Maha Bodhi

[MMM]

Lower primary CCA is not compulsory and my impression is that the offering is limited??? I recalled that when my girl was P1 (2008), her teacher asked them if they want to join a certain CCA and if the kids say yes, they will bring home the consent form. So if the kid says no, then there will be no consent form. BTW, I think band was not offered to P1 in 2008.


But last year, my boy brought home those CCA forms (band, badminton, basketball and wushu). That's all I can recall. We actually registered him for band and wushu but he only got into wushu :? Heard some P1 got to join the band but focus appeared to be more on P2. My kids told me that if only my P1 only choose band, then he will probably get to join. This year to play safe, we will only choose band So i am waiting waiting for the consent form to arrive but there's no news yet.

In our case, it's always driven by kids have something in mind to join (eg. friends joining as well). The time works well and logistically no issue, then they will go.

[chasingjelly]

What about the CO and the guzheng group? Are these offered to the lower primary too?

[csb]

Hi, ds just brought back an application form for deduction of Edusave for 4 school-based programmes, namely speech and drama, leadership programme, Houghton Mifflin programme, and a maths website. There’s no provision for opting out. Can I find out if the kids in P2 and above went through the same programmes? Are these "worthwhile investments"? No details on the programmes were given. Thanks in advance for your advice.

[Shoe]

Usually, there’s no opt out for these things right? The school decides they’re worthy activities and are usually carried out during curriculum time.

[MMM]

csb:

Hi, ds just brought back an application form for deduction of Edusave for 4 school-based programmes, namely speech and drama, leadership programme, Houghton Mifflin programme, and a maths website. There's no provision for opting out. Can I find out if the kids in P2 and above went through the same programmes? Are these \"worthwhile investments\"? No details on the programmes were given. Thanks in advance for your advice.

For Houghton mifflin, you can't opt out as that is part of the english program. Meanwhile for the rest, I think it's compulsory. Don't think the charges are \"signifcant\"? So we just went along.

[csb]

Yes, the charges are not significant. It’s just that I’m not keen on 1 of the programmes, and am just wondering if I could opt ds out of that programme. Ds just said that it’ll be a 30-min lesson per week, and I seriously doubt anything much can be done in that time period with a class of 30.

[Shoe]

Wait till they get to secondary school! The Edusave deduction runs into a couple of hundreds!

[csb]

That’s why I was thinking of not utilizing the funds if it’s not compulsory. Anyway, the form teacher said all are compulsory.

[jsmum]

Hi,


My P4 also bought back a form to deduct $38 from edusave for some courses to be conducted too. I remember receiving a statement on the balance on the edusave a/c yearly. So far I have not top up the a/c before. Should be sufficient funds up to P6.

[grande]

Hi all


Just wanted to highlight some of the findings after using the 2 dictionaries.

I personally prefer Creative's (in terms of word search) because

1) when I keyed in the hanyu pinyin of a 词, eg. \"shafa\" (沙发), Creative can show me the word 沙发. As for Besta, when I keyed in \"shafa\" and press enter, the HYPY which I've keyed in just blanked off. I had to key in \"sha\" first, find the chinese word and then key in \"fa\" again to get the full 沙发.

2) then I tried to key in the first letter of each word. I tried \"ddzz\". Creative gave me 2 choices : 跌跌撞撞 & 端端正正. Besta only gave me 跌跌撞撞.

3) the pronunciation of the words by Creative is slower and clearer

4) the font used in Besta although can be enlarged, I find that the font in Creative is actually easier to read

My girl told me that her teacher said Besta is better, so when I told her I find that Creative is better, she said \"No, my teacher said Besta is better !\"

I then showed her my findings (per above) and she agreed that she would prefer to use Creative.

I think it is a good thing that I bought both as I mentioned earlier that 各有千秋, so I am able to try out for myself which is better in terms of searching for words (cos don't want to waste too much looking for words during exam). But I love the 笔顺 function in Besta as it is really useful.

Maybe I am missing something in Besta or I do not know how to use Besta properly. But the above findings are based on my ease of use of the 2 dictionaries to the best of my knowledge