Mrs E Tan

My not long ago status @ fb - “how cool is it to have my principal aka my boss to pray for me after our heart-to-heart talk”

After that talk, she dropped me smses…
“xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx, I will personally help you along. The LORD is with you. Ps 27:13-14”
“Just remember that NOTHING happen by chance. This new journey is for you and for those around you. I know you will be fine!”

So far including her, I have worked under 5 different principals (1 from first and 3 from previous kindergarten), I must say she is the FIRST principal who I’m so comfortable in sharing my heart out and I only know her for ~4mths! Trust me… I really shared my heart out.

Mrs E Tan is a principal who…
- is a woman of God
- love and serve His people
- not just talk the talk but walk the walk
- show love, support and encouragement to her staff
- believes greatly and take pride in her staff
- gives children hugs and affirmation
- has excellence when doing things
* believes an “open-concept office” aka her door is always opened for any to look for her
* is always available
- understand the “pressure” of teaching with a pair of eyes
… there was once she conducted a trial lesson for me then she told me to conduct the afternoon session, think my expression changed for a second and before I could say anything, she said “Don’t worry, I wont come in and see”. Haha!
- etc etc etc etc etc etc

Trust me, Mrs E Tan is a very busy principal … never once you see her shake legs or leave the school earlier and not to mention arrive in school later than any of the staff
One thing I’m always very appreciative is her availability for me as she believes very much on hand-holding the new staff.
Remember there was once I needed help from her, I went to the office and she had something on hand, not even asking me to wait for a minute, immediately she put her stuff aside and went with me to my classroom.

Another I got to salute is her patience and "willinglyness" towards the pre-nursery children. Trust me, taking care of a class of more than 20 pre-nursery children is no joke. I can still remember during the first few weeks of the term, it was so chaotic that the class teacher was so stressed and one of the days Mrs E Tan gathered all staff and declared a prayer walk, 7 times round her classroom and got each teacher to commit to pray for 2 children.

You see… not many principal will be willing to leave their office to step into the classroom (or at least for my previous principal… opps) and not to mention to have the patience to take care of the challenging class, the pre-nursery where you will find more than one children wandering, dreaming, CRYING and shouting at the SAME time.
But EVERY week and EVERY day, you will see Mrs E Tan in the pre-nursery classroom to carry and to coax the individuals.

Seriously I do not know what lies ahead in my journey with LSK but one I definitely know for sure - I am soooooooooo blessed to be under her leadership and guidance.