The Final Grades Are In - So Proud Of My Daughter!

Well-deserved holiday

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the final week of my daughter's school in the first class. and she's happy to be free from learning a few months. Because of a little mistake in the system, her third-term grades were visible in the app a few days after her last day and we were so happy with what we saw there! She went beyond our expectations and we're so freaking proud of her! We can safely say that she is now enjoying a well-deserved holiday. We never expected the first year as a non-speaking Spanish girl to end with these grades. We were ok with her not doing so well the first year, or maybe two years.

The third-term grades

Her grades were based on the last exams as well as how the kids behaved and were paying attention in class. This is her list:

• Spanish - 7
• Maths - 9
• English - 9
• Physical education - 8
• Arts - 8
• Natural and social science - 7

What was especially good is that she went up from a 5 to a 7 for both Spanish and Natural/Social sciences on her second-term list. And although she started the first term of Maths with a 9 on her list, she went down to a 7 in the second term and now went back up to a 9 in the last round. For arts, she went from a 6 to a 7 to an 8, which is great!

Final report

The final report of the end scores would be available on Tuesday last week, so we had to wait a few more days for them to be released. She ended up having this end score:

• Spanish - 7
• Maths - 8
• English - 9
• Physical education - 8
• Arts - 8
• Natural and social science - 7

So the only change was the maths average, an 8 instead of a 9. We know she had a rough second-term understanding of what the teacher meant. Thankfully, with the help of her very patient tutor, she managed to get through that rough period and went back up again.

We were worried about the language

We both agreed we'd feel better if she'd repeat the first year to make sure the Spanish language isn't going to be an issue later in this second year to come. But seeing these grades, all my worries were over as I'm pretty sure even some Spanish kids have worse grades, while they didn't have her handicap with the language.

We will continue with the tutoring, maybe a few hours less a week to not overload her next year, but it depends on the needs. I think maybe in exam weeks we will up the hours and the regular weeks slow it down a bit.

Time for a reward!

As we are so proud, of course, we had to give her a reward for her efforts. We were in a store where they had plenty of toys so we told her if you want to have something here, and can pick anything, what would it be? She went straight to the dolls section and found a cool Mermaze
Mermaidz doll, there was also a car available that changed color in the cold water so we added that to the doll.

It looks pretty badass if you ask me, too bad that hair is a true nightmare:

It's impossible to unwrap it to make a braid or tuck it together in a crunchy, I've been told to cut it shorter to remove the tangled part but I'm afraid to mess it up. There are two different types of hair so it seems and I wonder if I can manage to cut it properly. So far she has been using other Barbies in her fancy glitter car instead. I have to give it some thoughts first before I cut it shorter. Tips are welcome, lol.

The most important thing is she's very happy with the gifts and we are super proud parents. A year ago, we'd never expected her to make such big progress in the first year, especially not with a not-so-emphatic teacher who doesn't speak one-word English.

Very well done little lady! <3