All About GEP

[ngbrdad]

ks2me:

ngbrdad:

The school has a uniques system called twinning whereby the top non GEP students join GEP students in the same class for half a day before recess.
After recess they will break into two GEP classes and 2 twinning classes.

The twinning classes learn quite a fair bit of GEP materials. I think my younger son is probably more suited for this than GEP.

This sounds like an interesting idea, how long do they practise this twinning? 1 term, 2 terms or throughout the year? Are these learning activities included in their final exam or purely fun-based? Thanks for sharing.

Think they started the twinning programme for past one or two years.
It's for the duration of whole P4 to P6.
Top students who did well in the GEP screening but did not make the cut off are selected into twinning .
In the morning the class will do non GEP subjects like Chinese, music PE etc.
After recess, the 4 twinning classes break up to form two GEP and two twinning classes.
The twinning classes will take the same school tests/exams like the rest of theri peers but a lot of their learning materials are the same as GEP.

Just that they don't do as much research/projects, and maybe social studies not as detail as GEP students.

[ChiefKiasu]

ks2me:

ChiefKiasu:

That's a very good post. It echoes my feelings. But I thought it would have been more effective if the author's kid herself is not in the GEP class.

I know what you mean but if she does not have a kid in GEP, she runs the risk of being a sour grape. In any case, she does not have expectations of her second going into GEP, so she is 50% outside the fence and 50% inside...so there is still credibility.

It depends on the message. Her message is that parents should not send or prepare their kids for GEP. The kids either have it or they don't. So if her own kid is not in GEP, and she is not bothered by it, that would keep her message intact. But since her kid is in GEP, her argument comes across a little flat and patronizing. But that's just my opinion

[corneyAmber]

ngbrdad:

Think they started the twinning programme for past one or two years.
It's for the duration of whole P4 to P6.
Top students who did well in the GEP screening but did not make the cut off are selected into twinning .
In the morning the class will do non GEP subjects like Chinese, music PE etc.
After recess, the 4 twinning classes break up to form two GEP and two twinning classes.
The twinning classes will take the same school tests/exams like the rest of theri peers but a lot of their learning materials are the same as GEP.

Just that they don't do as much research/projects, and maybe social studies not as detail as GEP students.

Thanks for the explanation. It is great to know that there are schools out there which bridge the learning process for their good students. The labelling is not important but more importantly, the bright kids, not up to GEP level at least get some exposure to similar learning process. Do you know if this twinning program is unique to this school only or applicable to most GEP schools?

[corneyAmber]

ChiefKiasu:

ks2me:

[quote=\"ChiefKiasu\"]
That's a very good post. It echoes my feelings. But I thought it would have been more effective if the author's kid herself is not in the GEP class.

I know what you mean but if she does not have a kid in GEP, she runs the risk of being a sour grape. In any case, she does not have expectations of her second going into GEP, so she is 50% outside the fence and 50% inside...so there is still credibility.

It depends on the message. Her message is that parents should not send or prepare their kids for GEP. The kids either have it or they don't. So if her own kid is not in GEP, and she is not bothered by it, that would keep her message intact. But since her kid is in GEP, her argument comes across a little flat and patronizing. But that's just my opinion :)[/quote]Appreciate your opinion and I can understand the flavour you are looking at. I suppose the real test comes when the second child does not get into the programme.

[aggellim]

ks2me:

Thanks for the explanation. It is great to know that there are schools out there which bridge the learning process for their good students. The labelling is not important but more importantly, the bright kids, not up to GEP level at least get some exposure to similar learning process. Do you know if this twinning program is unique to this school only or applicable to most GEP schools?

Primary Gifted Education Programme (GEP) (Primary 4 to 6)
School Nature of School

Anglo-Chinese School (Primary) Boys
Catholic High School (Primary)* Boys
Henry Park Primary School Co-ed
Nan Hua Primary School* Co-ed
Nanyang Primary School* Co-ed
Raffles Girls' Primary School Girls
Rosyth School Co-ed
St Hilda's Primary School Co-ed
Tao Nan School* Co-ed

* Special Assistance Plan (SAP) Schools which offer only Chinese Language as Mother Tongue.

From 2008, all 9 primary GEP centres introduced initiatives to promote greater interaction between GEP and non-GEP pupils, allowing them to learn, work and play together on a daily basis.

The integration models proposed generally take one of 2 forms:

Integrated form classes comprising GEP and non-GEP pupils. The form class will have common lessons for all subjects except the school’s GEP core curriculum. GEP pupils attend separate classes for English Language, Mathematics and Science. This model is implemented in Nan Hua Primary School and Tao Nan School (BiCEP classes) for both Primary 4 and Primary 5 in 2008.

Separate form classes for GEP and non-GEP pupils. Pupils will be pulled out of their form class for combined lessons in Art and Crafts, Civics and Moral Education, Chinese Language / Higher Chinese, Music and Physical Education. This model is implemented in the other 7 centres for all Primary 4 classes in 2008.

All 9 schools will continue to provide enhanced opportunities for greater integration through schoolwide activities, CCAs and community involvement programmes. :celebrate:

HOpe this helps :welcome:

[corneyAmber]

Yes it is helpful. Thank you aggellim

[ngbrdad]

aggellim:

ks2me:

Thanks for the explanation. It is great to know that there are schools out there which bridge the learning process for their good students. The labelling is not important but more importantly, the bright kids, not up to GEP level at least get some exposure to similar learning process. Do you know if this twinning program is unique to this school only or applicable to most GEP schools?

Primary Gifted Education Programme (GEP) (Primary 4 to 6)
School Nature of School

Anglo-Chinese School (Primary) Boys
Catholic High School (Primary)* Boys
Henry Park Primary School Co-ed
Nan Hua Primary School* Co-ed
Nanyang Primary School* Co-ed
Raffles Girls' Primary School Girls
Rosyth School Co-ed
St Hilda's Primary School Co-ed
Tao Nan School* Co-ed

* Special Assistance Plan (SAP) Schools which offer only Chinese Language as Mother Tongue.

From 2008, all 9 primary GEP centres introduced initiatives to promote greater interaction between GEP and non-GEP pupils, allowing them to learn, work and play together on a daily basis.

The integration models proposed generally take one of 2 forms:

Integrated form classes comprising GEP and non-GEP pupils. The form class will have common lessons for all subjects except the school’s GEP core curriculum. GEP pupils attend separate classes for English Language, Mathematics and Science. This model is implemented in Nan Hua Primary School and Tao Nan School (BiCEP classes) for both Primary 4 and Primary 5 in 2008.

Separate form classes for GEP and non-GEP pupils. Pupils will be pulled out of their form class for combined lessons in Art and Crafts, Civics and Moral Education, Chinese Language / Higher Chinese, Music and Physical Education. This model is implemented in the other 7 centres for all Primary 4 classes in 2008.

All 9 schools will continue to provide enhanced opportunities for greater integration through schoolwide activities, CCAs and community involvement programmes. :celebrate:

HOpe this helps :welcome:

My son is in Nan Hua.
The BICEP class in Tao Nan is a bit different from twinning.
The students have to be very good in Chinese to get in.
The GEP students who opted for BICEP will have to sit for a qualifying test to see whether they can join in or not.

[ngbrdad]

Below is the link to the annex on moe website on the integration programme for GEP in Nan Hua and Tao Nan Primary


http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/2007/files/pr20071102-annex-1.doc

The GEP students in Nan Hua are all integrated with the other high ability students and the high ability students get a lot of exposure to GEP teaching.

Whereas for the BICEP in Tao Nan, only GEP students who qualify for BICEP take part in the integration classes. The rest of the GEP students have their own classe.

The BICEP programme probably study chinese at an even higher level than higher chinese.

[ngbrdad]

Anyone know whether there is past year GEP test papers for sale ?

Like those past year test papers for top schools being sold all over the island ?
Really have no clue what sort of questions my son will face when he sits for his first GEP common test.

Saw an ad previouslly be an ex GEP teacher who said he has such paper for sale.
However when i contacted him, he only has the test paper for the GEP screening tests,but not the test papers for common tests in GEP.
According to him, GEP students will be given the past years test papers for practice by the teaches later in the year.

Can parents who have kids in GEP comfirm this ?

[EQmum]

Hi ngbrdad,


Ya. They will be given past year test paper for practice by their teachers before the SAs.

The type of questions you son may face for English are about the same level as secondary one, maths of P5/6 level other than the investigation and the HCF and LCM at secondary level. Science also about P5/6 level.