P5 - What time do your kids finish after school ?

[3lilangels]

My P5 dd weekly schedule:


Mon - CCA

Tue - Free for the time being (There’s Maths remedial, but she’s not involved. Heard her saying that she wanted to go ask the Maths teacher whether she can attend or not!)

Wed - Chinese creative writing (enrichment)

Thu - Chinese Supplementary

Fri - School officially finishes at 3.45 pm

She will go straight to the after-sch care centre and finished up all her homework… On top of it, still got English n Chinese spelling. Luckily I made the right decision to change the after-sch centre! At least she’s motivated now to clear all the work before I picked her up at 6.30 pm!

[Augmum]

janet_lee88:

Asked son what teacher does during supp classes...he told me will continue teaching like as in during school hours...but he told me teachers promise not to give extra homework.

in the later stage, teachers usually just go thru the corrections of practice papers during supplementary,
for those who have gotten them right, it's quite a waste of time.

[Augmum]

peterch:

My DS had his supplementary class almost everyday when he was in P4 last year.

:!: P4 already supplementary classes almost everyday??
my gal's sch only started supp class in P5

[Brenda10]

Augmum:

peterch:

My DS had his supplementary class almost everyday when he was in P4 last year.

:!: P4 already supplementary classes almost everyday??
my gal's sch only started supp class in P5

Hi augmum

My friend's daughter last year (P2) also has supplementary class twice a week. I think this trend will continuous to get worse.

[chrisu]

For those parents that are not in favour of the supplementary classes or extended curriuclum classes, do you all raised it up to the Principal?


Mine daughter in P6 has Mon and Wed extended curriculum classes till 3.30pm and when I feedback to the Principal that I’m not in favour of it, the Principal told me that many parents like it. When ask whether the teacher can finished the subjects syllabus without the extended hours, the Principal relutantly replied only the bare minimum…

It seems to be the norm now for schools to conduct such supplementary or extended hours in school for show to MOE???

[chrisu]

Seems like other parents are also complaining about the extended school hours the students have to spend in school on the Straits Times forum these few days.


Hope to see the MOE reply to this issue. Last year, I’ve written to the MOE, but MOE just redirect my letter to the school Principal.

[janet88]

Augmum:

janet_lee88:

Asked son what teacher does during supp classes...he told me will continue teaching like as in during school hours...but he told me teachers promise not to give extra homework.

in the later stage, teachers usually just go thru the corrections of practice papers during supplementary,
for those who have gotten them right, it's quite a waste of time.

In today's ST, a parent said her son at P3 studying at St Andrew has to stay back for extra lessons. Actually what is the actual reason to conduct all these extra supp classes? I can understand P6 may need the extra supp classes but surely lower levels don't need this.

[jesschan]

In today’s ST, a parent said her son at P3 studying at St Andrew has to stay back for extra lessons. Actually what is the actual reason to conduct all these extra supp classes? I can understand P6 may need the extra supp classes but surely lower levels don’t need this.[/quote]



I am also keen to see if there is any comments from MOE. For lower primay levels, I hv no objections if the school lengthens it curriculum time to run enrichment programmes but having too supplementary classes to teach the normal curriculum is unnecessary.

[janet88]

jesschan:

In today's ST, a parent said her son at P3 studying at St Andrew has to stay back for extra lessons. Actually what is the actual reason to conduct all these extra supp classes? I can understand P6 may need the extra supp classes but surely lower levels don't need this.

I am also keen to see if there is any comments from MOE. For lower primay levels, I hv no objections if the school lengthens it curriculum time to run enrichment programmes but having too supplementary classes to teach the normal curriculum is unnecessary.[/quote]

Is it really true that the teachers have insufficient time to teach during curriculum for kids in P1-3 ? It's not like as in P6 where that extra time is required after school to do that crucial 'pumping' and intensive revision.

[keiki]

hi what schs are your children in? are they top schs? i’m concerned with having supplementary lessons esp at lower levels. is there no way to avoid?