Maha Bodhi

[jennykhots]

shn:

adbie:

[quote=\"shn\"]seems like the Teacher conference doesn't seems to help ! so why hold a TC when they are unable to give info ?

felt weird when they change P3 EL my Pals to HM. Is MBS going down slope?

Hi, care to share why HM is not as good as my pals?

Imagine :? ...... paying 10 times higher price for a thick book, compare to the my pals, which we had not seen before. Until the end of the term, after the kids had done some part of the book, then the teachers will return part of the worksheet to us. AT the end of the year, when everything were return to us, i think not more than 70 % were done.
Then for each theme worksheet, Not every pages are done, meaning they will skip pages.


when the worksheets came back, (P2)
One of the exercise :
Two Letter - One sound. Each spelling word is spelled with th, wh, sh or ch.
Kids were told to put
when , which Under Whale
chase, which, teach, catch under chair
both, then, teeth, than under thumb
SOUNDING ARE THAUGHT DURING THE KINDER, and somehow, kids are to learn this agin when they in P2.

Another exercise.
KNowing your ABC's under P2 Theme 3: Neighborhood & Comm

Read the words in each box. Write the five words in ABC order.

most morning move mother month

??????????????????????????????????????????????

There are many parts of exercise that want kids to learn the sounds, vowel pair, I heard from a kid mum that . . . During lesson, the teacher also not so sure about the answer & have to keep looking at the answer ( teacher's Note).

Eg : Now write each word under the train that has the same vowel pair

Pail : train waited paid
may : spray stay day


ARE THEY TRYING TO TRAIN KIDS TO GO PSLE WITH PROFESSIONAL LISTENING & SPECIAL POWDER OF PARING THE SOUNDS????????????????

I realise that my DS taking (p1 & P2 HM) had drop in her grammer & comprehension , and voccab. cos she cant do well in other school exam paper.

P1 & P2 MBS english paper are quite simple & weird compare to other school.
Given a passage... Telling U that a Bear who is a doctor, treat a few paitients. then reading a newspaper.... etc ( cant really remember)...

Then kids were ask to list out the FACT & MAKE BELIEVE.
EG ...
1) THE BEAR IS A DOCTOR.
SO IS IT A FACT OR MAKE BELIEVE??? OF COS IT'S A MAKE BELIEVE
2) Bear reading a newspaper.
I cant remember excatly but parents want to know more, may ask the teachers for 2009 (P2 mid year paper)

Kids in MBS (P1 & P2 using the HM) were trained like this. then now..... P3 (2011 they still insist to use the HM) I think i got to buy more asses book & send my boy to more tution.

My point is...... for a P1 & P2, i felt that its very misleading to a kids. It's very Different compared to other school.
p.s ARE PSLE suppose to know this???[/quote]
I think MBS's direction is towards developing each child in a holistic way. If you are really the kiasu type, then you should pump your kid's with tuiton like Maths Olympiad, Jumpstart Science, or creative writing class.
NOw my P5 girl will be having a 3 day leadership camp after CNY & which is right b4 the CA. Shldn't they be revising? Well, then again, my china friend a peidu mama and her child is from a YCK primary. She only started tuition in P6,took her PSLE 2010 age 13, scored 252...where's the logic.? self motivation. I believe that efforts should come from the mummy & ultimately the child, that is only to a certain extent that the school can help.

[2818]

jennykhots:

2818:

My boy is in P2G this year. The FT is supposed to be the one mentioned Ms A Soh, now on ML and currently a relieve teacher is taking the class. After reading all the comments from the parents I am starting to be very worried for the class. The worst thing still having ends. According to my boy the CL 8 teacher, Mr Goh is going for NS. So again someone will cover. So so worried. What happen to MBS!

My boy was taught by A Soh. She's super nice. Be patient. Well, a shortage of teachers is a common scenario in spore . Each year it depends o n yr luck, sometimes u get a dedicated teacher but goes on ML, or at times u get a not so dedicated teacher who doesnt give HM but is present everyday. At the end of the day, the school fees is only $11/mth. and 1 teacher to 30 and later 40 pupils. So, either join the US & opt for home schooling or just pump kids with tuition.

Thank you for your advise. Thank you for the update on Ms A Soh. We have clarified during the TMP last Saturday that A Soh is actually not the FT. The General Office staff has given the wrong information to the parents. Tentatively, my son's class has not fixed the permanent FT yet. We were told that most of the P2 classes had their P1 FT followed thru but not for P2G. So unfortunate!

[2818]

jennykhots:

2818:

My boy is in P2G this year. The FT is supposed to be the one mentioned Ms A Soh, now on ML and currently a relieve teacher is taking the class. After reading all the comments from the parents I am starting to be very worried for the class. The worst thing still having ends. According to my boy the CL 8 teacher, Mr Goh is going for NS. So again someone will cover. So so worried. What happen to MBS!

My boy was taught by A Soh. She's super nice. Be patient. Well, a shortage of teachers is a common scenario in spore . Each year it depends o n yr luck, sometimes u get a dedicated teacher but goes on ML, or at times u get a not so dedicated teacher who doesnt give HM but is present everyday. At the end of the day, the school fees is only $11/mth. and 1 teacher to 30 and later 40 pupils. So, either join the US & opt for home schooling or just pump kids with tuition.

[adbie]

jennykhots:

I think MBS's direction is towards developing each child in a holistic way. If you are really the kiasu type, then you should pump your kid's with tuiton like Maths Olympiad, Jumpstart Science, or creative writing class.
NOw my P5 girl will be having a 3 day leadership camp after CNY & which is right b4 the CA. Shldn't they be revising? Well, then again, my china friend a peidu mama and her child is from a YCK primary. She only started tuition in P6,took her PSLE 2010 age 13, scored 252...where's the logic.? self motivation. I believe that efforts should come from the mummy & ultimately the child, that is only to a certain extent that the school can help.

I'm really curious how do parents and children find time for so many enrichment classes? How do you manage?

[vlim]

I feel that for learning languages, reading story books are very very important and useful ...My elder boy does not have English tuition, but I can hardly see any grammatical mistake in his written essays ..(though not much flowery sentences)..since young he likes to read English story books. He read a lot of Enid Brighton story books when he about 6 to 8 yrs old...Not very chim (difficult) to understand story books but maybe they use proper 'English' sentences or 'Queen' English ..hahaaaaaaaaaaaa

[shn]

Dear Jenny , since your child is in p5 now so tat means he or she doesn't use HM right? Did u really lookthru wats in HM? I agree with u that maybe they going thru \"holistic \" ways of learning, but I believe that almost 99%of parents are KS & Tats y we came to this forum! So please imagine MBS students who using the HM , and without much guidance from other source taking PSLE with others 30k student, will their English standard drop or maintain? How will they fare? Nobody knows ! Jus keep our finger cross!

I totally agree with another parent, saying ..........

I'm really curious how do parents and children find time for so many enrichment classes? How do you manage? They are so tied down with the remedial , Malay, fo xue & CCA! How they find extra time? Most of us are working parents, by time wereach home, dinner & rest! Then u willsay Oh gosh, it bed time! :?: where can I find moretime? :lol: So as what I had said earlier , good luck to our kids taking HM, nobody knows what will happen! Let's keep our finger cross haha

[adbie]

I am all for holistic education, but if it impedes the quality of life, it isn’t holistic at all in the true sense.


Moreover, a holistic education should rightfully also include unstructured learning, which I feel is as important as structured learning.

What a child needs is sufficient play time, as well as sufficient "self-discovery" time for them to day dream, wander around, explore the library, explore the park, the playground, discover insects, plants, etc. This is the unstructured learning that is totally lacking in our current system, which is way too rigidly structured, overly prescribing and totally time-consuming.

There’s no time for the child to do the true kind of self-learning which I’m sure we all did when we were young.

Anyway, I’m not the minister. I can’t change the system. What I can do is to give my own children as much free time as possible, so they can do their own day dreaming.

[jennykhots]

HI Shn


BTW, I have another boy in P3 so of coz I am aware of the HM contents. Half of the work was left undone in P2 & my son said the teacher told him that he can use it to do revision during the Dec holidays．

Yes, we can’t change the education system, but we can as mothers do something about it. Get your child to nap an hour in the afternoon so that if you do work late, he can stay up & have an hour revision with you till 11pm. Few kids are self disciplined, most kids are naturally smart, but majority need a lot of our guidance so we have no choice but to be a tiger mummy because we must see the fact that 1 teacher vs 30 or 40 kids. Even if the school is using the Stellar or My Pals, ask yourself, how much of difference will it make? I have encountered not only in school but also with various tuition : error making, eg no "ed, no punctuation" , etc, I am the mother of my child, I am responsible to work with my child to achieve a grade that he is capable of . Maybe you think I sounds crazy, but most schools will pump the P6 students with extra classes daily & kids who are mentally prepared for the big PSLE will have to sleep late to find time. They have to sleep in more over the weekends. The fact that this is the first time that MBS did ask kids to stay back for housepractice, give supplementary classes for both Maths & Science . They are trying all efforts to step up our kids acamaedically from P5.

My final sharing : My girl did not perform as well because I was a complacent mother who saw B1 & 2 from P1-3 without much extra supplementary revision, she plunged in P4, she had to sacrifice her TV time , facebook, etc. Luckily she is back on track but sadly no B1 only 2 & 3 in P4. So now that my son is doing well, top 10 in the class, I do not want to repeat my mistake. He too, is following suit like his sister 0 facebook, 30mins TV during lunch or dinner time… it is never too early to prepare our kids for the tough year of PSLE, all luxury will be taken away from them. But of course, they get their TV, holidays, play time during the ususal semester break

So as long as they are not in an environmentally unfriendly school ( like with bullies or picking vulgarities), are teaching materials that we should be concerned over here?

[2818]

Hi shn & adbie & jennykhnots,


Thank you very much for your sharing. I am still considering whether to send my son for all the cl, el enrichment classes. I have started my son for maths enrichment because I have enough ‘feedback’ from the P1 Math teacher about how careless he is. He then started the math enrichment from 2nd half of last year. To my surprise the result came back he did worst then what he scored in his SA1.

It depends on the student a lot (most of the time) and with the parents guidance thru their study. I tried to spend at least one and a half hr every night with his study and reading story books. But I still have the fear that he is lack behind with most of the peers having all the subjects’ enrichment class. Sometime, I just ask myself what if the parents can’t afford all the cost spend on enrichment, do they need to start so young like K2 onwards, or P1 and P2. It really depends.

[chasingjelly]

2818:

I have started my son for maths enrichment because I have enough 'feedback' from the P1 Math teacher about how careless he is. He then started the math enrichment from 2nd half of last year. To my surprise the result came back he did worst then what he scored in his SA1.

Actually for carelessness, enrichment will not help much. Need to teach the child how to spot the mistakes.

I actually pulled my dd out of her math enrichment after SA1 bcos she only got a band 2. After my coaching, she only made 2 mistakes in her SA2 paper.

I'm sure your child will do well this time around after your coaching.