Pei Chun Public

[Kinderbueno]

Hi all… May I ask what’s the typical schedule like in the Student Care for the afternoon session kids? Is it very tiring for them to wake up and go to the centre in the morning, before going to school in a couple of hrs time? Am wondering if this is better or keeping the kid home alone with the helper. Thanks!

[aloyboy]

Kinderbueno:

Hi all.. May I ask what's the typical schedule like in the Student Care for the afternoon session kids? Is it very tiring for them to wake up and go to the centre in the morning, before going to school in a couple of hrs time? Am wondering if this is better or keeping the kid home alone with the helper. Thanks!

If you already have a helper look after your child it should be ok. No point spending extra money.
Unless your child is like playing ipad all morning and helper can't control them.

The student care my P1 is going to, will go through their homework, teach them their spelling and ting xie.
They will give tuition, teaching them per textbook just that faster than school and do worksheet and test paper from other school. They have breakfast at 9am, then study time (as above) around 11am eat lunch.
Thus I am pretty hand off in his school work except to help him pack his bag everyday. I don't even remember which day is his spelling.

My son wakes up at about 7am every morning sleep at 9pm. He is still energetic after school.

How each student care is run is different, you need to do some investigation yourself.

[Kopitiam]

Hi, I am still considering whether to place my child in pei chun - is there a lot of homework? as i have heard that in some good schools, the children are doing homework from monday to sunday. Hope to replies from the fellow parents here. Thanks.

[moohoo]

Not much homework in lower primary

[love1001]

I heard there is China Cultural Trip for P4. How to sign up? Is the trip open for all students or base on school selection?

[love1001]

moohoo:

Not much homework in lower primary

My girls P3 and P4 also very little homework. My friends' kids in P5 also very free, very little homework.

[Mummy_Tang]

love1001:

I heard there is China Cultural Trip for P4. How to sign up? Is the trip open for all students or base on school selection?

It was P5 for my DS time... Based on P4 year end Chinese results and teachers' recommendations... My DS is Sec 1 this year. Before the China immersion trip in June of P5, there will be a 3D2N cultural camp during March holiday in school to let the kids get used to it first..

Hope this helps

[BePersevere]

Hi love1001, the trip is in P5, not P4 and for 36 students only. It is based on P4 overall results and chinese results within top 10%. The students need to go through an interview too (last year for my son’s batch). Girls stand a much higher chance as three-quarter of those who got selected were girls.

[BePersevere]

Hi love1001, the trip is in P5, not P4 and for 36 students only. It is based on P4 overall results and chinese results within top 10%. The students need to go through an interview too (last year for my son’s batch). Girls stand a much higher chance as three-quarter of those who got selected were girls.

[potter]

Dear Parents, have you read the new PN from the school?


I am very concerned that the AS is now scraped. At P5 and P6, having no remedial lesson in school is a very scary idea. HCL lesson is also reduced from 2 hour to 1 hour.

While other top schools are already preparing their P5 by conducting extra lessons for all students, loading them with mountains of homework and endless drilling each day, I am worried that ours is way too relax and unprepared for PSLE.

1 hour of HCL lesson is way too short. Honestly you can’t do much in that one hour.

While I agree weaker students need more help, the above average students also need some push and extra support to excel in the national examination too. Otherwise they will become too complacent.

In many of the other top schools, apart from math activity book, they are using assessment books such as on sponge for their extra lessons. We have nothing. It appears that our school is not doing enough that’s why PSLE math results is very bad every year. Only a handful got A-star.

In a way, I still like the AS structure where students are banded. Stronger students are stretched to their maximum potential whereas weaker students are given extra help to catch up with their peers. They learn at different pace but the end result is all students benefit from the programme and no one is left out. Why stop AS?

I do not mean to be rude but the idea of scraping the compulsory remedial lessons/ AS from P3 to P6, especially P5 and P6 is totally ridiculous and insane. The new leader is making too much drastic changes!

I still believe one needs to put in effort to see the results. If you do not give your plant sufficient nutrients, it will not grow well.

My dear child does not have private tuition from P1 to P4 so does it mean that I should start sourcing for external help?

This year P6 is the first batch of Guinnea pig. God bless that they do well in the PSLE.