Harry

It is surprising how many subjects there are and how we get to do everything.

Yes, I was in Vietnam until the end of Grade 3. First of all, the classes are a lot bigger, so here you usually get classes of 25 there you could have up to 40 and you also find yourself doing the same stuff over and over whereas here, say in Maths, we would do two weeks and then move on to something else. In Vietnam you can find yourself doing one thing for a month or so. 

I have been most excited to learn so many new things. I wanted to see what was taught in Grade 7 that isn’t in primary school. I found that Maths was a lot harder, but science becomes very interesting, we do things like Biology that I’ve never done before. 

It was a bit difficult to find friends at the start but you get over that quickly. 

Absolutely do it, it’s amazing, the place is great we even have a swimming pool! We have big ovals, the teachers are amazing, and they will listen to you when you have something to say and they will also teach you lots of interesting things, it’s great. 

When I went to the inter-school chess competition, I had to play against people up to Grade 12, but I won 5 out of 7 games and recently finding out that I came first in the Chinese speaking competition, that was fun.