Human beings have to cover many phase of life. As a child the first encounter with the outer world is in School. Before that he don’t know what does the school means. Through his parents he comes to know he will get many friends and new things to learn there. At earlier stage the child is little afraid but soon school becomes the part of life.

The school day start with forcefully dragging out of bed by parents. Then having quick breakfast and running for school. In pre-primary classes the student learn lot of basic things related with normal life. Learning week days, months, colours, fruit, vegetables and recognizing them are the part of studies. Getting appreciation by teachers means lot to him. Scoring good grades are the most valuable things he owes. Learning rhymes, playing with other kids, getting injuries become daily routine.

A child began to understand the meaning and value of school when he reach primary classes. And again a new collection of memories get attached to him. Celebrating independence day, republic day, participating in various extracurricular activities add thrill to life. Turning page of those reminiscences in the form of snaps add new life. Recollecting those days with teachers and classmates make feel little lighter in latter life.

Then the memories of internal exams and their result still cold the nerves. Reaction of parent when the result was not up to their expectations. Horror of Board exams, all the sleepless nights and then the result all together add as a bunch of most nervous moments of schooldays.

Prizes, medals, certificate and appreciation were the part of those days. Lot of stress, competition, struggle was the part but still a healthy atmosphere. Many friends and one of those become life long companions were the gift of school. Sharing lunch with classmates, hanging in the school canteens and helping each other in completing their pended homework. All combine to form beautiful recollections of school days.

Excess pressure of studies and getting good marks, discipline of school and strictness of teachers were the most frightening part of those days. But inspite of all this the fun was there, new excitement and few worries of those school days we miss life long.

Many parents who want to motivate their child to do well in school often accomplish the opposite by being far too pushy and they turn school life into a chore and something to be dreaded. Parents who punish their children for not doing well enough in tests, or withhold treats from their children if they don’t revise for long hours for their exams, will achieve the opposite effect in the long run.

The best way to motivate your child is by being positive and by recognizing their strengths and weaknesses. For example, your child may be strong at mathematics but weak in history. By understanding that your child will never be a history buff and praising him for his high math scores, you will motivate him to do well in his preferred subjects. And if you don’t make too much of an issue about his low history marks, or you praise him for the grades he received even if they are lower than for math, you are far more likely to motivate him to do better in his weaker subjects as well.

By telling your child that “you can’t do better than your best,” you are recognizing his efforts rather than his achievements, and by appreciating his efforts he is more likely to want to achieve more because he will see that everything he does is worth it in the end.

And if you show your child that you believe in him and that you are sure he will do well, this will also motivate him to try even harder. There is nothing like self-belief to help a person realize their own personal potential and to become the person that they are able to be.

One of the most dreaded parts of school life has to be the class test. All the way through school, children have to take tests in one form or another. From first grade onwards, there will be some point at which children have to go over everything they have learned.

School tests take various forms – oral question and answer sessions, multiple choice questions, essay questions, practical demonstrations, and written short questions. These methods vary depending on the subject studied and the age of the students.

Testing is extremely important however, because without it no teacher can really know how much the students have learned. This is necessary, not only in terms of the students but also for the teacher so that he or she can know where the class is holding when preparing the material for the next lessons. It can also show who the weaker and stronger students are – who needs extra help and who needs more of a challenge.

For the student, testing is a good idea because this is an ideal opportunity to pause, take stock of the material studied over the recent period, and process it so that it is properly understood. In addition, there is always the satisfaction of passing the test and really feeling that you know something. And if you don’t pass, there is the challenge of having to relearn the material and make sure that you do know it next time.

Building self-esteem from one’s successes and strengthening the character by dealing with one’s failures are both important lessons in life that a child can take with them into adult life and forever.

Long ago boarding schools had a reputation, rightly or wrongly, that would scare even the bravest adult let alone a young child! With stories of freezing cold baths, caning and gruel like meals, these schools we’re definitely not an appealing concept. Nowadays, thanks in no small part to Harry Potter, boarding school has developed a much friendlier image- of shared feasts, house rivalry and all round camaraderie.

But even with this portrayal leading to more children wanting to attend a boarding school, for parents it is still a difficult decision, so to help I’ve put together some thoughts on how boarding schools work and describe some of the experience, so you can then make a more informed decision.

Boarding can often start at the age of eight and usually rises in the secondary years, and again if there is a sixth form as part of the school, and most schools have a house system (so it is a little bit like Hogwarts!), which I think helps a lot of students feel like they belong as it becomes like a second family.

Boarding these days needn’t mean children and parents being separated for weeks on end, as most modern schools aim to offer the convenience and focus of boarding, whilst maximising the time a family spends together. So many boarders choose to go home at weekends where possible, although they find that the range of activities, trips and social events going on at weekends proves to be a strong incentive to remain in school.

As students grow older and progress through school they often take on more responsibility, as they would at home- but what is often found is that the rules are often much easier for an adolescent to accept and benefit from in a school environment!

At many schools there is a real focus on making the environment quite homely and usually use of mobile phones and email is encouraged so students are able to communicate with friends and family outside of the school body.

And really that’s all there is to it. Hope this has helped give more info on boarding school life.

9 Ways to Assist your Child in Organizing their School Life

If you could get your child to remember where they put things, life would be easier. There would be less tears and frustration. So let’s begin our organizing quest.

1. Have a spot near your front door or in your child’s room where their school backpack needs to be. Once homework is done, it’s to go directly inside their backpack unless you need to check it first. If you have a forgetful child or a highly distracted one, have them double check their backpack to make sure their homework is indeed there. Make sure all books that need to go back to school are there as well. In general, double checking is good thing for all children to do. Sometimes children take out a piece of homework or a book and forget to put it back.

2. If mornings are a rush for you: You or your child can fix their lunch the night before. (Remember to refrigerate the lunch if it contains perishable foods.) Your child can also lay out the clothes they plan to wear the next day the night before.

3. Use a monthly calendar which its only purpose is, is to show when things are due. You can X off any day when an assignment is turned in. You can have one calendar for home and a small one for school.

4. The school desk. Keep track of books by putting together books with similar themes. Such as, all library books go together, all math books go together, the history text book and work book go together, etc. If your child uses book covers use the same color for the text book and its corresponding work book to identify them. Have an organizer bag for pens and pencils. Another bag for markers. Get a separate box for the ruler, erasers, liquid eraser, etc. Because if everything goes in one bag or box things won’t be as easy to find. Plus, things tend to get messy being in only one container.

5. School note taking. Notes for each subject should be written down on its own piece of paper. If notes for six subjects are squeezed together on two sheets of paper it’s not easy to locate what you’re looking for. Plus, if each class subject has its own paper it can be easily organized in its own subject folder. Write the name of the subject on the subject folder so it can easily be found in a binder. Each subject folder can have its own color. All folders should go in a binder so they don’t get lost. The homework folder should be in front, so your child remembers to turn in assignments. The daily homework assignments can be written on one paper so your child remembers to do all their homework. Do not let your child scribble their homework assignment on a small scrap of paper. If the scrap of paper is mislaid, well, they’re up a creek without a paddle unless they can get a hold of a friend to tell them about the homework. But they might forget, since the scrap of paper is gone.

6. When the teacher is giving information to be taken down your child should underline, star, or highlight key words for better reference. When writing down homework it is beneficial to underline or highlight important due dates, projects, or assignments. The following is helpful for young children who frequently lose weekly or bi-weekly homework assignment sheets. If you have a photocopier at home, or a FAX with a photocopier, make a copy of the assignment sheet the day you get it. And know the day it should come home! For children who habitually forget to turn in assignments: Have them write down on two stick-its the homework that needs to be turned in the next day. Place one stick-it on the related text book or work book and the other on the front of their binder.

7. Some children are so disorganized that the use of colored tabs can really help. I remember using my own lazy girl tabs. I used random wrappers as page markers for many things, such as, quotes I wanted to use for book reports. The problem was I had no idea if it was the granola wrapper or lunch bag scrap that was meant for a certain quote. That’s where stick-it tabs that you can write on come in handy. Tabs can be used for quick references. You place the back of the tab where it’s sticky on book pages. They can easily mark where certain homework answers are, mark passages to refer back to, separate homework section due dates, etc. Also, a stick-it (as well as bookmarker) is a great way to quickly find where you left off reading or doing homework.

8. Does your child forget where they put their sweater or lunch box at school? Children should always try to put their lunch bag and sweater in the same spot at school so they can remember where it is. On the same peg in the closet and on the same spot on the lunch bench. But they shouldn’t get upset if they can’t get the same spot. If they can recall that they normally put an item to the left side or right side of an area that will help. To lessen the loss of sweaters and jackets put your child’s name inside all labels. If a sweater gets lost and someone finds it, it will be identified as your child’s. As for bringing home the wrong backpack and/or lunch box because it looks similar to another student’s do these two things: #1, To identify the item as theirs: Get a piece of colored string and wrap it around the handle of the lunch box. For the backpack, get a nifty key chain and clip it to a zipper. #2, With a marker write your child’s name inside the lunch bag and backpack so there can be no mistaking it is your child’s. If you prefer not to do this, get some masking tape and write your child’s name on a piece of tape and place it inside the lunch bag and backpack.

9. If your child keeps losing their lunch box you can start using paper lunch bags with their name on them. For parents in morning rushes: At another time quickly write your child’s name on twenty lunch bags. By doing this you will have one less thing to remember to do. Tired of lost school books? Then write your child’s name in them. But only if you’re allowed. If you can’t do this, make or buy a book cover for each book. (To cheaply make book covers use paper grocery bags. Remember to use the inside of the bag as the outside of the book cover.) Put your child’s name on the book cover. This will identify the book as your child’s. Plus, it will keep the book clean. The following is a great idea for school library books which seem to mysteriously get mislaid. Buy or make bookmarkers, then write your child’s name on them. Your child should use one as they read. At least then if the book gets lost someone might see the bookmarker and return the book to your child.

Until a few years ago, boarding schools were known for all the wrong reasons – it was assumed that they are places to keep children of divorced parents, or children with learning or behavioural difficulties. The fact is, they can be pretty nifty places for a growing child. If you have been entertaining the notion that only uncaring parents send their children to boarding school, you should look at how many confident, enthusiastic and life-equipped kids pass out of them each year.

A boarding school can also be the perfect place for a child from a normal, happy family. Such institutions can help a child become responsible, independent, resourceful, self-motivated and add social skills that do not come about under most ‘normal’ circumstances.

Moreover, a child learns to deal better with matters like peer pressure, poor self image and various emotional issues. Thanks to the more or less disciplined and structured approach used in such institutions, a child also has the advantage of being insulated from a variety of negative influences that parents worry about these days.

Of course, staying in touch with teachers is a bit more challenging for parents with children in boarding schools. Often, it is far from where the child’s parents live, so attending local PTA meetings is not exactly easy. Because of the limitations of distance, it is generally more difficult for parents to build a working rapport with the child’s teachers than it would be in a regular high school. Thankfully, the Internet has opened up various possibilities on this front.

There are now social networking sites designed specifically for parents and teachers. If you have a child in a boarding school (or intend to puts yours in one) it makes a lot of sense to sign up on one of these parent teacher networking sites, which provide a protected online environment in which you can correspond with your child’s teachers as well as with other parents of children in the same institution.

Through such a parent teacher networking site, you can also stay abreast with what is happening in the school in terms of curriculum, extra-curricular activities and events that you may wish to attend.

Since the world of communication has opened up on such a vast scale, parents all over the world are finding it easy and convenient to keep in touch with teachers and school authorities. Apart from the fact that boarding schools have now assumed a far more positive image and that their benefits are universally recognized, you as a parent can now be part of your child’s school life no matter where the school is.

While slice-of-life comedy anime series like Lucky Star and Azumanga Daioh depict the ins and outs of Japanese school life, many non-Japanese fans are probably not very familiar with the various Japanese school festivals and events that are held throughout the year. Perhaps the most iconic of these is the Traditional Festival, or Bunkasai. It’s regularly held in most schools across Japan and usually invites people from outside the school to see the work of the students.

Different classes, groups and clubs transform their rooms and the gym into various themed areas. Making them into restaurants and cafes that serve food are so common that they’re clichéd. Likewise, the idea of making a room into a haunted house is a cliché and these two concepts are often depicted in anime and manga as the first few ideas student through out as for what they are going to do during the culture festivities.

For those of us who are only familiar with the idea of Field Day competitions, the fact that many Japanese schools feature a week-long version will probably come as a shock. The festival-like atmosphere that surrounds the so-called Sports Days can often become as strange as it is challenging. Often times, all regular classes are canceled the week that precedes the events, and students are given time to practice their competitions.

From Monday to Saturday, students train and prepare. Then on Sunday, the actual event is held. Since the fields of school grounds have little protection from the sun, these weeks are often scheduled for cooler times of the year. Some of these sports are rather off the wall, like games involving giant balls. There are also often cheering contests, to see which groups can get the loudest.

Presentations by clubs and a performance by the school band are also usually featured, though there are also more traditional, festival aspects to the event. For instance, the day will usually close with a non-competitive Japanese folk routine.

The graduation ceremonies are usually held during March, and usually include an assembly with a distribution of graduation certificates and a presentation by class representatives. Aogeba Totshi, or Song of Gratitude is commonly played as a graduation theme. Interestingly enough, another graduation theme is Hotaru no Hikari, and this piece is played to the music of Auld Lang Syne. This same song is sometimes played by Japanese businesses at the end of the day to usher out their customers!

With school festivals being such an important part of the school life stereotype in anime and manga, they will sometimes come up even in series that usually wouldn’t show something like a minor banquet. However, in series that they fit into well, such festivals often add a dose of over-the-top funniness. Few fans can forget the cheerleading session that the girls from Lucky Star perform at their very own school.

In the past, the father’s involvement in school activities was a much-underplayed concept. This is probably because it is the mother who is usually seen as the primary guiding force in the child’s education. However, we are now seeing a stronger emergence of the father figure when it comes to a child’s school life. About time, too – in a world where single parents are struggling to make up for the missing father or mother in bringing up their kids, the traditional two-parent model should not be under-utilized.

Today, both career dads and stay-at-home fathers are asking teachers some pointed questions at local PTA meetings. They are taking the parent teacher connection seriously and want to know more about the education aspects of child development, and about the impact they can have on it. Yes, that’s right. In terms of parent involvement, schools are now seeing an increasing number of dads standing up to be counted. The fact is that fathers are now very aware that they can make a powerful and positive impact on the way their child’s school life goes.

Why is this important? What’s wrong with the old model, where mothers tackle the child’s education and fathers handle family sustenance? Well, to begin with, gender roles have evolved significantly since that model came into being. Today, young parents often tend to be equally busy at jobs, so it makes sense that both contribute to making their child’s school life fruitful and rewarding.

Moreover, there is now enough research to indicate that children of fathers who actively involve themselves in their formal education have a better time at school, bring home better grades and relate better to their peers. In fact, child psychologists are now of the opinion that children of involved fathers have far fewer behavior-related issues and tend to grow up to be better-adjusted and more responsible adults.

Fathers usually also have the advantage of representing more authority in a child’s life. By virtue of the fact that most of a child’s interactions tend to be with the mother, the father’s influence is invariably kept in reserve. When the father makes his presence felt in his child’s school life, he makes a strong statement – school is important, and he is willing to help his kid do the best he can. That is a powerful message to school-going children, who also feel more protected against bullying and other forms of peer pressure.

However, it is not only the children who have an advantage in such a set-up. When a father involves himself in such a manner, he boosts his own confidence and effectiveness as a parent. He also has the satisfaction of knowing that he is deeply engaged in his children’s life and that he is making a real and positive difference. He becomes – and feels like – a different kind of hero.

My high school life was the best academic life that I ever had. I was able to experience a lot of things, both good and bad. It is due to my high school life that I had this kind of character and had these goals and aspirations. Non-teaching staff, teachers and your fellow students were there to make your life more fun. And probably, your high school friends made your stay in high school, both fun and spicy.

With this article, I am going to share you some methods on how to find school friends, which may or may not use the Internet.

There are a lots of ways for you to find your friends in high school. I’m going to enumerate them for you.

1. Use the yearbook and school directories

Every high school graduating batch has a yearbook. There, you are given with various information about a graduate, which would include the address, parents and even achievements in high school. There are also some school directories that can be used. They usually have the contact numbers of a student in there. For my case, I tend to use our school directory if I really need to contact someone, especially if I don’t know the person’s phone number.

2. Visit your school and scan their registries

When I visit my high school, it feels very nostalgic. You tend to experience those days where you are running on the path walk with your friends. You can go and ask your school registrar. The registrar would have a lot of information about a student, which may even include the middle school that your friend graduated in and also the university or college that he/she enrolled in. Contact numbers, email address and even phone numbers are present in your registrar’s registries. Just approach your registrar nicely and kindly, and he/she would do the things that you requested.

3. Go online and visit social networking websites

There are a lot of social networking sites present on the Internet, which would include Friendster, Myspace, and Multiply. You would just type your friend’s name or email address, and in a blink, you would have search results that would match your keywords. Always be careful when using this one, especially that at times, there are several fake accounts and profiles present in these social networking websites. So, always double check the search results these websites would offer you.

4. Utilize people search engines

With the Internet, you can do free people search using the search sites that I would mention to you. Sites like Zaba Search and white pages would provide you with a lot of information about a certain individual, which may include gender, age, address and phone number.