Club 2004 Kids

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iwonder:

Hi everyone!

Firstly, a Happy New Year greetings to all.
I am new here. And is looking to get more info and advise from this site.

Can I ask a question? A child of 2004, whether or not he is a January or December baby, does he qualify to enter P2 in 2012? What about P3 (assuming that his grades qualify for enrollment)?

Please advise. Thank you.

Hi, children born between 2 January 2005 and 1 January 2006 (both dates inclusive) participated in the 2011 Primary One Registration Exercise for admission to Primary One Classes in 2012.

In other words, children born between 2 January 2004 and 1 January 2005 (both dates inclusive) are P2 in 2012. Children born between 2 January 2003 and 1 January 2004 (both dates inclusive) are P3 in 2012.

[iwonder]

happy to be mum:

hi iwonder


are your child Singaporean? If he or she is Singaporean, he should be in Primary 2 this year. But if foreigner, from my understanding, need some assessment.

Hi happy,
We are foreigners, and my child is currently in P2 in Indonesia, and we would like for him to test for the P2 or P3 material, would it be possible? Or is he restricted to age based education even if he does well in the P3 material?
Thank you

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iwonder:

happy to be mum:

hi iwonder


are your child Singaporean? If he or she is Singaporean, he should be in Primary 2 this year. But if foreigner, from my understanding, need some assessment.

Hi happy,
We are foreigners, and my child is currently in P2 in Indonesia, and we would like for him to test for the P2 or P3 material, would it be possible? Or is he restricted to age based education even if he does well in the P3 material?
Thank you

Very very few kids can skip level in Singapore. You can try to ask MOE or the school you are interested to enrol your child in.

[iwonder]

coast:

iwonder:

[quote=\"happy to be mum\"]hi iwonder


are your child Singaporean? If he or she is Singaporean, he should be in Primary 2 this year. But if foreigner, from my understanding, need some assessment.

Hi happy,
We are foreigners, and my child is currently in P2 in Indonesia, and we would like for him to test for the P2 or P3 material, would it be possible? Or is he restricted to age based education even if he does well in the P3 material?
Thank you

Very very few kids can skip level in Singapore. You can try to ask MOE or the school you are interested to enrol your child in.[/quote]Thank you, I will try to approach them.

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iwonder:

coast:

[quote=\"iwonder\"]
Hi happy,
We are foreigners, and my child is currently in P2 in Indonesia, and we would like for him to test for the P2 or P3 material, would it be possible? Or is he restricted to age based education even if he does well in the P3 material?
Thank you

Very very few kids can skip level in Singapore. You can try to ask MOE or the school you are interested to enrol your child in.

Thank you, I will try to approach them.[/quote]You are welcome FYI, you can always go to some sites that offer free exam papers online and ask your child to try out some P2 and P3 papers to gauge his level. I have read somewhere that Singapore standard is higher than some other countries (e.g., P2 in Singapore is equivalent to P3 in other countries).

As far as I know, Singapore does not practise skipping level even for kids who do extremely well in their school exams .. e.g., scoring 100 or 99 in final year exams. At P3, all students will take a test (parents can opt out) and the top 1% can enrol (again parents can opt out) in gifted programme known as GEP in P4.

Maybe there are exceptions made for some children to skip level if their IQs are really way beyond their peers.

[hearty_dolphin]

Hi MOE does not recommend level skipping. My son is tested and belongs to the gifted group. He has a high IQ and his level is higher than children of age. MOE tested on him but and still encourage him to stay in his level due to other factors like maturity… In fact when he was in P1, I was very stressed. He refused to go to school because the academic was too easy for him. He finds it so boring as he already know his stuff and teacher keep repeating the same thing. I had to talk to his teacher and she lets him do other work when his was done with his work. But for foreigner, I am not sure if they are more lenient.

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hearty_dolphin:

Hi MOE does not recommend level skipping. My son is tested and belongs to the gifted group. He has a high IQ and his level is higher than children of age. MOE tested on him but and still encourage him to stay in his level due to other factors like maturity....... In fact when he was in P1, I was very stressed. He refused to go to school because the academic was too easy for him. He finds it so boring as he already know his stuff and teacher keep repeating the same thing. I had to talk to his teacher and she lets him do other work when his was done with his work. But for foreigner, I am not sure if they are more lenient.

DS did not want to go school during nursery (lasted many weeks) and kindergarten (a few weeks). But luckily he met some experienced teachers who would make him the little teacher guiding the weaker ones ... learning with older kids rather than peers ... or other incentives such as \"students who finish your work first can start playing\".

Luckily, he enjoyed every single bit of his P1 days because his teachers assigned him to be class monitor, group leader, little teacher, ... etc

I hope your DS's P2 teachers will find ways to get him engaged and enjoy school

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DS did not want to go school during nursery (lasted many weeks) and kindergarten (a few weeks). But luckily he met some experienced teachers who would make him the little teacher guiding the weaker ones ... learning with older kids rather than peers ... or other incentives such as \"students who finish your work first can start playing\".


Luckily, he enjoyed every single bit of his P1 days because his teachers assigned him to be class monitor, group leader, little teacher, ... etc

I hope your DS's P2 teachers will find ways to get him engaged and enjoy school :)[/quote]



WOW Coast,

Your DS's school sounds appealing. May i know which school is it ?

Thank you

[hearty_dolphin]

He’s at St Stephen School. This year, start of the term I already let his form teacher aware of what’s going on last year. So everything will be fine.

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seestar:

coast:

DS did not want to go school during nursery (lasted many weeks) and kindergarten (a few weeks). But luckily he met some experienced teachers who would make him the little teacher guiding the weaker ones ... learning with older kids rather than peers ... or other incentives such as \"students who finish your work first can start playing\".


Luckily, he enjoyed every single bit of his P1 days because his teachers assigned him to be class monitor, group leader, little teacher, ... etc

I hope your DS's P2 teachers will find ways to get him engaged and enjoy school

WOW Coast,

Your DS's school sounds appealing. May i know which school is it ?

Thank you

It's 3 different schools ... nursery, kindergarten and current primary school. So I suppose most educators are aware of these techniques.

His first nursery teacher was inexperienced (the long period that he was reluctant to go nursery) but luckily, there was a switch of teacher and this new teacher was the one who did this and that (made him the little teacher guiding the weaker ones ... learning with older kids rather than peers). She was the one who told me \"your DS is basically my little teacher\" during parent-teacher meeting.

I believe in individual teachers much more than institutions ... a structured curriculum would certainly help esp for bigger kids but passionate, experienced teachers can do wonders and these teachers exist everywhere

During another parent-teacher meeting, we told our DS's first chinese teacher that the curriculum seemed \"weird\", she actually agreed with us and said that she had no choice as the curriculum were from the \"institution\", but she assured us and told us about the methods she used in school ... I was impressed! DS would come home happily every day ... saying teacher brought and cut different fruits to share (teach them the different fruits in chinese, including Durians!), told them stories and shared real-life stuffs on each festival (mooncake, CNY, dumplings festival, ... etc). None of these were in the \"curriculum\", the teacher did it on her own. Till this day, DS would still fondly remember many things that he was taught by this teacher.

I am thankful that most of my DS's teachers are really great ... so either he is lucky or ... majority of our teachers are great