Wellington Primary

[lohas99]

Thanks pattyfong for ur info.

It sounds worrying if proper discipline is not in place.

Btw any mummies here can share the amount of homework for p1 students?
I heard that Canberra primary school has remedial classes if students have difficulties in certain subjects.
Does Wellington have these classes or programs? Thanks in advance .

[mummyJune]

pattyfong:

Thanks Norbu. I called Evangel yesterday and they said there is no more vacancy for next year P1 student!

So i think Pro-teach is the only choice for me.

Hi lohas99,
I think you can find the answers from http://www.pro-teach.com/parent_faq.php
I heard that student in Pro-teach went out from the school without knowing by the 'teachers' in the student care centre. Any other feedback regarding Pro-teach from the mummies here?

Hi pattyfong, its worrying that students from the student care can slip out without teachers knowing! doesnt the school have security guard at the frontgate? sounds worrying... :scared:

[pattyfong]

Yea. i guess it is because of the number of students there.

I called up Pro-teach. The registration will be done via Wellington Pri School around Oct and the supply will be based on demand. Last year they have taken up 2 classes of P1 students.
If there is no other choices (since Evangel has no more vacancy for next year P1 student), i will have to put my son in Pro-teach…

[mummyJune]

pattyfong:

Yea. i guess it is because of the number of students there.

I called up Pro-teach. The registration will be done via Wellington Pri School around Oct and the supply will be based on demand. Last year they have taken up 2 classes of P1 students.
If there is no other choices (since Evangel has no more vacancy for next year P1 student), i will have to put my son in Pro-teach...

oh dear... 2 classes of P1 seems alot...for me i definately have to put my son in pro-teach as no other alternative care but its worrying that the so call teachers are unable to handle so many kids at one go...

[Norbu]

lohas99:

Hi mummies,


My girl will be going to Wellington next year, I m so happy to find this thread!
Mai seek advice from u? I gave helper at home but I m not sure if I should let my girl stay at the student care-pro teacher.
Will the teacher there guide them to do homework? Have nap time of time or not? Thanks !

pro-teach only make sure they do home work, and test them on their weekly spellings.
But will not guide as per instructed by the school. Wellington prefers the parents and pro-teach don't correct the student mistake as this will hinder the teacher from actually knowing which student is weak. actually this makes my job easier

and frankly student care teachers.. maybe lower primary they can. but upper primary many the student care teachers they also don't know. They only person that still can handle is the centre manager.

[Norbu]

lohas99:

Thanks pattyfong for ur info.

It sounds worrying if proper discipline is not in place.

Btw any mummies here can share the amount of homework for p1 students?
I heard that Canberra primary school has remedial classes if students have difficulties in certain subjects.
Does Wellington have these classes or programs? Thanks in advance .

weaker student will have remedial classes even in P1. weak in English will also take different English classes which actually help a lot.

[mummyJune]

when can i register at pro teach? i called pro teach but nobody pick up. yesterday afternoon i called the lady said she does not know anything, tell me to call back again. Why like that?

[Norbu]

mummyJune:

when can i register at pro teach? i called pro teach but nobody pick up. yesterday afternoon i called the lady said she does not know anything, tell me to call back again. Why like that?

enquire from school office and not pro-teach.

[ChiefKiasu]

Norbu:

Wellington prefers the parents and pro-teach don't correct the student mistake as this will hinder the teacher from actually knowing which student is weak....

Is this really the case? Because the logic seems flawed. If the student can correct his mistake, does it matter who helped in the correction?

[Norbu]

ChiefKiasu:

Norbu:

Wellington prefers the parents and pro-teach don't correct the student mistake as this will hinder the teacher from actually knowing which student is weak....

Is this really the case? Because the logic seems flawed. If the student can correct his mistake, does it matter who helped in the correction?

The worry point is that, many will correct the mistake without actually knowing the student understand where is mistake comes from.
It works well so far for my 2 kids. and much easier for the parents anyway.

and if thinking from the point of view of the teacher, if all the student hands in a perfect homework all the times, I would presume all my student have good understanding of the lesson taught and the principal will have the same presumption. but when test comes, student starts failing then everyone will be wondering why.

Next my experience is that student care \"teachers\" many cannot teach. or they don't know how to teach. Last time, when student care teachers do check homework many answer is wrong also.