Preparing kids for P5 in 2011

[Brenda10]

janet_lee88:

I was supposed to let go and let son plan his CA1 since there is no ORAL/compo...but dare not bcos he has done badly for CA1 since P3. This year P5, worse...very very scared.


To get a feel of P5, I downloaded and printed out CA1 Eng and Math...really wake up man ! :shock: That's why I need to find an assessment book which can be done weekly. Didn't start RedSpot yet...rather difficult and thought of keeping for P6.

Understand Energy & Interaction will be taught at P6. This year, PSLE is brought forward. So teachers will really be speeding to finish up Chinese 6B text according to tutor.

The format for test paper in P5 and P6 are the same. You're right the P6 teacher will be speeding to finish the work and my nephew's P6B maths workbook was totally not touch and pass it to my dd.

[livewith_vanilla]

About teacher speeding,


I think all my workbooks were completed and marked like one and a half month or so before PSLE.

The remaining days were spent revising, making notes and doing practice papers.

I didn’t feel it was speeding, my teachers planned it properly enough. I remember completing 6A Maths workbook fairly quickly.

[janet88]

Hi livewith_vanilla,

Do you have to do several past year exam papers of other schools in P6 ?
Is it true that kids have to spend whole day in school in P5/6...like as in leaving in the morning at 645am and come home at 645pm everyday ?

Hi Brenda,
Son's tutor pre-warned me about the speeding in P6. I don't want to think so far...just survive this year first. :nailbite:

[livewith_vanilla]

janet_lee88:

Hi livewith_vanilla,

Do you have to do several past year exam papers of other schools in P6 ?
Is it true that kids have to spend whole day in school in P5/6...like as in leaving in the morning at 645am and come home at 645pm everyday ?

Hi Brenda,
Son's tutor pre-warned me about the speeding in P6. I don't want to think so far...just survive this year first. :nailbite:

Yeah. I did those exam papers. A whole lot of them.

No lah. Where got so kuazhang. No kid will want to spend 12hours stuck in schl studying ! The most i stayed back was until 4pm, after supplementary classes. But no, no one stays until 645 at night. Thats like being in both morning and afternoon session.

[Brenda10]

livewith_vanilla:

Yeah. I did those exam papers. A whole lot of them.


No lah. Where got so kuazhang. No kid will want to spend 12hours stuck in schl studying ! The most i stayed back was until 4pm, after supplementary classes. But no, no one stays until 645 at night. Thats like being in both morning and afternoon session.

Hi vanilla

DD is clearing the 2010 past year exam papers and will stop once the school's work ramp up.

BTW, the past year paper that school let your did was 2009 or 2010 prelim paper?

[livewith_vanilla]

Brenda10:

livewith_vanilla:

Yeah. I did those exam papers. A whole lot of them.


No lah. Where got so kuazhang. No kid will want to spend 12hours stuck in schl studying ! The most i stayed back was until 4pm, after supplementary classes. But no, no one stays until 645 at night. Thats like being in both morning and afternoon session.

Hi vanilla

DD is clearing the 2010 past year exam papers and will stop once the school's work ramp up.

BTW, the past year paper that school let your did was 2009 or 2010 prelim paper?

2009.

[Jojothehusky]

My P5 results were TERRIBLE!!! But my P6 and PSLE results are much better. The first few months of P6 are already no joke. And it does not mean that in P5 there is still a yr till PSLE and don’t have to work hard just yet. Time files vry quick and before you know there is so little time left for revision. Revision should be constant and what livewith_vanilla said was all correct. Jiayou P5s!!!

[janet88]

livewith_vanilla:

janet_lee88:

Hi livewith_vanilla,

Do you have to do several past year exam papers of other schools in P6 ?
Is it true that kids have to spend whole day in school in P5/6...like as in leaving in the morning at 645am and come home at 645pm everyday ?

Hi Brenda,
Son's tutor pre-warned me about the speeding in P6. I don't want to think so far...just survive this year first. :nailbite:

Yeah. I did those exam papers. A whole lot of them.
No lah. Where got so kuazhang. No kid will want to spend 12hours stuck in schl studying ! The most i stayed back was until 4pm, after supplementary classes. But no, no one stays until 645 at night. Thats like being in both morning and afternoon session.

Someone told me her daughter in P6 last year went to school from morning (usual) and came home only at 630pm. I was like 'huh ?' That is very scary leh.

[janet88]

Jojothehusky:

My P5 results were TERRIBLE!!! But my P6 and PSLE results are much better. The first few months of P6 are already no joke. And it does not mean that in P5 there is still a yr till PSLE and don't have to work hard just yet. Time files vry quick and before you know there is so little time left for revision. Revision should be constant and what livewith_vanilla said was all correct. Jiayou P5s!!!!!

Thank you for your precious advice Jojothehusky.
P5 is like the real thing, except that P6 is the REAL thing...no more horsing around at all.

[janet88]

I was at Popular City Sq just now.

Saw 'Advance Vocabulary' there...meant for students who are very keen and have a good grasp of Vocab. Written by same author of Creative Vocabulary.

At a loss whether to send my P5 son for this 'Creative Writing' class at RC. Don't know if he will have time this year, but next year will be too late. When teachers go full swing from 2moro, on top of compulsory supplementary lessons twice a week, will he have time ?