Anglican High School

[mallowyhuman]

you might want to just put AHS as his first choice since the COP is only 2 marks away, but there is no guarantee that he will get it. it depends on the cohort and vancancies. Putting AHS will not affect your other choices even if you don’t get AHS because the way MOE put students into schools is by their marks so the one with higher T-score will get the school he/she wants even if he/she puts it at 2nd or 3rd choice and the one with a lower T-score will not get the school even if he/she puts the school as 1st choice. Anyways good luck

[winniel_tlh]

Thanks for the reply


Yes we'll put AHS as first choice

[tassie]

We are considering AHS and would really appreciate if any parents can share your opinion on AHS culture. Since it’s a SAP school, I am a little concerned whether my DS who comes from an English speaking home would fit. He got A for CL but did not do HMTL. His other consideration is TKSS which is a big step down versus AHS from COP stand point. Thanks!

[bluek]

tassie:

We are considering AHS and would really appreciate if any parents can share your opinion on AHS culture. Since it's a SAP school, I am a little concerned whether my DS who comes from an English speaking home would fit. He got A for CL but did not do HMTL. His other consideration is TKSS which is a big step down versus AHS from COP stand point. Thanks!

Hi tassie,

My daughter did not take HCL in primary school but she attended ahs anyways. In ahs, you have the choice of picking hcl or non hcl. My daughter ended up not going for hcl. She comes from an English speaking background too. However in ahs, they focus more on Chinese (eg. Learning Dizi, making kids read Chinese books, etc) so my daughter ended up improving a lot in her mother tongue!

I hope this helps!

[tassie]

Hi Bluek, thanks for the sharing, really appreciate it. My impression of AHS has been good, the school staff was particularly helpful. She tried her best to address my queries regarding HMTL and CCA. DS met last years’s COP, fingers crossed COP this year doesn’t move up too much.

[grow and glow]

Though this school is supposed to be SAP, i keep feeling the Chinese teachers are very unwilling to teach properly.

DD is in Sec 3 doing Higher Chinese. Every year without fail, the Chinese teacher will tell me DD should do express Chinese and not higher chinese. I agree DD is not strong in the subject, but don’t the teachers have a job to do, to teach the students properly? Aren’t they supposed to encourage the students to love the subject and not complain to us that our kids are hard to teach? If DD is already outstanding, then what do we need the teachers for?

Really disappointing. I actually sent DD to this school because all students can do higher chinese. But it is a disguise.
Worse thing is, the teachers have the support of HOD to call us year after year to drop Higher Chinese. They have two HOD in case you don’t know.

DD will be sec 4 next year. I insist she keeps higher chinese because it is more useful for JC. Doing express chinese is not useful.

[Eddow]

tassie:

We are considering AHS and would really appreciate if any parents can share your opinion on AHS culture. Since it's a SAP school, I am a little concerned whether my DS who comes from an English speaking home would fit. He got A for CL but did not do HMTL. His other consideration is TKSS which is a big step down versus AHS from COP stand point. Thanks!

My DS also did not take HMT in Pri sch. He has an A for PSLE Chinese. He was offered HMT in AHS, so we give it a try. Till now, he finished his Sec3, he is still taking HMT. For AHS, if student cannot handle HMT, the Chinese teacher will advise the child to drop the subject. So there is no harm to try in Sec1

[Eddow]

winniel_tlh:

Hi all,


My son's PSLE result is 237, & AHS cut off point based on last year's intake is 239.

Is it worth trying to put AHS as his first choice? Is it risky, & how would appeal procedure be like?

For those who appealed n was accepted, what was the point difference with the cut off point?

Any input, thoughts or advice is much appreciated ^^

Thanks,

Yes, if you really like AHS, appeal in, even if you are allocated your 2nd choice school. You don't try, you won't know
Then only thing is appeal case result usually out quite late, like 27th /28th Dec.

[Eddow]

grow and glow:

Though this school is supposed to be SAP, i keep feeling the Chinese teachers are very unwilling to teach properly.

DD is in Sec 3 doing Higher Chinese. Every year without fail, the Chinese teacher will tell me DD should do express Chinese and not higher chinese. I agree DD is not strong in the subject, but don't the teachers have a job to do, to teach the students properly? Aren't they supposed to encourage the students to love the subject and not complain to us that our kids are hard to teach? If DD is already outstanding, then what do we need the teachers for?

Really disappointing. I actually sent DD to this school because all students can do higher chinese. But it is a disguise.
Worse thing is, the teachers have the support of HOD to call us year after year to drop Higher Chinese. They have two HOD in case you don't know.

DD will be sec 4 next year. I insist she keeps higher chinese because it is more useful for JC. Doing express chinese is not useful.

Hi, my DS is also in Sec 3, same as your DD. I have the same experience as you. During the PTM, the chinese teacher would explain why she want my DS to drop HMT but we say try for O lvl and see how. So if Jan, the results is B3 and below, most probably have to drop HMT, then retake Chinese O lvl in June. Keep fingers cross :xedfingers: that he at least can get an A2, then no need to drop HMT

[grow and glow]

If DD gets worse than B3, I will still insist her take Higher Chinese. The teachers or even HOD cannot force us to drop. Believe me, it is much better to do Higher Chinese because it is more useful.