West Spring Primary
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Hi all,
Our daughter has secured her admission to West Spring Primary School for P1 2019. :imanangel:
We are looking forward to meet other parents who hv their child's admission here.
The message we got via sms only states to come for Orientation on 2nd January 2019. Would there be any invite for Parents at School prior to this date?? I saw in previous discussion ppl mentioning abt orientation in Nov or Dec. Maybe i am wrong. Would anyone hv any suggestion.
Thanks,
Jai Divya -
What happened yesterday was not good. My girl came home in tears. She didn’t give her Gep form to teacher. The teacher took her photo and others Kidz late to give the form. The photo was put up on school hall and principal called them to stand on stage and then scolded all of them facing the school. This school likes to shame the students in front of all to teach them a lesson. Very wrong. Very wrong. Today my girl scared to go to school.
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What happened yesterday was not good. My girl came home in tears. She didn’t give her Gep form to teacher. The teacher took her photo and others Kidz late to give the form. The photo was put up on school hall and principal called them to stand on stage and then scolded all of them facing the school. This school likes to shame the students in front of all to teach them a lesson. Very wrong. Very wrong. Today my girl scared to go to school.
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My gal told me the same thing. A few of her classmates got their photo taken and shamed on stage. If this is the school way of disciplining, its ridiculous !
Initially, kids were shamed because of latecoming. Now, forget to bring books or submit form also kanna.
Why need to instill such fear in kids?! They are only primary school level. This is unnecessary. -
As parents, we often feel very upset when our child faces the consequences for their actions or it could be that they face the consequences for the parent’s action . That is natural but I guess we have to also allow the child to overcome this on their own to have resilience.Nowadays,many children are too protected & not resilient enough as well.
My child took GEP last year. GEP is a programme where the reply slip is very important so that no child is short-changed.
I got to know about the incident through the chat group and I asked my child about it once my child returned home.
My child told me that after repeated reminders,the few students still didn’t hand in the forms & the office staff had to call one by one the parents to remind again.
All the other students in the level responsibly handed in forms & were told to keep up good habit.
So,those few students on stage are ones who had to be reminded & chased before forms finally submitted.Honestly, not easy for school to collect so many forms back when parents & students do not do their part.
The incident was used to educate the students on need to be responsible & to show care for office staff who had extra work calling one by one the parents. As a teacher myself, I know how time-consuming that is.
I always teach my child at home to be responsible & write down what to do or bring & so far,no problem.
I think the school is trying their best to prepare the students to be responsible.
As much as we care for the child, I have seen in many instances that the school cares too & places alot of attention on character development. -
Yes they started this ‘shaming’ stuff since 2017. The weird part is that they ‘punish’ the kids for things like acknowledgement forms to any forms not submitted (which I think half the time it is the parents’ fault as we forgot) and most likely not their fault. Honestly, I m wondering what type of values is the school trying to inculcate in the kids, u get punish for Faults not due to you??
This year, some or all schools are to have oral test in the afternoon. My Son submitted the acknowledgement form to General Office and even went to school early to submit the form. Lo and behold, dun know what happen, the form teacher never receive the form. My Son was singled out the next day after oral as one of candidates who ‘did not’ submit form and the form teacher told him he will get zero for his oral results due to this. Can u imagine what a shock my Son got. He was very affected by this as he tried his best in oral and he was to get zero just because the form was not there and not because he did not submit. I had no choice but to write in to the form teacher to explain and tell her not to penalise him for a fault not due to him. :slapshead: -
Jollyjam:
Last year even when one or two kidz late the whole level was punished. All the level not allowed to play recess.My gal told me the same thing. A few of her classmates got their photo taken and shamed on stage. If this is the school way of disciplining, its ridiculous !
Initially, kids were shamed because of latecoming. Now, forget to bring books or submit form also kanna.
Why need to instill such fear in kids?! They are only primary school level. This is unnecessary. -
Hubby say that it is like his army days.
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leelimc:
My girl say her friend went on stage last year to face school because hair was too long.Yes they started this ‘shaming’ stuff since 2017. The weird part is that they ‘punish’ the kids for things like acknowledgement forms to any forms not submitted (which I think half the time it is the parents’ fault as we forgot) and most likely not their fault. Honestly, I m wondering what type of values is the school trying to inculcate in the kids, u get punish for Faults not due to you??
This year, some or all schools are to have oral test in the afternoon. My Son submitted the acknowledgement form to General Office and even went to school early to submit the form. Lo and behold, dun know what happen, the form teacher never receive the form. My Son was singled out the next day after oral as one of candidates who ‘did not’ submit form and the form teacher told him he will get zero for his oral results due to this. Can u imagine what a shock my Son got. He was very affected by this as he tried his best in oral and he was to get zero just because the form was not there and not because he did not submit. I had no choice but to write in to the form teacher to explain and tell her not to penalise him for a fault not due to him. :slapshead: -
OKTEO:
Pardon me for saying this but I think it is important that you hear full story from your child.The way I see it,your child may not be giving you correct information at all.It is like you just hear a bit & come to conclusion.
Last year even when one or two kidz late the whole level was punished. All the level not allowed to play recess.Jollyjam:
My gal told me the same thing. A few of her classmates got their photo taken and shamed on stage. If this is the school way of disciplining, its ridiculous !
Initially, kids were shamed because of latecoming. Now, forget to bring books or submit form also kanna.
Why need to instill such fear in kids?! They are only primary school level. This is unnecessary.
My child just told me that no such thing has happened before.
The students in the level may not be allowed to play at the parade square during recess when they misbehave badly & the discipline mistress always will tell the children about consequences they will face.I personally think this iz character building.Otherwise,soon all our children will be like strawberries.
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