Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary

[janet88]

Scolding the kids in public is a foolish thing to do. Children should be educated at home, not outside for all to see.

[ruaqt2]

Jennifer:

Most of the time, the teachers teach more than 1 level. Last year we had to see a teacher who was teaching 3 classes. Imagine the wait.

Is it like one teacher one queue or one teacher with two or more queues depending on the number of classes she has?

Thanks.

[janet88]

ruaqt,

One teacher one queue for that class.
I don't know how it is arranged esp if the teacher teaches other levels. Fortunately my son's FT teaches Math & Science, so will have to meet 3 teachers...hopefully won't have parents in front asking questions not related

[Jennifer]

janet_lee88:

ruaqt,

One teacher one queue for that class.

Our experience, it was only one q for one teacher for all classes she took.

[Jennifer]

janet_lee88:

...hopefully won't have parents in front asking questions not related

I was so fedup that I loudly complained why exceeded time limit for so much. And also dropped hints to other parents waiting for the same teacher that one cannot be so inconsiderate.

[tweet]

Hi


DS's CL teacher will call parents up.Reason: she has to meet parents from her form class. at least i have one less teacher to meet.

[donkey]

E3:

Thanks for all your replies. Jennifer, that was my concern, good science teachers not teaching science and their valuable expertise were not utilised or rather wasted.


I am worried that we end up doing all the coaching and learnng thru guidebooks and assessments. It defeats the purpose of what science should be teaching the kids: a spirit of exploration and a sense of curiosity.

IJJ, Pei Hwa results are usually above national average cos many diligent parents contributed to that too.

Call me kiasu, but I am worried that an incompetent science teacher will cause me to have to 'work harder' in coaching my dd's science. If a good teacher can inspire her for science, which she is currently still very interested, will make my job easier at home. Haha....

Why I am so particular about science and not other subjects cos science is not something you can practise like math but need to hv analytical minds and apply the concepts learn creatively as questions will vary greatly during PSLE so if don't get a good science teacher who can motivate the kids to retain and apply their knowledge, they will soon forget what they learn, not to mention applying concepts into challenging questions.

do you agree that good schools have the good results thanks to the diligent parents instead of the school and neighbourhood schools have the good results thanks to the schools?

[donkey]

janet_lee88:

Mummies,

Pei Hwa pages are the highest among all the other schools...reason is because there are many ladies here who are so willing to share what they know. :celebrate:

does not means that Pei Hwa gots more Kiasu parents??hehe..

[northernlights]

hi janet,


pls do not be so hard on yourself... do not get so carried away with not repeating your mistake with #2 so much so that she gets spooked before going to P1 ya:)

my ds is in P1 this year. he's on the stellar prog & has no eng text but uses penmanship, grammer & wordbank handbooks from teachers' productions though. term 1 maths is mainly k2 work so make sure your dd knows her k2 stuff well. chinese for now is hypy, so make sure she has gd hypy grounding + know some chinese \"sightwords\". eng, i would say, is the one with the most \"new content\". they're introduced to new vocab (eg. animal noise & motion). being strong in phonics will definitely stand her in good stead.

imho, instead of trying to move your dd into P1 gear, focus on building a good solid foundation will be more beneficial. moving up the learning curve becomes easier and an inflated ego does wonders for more learning we played lots of word games when he was in k2, like spell how many cookies he wants, take turns spelling days of the week, etc.

let me know if you need to know anything else ya.

[northernlights]

Jennifer:

I was so fedup that I loudly complained why exceeded time limit for so much. And also dropped hints to other parents waiting for the same te acher that one cannot be so inconsiderate.

don't the teachers signal for the parents to leave? in ds' preschool, the teachers tell the parent politely that his/her turn is up. if want additional \"airtime\", have to request to be the last one.