Catholic High School

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phankao:

Dreamgear:

Wah, CHS IP classes soooo huge? 30?! Other schools only like max 25.

Actually VS IP class size is also around 32 for 2013 intake. Could it be due to the dragon year? Hopefully they will 'shrink' for 2014 intake.

[thsheng99]

TTBCOOL:

For ip, all 3 schools shared the same program, and the O level track mirrors the program... This could be there is a dsa program at year 3 to switch from either track. Year 3 is the only opening to switch track actually.


No textbooks for maths, english and for science, seldom used. Chs have in house material and tools. Pros is there is a lot of advanced teaching and well as application teaching, for example geography lesson at bishan park... Etc. cons is the parents get very lost.

For ip track, there are lots of projects counting towards the final marks. There is also a 9 months passion pursuit project stretching from end of year 1 to mid of year 2. In between there is an additional compulsory named World Readiness Program as well as shorter electives like CSI, ancient warfare, advertising, etc and joint symposium with sngs and scgs.

This year class size for ip range from 30 to 35. I have asked the head of ip about this and he advised that as they cannot get enough qualified teachers, they decided to expands the class instead. So there could be changes this year as both scgs and sngs are about 25 in each class.
Do note that the class is divided out to 2 science, d and t and chinese.

Hi Dreamgear,
My dd is in SCGS IP Sec 1 this year. For information, I had just asked my dd, she said her class size is 30 but not sure about other classes. I'm curious to know whether do SCGS, St Nic and CHS cover the same IP syllabus? May I know for Maths, does CHS complete the Mathematics of Finance topic for this year?[/quote]

Accordingly to the head of IP, the joint syllabus for all 4 years have been approved by MOE, and all 3 schools have the same syllabus.

Are you refering to taxation? If yes then they have completed it.[/quote]

Thanks for the reply. Taxation is one of the components. It also includes interest rates, exchange rates, commissions, etc.[/quote]


My dd is in St Nicks IP. They have also completd the taxaion module e.g hire purchase, GST , interest rates e.t.c

Looks like the 3 schools have the same syllabus including electives as well e.g CSI, Art of War e.t.c

Their IP class size is 25. O level class size is bigger.

[mummy so kiasu]

phankao:

Dreamgear:

This year class size for ip range from 30 to 35. I have asked the head of ip about this and he advised that as they cannot get enough qualified teachers, they decided to expands the class instead. So there could be changes this year as both scgs and sngs are about 25 in each class.

Wah, CHS IP classes soooo huge? 30?! Other schools only like max 25.

I think independent schools have smaller class size. Their school fees are around $3××. Whereas CHS is a Autonomous school & we only pay $3X or maybe due to dragon year.

[phankao]

mummy so kiasu:

phankao:

[quote=\"Dreamgear\"]

This year class size for ip range from 30 to 35. I have asked the head of ip about this and he advised that as they cannot get enough qualified teachers, they decided to expands the class instead. So there could be changes this year as both scgs and sngs are about 25 in each class.

Wah, CHS IP classes soooo huge? 30?! Other schools only like max 25.

I think independent schools have smaller class size. Their school fees are around $3××. Whereas CHS is a Autonomous school & we only pay $3X or maybe due to dragon year.[/quote]My older one is in Govt school and class size 20-25. Now abit more but still less than 30 . I remember taking a copy of he & his bro in CHS MOE Fee Statements, the fees both S$20+, but CHS a few dollars more. Govt school still cheapest.

[Jovialcho]

Just imagine without scholarship, the fees are around $300 x 12mths x 6 years for independent ip schools compared to gov or gov aided schools n also lead to same alevel… Is it worth the investment or roi? For me I prefer the obvious …

[lim72]

Jovialcho:

Just imagine without scholarship, the fees are around $300 x 12mths x 6 years for independent ip schools compared to gov or gov aided schools n also lead to same alevel.... Is it worth the investment or roi? For me I prefer the obvious ...

So RI & HCI are independent IP sch? How about VS?

[Dreamgear]

lim72:

Jovialcho:

Just imagine without scholarship, the fees are around $300 x 12mths x 6 years for independent ip schools compared to gov or gov aided schools n also lead to same alevel.... Is it worth the investment or roi? For me I prefer the obvious ...

So RI & HCI are independent IP sch? How about VS?

VS is govt

[Dreamgear]

UPDATE : CHS Open House changed to 23rd Nov, due to update from MOE of psle result date to 22nd to 25th Nov.


Source : CHS FB Newsflash

[Ichigokun]

Hey Everyone I haven't been posting on KSP for quite some time now due to the hectic schedule. EOYs have passed so I'm able to free up some time to visit KSP.


I was just wondering on which courses to take for Sec 2 Streaming, can anyone give me advice? http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=62859

[Ichigokun]

sparks:

can i get some feedback on the teachers in secondary school? are they nurturing type or result-oriented? my ds doesn't like the teachers in chs pri as they are mostly result-oriented. his fav teachers are those fr p1 n p2.

Depends on which teacher you are talking about. Some are really nice and the nurturing type while some are very strict and result-oriented.

It all comes down to luck (sorta). I have a mix of both kinds of teachers teaching me different subjects.

Dreamgear:

sparks:

can i get some feedback on the teachers in secondary school? are they nuturing type or result-oriented? my ds doesn't like the teachers in chs pri as they are mostly result-oriented. his fav teachers are those fr p1 n p2.

My ds in the ip portion... All very young and not at all result-oriented. In fact the academic environment is quite laid back.... Different story when it comes to cca... Very on-the-ball and result-focused....

I would agree the newer teachers are more of the nurturing type. But they can teach quite well as well, 一點都不輸給 the other senior teachers - and they know when is the time to be nice and when is the time to be strict

I can't really say its a laid back academic environment though. While its true that many people still play football during exam period - you should see how some of them go to libraries in groups after school, those who wake up in the middle of the night at 4 AM just to study for the paper coming up 4 hours later, and those who have these A4 sized notebooks with every inch of space used to write something

I don't do any of the above mentioned but its still very tiring. Almost every subject has a project for you and you have to complete it by the deadline or face screwing up that particular subject. And if your DS fail one subject, likely chance of the subject teacher ringing you up is 75%