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Happy Mama:

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[quote=\"Happy Mama\"]Dear Mummies and Daddies, SA1 Oral will be from 25 April to 3 May and written exams from 4 May to 12 May 2011. School has just started and CA1 not taken yet, and now we have SA1 dates. STRESSED! :nailbite:

you can change your nick to STRESS MAMA liao...

Cannot, cannot... Must take a deep breath and relax. Otherwise from STRESS MAMA become SIAO MAMA! :rotflmao:[/quote]Wah, U Really Meta-Morpho-Size Very FAST -le ....
HAPPY ----> BUSY ----> STRESS ----> SIAO (Hope Not!)

And In A Matter of A Couple Of Hours ONLY!!!!

It Took US HOMO SAPIEN Thousands (Or Is It Millions? Must Fast-Fast GO :siam: Check My Kids Text Books!) to Progress to MAN / WOMAN Today ....

At This Rate U Will Turn Into \"Janet Bin\" (Recently Aired HK Serial in VV Drama - A Kind Of Modern Day SuperWoman, Asian Version, Who Can FLY and SAVE the World) VERY SOoooooon!

Ha-Ha ....
:lol: :lol:

[kohhweelin.010441gmail.010441com]

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Trapwithin:

[quote=\"php\"]can anybody guess my dd's first reaction when i passed her one big stack of assessment books? that stack of books was higher than her school textbooks....

I am nicer (as it appears) .. I placed the stack of past papers next to her textbook ... but in fact the question more siong.

oh.... you are wrong.... my dd knew that those past year papers will come soon....hahaha.....[/quote]Are you both competing with each other on who gave their dds more work to do?

[Trapwithin]

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Trapwithin:

[quote=\"php\"]can anybody guess my dd's first reaction when i passed her one big stack of assessment books? that stack of books was higher than her school textbooks....

I am nicer (as it appears) .. I placed the stack of past papers next to her textbook ... but in fact the question more siong.

oh.... you are wrong.... my dd knew that those past year papers will come soon....hahaha.....[/quote] :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[rcxmum]

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Happy Mama:

[quote=\"Trapwithin\"]My P1 Experience


Glad to see that a lot of info is shared here for parents whose child is in P1 this year. By the now, the school would have started the school work, time table is finalised and the P1 students would have met all their teachers.

Looking back, I fumbled and learnt through the whole year when my dd started P1 last year. I was the normal father that pick her up from school and ask her how is school but never really get involved in her schoolwork until Term 2. I on

As we progress, we discovered that PHPPS standard is quite high. We learnt a few things and made changes and adjustments along the way.

I am sharing our \"mistakes\" and \"methods of coping\" so that all new P1 parents can be more well prepared as the year progress.

1. Dismissal - We moved her dismissal exit from Side Gate to Back Gate, becasue of moving traffic into the church and mainly becasue of the rainy days. Though back gate is more crowded, it provide shelters.

2. CCA - we started CCA early because we wanted to let her have a more balanced life. Some of the CCA, the school engage professional trainers/coaches which would cost quite a fair bit if our kids learnt them outside. So we treat it as a free enrichment :lol:

3. Reading - Start Readng early. PH has a strong culture for reading and they adopt STELLAR quite seriously. Students are not allow to bring comics during reading time. Based on recommended textlist, P3 is reading Rol Dahl's BFG. So you would like to use that as a benchmark. For P1, many kids read Fairy Series for the girls and Boys read the \"Mouse series\" (forgot the name as I do not have ds, but Popular is having a good offfer on them now). Maybe migrate to Enid Bryton's Secret Sven or Famous Five if they find the above too simple. For Chinese reading, read tamarind's blog under Languages in this forum. I personally find it very effective and had help my dd and I a lot.

4. English - Start teaching them how to write compo. Year end exam required them to write 8-10 statements with a storyline. A good start would be journal/diary writing, just 5 sentences. Their vocab should be strengthen through reading. For comprehension, learn the right techniques to answer the question. In SA1 last year, the highest marks for English is 99 or 100 (I forgot) but for SA2, it went down to 95 or 96.
The comprehension is \"killer\" and it seems like the standard bar has been raised. So be prepared.

5. Chinese - We went into \"damage control\" for Hanyu Pinyin even though dd learn them during the kindy days. Maybe her foundation in Hanyu Pinyin was not done properly or maybe HCL is more \"chim\" But overall read the text and there is only a few HCL assessment around. EPH assessment book is again tougher than other publisher's. The exam is also \"controlled\" by a fix list of \"chinese words\" so it is more manageable compared to English.

6. Maths - We started on Topical Assessment books early so that we can start on the Past Years Exam papers. Without going through the syllabus, doing past papers might be tough. EPH has some good assessment books. We find 4-in-1 Challenging Maths one of the toughest ass book follow by Andrew Er's books. There is also a good book (I think is from EPH) that is called Diagnostic XXX. This ass book is particularly good for identifying a student's weakness in a particular topic. If your child find ass book not challenging enough .. start on the Past year papers.

7. Careless Mistakes - All students make careless mistakes even the brightest. The key is not to eradicate but to minimise, this will relief stress for both parents and child. The Main Antidote for careless mistake is \"double-checking\".

8. Benchmark. The mean score for PHPPS P1 are pretty high - above 80 with median even higher .. usually. so basically quite a lot of the students are in Band 1. For those super KSP, the benchmark for top class (for personal reference) since there is no streaming for P1 to P2 anymore. You need about 95% average for all subject to get into the Ex-CH2 class, so around 285/300. All the marks between students are very very close. So 1 mark can set standard ranking back by qutie a lot, but no worries .. there is no standard ranking now

9. Outsourcing. If both parents are working, strongly encourage that you outsourced. It does helps to a certain degree if you monitor them.

For English, Learning Lab is extremely popular among parents (they pitched at about 25% higher than the top school in Singapore, though some says 1 level). I heard good review about The Atlernative Story - will leave that to some parents who has kids there to comment. In general writing skill is key.

For Chinese, if you are academic based, just wanted to follow the school syllabus closely - go for Berries and Tian Xia. For creative writing skills, Busy Bee is a good bet.

For Maths, Learning Lab and Global Maths are pretty popular. Students will strong interest in Maths, parents might want to try MathsHub. I think if you look at PH yearbook advertisement, they are there. Maybe they help to train Maths Olympiad student in PH .. but I am not sure.

10. Psychology - Build confidence in the child early. Once a child tasted an achievement, they will naturally be highly motivated.

Another long-winded post .. hope it helps. :celebrate:

Thanks for your informative post, Trapwithin. By the way, do you have any Science enrichment centres to recommend?

i heard this one not bad... Perceptum at Bukit Timah Shopping Centre...can't confirm this as my dd is only P2.... maybe the rest of them can share their views...[/quote]Hi... Heard that the science is good from the parent that send their child there! But the places was snap up like hot cakes... A long wait-list!

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San03:

I remember reading somewhere in this forum that kids cannot get into table tennis as CCA if they were only to register at P3. Is that true, can anyone confirm?


For Robotics club, there is a selection round, is that true too?

Yes, according to my son there is a selection test for the robotics club last year.

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lizhi:

haha, popular, the neighbour of my working place.

since my dd understading the modelling solution, so i changed idea, have bought two books, Loh cheng Yee's GEP & MATH 1& 2, harvest!

She is a famous author and one of the pioneers in Maths Olympiad and Maths assessment books. See link below .. she even has an iPhone apps
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=280395

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Trapwithin:

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[quote=\"Trapwithin\"]
This Mummy can cook

Yeap, Love It, But Now Vomiting Blood Trying to Teach My Newly Arrived Indonesia Maid to Cook .... :stupid: :stupid:

Thought I have Retired from the Cooking at Home,
Used to Leave ALL cooking to My Maid Previously, But Now ....
Sigh .... :x :x

I am sure your family enjoy your cooking more :lol:
So they have Kou Fu these few days? ... or weeks? :? :rotflmao:[/quote]Nope, \"MA-Ma\" Cooked Food
(As in MaMak Stall .... Ha Ha!)

It's Been Weeks, and My Maid Kena \"FRIED\" by ME EveryDay to Such an Extent that ....

I Lost My VOICE for the PAST 3 Days ....
(She Must B Glad of the Respite that Gives Her ....)
:roll: :roll:

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E3:

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[quote=\"Trapwithin\"]
I am nicer (as it appears) .. I placed the stack of past papers next to her textbook ... but in fact the question more siong.

oh.... you are wrong.... my dd knew that those past year papers will come soon....hahaha.....

Are you both competing with each other on who gave their dds more work to do? [/quote]Hee hee I very nice one. My dd only do 1-2 assessment books per subjects.

[kohhweelin.010441gmail.010441com]

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San03:

I remember reading somewhere in this forum that kids cannot get into table tennis as CCA if they were only to register at P3. Is that true, can anyone confirm?


For Robotics club, there is a selection round, is that true too?

Yes, according to my son there is a selection test for the robotics club last year.

Heard that Rulang started enrollment of their Robotics club at P2 based on their P1 Math results.

[lizhi]

rcxmum:

Hi... Heard that the science is good from the parent that send their child there! But the places was snap up like hot cakes... A long wait-list!

what's the centre's name?