North Vista Primary

[Wan]

Jollybeans, My son hasn’t start P1 officially but during orientation it was advised to give ard $3 allowance. Can’t answer Q1 & 2

[teogb]

Wan:

Need to pre order from pacific website? Or can buy books from popular?

Get it from pacific book store or the school's bookshop. You won't be able to find the same type in popular, popular sells bigger and bulky types.

[nim]

Hi Jollybeans


Welcome to NVP!What is the reason you choose to put your ds in NVP rather than his old school?

Depending how much your child eats and spends. The portion of the food can be pretty little if your child is a big eater.
Start off with $1.20 for each recess . He will have $2.40 in total. Teach him how to budget his meal.If he spends $1 for the first recess, he will have $0.20 more to spend for his next meal.

By the way, the second recess is actually lunch.

Have you seen the classroom before? the classroom are pretty big as the lockers and shelves are inside the classrooms.

[Wan]

teogb:

Wan:

Need to pre order from pacific website? Or can buy books from popular?

Get it from pacific book store or the school's bookshop. You won't be able to find the same type in popular, popular sells bigger and bulky types.

Thanks. Ardy ordered & collected from pacific. Only 1 book published by NV themselves ready

[jollybeans]

Hie nim


My reason is simple, my son who used to be bright and bubbly had a rude awakening at the normal nearby school. Thus, he had change since P1.
He was once a very bright, thinker. But thru our moe usual method moulded by moe workers, his mind was moulded according to the shape they wanted to be … I felt so sad.

Thus, he is now in North Vista. : )

I want my son back ! I want my son to enjoy learning, and experience what real learning is. Not some rote learning nor practice, practice, practice …

By the way, anyone knows how many students in a classroom ? I heard somewhere they have very low student teacher ratio …

Could someone share with me

Thanks

[luddite]

Books delivered to home, 2 books are unavailable, to collect fr bookshop when they restock.

Anyone heard anything about the PSLE grades?

[jollybeans]

My son is from Edgefield Primary, next yr in their top class. And its a neighbourhood academic school.

[Mammoth]

Wan:

20 questions, 16 in English & 4 in Chinese (or other MT). He told me he drew a rabbit for the question on art. I think to make sure same class same standard bah. Either to sieve out outstanding students to chiong PSLE or weaker students (in various subject) to give extra lesson. My view. See if there is any changes to the class lo

Hi, my son is in P2 this year and going P3 next year. From my experience when he entered the school 2 yrs back, the initial class grouping is just for the parents' orientation. After the kids went thru' the \"test\" questions, they will be streamed according to their abilities into various classes which parents will be notified later.

Have checked with the teachers on this issue, it seems like there is a school policy for them not to reveal which class is the best. In my son's P1, I have observed though that out of the 9 classes of P1-1 to P1-9, the higher number is the better class. And my son has followed the same class in P2 but will be re-allocated to another class in P3 next year.

[Mammoth]

Hi jollybeans,


The class size is typically 20+ students.

To clear some doubts that other parents might have on netbooks,

Netbook purchase expected during mid-P2. Not compulsory but expect lots of pressure to buy it from the school management. And you must buy from school, cannot use own netbook as school claims that they need to install MOE software and there is Intellectual property rights issues.

Anyway, it adds up to around 800-900+ because they actually source it from an unknown brand vendor which provides a rugged version and you need to buy insurance for it. Costs is broken down into netbook, operating system, insurance. To this day I’m still puzzled why OS is not included as an overall price as per current practice for all netbooks u find in shops. The rugged version provides limited protection for accidental damage but don’t expect wonders. Buying from school also provides an after sales service with the vendor but the repair costs are very expensive in my own opinion compared to a new netbook u can buy outside. The insurance coverage is not ideal, basically parents need to pay 100+sgd before insurance kicks in.

From the demo given to parents, this version with all the pre-install Windows premium + MOE software is used in classrooms to link all netbooks together so that teachers are able to teach and project student’s products directly to projector screen for after action review.

Personally, I did not buy the netbook. From what I gathered, netbook usage within the lessons differs from classes to classes (depend on teacher). I have found that my son’s class did not make use of it often, perhaps 1 or 2 times a week and those who did not purchase simply are allocated by teachers to share with those who did.

Another thing about the schools teaching system of adapting the Learning Organisation that our government pushed for in recent years. Basically, during the parents to teacher meetings, they will ask you to commit on a Learning Contract for your kid to setup learning goals and what to achieve in the coming half year or so. Personally, I have found it to be useless since the kid is not mature enough to really understand and commit to the goals. My five-cents worth, though.

[Mammoth]

luddite:

Books delivered to home, 2 books are unavailable, to collect fr bookshop when they restock.

Anyone heard anything about the PSLE grades?

Source from a hearsay by a P6 parent, top scorer for this year 240pts (a china student). A few others got 200+, majority ranges from 150 to 200.

Anyway, do not pin too high hopes on PSLE results. Information from the school says that to disregard PSLE results for this year even before it is out. And same for the coming 1 or 2 years.

Why? Because it's a new school and the PSLE batches are all transferred students from other schools when the school first came into operation. So they are \"not\"to be held fully responsible for their results, good or bad, if it happens to be so.