Sengkang Green Primary

[amaratine]

eu-ern:

Jus thinking if they can allow more than one enrichment since it is payable. My ds loves dancing n lego building.

Shldnt b a problem.

[amaratine]

Just to share tat this sch adopts a "no homework on Friday" policy. ( checked w principal)

[mamii]

I think is great to have a "no homework on Friday" policy.


DS loves to doodle so it would be great to have an arts&craft enrichment. I saw some beautiful artwork on display during Open House but I don’t think those are done by the current P1 students. I saw some pieces with other School names on it.

I wish they have alternatives for sports enrichment as well.

I understand that there will be a few days where school will be late for the PAL program. Hope to get more infor during Orientation.

[amaratine]

mamii:

I think is great to have a \"no homework on Friday\" policy.


DS loves to doodle so it would be great to have an arts&craft enrichment. I saw some beautiful artwork on display during Open House but I don't think those are done by the current P1 students. I saw some pieces with other School names on it.

I wish they have alternatives for sports enrichment as well.

I understand that there will be a few days where school will be late for the PAL program. Hope to get more infor during Orientation.

Tis yr , they do have a June holiday programme on Chinese brush painting for interested students.

Principal said they r highly likely to start an art club as cca wen current batch of p1 reaches p3 .

I saw wat they learnt during their music lessons on their open house fb page ( now removed) , the students actually get to learn to play the keyboard. Each student w one keyboard. Quite interesting.

Hmm do u mean sch will start late for PAL program?

Any idea wat approach r they using for English? Any higher Chinese offered?

[mamii]

amaratine:

Tis yr , they do have a June holiday programme on Chinese brush painting for interested students.


Principal said they r highly likely to start an art club as cca wen current batch of p1 reaches p3 .

I saw wat they learnt during their music lessons on their open house fb page ( now removed) , the students actually get to learn to play the keyboard. Each student w one keyboard. Quite interesting.

Hmm do u mean sch will start late for PAL program?

Any idea wat approach r they using for English? Any higher Chinese offered?

Oh sorry I was not clear, I meant school will end late on days they have PAL program.

They are using Stellar for English, if I am not wrong. Higher Chinese will only start in P5.

[eu-ern]

Tot higher chinese begin at p3? Heard STELLAR prog quite taxing on parents so if the parents do not have sound English foundation, won’t their child be disadvantaged?

[amaratine]

I see these STELLAR , PAL program being used by most schs but I dun reali noe wat they r all abt... :siam: oops


Pardon my ignorance.

Anybody thinking to join their parent support group? Do they hv one now btw?

[eu-ern]

I would like to join too… lets wait for orientation.

[mamii]

Yes I thought Higher Chinese start in P3, but the VP said no, only P5, he said depending on school cos some start from P1. My concern is would starting in P5 be too late and too big a jump for the kids. Anyway DS is not strong in Chinese, I would be happy he can cope with normal Chinese


I think there is no textbook for STELLAR, I am not sure how tough it is compared to the normal English program. As for PAL, I have no idea what it is too. Maybe is Learning through Play kind of thingy ?

What does the parent support group do ?

[eu-ern]

Did some search online.. STELLAr uses stories and text which apeals to children to teach English. More can be found at http://www.stellarliteracy.sg/


PAL stands for program for active learning meant to develop a child holistically by exposing him todifferent mmodular activities.