Maha Bodhi

[chasingjelly]

MMM:

peggy:

The answers must show exactly those key words according to their standard answer sheet. If any deviations but with same meaning are also not acceptable.

:shock: :!: Yes, it is very difficult for the child to come up with things that are exactly the same. Personally, if they can understand the passage and answer in the same context that is not bad.

Don't get me started on this CL marking. The HOD really wants to find bones in eggs! My kid was marked wrong when she wrote the correct yin (eg. ao) in the middle of the blank. She wants the yin to be near to the given letter (eg. l).

[MMM]

chasingjelly:

Don't get me started on this CL marking. The HOD really wants to find bones in eggs! My kid was marked wrong when she wrote the correct yin (eg. ao) in the middle of the blank. She wants the yin to be near to the given letter (eg. l).

:lol: That also includes handwriting that is not clear,etc.... Well... end of the day, it teaches them to becareful and neat in their work. We are lucky that this is some assessment and not PSLE.

[vlim]

My dd is the line leader(ie..the one who always stand infront when the class move from one place to another).. Today she very happily told me that Mrs Lim, the principal, pat or touch her shoulder, after bowing and greeting her and the vice principal while the class pupils were walking towards their next destination...emmm so loving... :love:

[MMM]

vlim:

Today she very happily told me that Mrs Lim, the principal, pat or touch her shoulder, after bowing and greeting her and the vice principal while the class pupils were walking towards their next destination...emmm so loving... :love:

:lol: I also saw her talking to those graduates who came back to visit during CNY celebration. Those kids are in Mansjusri. So she appeared to be a approachable principal. But different parents have different expectations so it's hard to please everyone

[chasingjelly]

MMM:

vlim:

Today she very happily told me that Mrs Lim, the principal, pat or touch her shoulder, after bowing and greeting her and the vice principal while the class pupils were walking towards their next destination...emmm so loving... :love:

:lol: I also saw her talking to those graduates who came back to visit during CNY celebration. Those kids are in Mansjusri. So she appeared to be a approachable principal. But different parents have different expectations so it's hard to please everyone

No doubts abt it that she has done very well in bringing out the motto of the school. Of course, some parents will expect more because it is afterall a sap school.

[MMM]

Yah.... personally I do hear differing views from other parents. Eg. after 2009 PSLE results put in by MBS,etc... There are always remarks that standard has dropped or principal is not aggressive enough in promoting the MBS overall standard,etc... So yes it's really difficult to please everybody.


Personally, I think they did a good job in defining who they are and their motto 2 years back. Eg. a premier SAP school..... I didn't hear that during my girl's P1 orientation. This gives me a impression of yes, they are finally taking stock of what their key assets are and I do hope they build the school further based on that.

But for us, our wish is that the kids enjoy learning, enjoy school and eventually manage to do well enough to go to a good secondary school. That would make us very happy.

[vlim]

hi MMM,

I would like to know what do kids learn in enopi maths enrichment class..tempting to send my dd to maths enrichment as she not very good in calculation and doesnt' seem to have great interest in the maths assessment which I give her...

[chasingjelly]

MMM:

Yah.... personally I do hear differing views from other parents. Eg. after 2009 PSLE results put in by MBS,etc... There are always remarks that standard has dropped or principal is not aggressive enough in promoting the MBS overall standard,etc... So yes it's really difficult to please everybody.

But I am very sure that these batch of pupils under this P's system will enjoy and love school more. They will bring along with them fond memories of primary school life. I have witness this with those single sex mission schools. Very relax system but the kids are happy as the school load is manageable.

vlim,

My dd has been doing enopi for 1yr+ but she still makes careless mistakes.

[vlim]

ok thanks chasejelly... my dd spend most of time doing school chinese homework, ting sie and chinese tuition homework..and attending 2 ballet lessons per week... so not much time for maths assessment ....

[MMM]

vlim:

hi MMM,

I would like to know what do kids learn in enopi maths enrichment class..tempting to send my dd to maths enrichment as she not very good in calculation and doesnt' seem to have great interest in the maths assessment which I give her...

Hi vlim,

Just some reference in terms of what my P2 is doing for his enopi currently :
1) Multiplication
235 X 9 = (hundreds * ones). I can't recall if he/ my P3 is currently doing hundreds * tens.

2) Division
135 / 5 =
He struggled with this for weeks as they were given homework every week (around 3 booklets). You can see his frustration everytime he has to do it. He finally overcome this and he become more confident and the speed also increase. In doing so, it helped to reinforce his times table. My kids didn't rote learn times table. Fil kept nagging... must get them to rote learn but I was like I rather they learn through rationalisation though it takes time to add that way. :roll:

His Enopi teacher also introduced simple fraction to him.

It is very much like kumon - worksheet based. But there are heuristic portion in Enopi which is clearly lacking in kumon. Every week they have to do critical thinking portion which sort of frustrates him as he is more arithmetic type (not sure if that's because he started our with kumon initially).

Comparing to what school is teaching, I think the scope he is doing is ahead of what they are learning currently. But yes I agree with chasingjelly, he is still making careless mistakes. Eg. don't read question properly and jump to conclusions immediately by picking up numbers from eg. problem sums. So this is the challenge we've with him currently. It's not that he don't know, it's the careless mistakes that caused him the marks.

But one observation about Enopi is that the worksheets are very colorful and there are some maths concept comic strips.