CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' Secondary
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lhl2003:
Hi! Will there be a cut in classes or number of students in SNGS? Please reply asap,thanks!
5 classes for o level, 6 classes for ip, total students are about 320. I got this info from open house. -
My daughter got 270+ for PSLE. Can she go to St nicks Ip.
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Popick:
My daughter got 270+ for PSLE. Can she go to St nicks Ip.
Of course, she can. -
Can anyone share if their IP girls have any problems with learning 3rd language? Does it clash with the various enrichment programs or CCAs? I still can’t decide whether to let dd take up 3rd language.
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Anyone knows how is the performance of their ip students so far? Anyone being transfer to o level class or retain? Are the ip students more stressful than the o level students?
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so far, nobody from IP class, been requested to transfer over to O level class, at St Nick.
per batch :
6 IP classes, 5 O level classes
(IP class more than O level class, by one more class)
for IP class (at St Nick) -
In Sec 1 : they spent maybe Term 2 in Pure Physics, or spent Term 3 in Chemistry, or spent Term 4 in Bio.
Each Term, they just focussed on one Science area.
Sec 1 : they learn the basic, essential, fundamental Scientific principle, first.
Sec 2 : they start to apply the principles taught (learnt) in Sec 1, into mini project.
In Sec 2, when they split up to work on mini group, or assigned teamwork Science projects, their project càn be multi-disciplined.
Example
Science project 1 : can involve application principle of both (Physics & Chemistry) concept taught
Or
Science project 2 : can involve application principle of both (Bio & Chemistry), concept taught.
Means allowed, or can combine different areas of Sciences.
St Nick is flexible, in this aspect.
Also, as the students work on lower Secondary project, they begin to discover :
Which field of Science are they (themselves), really more interested in ?
Is it Physics that they more interested in, or Chem, or Bio ?
Then come to Year 5 subject combination, maximum they only allowed to chooose 2 Science H2 subjects for GCE A level, they will know which are the 2, to specialize in, which to drop ?
This is unlike some other IP Sec school curriculum, where they very strict, don’t allow different combination of Sciences.
Eg : they insist must be a pure Physics, or pure Chem, or pure Bio project.
No inter mixing allowed.
in IP curriculum (at St nick) :
they also start to bring down about 10% of A level pure (Chem / Physics / Bio), into (Sec 3 & 4) curriculum.
10% is not much.
In this regard, although 10% not much, but at least IP students get exposed to first, learn more than O level students.
But start to bring down into (Sec 3 & 4) curriculum, so that when they do Year 5 A level, some of the terminology used in Pure Science is not new to them anymore, as they have been taught before (10%), sounds familiar to them.
As for subject Maths :
IP Tr start to teach a bit of A level Maths topic like Combination, Permutation, etc down to IP (Sec 3 & 4) level.
So, during Secondary school Open house visiting, one may ask those IP Tr, standing at the booth of their respective Sec school
- what is the %tage of A level curriculum like roughly, brought down to Sec 3 / 4 level ?
- for Science mini group projects, how they teach, or impart scientific principles, to IP students ?
Although there are a few IP Secondary schools around, but every school IP curriculum in terms of syllabus, lesson structure planning, differ.
Besides, school fees also a big difference too ($300 vs less than $30, per month)
For eg : if go Cedar IP or RGS IP, the way they design their IP curriculum, may be different. -
Thank you so much. It is very informative. I guess O level is more stressful then. IP just need to know the concept and apply in pw. But isn’t O level better as they learn more, not only concept to apply though lesser project for them. Is IP or O level better in preparing students to A level in Jc? I mean for 1st four years.
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Does anyone know whether O level at St Nick need to do projects, are they a lot?
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Admin Officer (Secondary section) said
Cut-off point for CHIJ St Nicholas this year (2015 Psle batch, born 2003) :
"O" level : 253 (for non-affliates)
IP : 258
I posed a question :
"if a child with T-score 251 : want to appeal for O level, what is her chances like " ?
her reply, "the pupil can still proceed to submit Appeal form. But chances is very, very slim" -
Hi phtthp,
How about the COP for affliation?
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