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Shumaila Shahzadi Habitat School Ajman Al-Jurf 2, United Arab Emirates When I came to my new school, I was faced with strange things, such as language, classmates, and most important was a new curriculum, because my previous school’s curriculum was not in English. I got fewer marks in many subjects and a very bad mark in SST – I got 2/40 marks. I appreciate all my teachers, but my class teacher more because she was helping me so much. She spent her time for me, I used to go to the staff room and she would explain the lessons line by line. With her support, I finally got good marks in the final term and that 2/40 changed to 73/80. She was supporting us academically, behaviourally, morally.
Surya Subha Banerjee Calcutta International School, India In India, we have a Children’s Day celebration on the 14th of November. Every school does something special, like organise a picnic, programme or movie, etc. for all students. This year in school, we went for the movie Lion King and had cake afterwards. To much surprise, Mr Banerjee had written personal, handwritten letters to every single one of us! In yellow, enclosed envelopes, there was bright neon green coloured sheet. On the sheet, Mr Banerjee had written us each our very own appreciation letters with our strengths etc. mentioned in it. It made everyone so happy. How hard he must’ve worked to do that for everyone! At any turn, he does not refrain from going an extra mile to help any of us.