Primary 6 students who are taking their English PSLE oral exams this week!

Remember, for extra practice and advice on the comprehension and writing papers you can book now for our intensive PSLE course taking place in the September school holiday. Click here for details.