Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary

[Funx3]

By the Way ....

My Gal Read the Last Post, and Here's her Comment ....
\" My T say in Neighbourhood Sch they do More papers than in Pei Hwa ....
Something in the Region of 13-15 papers compare to 4-5 papers in Pei Hwa ....
But We (means the T) explain more in Detail .... \"

Right from the Horsie's Mouth -hor!

[IJJ]

Hi, sorry for not replying. After my first post (at my friend's place), I was not able to get internet connection until much later.


Hopping in this morning and read about busy bees...I wanted so much for my eldest to attend busy bees 2 years ago but she was (and still is) resilient about attending (tuition or enrichment) classes. Oh well!

Yes, busy bees lessons are tough but enriching. It is not for the poor. I have the materials from P2 to P6 and even brought quite abit with me here. I use it to self-coach dd. Berries could not hold up at P3 for her. I did so much of self coaching to supplement her school needs. I thot Kindy level till P1 and maybe P2 was not too bad for Berries. The lessons were lively and fun. Tien Hsia lessons look abit dry (note: mine never attended any lesson there, review was made based on some materials read), but if the child already has interest in the language, he/she should be able to sit still attentively throughout the lessons.

Now, I have the headache to start homeschooling the elder 2 on CL real soon! How I wish there is Berries or anything CL here to off this load from my shoulders.

[IJJ]

Funx3:

By the Way ....

My Gal Read the Last Post, and Here's her Comment ....
\" My T say in Neighbourhood Sch they do More papers than in Pei Hwa ....
Something in the Region of 13-15 papers compare to 4-5 papers in Pei Hwa ....But We (means the T) explain more in Detail .... \"

Right from the Horsie's Mouth -hor!

:yikes: 13-15 is alot!!

I overheard a enrichment centre teacher commenting that Pei Hwa has one of the toughest CL papers, maybe tat is why they did not ask the kids to do so many of other schools' papers?

[IJJ]

Talking about CL enrichment, another popular one is Jiang, which I have no idea how it fares among the students/parents.

[Trapwithin]

drickymummy:

Trapwithin:

For parents who are interested in putting their kids in Busy Bee, do noted that for new enrolment, they will begin to take in names for \"waitlist\" from 19th Sep.

Those who have previously given names for \"waitlist\" do noted that it will be reset, so you have to re-submit the names.

Do also note that for those students currently struggling with CL, Busy Bee might not be a good choice as they concentrate more on creative writing than the school exam questions. You might want to try Tian Xia or Berries.

Actually their regular CL/HCL class focus more on paper 2 n oral with a few comp once a while.. My Ds attends both their class.. Indeed u r right. This is not a place for kids poor in CL to do catch up cos stuff taught r more challenging...

If you look at their 2012 schedule, you will discover that their creative writing classes is a lot more popular than the normal class. So there are parents that put their kids in Busy Bee for writing and regular CL elsewhere.

[janet88]

Funx3:

janet_lee88:

Next year after son's PSLE (ie Oct), I have a younger one facing SA2.
I think I am the one who will need Brand's Essence.
My daughter brings home a progress file every 10 weeks...this time her 'impressive' report shows Chinese borderline pass. Flunked Maths and EL comprehension.

Errrrrrrrrrr, Janet ....
How Come U R More Stress now for Non-Pei Hwa P1 .... :?

I am confused why I am feeling stressed out more now...but honestly i do need to spend more attention since her school is rather ON. Hubby also realized he has been rather 'hands off' with her maths after taking this new job...thus causing such disastrous results.

[Trapwithin]

IJJ:

Hi, sorry for not replying. After my first post (at my friend's place), I was not able to get internet connection until much later.


Hopping in this morning and read about busy bees...I wanted so much for my eldest to attend busy bees 2 years ago but she was (and still is) resilient about attending (tuition or enrichment) classes. Oh well!

Yes, busy bees lessons are tough but enriching. It is not for the poor. I have the materials from P2 to P6 and even brought quite abit with me here. I use it to self-coach dd. Berries could not hold up at P3 for her. I did so much of self coaching to supplement her school needs. I thot Kindy level till P1 and maybe P2 was not too bad for Berries. The lessons were lively and fun. Tien Hsia lessons look abit dry (note: mine never attended any lesson there, review was made based on some materials read), but if the child already has interest in the language, he/she should be able to sit still attentively throughout the lessons.

Now, I have the headache to start homeschooling the elder 2 on CL real soon! How I wish there is Berries or anything CL here to off this load from my shoulders.

Good to hear from you again. :celebrate:
I'm sure just as you can coach your eldest CL without tuition, the remaining ones will have no problem. What a friend of mine did was, she will speak to her kids in CL while her dh speaks to them in EL. It works quite well .... Courtesy of LKY .....erh... Whose birthday happen to be tmr.

[markfch]

janet_lee88:

Next year after son's PSLE (ie Oct), I have a younger one facing SA2.
I think I am the one who will need Brand's Essence.
My daughter brings home a progress file every 10 weeks...this time her 'impressive' report shows Chinese borderline pass. Flunked Maths and EL comprehension.

My ds's academic results are ok for now, but he's main area of improvement is social. Like me, he's not fantastic socially. We both acknowledge that pt and will accept little improvements as they come along, hopefully.

Mrsbongz:

For p1, the test is more like assessment. Overall spelling, recital, show n tell. Will have every term. Not really tests, but we dun get assessment reports

I just received the P1 assessment file. In it, I saw the reports for those show-and-tell as well. DS's Chinese show-and-tell results improved slightly. At least this term didn't show me those grades with only 1 smiley, unlike last term! :yikes:

drickymummy:

Bro Mark, u never know..Ds used to be in berries till mid of this Yr.. He loves teachers there too but find classes not tat challenging anymore past P2.. Hence I switch both class to Busy Bee.. heng ah... We managed to get a place in BB's CL/ HCL class after long wait list..their regular CL class only runs in rail mall branch n only 2 classes per level! V difficult to get a place..the earlier go in the better lor.. My boy said the oral materials r good and worksheets r ok too..

I went BB to take a look at their notes. Course notes are definitely more difficult than Berries; I think ds can be stretched more. Wanted to do the switch but ds insisted on continuing with Berries. His reason is he likes the teacher.

Final score: Son 1: Dad 0 :frustrated:

IJJ:

Hi, sorry for not replying. After my first post (at my friend's place), I was not able to get internet connection until much later.

Nice to hear from you. I think the only busy bees in Kansas are reeeeal bees.

[markfch]

Trapwithin:

If you look at their 2012 schedule, you will discover that their creative writing classes is a lot more popular than the normal class. So there are parents that put their kids in Busy Bee for writing and regular CL elsewhere.

Since ds opts to stay on with Berries, I've decided to personally coach him on Chinese creative writing. In theory, Chinese creative writing should be the same as English rite?

My Chinese std is quite a joke, so it really sounds very funny - to me - that I'm even trying to 'upgrade' myself so that I can teach ds this. Hahaha.

[Trapwithin]

markfch:

Like me, he's not fantastic socially.

:yikes: you not sociable?? :scratchhead:
I'm sure many will disagree here :rotflmao:
:siam: