Catholic High (Primary)
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meiah:
hehe....mine is in the only performing cca in the DSA listing for this year...whew. But usually they take in only 10, I think, and rarely within the school, so we'll see.... have good lor, if don't have, oh well. I think the CCA would be useful as a tool for appeal if he really needs to anyway. If not in CHS, then another relatively good neighbourhood school since he's a key member of the cca.My ds2 will be in sports class if he manages to dsa to chs. However I'm not relying on the dsa route too much. His scores currently are similar to my ds1 when he was also in p3. The kind that are not worthed looking at! For him to dsa, usually schs would look at top 8 national ranking, zone competitions, prizes, awards, ... more than a bit tough if he is just an average player. Since he's only P3 now, it's hard to even know if he would be selected for junior/senior team members in future. So if he has nothing to his name, then dsa to him would be useless.
Comparing to my ds1 who used to be in strings. I thought I could dsa him to some place but after looking at the criteria of certain schools and all those admission testings, I had no idea where he could go even though he had achieved SYF Gold and Gold with Honours and had clocked many performances. So we went with psle route. He got in chs sec and he was lost when it came to cca. He failed sports trials, there's no strings and he could only join some music groups (also must go for audition) and uniform groups! Anyway, he joined band and he's very happy there so far.
And he spent time in the CCA, not bc he wanted DSA, but bc that is his interest. So it's no big \"pain\" for him. Not really going out of his way either. I can only say that I compare the CCA time with \"if he's not in his CCA this afternoon, what would he be doing at home?\" (hehe...for this son, I know jolly well, it'd not be studying anyway). -
Aiyah. Mine no differences from yours. :boogie: I rather they go CCA. Better if they like it.
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meiah:
Aiyah. Mine no differences from yours. :boogie: I rather they go CCA. Better if they like it.
Yah, can learn teamwork, discipline, and most of the instructors are Chinese, so can practise (or at least listen) to Chinese/converse in Chinese. My son has quite some pride in doing well in this area though, so it helps too. -
meiah/phankao
During my ds time, those that entered thru centre posting were segregated from those thru dsa/affilation and sport classes. There was only one sport class and in it there were also boys who had met the cop. They remained in their respective classes till end of sec2. At sec 3, postings were based strictly on subject combination. The other area, all HCL students had to score at least an A2 for 0-level chinese which they took in sec3, otherwise needed to give up HCL.
Generally, those whose psle t-score 250-265, they were not muggers. While the school is able to achieve mean score of L1R5 9.1-9.7 the school could have performed even better if the boys had tried hard enough considering the fact that there were 6 classes of them in sec1. Think they will perform better at A-level, that’s when they are serious in their studies. Each year the principal of RI delivers a speech at CHS to encourage the students to place it as first choice over HCI.
The above is simply my impression and is not conclusive. -
I am fully aware of how affiliation/non-affiliation n classes are segregated ESP since my dd who is now in JC was in a similar system. With her v average pale score she was in the affiliate express stream too and in her school, those were e most most poorly handled classes sigh. Thankfully she just suddenly started excelling in sec 3. Can’t say she’s hardworking though. So prob just blooming late. This happens with boys more I’d think. Cath high has it’s fair share of top students who started sec 1 with about 230. Theres quite some "value-add" I suppose.
Are u saying RI principal talk to cath high pri boys? as far as I know, no schools except the poorer neighbourhood sec schools are allowed to present since cath high is a full school. Maybe the GEP boys as moe arranges briefing for them -
phankao:
I am fully aware of how affiliation/non-affiliation n classes are segregated ESP since my dd who is now in JC was in a similar system. With her v average pale score she was in the affiliate express stream too and in her school, those were e most most poorly handled classes sigh. Thankfully she just suddenly started excelling in sec 3. Can't say she's hardworking though. So prob just blooming late. This happens with boys more I'd think. Cath high has it's fair share of top students who started sec 1 with about 230. Theres quite some \"value-add\" I suppose.
Are u saying RI principal talk to cath high pri boys? as far as I know, no schools except the poorer neighbourhood sec schools are allowed to present since cath high is a full school. Maybe the GEP boys as moe arranges briefing for them
RI's principal encouraging the secondary boys not the primary. -
There is still only 1 sports class now but there is also 1 mep class this year. According to my ds, there are affiliated pupils in all the 9 sec 1 classes this year.
But to say that a kid cannot cope as well in sec sch just because he score 230+ is not exactly really fair. My ds scored below the intake mean but he managed to score top 25 or 50 percentile for his subjects. Does he mug? No. Under stress? No. Play computer games whole day when at home? Yes. Just as phankao has mentioned, I think he is a late-bloomer too.
Let's give the sch some credit. My ds depended mostly on the sch so far for his education. They must be doing something right if my ds can manage on his own from p1 to s1. I'm more interested in the lifeskills that he will learn in sch than to score fantastically well but can't apply his learning to elsewhere.
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as at 5 July 2011, end of Phase 2A1 registration:-
Total, phase 1, phase2A1, Phase (1 + 2A1), %Taken
Catholic High 240 71 79 150 63%
- remaining 90 vacancies. -
phtthp:
*sigh* next time my youngest ds (in 3 yrs' time) will have to go under Phase 2A2. Hope enough vacancies!as at 5 July 2011, end of Phase 2A1 registration:-
Total, phase 1, phase2A1, Phase (1 + 2A1), %Taken
Catholic High 240 71 79 150 63%
- remaining 90 vacancies. -
move up to p2A1, hv peace of mind. 3 yrs from now long time, anything can happen.
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