Raffles Girls' School (Secondary) [*IP]

[KCmummy.033053049]

Hi is there a maths tutor to recommend who specialise teaching RGS students?

Can anyone recommend?
I am staying in the east.
thanks

[KCmummy.033053049]

Anyone can help me a maths tutor for RGS student?

[ChiefKiasu]

KCmummy@049\" post_id=\"2065417\" time=\"1650943572\" user_id=\"193649:

Anyone can help me a maths tutor for RGS student?

Now that things are opening up, tution should also be increasing in volume. While waiting for a suitable math tutor to reply, maybe your child can start by looking into the 10-years-series. I do that for every course since my A-Levels. You see the question first, and if you cannot answer the question, then you look for the specific study material to read and understand. Then you try answering the question again and look for other similar questions to answer.
In a sense, it is finding the answer to give you a reason to read your school books, instead of just reading your books from the first to the last page. It is much more effective as a learning strategy.

[Liew Nga Wing]

KCmummy@049\" post_id=\"2065417\" time=\"1650943572\" user_id=\"193649:

Anyone can help me a maths tutor for RGS student?

I have PM you direct with the contact of a lady tutor.

[edelmummy]

hi

any parents can share on home tuition for sec 1 math and science? my girl is not coping very well with all the homework and losing track of time…any parents can share tips of their y1 kiddos?

[mummyof3angels]

KCmummy@049\" post_id=\"2065417\" time=\"1650943572\" user_id=\"193649:

Anyone can help me a maths tutor for RGS student?

You can check out the IP math lessons at NickleBee Math. They just opened a new branch in Bishan near Catholic High School.

[mummyof3angels]

edelmummy\" post_id=\"2065959\" time=\"1651397538\" user_id=\"29263:

hi
any parents can share on home tuition for sec 1 math and science? my girl is not coping very well with all the homework and losing track of time..any parents can share tips of their y1 kiddos?

It is a major adjustment from P6 to Year 1. Your daughter just needs the time and space to adjust to the increased subject count, overwhelming workload and new school culture.

(1) Time management skills -- work on a time table with your daughter.

(2) Communication -- be a good listener and be less quick to judge. you can try talking about the differences between her previous school and RGS in your daily conversations

(3) Set boundaries -- be firm. If she cross the boundaries, then her privileges are taken away. The children have to learn that actions have consequences, and learn from their mistakes.

[phtthp]

edelmummy\" post_id=\"2065959\" time=\"1651397538\" user_id=\"29263:

hi
any parents can share on home tuition for sec 1 math and science? my girl is not coping very well with all the homework and losing track of time..any parents can share tips of their y1 kiddos?

Go to the root cause of her problem. This is cruicial. You need to help her, identify the root cause of her problem. What causes her to lose time ? Nip the problem quickly, before it escalate into further bigger future problem (headache)

Entrance from P6 to Sec 1,is a big transition for them,

Because

they are moving from 4 PSLE subjects to Sec 1 (8 or 9 subjects)

Is it

1) handphone addiction?
Spending too much time on her handphone, until she lost control with time ?


2) too many things piled up on her plate ? That means, she is getting herself involved with too many activities, until burnout. Sometimes, students themselves don't even know that they are engaged in far too many activities.

Why ?

Because

Many RGS pupils just keep pushing themselves to do this, do that, because they see their peers / fellow classmates doing so many things, and they thought that it is the norm. Often, they forgotten that their body also need rest.


Some RGS pupils are also perfectionists, so they tend to have

a) high expectation of themselves,

b) because of parental expectations,

c) because of society.

Because of expectations, coming from a Top IP school culture.

Eg.

overloading of Cca commitment
+

overloading of other RGS school commitments

+
overloading of too many Tuition subject lessons per week, until she so exhausted, no time no energy to do school homework?


3) how is the relationship between family members ?

A stable family environment, is also very important.


But, if a family

- always frequent quarrelling
between husband & wife,

Or

- rivalry between siblings,

Or

- lack of love & communication, inside the family

psychologically, this will have some bearing (impact) on your daughter. Teen can become rebellious, because of the unhappy family background she is in, but she doesn't know how to describe or articulate it out herself.


4) manage your mother-daughter relationship well. Manage her vulnerable, roller coaster emotions & mental state of mind.

Keep the communication channel between mom & daughter, open with love. You (mother) are her closest source of support now. Look at her effort chipped in. Don't look at the end point (results) only.

Remember.
Affirm, affirm, affirm her always, for the effort she chipped in learning. Even if she don't do well, never mind. Tell her it is all right, it is ok even if results in RGS are mediocre. But affirm her, of her effort, her hard work put in.


5) identify, amongst her (8 or 9 subjects) now, which is her weakest subject or the subject she spent most of her time struggling in, currently ?

Can consider hiring a private tuition Tr for that subject which she is weakest in, go to your house to tuition her. This is a temporary solution. Once she re-gain back confidence in her weakest subject later on, u can later shift her back to group tuition method.


6) manage parental expectations of teenagers.

Father-daughter relationship, are also important.

But to teens (girls), somehow, whenever girls have issue, it is normally the mother-daughter relationship.


============================

The first big transition occurred, from P6 entering Sec 1.

The second critical big transition, will occur from the end of Sec 2, entering into Sec 3, because many students now adolescents, struggled to find their own identity : who am I ? They think they are adults, because of their height & going through puberty. But some of them, are still children inside their body.

When young, people often heard of \"terrible twos\", for two year old toddlers who are disobedient.

For teens, there is this terrible \"Sec 2s, entering into Sec 3s\".

Tiger-moms out there, be alert !

If in the past, up to PSLE year, your daughter see u as controlling them, when they come to Sec 2, all the more, they start to \"rebel\".

Why ?

Because

In the midst of seeking their own identity, they hate people whom they deem as \"controlling\" them, or \"micro-manage\" them.

[Toomuchlaundry]

edelmummy\" post_id=\"2065959\" time=\"1651397538\" user_id=\"29263:

hi
any parents can share on home tuition for sec 1 math and science? my girl is not coping very well with all the homework and losing track of time..any parents can share tips of their y1 kiddos?

Hi edelmummy,

Phttp gives good advice! My girl just turned 14 and I am tearing my hair out with the eye-rolling, the drama, the non-stop texting, the complete refusal to do anything we the parents say... this is weird for us cuz just 2 years ago our daughter was a docile, hardworking P6 girl.

Now she wont do any homework. All her weighted assessments are sitting on her desk and she wont do it until 1 day before they are due. Actually 1 night before they are due. I keep asking her what her friends are doing and she shrugs, \"Same.\" We are thinking of moving to a larger house although the market is crazy because we cant stand the sound of our teenager talking and laughing on late night calls.

I tried taking away her phone, but read that if you do so, teenagers wont know how to cope with phone + studies as they grow older. Also, she kept whining about how she would be a social outcast without her phone. So I gave it back.

The only saving grace is she has decent friends (not sure about Sec 3 next year though!) and still doing pretty well in school. God knows how, she shows no sign of studying and has no tuition. Maybe she studies at school or when we are asleep at 1am.

[Liew Nga Wing]

Toomuchlaundry\" post_id=\"2066007\" time=\"1651453975\" user_id=\"197996:

Now she wont do any homework. All her weighted assessments are sitting on her desk and she wont do it until 1 day before they are due. Actually 1 night before they are due.

Can she finish all her homework or assessments on the due day or before the deadline?