Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)

[number1]

My son also in express. So far ; very free; even more relax than primary school days . Cca not started as well. He’ s getting restless.

[autolycus]

South African, number1: it's a little-known fact that deserves to be better known and seems obvious on hindsight — the Sec 1 induction period is generally more slack than the Primary 6 intensive-suffering period.


A more important fact is the idea you will find in Nadar & Einarsson (2010), 'Memory reconsolidation: an update', Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences Vol 1191, pp 27-41. Apparently, strong training leads to memory inflexibility and inability to learn. Hence slackness interspersed with periods of shockingly intense stimuli seems to be a good idea.

[South African]

Hi Autolycus, thanks. I guess I will enjoy this time bonding with him while I can. And give him encouragement and motivation to strive for better results. Yes, after the intense grilling in P6 these days, its a breeze for now.

[ngbrdad]

Same for my son.

Really enjoying Sec1 life at the moment.

[kandc]

Hi Autolycus,


Really appreciated your advice & fully agree with you. I do understand the IB is a good programme to train students to be holistic. But exactly as you pointed out, it is not suitable for every boy. So my question will be how to judge/observe as early as possible if the boy fits in IB programme or not? The judgement would be "the ability to write good humanities/lit essays"?? Therefore, as you commented in your last reply to my post, "the worst-case scenario is that the boy had a 4 for English, which pretty much indicates a limitation to your language skills". So usually poor English mastery will limit his performance in IB exam, better look for another place b4 the IBDP exams? Thanks a lot!

[autolycus]

kandc: it's not so grim as it sounds...


We have many scholars coming in at Year 3 with imperfect language skills. All of them have to write essays in English for the IB if they do the IBDP. I have a number who went on after graduation to good colleges and universities in the USA and UK. Surely our own citizenry should perform at least as well in that area...

However, I have to say that when I mentioned essay-writing skills (also including technical writing etc), I meant it prescriptively — our students MUST develop those skills no matter where they go, or else their mobility will be limited in future.

[Mvm]

Mvm:

There is a link to the parents portal on the school's webpage. However we need an ID and password to log in. Any idea when year 1 parents will start to have access?

Anyone with info?

[bromath]

Math competition team 2012 for junior category


Name \t Class\t Category
 Kumaravel Vignesh\t1.03\t Junior
Joel Toh Yi Liang\t 1.06\t Category
Ng Chun Lin\t 1.06\t
Jeyakumar Jegan\t 1.08\t
R. Saravanamani \t1.08\t
Surendra Shenoy Basti\t1.14\t
Ashraf Roshan S/O Abdul Nasser\t1.14\t
Gideon Kharistia\t1.14\t
Goh Yu Xuan\t1.14\t
Muthuramalingam Naveen Krishnan\t1.14\t
Bharath Chandra Sudheer\t1.17\t

Shum Rui Yuan\t2.03\t
Yan Xu\t2.04\t
Hughie Hwang Bing Howe\t2.11\t
Chan Jie Sheng Jensen\t2.12\t
Guan Yang Ze\t2.12\t
Leong Chee Weng, Michael\t2.13\t
Ng Ding Yi\t2.13

[clayman]

Just in case your boys forgot, which I don’t think they will.


Monday 30th January 2012 is a school holiday in view of the excellent IB results.

[number1]

Hi it’s been a month since school started , and I have not received a single email or other communication from my son’s form teacher . Is this how it works in secondary school ? I am used to getting very frequent emails previously from his primary school teachers and thus not sure if this is the new norm that I need to get used to. Can anyone share if your son’s teachers have unitiated any communications ? Thanks much .


Also thanks to Autocylus for your very helpful advice.