2019 PSLE Discussions and Strategies (Children born in 2007)
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Fyi
What happen, if a P6 student at psle, for some reasons or other, failed to sit for a paper ?
Can be in any of the 4 subjects
SEAB will just take the SA2 results of P5, P6, plus P6 prelim results, to determine your Psle score, for that particular subject paper missed sitting :-
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/accident-causes-boy-to-miss-psle-papers -
sembgal:
both my kids took the old science syllabus...2012 and 2016.The batch of P6 students who had taken PSLE Science exam in 2016 are in fact the last batch taking the old Science syllabus. Next year, 2017, will be the new PSLE Science exam format.
with every change, we don't know what to expect. when the english exam format changed, it was worrying too. my daughter is the 2nd batch. we can't do anything...just have to follow
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Is there a list of recommendations for pure compo class in kiasuparents? DS reads often but his writing is way below par of his peers. Thx.
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Shortly in a few weeks' time, in the 1st week of November, P3 SA2 papers will be given back to students to check their answers' scripts, one by one.
For whatever reasons, if your P3 child did not perform according to expectations, pls do NOT cane the poor child. Instead, comfort him / her by saying \"Never mind, is all right. Next time, try harder, will be fine \".
Every child is precious.
It is very, very sad to hear tragedy like this happening to a P5 child. This poor boy is only 2 years older than our kids. So pitiful
http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore-news/pri-5-boy-falls-death-after-failing-exams-first-time -
Straits Times reported of a Pr 5 boy, who committed suicide from 17th floor in May.
Reason :
He failed Higher Chinese and Maths.
His mom expected him to get at least 70 marks. For the shortfall, his mom will gently hit him on his palm. The boy experienced fear, rejection and lack of competence. He took off from his window flat.
Before that, he told his mom that his results were average.
Teen suicide had escalated and this year, 2 students from a high profile Secondary school / affliated JC committed suicide, one week after each other. MOE is paying close attention, to this.
Please praise your child, for the effort he/she puts in. We can never tell, if a child have learning difficulties. Sometimes, this learning difficulty goes undetected, until much later in Secondary school.
nowadays, there are children who refuse to go to school as well, as students who have friendship problems and thoughts of suicide. No school is spared. Some counsellors (sent from MOE) are visiting schools now, to understand better the emotional needs of children, and what schools are doing to help them.
Children need love and support. We must always cheer them on, for whatever effort they put in.
A lot of educated parents cannot accept that their children are not scoring, or their peers are doing better than them. This tragedy is so sad. Help your children to accept failures, and build their resilience.
in our batch of P3 kids -
in my kid’s school, during recess time, one schoolmate shared with her, "I am very scared of weekly 听 写. My mom said if I don’t get 100 marks for 听 写, she won’t let me enter the house."
What happened was during classroom 听写 : sometimes when she doesn’t know how to write a character in Chinese, she will cry on the spot in class. Such is the fear, inside her. Poor girl ! Please don’t be this type of mother. -
Very stress if my mom were to tell me get 100 marks
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I learn two cases recently:
(1) A mother (a FTWM) of a P4 student expects her son to score at least 90 or above for all subjects. She would upset if his results below the expected scores and would punish him (she expected her son to be promoted from 2nd top class to top class at school during P5).
In May (during SA1), her son’s form teacher informed her that her son was absent from school for 2 days and didn’t sit for examinations (in fact, he was sent to school during that 2 days). Subsequently, her son told form teacher that he was too scared to sit for examinations as his was unable to score 90 or above for all subjects and comments from his mum made him felt lousy. Presently, he undergoes psychological counselling.
(2) A Y2 student who scored 26x during 2014 PSLE (her mother took months of unpaid leave to prepare her for PSLE). She had chosen to study IP.
She failed most subjects during Y1 and Y2 (she couldn’t accept such as she used to be a top scorer), was advised to change track as well as referred to see counsellor. Counsellor found out about the actual reason - her mother planned her schedules since P1 till P6 e.g. which topic/which page/which word to study and practice. As such, she couldn’t be an independent learner and was struggled when she joined IP. Subsequently, she was diagnosed with depression.
All children/students have varying abilities. It’s not practical to expect every child/student to move at the same pace as others.
Parents must know abilities of their children well, to nurture them in accordance to their abilities (to select right educational programme that suit their needs) and to nurture their emotional well-being too.
Parents are to help children to richly fulfill their dreams instead of children help to fulfill parents’ dreams.
A future leader will be someone who has high EQ, a good listener and ability to withstand adversity and to surmount it instead of someone who can score 100 for all subjects. -
TWU:
Counsellor found out about the actual reason - her mother planned her schedules since P1 till P6 e.g. which topic/which page/which word to study and practice. As such, she couldn't be an independent learner and was struggled when she joined IP.
On one hand I'm :shock:
On the other hand I do :salute: her mum for her diligence. I think not many parents can or are willing to be so deeply involved to that micro level -
phtthp:
My kids hardly ever scored full marks for tingxie from p4 onwards. Half the time they forgot to learn. And even when they did remember to learn, still nowhere near full marks. They did not have a tingxie list. Up to teacher to 出.
in our batch of P3 kids -
in my kid's school, during recess time, one schoolmate shared with her, \"I am very scared of weekly 听 写. My mom said if I don't get 100 marks for 听 写, she won't let me enter the house.\"
Actually, is tingxie really that important to begin with? For normal chinese only need to know meaning and recognise the words. HCL then need to learn how to write. At least that was my impression.
Anyway, no full marks just do corrections lor -
TWU:
I learn two cases recently:
(1) A mother (a FTWM) of a P4 student expects her son to score at least 90 or above for all subjects. She would upset if his results below the expected scores and would punish him (she expected her son to be promoted from 2nd top class to top class at school during P5).
In May (during SA1), her son's form teacher informed her that her son was absent from school for 2 days and didn't sit for examinations (in fact, he was sent to school during that 2 days). Subsequently, her son told form teacher that he was too scared to sit for examinations as his was unable to score 90 or above for all subjects and comments from his mum made him felt lousy. Presently, he undergoes psychological counselling.
(2) A Y2 student who scored 26x during 2014 PSLE (her mother took months of unpaid leave to prepare her for PSLE). She had chosen to study IP.
She failed most subjects during Y1 and Y2 (she couldn't accept such as she used to be a top scorer), was advised to change track as well as referred to see counsellor. Counsellor found out about the actual reason - her mother planned her schedules since P1 till P6 e.g. which topic/which page/which word to study and practice. As such, she couldn't be an independent learner and was struggled when she joined IP. Subsequently, she was diagnosed with depression.
All children/students have varying abilities. It's not practical to expect every child/student to move at the same pace as others.
Parents must know abilities of their children well, to nurture them in accordance to their abilities (to select right educational programme that suit their needs) and to nurture their emotional well-being too.
Parents are to help children to richly fulfill their dreams instead of children help to fulfill parents' dreams.
A future leader will be someone who has high EQ, a good listener and ability to withstand adversity and to surmount it instead of someone who can score 100 for all subjects.
:goodpost:
Very well said n I hope all Primary School parents from KSP will read this, digest it and practise it.
Your children are very precious gifts from God so value, nurture and guide them according to their abilities so that they can grow up being happy and well adjusted adults who can contribute back to society.
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