Hong Wen

[lionheart]

SAHM_TAN:

lionheart:

[quote=\"SAHM_TAN\"]What's a parent class rep?

PSG promotes communication between Teacher and Parent. The Class Rep is a parent who works directly with his child 's Form Teacher so that certain issue can be addressed at 'grassroot' level. He may assist the Form Teacher in organizing class event, e.g party.. He is also part of a Level Organization that also works closely with the PSG Exco.

So one parent class rep per class?[/quote]The more the merrier.

[SAHM_TAN]

lionheart:

SAHM_TAN:

[quote=\"lionheart\"]
Hong Wen do not just classify on results that directly. There is the Higher Chinese element and others. It is complicated. E.g. the best P3 student came from the 2nd Class las year. I.e. the P3, the best crop are divided into 2 classes. Confusing? It is not easy to explain in words here.

Thanks for sharing. I visited other school networking groups and found that there's more homework for the best class, while the less academically inclined class has less homework. Does this happen in HW too?

To side track a bit, I've always been annoyed with MOE for pigeon hole our kids at such a young age. I have nothing against intervention for students who need more help. But I always feel that MOE decide at too early an age what a child is capable of achieving academically. I believe that a child can achieve more than he/she thinks he/she can achieve if the adult believe in him in a positive manner that enable his self-esteem to grow and at the same time challenge him academically beyond what he thinks he is capable of. Sorry for rambling on , it's just that whenever I think the way MOE mass produce and categorize students I just :stupid:

Through my experience, it largely depends on the Teacher and not the School Policy. i have seen best classes did little homework.. i had seen best class with tons of them; i have seen weaker ones had more yet there were also with less homework. it depends on the teachers. i have spoken to Teachers, they said it depends on the Child's abilities. Homeworks does not solve learning problems.

Matter of fact, it is parents that had driven the homework behavior. Every year I received feedbacks from P1 parents to request school to give more homework. i have to tell them off that it is not in our interest to keep pressuring our children, hence i became not popular among certain group of parents. i assume they bypass PSG and pressure the school and teachers.

i enjoyed working with the principal as we shared common values in Learning. Learning is a happy process and it must be a sustainable one. Probably yours are the same too. :).[/quote] The P seems like a person not bother by results for results sake. I find that when the kids know the teacher care for them and the learning atmosphere is fun, they learn better.

For me homework only serve 3 purpose. One to reinforce the concept learn through practice, two, to find out how well the child understand the concept by varying the question, third to find out which child has trouble understand the concept at the basic level.

I've learnt the hard way with my eldest that the best policy in learning is placing relationship first before results. :celebrate:

[SAHM_TAN]

There's a parent selling used P1 texbks at 1/2 price.


http://idobaby.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=34401

Not sure if the same as HW's P1 textbook. Interested parents can check it out.

[singabox]

anyone know how Hong Wen fair for PSLE 2010? highest score?

[WorkingMommy]

I have extra copy of P1 art and Social Studies. If you are interested, let me know before end of today cos I plan to give to NTUC tonight.

[WorkingMommy]

Is it mandatory for HW students to know swimming and up to what level? My boy is 6yo and not started swimming lessons yet. Anyone has good swimming instructor to recommend?

[hquek]

went down to hws to buy school textbooks today. News.


1. there are SOME school uniforms available. Size 6 for t-shirt is out (sorry, I bought the last 2), there are other sizes. If you need, perhaps can call up the bookshop to query.

2. Heard from the current P6 crop that highest PSLE score this year in HWS is 260, 2nd highest 257.

3. Heard that there will be another ‘exam’ when school starts to determine the classes kids go to. Now I know why P1 kids don’t have to bring any textbooks to school during the first days.

[SAHM_TAN]

260 is decent mark. Hope that there are more 250s among the students.


Wow one full day of "exam"…guess they want to find out where the weaknesses are so that they can focus. Well, as many parents believe, preparation for PSLE starts in P1 and revision for PSLE starts in P6. When students understand the concepts it will be easier to tackle the questions. So foundation very important.

[hquek]

260 is okay, and I'm happy to note that 2nd wasn't too far behind - so at least there is some consistency and it's not a one shot wonder. Heard of another school where the differential between first and next was more than 20marks.


What's more impt should be how the cohort did and if this is a sustainable result (no point having one off shooting stars). This graduating batch is still part of those from the old facility. I'm very curious to see 2/3 years on, how the results will be - if the increased demand after they move into new school means a higher calibre of student population.

For the P1s, perhaps they take one week to suss out how the students are, I should be glad if they take the time to find out about the kids' strengths/weaknesses.

With the uniforms and sch books in place, it's so like final. A bit wondering what the next 6 years will be like.....

[hquek]

WorkingMommy:

Is it mandatory for HW students to know swimming and up to what level? My boy is 6yo and not started swimming lessons yet. Anyone has good swimming instructor to recommend?

I don't think that's stated. Not sure which type you are looking at. Around the vicinity are instructors at Jalan Besar public pool, or APS school (at Farrer Park). And then, there are private coaches...