Raffles Girls' Primary
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Next year 2016 Proposed school hours (tentative)
Single session @ Hillcrest
Total : 1800 students (P1 to P6)
Start time : 7.40 am
End time : 1.40 pm
Lunch : 1.40 pm - 2.20 pm
(give longer lunch hour : because canteen very packed, with 1800 students inside canteen)
Re-medial lessons / Higher Mother tongue (HMT) : 2.20 pm- 3.20 pm
Cca : 3.30 pm - 5.30 pm
Those who do not need to attend any Re-medial lesson, nor HMT : can go library do your own work, wait until Cca to start 3.30 pm.
Parents to give feedback to Form Tr, if agreeable to start school at 7.30 am, or 7.40 am, or 8 am (for those staying very far, from Rgps. Eg : staying in Woodlands, Sembawang, Seletar, Pasir Ris, Tampines, etc)
School collating feedback now, from all parents P1 to P6 : what is the best optimal time, to start single session next year (2016) ?
New Student Care Centre (SCC), may operate inside Rgps school premises, in 2017.
Maximum intake for SCC : 50 students, only. (out of 1800 students)
Those keen may find out what selection criteria, for SCC.
After shift back to Hillcrest -
National Junior College (NJC) students, NYGH students, RGPS students will share the same stretch of Dunearn Road, with many cars turning in.
Traffic police will install a Traffic light for us, let Rgps primary school students, cross the road, turn into the road. To ease the Traffic woe.
The starting time for NJC is also around the same time, as us : around 7.40 am.
Hence, expect traffic jam to be bad, after shifting back.
NJC suggest that we remain in Mount Sinai, don't shift back.
But school reply that Hillcrest is our permanent home, so must shift back. -
To clarify.
for last year (2014) Psle results -
\"Kiasu parents\" forum reported that the highest Top score achieved for Rgps, was 273, as been indicated here, found on page 49 :-
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum ... &start=480
On page 1 : #134 (275) was reported
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum ... 69&t=80631
However, after the Parents' meeting with Principal, school confirmed that the figures, are inaccurate.
But school unable to disclose : according to Moe ruling that primary schools not supposed to reveal the highest Top score. -
for the new Student Care Centre coming up in 2017 Semester 2 (after July), it houses 50 students (maximum capacity), close at 6 pm (not 7 pm)
does anyone know :-
- who run this Centre ?
is it run by an external Operator, or run by our own Rgps school ?
- what selection criteria apply :
to pick 50 students, out of 1800 students ? -
P2 swimming during PE : start in Week 5 (start of February)
P2 : no moxie
Moxie only start in P3 Term 1 -
can some parents share how does the streaming work in the school ?
how do they stream from P2 to P3, P3 to P4, P4 to P5, etc ?
what are the criteria ? -
phtthp:
There is a neighborhood school has started P2 默写 mòxiě today!P2 swimming during PE : start in Week 5 (start of February)
P2 : no moxie
Moxie only start in P3 Term 1 -
hoo1688:
Your DD's school?
There is a neighborhood school has started P2 默写 mòxiě today!phtthp:
P2 swimming during PE : start in Week 5 (start of February)
P2 : no moxie
Moxie only start in P3 Term 1
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lovinglife:
Your DD's school?
There is a neighborhood school has started P2 默写 mòxiě today!hoo1688:
[quote=\"phtthp\"]P2 swimming during PE : start in Week 5 (start of February)
P2 : no moxie
Moxie only start in P3 Term 1[/quote]Yes. you may like to have a look on the neighborhood school P2 默写 mòxiě & 听写 tīngxiě, T1!
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hi hoo1688,
from the sample you had shown us, your P2 daughter’s Higher Chinese standard (HCL) from Compassvale primary is higher than Rgps P2 HCL. Both schools are Non-SAP schools. We are comparing apple to apple : HCL
Compassvale primary P2 HCL had started moxie, in Term 1.
Rgps P2 HCL whole year : don’t have moxie.
Only P3 Term 1 : then start moxie.
Yes, agree with you.
by right, HCL should have moxie.
maybe 1 or 2 sentences, just to expose kids to moxie, let them get used to it.
If is just normal Chinese (not HCL), don’t have moxie : never mind.
perhaps our school Chinese HOD may look into this.
How about other SAP schools ?
Do SAP schools like Nanyang or Catholic High, Tao Nan, Nan Hua, Maha Bodhi P2, have moxie ? -
school had removed Top 2 classes : from P3 onwards.
In the past : classes (E, F) used to be the Top 2 classes.
The Top 80 students, will enter (E, F) classes.
changes had been made.
now (2015) no more Top class : all become Multi-talented classes.
Removed : because some children feel traumatic.
Eg
P3 : some got assigned to Top 2 classes initially, happily.
Then, come to end of P3 to face a second round of streaming into P4, some got "kicked out" of Top 2 classes. They cried, feeling sad, disappointed. Pupils feel stressed, parents also feel stressed, when they see their poor child cry. Then cycle repeat, at end of P4 streaming into P5. This roller coaster effect of having to maintain the position within Top 2 classes : create stress, on both parents & pupils.
Then, others never get a chance to enter Top 2 classes.
Some begin to think & feel that they are not so bright as those in the Top 2 classes, when in actual fact this may not be true : because the difference between the 80th position and the 81st position may be out, just by 1 mark difference.
For this, the 81st ranked position student cannot get in the Top 2 classes. But the 81st position student won’t know about the 1 mark difference, begin to feel disappointed, despondent.
The child think, "since I cannot get in the Top 2 classes, means I am not so clever. I only average … because P3 I studied hard, but did not get in Top class. P4 also the same. Now, P5 … "
Shaken a young child her morale, her confidence level : which is bad
So, school decide to do away, with the Top classes.
substitute by subject Banding, instead.
depend on the ability of each child.
As school always say : " do your personal best. "
So now, depend on the child’s competency level, mastery of the subject content itself.
English : no banding
only Maths & Chinese.
for Maths -
students divided into 4 group(s).
school did not explain how they going to divide pupils, into 4 group(s).
P2 parents having meeting with P this coming Saturday (24 Jan) -
may wish to clarify : how Maths being banded into 4 group, at end of P2 entering P3, or is it at end of P3 entering P4 ?
at end of P4 entering P5 :-
"Foundation" Maths is introduced.
for Chinese -
either HCL or normal Chinese
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