Pei Chun Public

[Precious2.012911lee]

muska:

hi preciouslee,

I think EL1 is the first class.
Kids will come from different class. and what my ds did was eat lunch faster, so they can go back to class faster and get to sit in front..cos he is small.

They will have frens from P1,2 old class, and P3 class.
But not sure of teaching material though.
Only know that for math some kids do Math Olympiad and those not in MO class doing no. bonds revision.

Thanks musky! My goodness! I am surprised the school really rank the kids into classes by accending order. I think in most of the other schools, typically they have 2 high ability classes, 1-2 classes with students that need more academic support and the rest are mixed ability. I do not think they split until so detailed. :scared:

[muska]

precious2,

I didn’t think much of the ranking…I don’t find the EL class that useful, I thought they would give more drill work like compo etc…but it was like normal works to me…

[sean wife]

Hi,


Any suggestion how to get good scores for reading section of Chinese oral? My P2 got a 8/10 score this time round…compared to picture discussion or conversation, I though reading should be the most possible portion to get full-marks…especially since we already know the scope of the passages which will be tested…

[sean wife]

muska:

hi preciouslee,

I think EL1 is the first class.
Kids will come from different class. and what my ds did was eat lunch faster, so they can go back to class faster and get to sit in front..cos he is small.

They will have frens from P1,2 old class, and P3 class.
But not sure of teaching material though.
Only know that for math some kids do Math Olympiad and those not in MO class doing no. bonds revision.

hi muska, do u mean the different classes start at different time, some earlier and others later?

Tks.

[Precious050911]

All same timing but go to their respective class. They would have already know by now where to go. Pcps no positioning so with banding, you can roughly gauge where your child is. MO1 and MO2 for Math Olympiad(thru invites) and then normal Math, M1-M7. English ~ E1-E9

[muska]

sean wife:

Hi,


Any suggestion how to get good scores for reading section of Chinese oral? My P2 got a 8/10 score this time round…compared to picture discussion or conversation, I though reading should be the most possible portion to get full-marks…especially since we already know the scope of the passages which will be tested..

probaly cant recognise some words during assessment. All I did is just go through few rounds, hide the hypy and let them read through. Just use the text book is enuff.

[Precious2.012911lee]

Yes, all P3 students already know their allocated class.


According to my DS, they are ranked according to their P2 results and cream of the crops are EL1 to EL3 and for Math are the 2 MO classes & MA1. Not sure how true, he said after the EL AS, they need to move quickly to a different classroom for MA AS.
I wonder why Chinese AS is not banded and there isn't Science AS. :roll:

Anyway, I feel ranking / banding in such detailed manner can be rather stressful. The good side is we know where exactly our child stands. On the flip side, it is quite demoralizing for a child if he/ she is allocated to last few classes. Unless the school has 9 different set of materials for the 9 different classes, in my opinion, it is good enough to just split them into 'high', 'above average' and 'average' ability classes.

I heard some kids opt out of the AS. Perhaps, they have elder siblings in the school and their parents find this is not really useful after all.

[Precious2.012911lee]

sean wife:

Hi,


Any suggestion how to get good scores for reading section of Chinese oral? My P2 got a 8/10 score this time round…compared to picture discussion or conversation, I though reading should be the most possible portion to get full-marks…especially since we already know the scope of the passages which will be tested..

Hi sean wife, what I did with DS was I revised with him the specific few topics that will be tested. I will cover the Han yu pin yin so that I know which are the Chinese characters he could not recognize and then revise again to make sure he knows them all.

I find that the expectation from the Chinese teachers is rather high. Apart from being able to recognize the words, the kids also need to be able to read really fluently. Remember to pause when there is a comma or full stop (and vice versa). I remember whenever my DS brought home the AA results to sign, there was always an attached feedback slip where teacher will write some comment.

[Precious050911]

He’s absolutely right, they move abt after an hour of English AS. I never heard of pupils opting out of AS tho. I thought it was compulsory. Do not worry of the banding. If your child does well this year, he will be in different AS class next year. They are reviewed yearly.

[Precious2.012911lee]

Yes, although AS is compulsory, parents can choose to opt out if they find not so useful. My DS told me that we can write in to the school. 2 of his classmates have withdrawn from AS. Majority of the kids already have private tuition or enrichment classes. To compare 10-12 students versus 40 students per class, I think private tuition is probably more effective due to smaller group size. I will let him try a term to see if it is really helping much.