2014 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[mum2girls]

mum2girls:

Hi Parents

Would like to check with you. Did you usually get feedback from your kids' teachers on their attentiveness and learning attitude in school?

If your kids are very well prepared before the next level begin, for instance if they are in P5 and already prepared for P6 and so on. Do your kids feel excited during the school term starts and will listen attentively in class and excited over what teachers have taught them or they will actually switch off a bit as they already know the topics quite well?

Sorry, I know it is abit random. Last night, hubby and I were talking about all these. Also, the culture shock stuff that we didn't face during our school time. My nieces and nephews also didn't face such issue. So, we are wondering why the kids now will face all these issues. My nieces and nephews are around 14 to 22 years old age group. My kids are the youngest among the cousins, so I am a bit lost touch now. Gather feedback from you all is a better choice as our kids age group are either same or close. Thanks

Oh ya, to add on, as I don't usually prepare my kids way before hand, the most is like maybe 2 weeks before the school term starts, I will just briefly go through the first two chaps with them. Hence, I would like to know the effectiveness of teaching them way in advance and will it affect their attentiveness in class and so on.

[sharonkhoo]

mum2girls:

mum2girls:

Hi Parents

Would like to check with you. Did you usually get feedback from your kids' teachers on their attentiveness and learning attitude in school?

If your kids are very well prepared before the next level begin, for instance if they are in P5 and already prepared for P6 and so on. Do your kids feel excited during the school term starts and will listen attentively in class and excited over what teachers have taught them or they will actually switch off a bit as they already know the topics quite well?

Sorry, I know it is abit random. Last night, hubby and I were talking about all these. Also, the culture shock stuff that we didn't face during our school time. My nieces and nephews also didn't face such issue. So, we are wondering why the kids now will face all these issues. My nieces and nephews are around 14 to 22 years old age group. My kids are the youngest among the cousins, so I am a bit lost touch now. Gather feedback from you all is a better choice as our kids age group are either same or close. Thanks

Oh ya, to add on, as I don't usually prepare my kids way before hand, the most is like maybe 2 weeks before the school term starts, I will just briefly go through the first two chaps with them. Hence, I would like to know the effectiveness of teaching them way in advance and will it affect their attentiveness in class and so on.

I don't teach ahead of school because I don't want them to get bored, and I want them to have an incentive to listen in school. Feedback from teachers is mostly through PTMs, though for one of my girls, her teachers did give me more frequent feedback in lower Pr as she was quite inattentive (because of learning disability). Generally, no news means your child is doing fine!

What sort of culture shock issues are you referring to? There will always be differences between things taught at home and things encountered in school, but so far we haven't had any problems.

[mum2girls]

slmkhoo:

mum2girls:

[quote=\"mum2girls\"]Hi Parents

Would like to check with you. Did you usually get feedback from your kids' teachers on their attentiveness and learning attitude in school?

If your kids are very well prepared before the next level begin, for instance if they are in P5 and already prepared for P6 and so on. Do your kids feel excited during the school term starts and will listen attentively in class and excited over what teachers have taught them or they will actually switch off a bit as they already know the topics quite well?

Sorry, I know it is abit random. Last night, hubby and I were talking about all these. Also, the culture shock stuff that we didn't face during our school time. My nieces and nephews also didn't face such issue. So, we are wondering why the kids now will face all these issues. My nieces and nephews are around 14 to 22 years old age group. My kids are the youngest among the cousins, so I am a bit lost touch now. Gather feedback from you all is a better choice as our kids age group are either same or close. Thanks

Oh ya, to add on, as I don't usually prepare my kids way before hand, the most is like maybe 2 weeks before the school term starts, I will just briefly go through the first two chaps with them. Hence, I would like to know the effectiveness of teaching them way in advance and will it affect their attentiveness in class and so on.

I don't teach ahead of school because I don't want them to get bored, and I want them to have an incentive to listen in school. Feedback from teachers is mostly through PTMs, though for one of my girls, her teachers did give me more frequent feedback in lower Pr as she was quite inattentive (because of learning disability). Generally, no news means your child is doing fine!

What sort of culture shock issues are you referring to? There will always be differences between things taught at home and things encountered in school, but so far we haven't had any problems.[/quote]
I have no idea what kind of culture shock they will face. I mentioned this because while reading through the forum, saw the words \"culture shock\" being mentioned a few times. Hence, I would also like to know what exactly it is as ourselves and none of my siblings' kids face such issue and I wonder if this would only happen to the newer generation kids. :scratchhead:

[hhgold]

Hi, please advise if there will be any subjects common to express and IP stream ? If so, what are they?

[sharonkhoo]

hhgold:

Hi, please advise if there will be any subjects common to express and IP stream ? If so, what are they?

Are you referring to schools with both express and IP streams? Or just a general question about the differences?

[Gingerbread2]

Hi,

Does it mean that the higher the cut off point for the secondary school, the better is the school? Thanks in advance.

Any one has any interesting Science or English magazines to recommend for Sec 1 ? Believe they should have outgrown from young scientists and discovery box.

[hhgold]

slmkhoo:

hhgold:

Hi, please advise if there will be any subjects common to express and IP stream ? If so, what are they?

Are you referring to schools with both express and IP streams? Or just a general question about the differences?

I would like to know about the difference in the subjects syllabus they learn and recommended books

[hhgold]

slmkhoo:

hhgold:

Hi, please advise if there will be any subjects common to express and IP stream ? If so, what are they?

Are you referring to schools with both express and IP streams? Or just a general question about the differences?

I would like to know about the difference in the subjects syllabus they learn and recommended books

[iFirefly]

Gingerbread2:

Hi,

Does it mean that the higher the cut off point for the secondary school, the better is the school? Thanks in advance.

Any one has any interesting Science or English magazines to recommend for Sec 1 ? Believe they should have outgrown from young scientists and discovery box.

Higher COP = Greater popularity

Why a school is more popular than another is subjective..

[sharonkhoo]

hhgold:

slmkhoo:

[quote=\"hhgold\"]Hi, please advise if there will be any subjects common to express and IP stream ? If so, what are they?

Are you referring to schools with both express and IP streams? Or just a general question about the differences?

I would like to know about the difference in the subjects syllabus they learn and recommended books[/quote]I think IP schools differ as most design their own curriculum. However, MOE does have guidelines, so the same basics will be covered, but may be in a different order, pace, under different names etc. In terms of subjects, both express and IP cover the same areas, but I don't know about the details.