Pei Chun Public

[love1001]

phtthp:

love1001:

I checked with my friend whose kid in P5.

They received the letter on Fri. It is confirmed no more AS (scrapped) and lesson time for HCL will be reduced to an hour. The students whatapps group is celebrating whereas parents group is panicking. I am :yikes: of the sudden change too.

if P5 HCL been reduced to only one hour per / each week, from previously 2 hours in the past : need to find out from your Chinese HOD -

a) what content taught had been missing inside 1 hr, per lesson ?

b) what's the rationale / reason(s), for changing HCL, from 2 hr to become 1 hr ?

One hour is short.

My girls still have not received the letters. Maybe only the P5 and P6 were informed last week. Other levels not yet.

All the while in PCPS, compulsory Academic Support (AS) starts from P3. In other schools, some term it as remedial or extra lessons. Students are banded into different Eng & Math classes according to previous year results.

I am surprised that this is now scrapped. I have never heard of any school that has no remedial lesson for upper primary students. Have you?

1 hour of HCL lesson is indeed too short. What can the teachers cover in just 1 hour? I am sure parents will ask in the level briefing but I also heard from other parents, now we can no longer ask questions in the level briefing. No more open discussion and can only drop your question privately in the Q&A box. Not sure how true.

Mine will be impacted next year. :nailbite:

[muska]

My gal is p3…oredy received the pn of cutting hcl lesson end of last week…which detailed that as will now only be provided to weaker students.


Indeed quite a big change this yr. For eg. The p3 chi compo will now be 3 pics intead of 1. But i noticed the zhuowen booklet was not provided oredy .

She had more homework on weekday n weekend compared to my elder boy time 3yrs ago who hardly had any work. In fact last weekend…she had to write a chi compo.

I thk the teacher is cutting down on times for them to do worksheet/workbook in class…rather let them do at hm instead to save time.

But the 1hr hcl…really hope they would reconsider it. Cos the lunch oredy takes 45mins. Not worth staying so short hr…especially for those kids need to take extra bus or hv ppl come specifically to fetch.

[love1001]

hi muska, according to my DD2, HCL will be reduced to only 45min from next week. Is this mentioned in the pn?


1 hour is short enough and now it becomes 45min. What is the point of staying back??

My DD1 belongs to the group that is not strong academically but is neither consider as weak. For sure she needs academic support but will not be selected that kind.

This year maybe she can still cope without the AS but I can't said so for next year as it is going to be a big jump from P4 yet there is no remedial classes.

I am still unable to understand why the sudden change.

Regarding homework, my P3 has more than my P4. My P4 does not have hw everyday. :? Once a while 2-3 pages of Math and chinese 习字. That's all!! Relax until I see already also get cold sweat. It appears that P4 is still a honeymoon year.

[muska]

For P3 HCL 1.40pm to 2.35pm , 24 Mar

P4 HCL 1.40pm to 2.35pm, 3Mar
P5 HCL 1.10-2.10pm, 15 Feb
P6 no change, 1.10-3.10pm
pls double check yeah!

The extra time due to shorten of HCL is given to science remedial.
sometimes its hard to achieve balance for everyone to be happy. I recalled I was one of the parents who complained peichun had too many supp at P3, cos i felt the eng/math is not necessary. I also complained now my elderP6 at another sch had supp every wed/thur even right after cny..hah..

I think we have to work harder as parents if we think sch not giving enuff work..

love1001:

hi muska, according to my DD2, HCL will be reduced to only 45min from next week. Is this mentioned in the pn?

1 hour is short enough and now it becomes 45min. What is the point of staying back??

My DD1 belongs to the group that is not strong academically but is neither consider as weak. For sure she needs academic support but will not be selected that kind.

This year maybe she can still cope without the AS but I can't said so for next year as it is going to be a big jump from P4 yet there is no remedial classes.

I am still unable to understand why the sudden change.

Regarding homework, my P3 has more than my P4. My P4 does not have hw everyday. :? Once a while 2-3 pages of Math and chinese 习字. That's all!! Relax until I see already also get cold sweat. It appears that P4 is still a honeymoon year.

[sean wife]

Must say that it is really a bold and swift move by the new principal.


I recall that those stronger in maths were given the opportunity to take Math Olympaid class in place of the Math AS class. Guess that is scrapped as well? As a working parent, I would prefer that my child

As for the amount of homework, my experience with 2 kids in P3 last year was that this can vary across different classes, especially for Chinese. One of my child has practically no Chinese HW ( I was monitoring her handwriting in school, but realise except for tingxie, I hardly has the chance to see anything else), while the other one has worksheets and zuowen to complete at home. I asked her if she has to do all these at home while her sister does all in class, what does her teacher do in class? Her reply was the teacher go on and on teaching on the chapter from the textbook. Can be interpreted as teaching in more details I guess.

[muska]

sean wife, there’s still math olympiad class for the selected ones.

[potter]

In P3 or 4, it is still fine not to conduct remedial lessons. In P5 and 6, it is a must especially not all students can afford private tuition. Not all parents are educated and able to teach. These 2 years are so important and I do not understand the rationale either. I have to tighten my belt now.

[BePersevere]

Hi all,

I agree with phtthp. For parents with children in P3 to P5, it is good to check with teachers that with HCL lesson time reduced from 2 hour to 50min or an hour, what are the contents taken out? By end of P6, will our students be ready for the PSLE? Where will they stand if compare with students from other SAP schools who are so well prepared by their schools as compare to ours who are enjoying new carefree life here.

Extra enrichment classes are very important for the upper primary. What is the reason to stop it? It is really a bold move.

If the change is for the better, percentage of students going into express improves, number of students obtaining above 250 increase, I am sure parents will welcome this change. Who does not want relax, carefree school years by doing nothing yet can obtain great results?! If not, I rather everything remain kept status quo and focus to improve the AS lesson plan. Do not just take care of Top class but other classes too. B to I classes need much more support.

It sure sounds like another Donald Trump in the making... In our own school!!!
Of all years, why this year change principal when it is the most important year for my DS.

Last time I thought previous principal was too kiasu to start AS from P3. Including CCA, he had to stay back in school 4 times in a week. Now comes an extreme one - not sure if inexperience or just pure laziness, is even worse. Hopefully it is not the beginning of a nightmare.

:nunchuk:

[bggb]

any parents here with kids in p5? i m not sure if my ds is telling the truth. practically everyday over the past weeks when i asked, he told me there is no homework… ! i even scolded and questioned him how can that be and told him to stop being so lazy and he still insisted there is really no homework… sometimes he said only 1 or 2 pages of maths… that’s all… is that the same too for your children? i am concerned because over at my dd’s sch, the p5 girls are so busy everyday… even some parents say too much homework… it is so different… is it confirmed that there is no more AS? some parents say there is so it is confusing and also do not know when lessons will start… need to make logistics arrangement…

[love1001]

From this year onwards, the school is longer going to participate in ICAS as this is not inline with our MOE syllabus, out of scope competition papers that is just adding unnecessary stress and no benefit to DSA as secondary schools DO NOT consider ICAS results even if it is a distinction or high distinction. ICAS is now scrapped.


I did not hear anything about Olympiad. Is MO scrapped too?