Poi Ching

[amylqf]

babynicole:

Parents of Poi Ching, pls advise how do you teach your child on the CL test ( Sheng Ji Guan) held weekly ? My daughter seems quite ok when I revised with her. Nevertheless, the marks is seldom ideal when the papers are returned. Pls advise on average, how many mistakes will they made, assume if you have prepared them thoroughly? Thanks in advance !

There is no special way. Practice makes perfect.

but I never expect my girl to be perfect... hehe

[wi11anna]

babynicole:

Parents of Poi Ching, pls advise how do you teach your child on the CL test ( Sheng Ji Guan) held weekly ? My daughter seems quite ok when I revised with her. Nevertheless, the marks is seldom ideal when the papers are returned. Pls advise on average, how many mistakes will they made, assume if you have prepared them thoroughly? Thanks in advance !

Hi babynicole, which year is your dd in, P1 or 2? What's yr ideal marks? There are 70+/- words tested so I don't expect ds to get full marks.

So far, ds was tested twice. he got full marks for the 1st test and I think 3 mistakes for the second. The 2nd test was trickier than the first oso he told me for some words in the 2nd test, unlike the 1st, the teacher only said out the word and not the phrase from the textbk which the word is in.

Can share how u revise with yr dd? I get ds to read the passages until he's very familiar. For the words, I do it the Flash Card way. I photocopy the wordlist, cut them out and test him.

[Charnic]

Thanks for replying !My DD is in P2 and recently transferred to Poi Ching. So far, I only read the passage with her and tested her on the textbook by pointing randomly to the words. On average, she will made between 1-5 mistakes based on the past 5 tests done. What puzzled me is she can do perfectly well at home but not in school. Just wondered if I should do something more like the flashcards you self-create ?

[amylqf]

if she can do 100% correctly at home, I don’t think it is something to do with recognition.


maybe it related to listening, or interpreting…
can she hear the sound from teacher correctly?
some words has same/similar sound, does she know which words in what meaning, use in what phases?

my 0.05c

[Charnic]

I was told by the teacher earlier that the tests would be based on the sentences she pick from the passage. Thereafter, the kids get to choose the correct word out from the 4 choices given. If this being the correct understanding, my DD is able to recite the passage fluently, recognise the words from the sentence and as for meaning, maybe not all, but at least 80% of it. Though I am not a perfectionist, I do expect her to attain full marks for these tests cos it is quite straight-forward, unlike maths or english whereby you may get marks deducted due to mis-interpretion, careless etc...

I do heard from another parent that she actually makes the child writes the passage out couple of times. Thought this is a bit too much , but her kid actually score full marks on every test using this method. :roll:

[wi11anna]

babynicole:

I do heard from another parent that she actually makes the child writes the passage out couple of times. Thought this is a bit too much , but her kid actually score full marks on every test using this method. :roll:

I agree. I think it also depends on the child's capability. Ds has one classmate whose grandma also adopts this method on top of the flash cards. She did not get full marks for the past 2 tests leh.

I'm happy so long ds does not make more than 5 mistakes.

[Charnic]

I agree, think I need to manage my expectation well. Otherwise, might unknowingly kill her interest in studying :love: ... Btw, is your child in P1 or P2

[wi11anna]

I think yr dd is already doing very well and will definitely do better as she gets more comfortable with this "Sheng Zi Guan" thing. Also unlike her, her classmates already have 1 year experience.


DS is in P1.

[justhappy]

Hi mummies


It has been quite a few months since our kids attended Poi Ching… Does anyone care to share any feedbacks or comments regarding the school and teachers.

My kid happened to share with me that her teacher openly praised a classmate of her being very fair and pretty. Think the teacher even went to the extend of asking the class who else’s mothers also praised the girl of her look.

Perhaps I worried too much, I am concerned of the influence and message sent to these yound kids regarding their appearances upon hearing such comments from their teacher. Not sure if it is appropriate for a teacher to do that as I thot I would appreciate more if the teacher was openly praising the student of her hardwork or good behaviour instead of the her being aesthetically pleasing.

Just my personal view. Thanks

[nonKiasu]

Hi. May I know Poi Ching has any open house this yr? Tampines Primary School is having theirs tomr.