All About Preparing For Primary One

[Kissgurami]

janet_lee88:

All P5s have to attend the National Day rehearsal for few Sat...son's school will be on 16/7 and dinner is provided. The next thing which popped in my head is the HYGIENE and FOOD HANDLING of the caterer. Given the hot weather of late, I'm very worried about the dinner...whether it will be cooked too early and left in the open. Called up the school to voice my concern about this.

WOW! that is nice! I wished they had that when I was in P5.

Ya, the incident with Pat School House gives concern over the catering food... gosh, haha DDs will be going to the zoo on Friday. Food is also catered :xedfingers: nothing happens

[janet88]

Kissgurami:

janet_lee88:

All P5s have to attend the National Day rehearsal for few Sat...son's school will be on 16/7 and dinner is provided. The next thing which popped in my head is the HYGIENE and FOOD HANDLING of the caterer. Given the hot weather of late, I'm very worried about the dinner...whether it will be cooked too early and left in the open. Called up the school to voice my concern about this.

WOW! that is nice! I wished they had that when I was in P5.

Ya, the incident with Pat School House gives concern over the catering food... gosh, haha DDs will be going to the zoo on Friday. Food is also catered :xedfingers: nothing happens

I put all leftover food in fridge after kids have lunch...weather is simply too hot now. My biggest worry is the dinner provided to the teachers and students. With such a big group participating, caterers will cook early and if left in the open, that's how problems happen. :xedfingers: :xedfingers:

[Roze]

How about CCAs in P1. since it’s not compulsory, is it ok to do without it?

[janet88]

Roze:

How about CCAs in P1. since it's not compulsory, is it ok to do without it?

CCAs not compulsory at P1...until it is compulsory, then will let daughter take one. In son's school, CCA not compulsory so he doesn't take any.

[Daddy D]

Question...

Does everyone here prepares their kid in advance for Pri 1?
e.g. cover the topics before teacher, do worksheets and test papers, etc
... 1 year, 1/2 year in advance?

Just wondering if there'll be more pros or cons?
e.g. kid gets bored in class... stress... too much homework... no time to play... etc

Welcome to Primary 1.... DUH.... :razz:

[SAHM_TAN]

Daddy

Question...

Does everyone here prepares their kid in advance for Pri 1?
e.g. cover the topics before teacher, do worksheets and test papers, etc
... 1 year, 1/2 year in advance?

Just wondering if there'll be more pros or cons?
e.g. kid gets bored in class... stress... too much homework... no time to play... etc

Welcome to Primary 1.... DUH.... :razz:

I think depends on the school that your child goes to. I think for the branded ones, there's a need to be very prepared because other students will be as prepared. If you do not prepare your child, he/she will be left behind. For normal school, your child still need to know the basics like 1-100, addition, subtraction, write simple sentences (up to 5 sentences), recognise high frequency chinese charaters, hypy. Even in normal schools, assessment of the child's language and mathematical competencies starts in the first wk or during orientation.

[Funz]

I don’t. Well, at least not academics. Whatever their teacher has covered with them in their childcare is sufficient.


When DD went to P1, the only thing I prepared her for was handling up to $2 of loose change. DS will be going to P1 next year. Again, I am not teaching ahead. Same thing, just teaching him how to handle money.

[Daddy D]

Cool...

I was kinda overwhelmed when I browse thru those test papers online...
dunno if I shld subject my dd to this \"torture\"...
:stupid:

And yes... wonder if she can handle the loose $$ on her own... buy her a cute purse? :razz:

[Roze]

Thanks Janet.

[Funz]

I think to prepare or not also depends on how your child is faring in terms of basic knowledge for a K2 kid. By the end of K2, they should have a decent grasp of their number bonds within 20, able to put together 3-5 simple sentences, have a decent grasp of the HYPY and high frequency chinese characters.


DD is in RGPS. P1 was pretty much a breeze. Chinese, mainly HYPY until 2nd semester, Math, number bonds and addition and subtraction within 20 for 1st semester, until 99 for 2nd semester, English, they are using Stella so no books to follow.

There is more emphasis on verbal skills, so if you want to, maybe do more show and tell stuff with your kid. The other thing that I went through with DD, not before P1 but throughout her P1 year, were more homework/exam tackling skills. Little things like if this page ends with question 5, make sure that the next page starts with question 6. Draw a line to create a column for your workings. Label/number your the steps in your working, how to work backwards to check that your answer is correct(for math), how to use the english and chinese dictionary, stuff like that.

And at the end of the day, it all boils down to what we parents can accept as ‘acceptable results’ from our kids.