Dunman High School (Junior High)
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Snow Crystal:
It is very heart warming to see snow crystal, cloudeedaz and carebear's posts :grphug:
Haha thanks AuntyCloudeeDaz:
dear snow crystal - i like your encouraging reply
let me give you a aunty to aunty hug :hugs:
:hi5:
Wishing Elly and all our kids all the best!!! :rahrah: -
EllyInTheSkies:
I'm a Sec 1 student in Cedar's IP and my best friend in primary school in now in Dunman's IP.
She tells me that Dunman is 'super slack' and their homework is at most a 'few pieces of worksheets'. She can afford to laze around at home everyday after finishing her homework. Also, she ends school way earlier than me (3.15pm!!).
As for my school's IP, it's horrifying. In just a few weeks I already have 2 science projects, one maths graded assignment where you even need to explain with words how you derived your answer and what logical reasoning you used and tons of homework from other subjects. Everyday it just keeps piling up. Usually we get 10+ sets of homework over the weekends. My class tried to negotiate with the teachers, but they often say that they did not violate our school's Homework Policy. I often need to finish my projects within a tight deadline and hence I usually sleep at 12 or 1am a few days in a row. Coupled with 3rd Lang, I always feel very drained at the end of the day. We also need to bring laptops on a daily basis, and it's really exhausting to carry it around.
Why is it that Dunman's Year 1 IP is so carefree, yet mine is so ridiculous? With my score of 264 I could've chosen Dunman as my first or second choice in the S1 posting exercise, unfortunately I had already been bound by Cedar's DSA. Now I kind of regret going to Cedar, because I'm really afraid I will breakdown one day.
Maybe you might want to clarify with your friend is she \"super slack\" or Duman High \"super slack\" ?
Don't talk about daily work, just project itself my ds need to complete 3 by this 2 days in order to submit by next week. They have also completed graded Maths and LA. Not forgetting with CCA already kick in and other class activities that he is assign to do and competition that he need to attend (briefing and preparation work). How to slack and carefree ?
EllyInTheSkies, do your best in the school you are in. Cedar's IP is also a good school. How well you want to do in the school depend on how hard you want to work for it. There is no way you can slack in any school and achieve good results. All the best! -
DS has been keeping decent sleep time (about 10.30pm), but that does not mean there is little homework either. For Maths alone, I see he had at least 4-5 graded assignments todate. His history and geography assignments took up to a day to research and complete. His nights and weekends are all spent on completing assignments. No time for leisure reading or even little time for revising school work.
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Pen88n:
DS has been keeping decent sleep time (about 10.30pm), but that does not mean there is little homework either. For Maths alone, I see he had at least 4-5 graded assignments todate. His history and geography assignments took up to a day to research and complete. His nights and weekends are all spent on completing assignments. No time for leisure reading or even little time for revising school work.
You are right, Pen88n.
My dd sleeps so late cos she said she needs some time for her leisure, eg reading books, watching the 9pm show on Channel 8 and checking her facebook. So that's why she sleeps so late. -
carebear:
Carebear, seems like your DD needs the relaxation and can do with lesser sleepPen88n:
DS has been keeping decent sleep time (about 10.30pm), but that does not mean there is little homework either. For Maths alone, I see he had at least 4-5 graded assignments todate. His history and geography assignments took up to a day to research and complete. His nights and weekends are all spent on completing assignments. No time for leisure reading or even little time for revising school work.
You are right, Pen88n.
My dd sleeps so late cos she said she needs some time for her leisure, eg reading books, watching the 9pm show on Channel 8 and checking her facebook. So that's why she sleeps so late.
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DS will tell me he's drained and needs his :snooze: to recharge for his next long day. Starting next week, his \"shortest\" school day ends at 4pm :nailbite:
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a huge thank you to the lovely aunties for their replies! :grphug: :lovesite: :thankyou:
I do indeed feel better after reading them. It seems like every student, be it in the O-Level or IP track, will face this problem. I suppose it depends on how proactive we are and what attitude we have when overcoming these challenges.
I'll just try my best to make my secondary school life a fulfilling one!
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EllyInTheSkies:
:rahrah: :boogie: that's the attitude! You go, girl!
I do indeed feel better after reading them. It seems like every student, be it in the O-Level or IP track, will face this problem. I suppose it depends on how proactive we are and what attitude we have when overcoming these challenges.
I'll just try my best to make my secondary school life a fulfilling one!
Please visit the RGS thread and see the posts of the matured RGS seniors there - how they study, their attitude towards studies and school, and in some pages they list down their daily schedules. They feel blessed to be in RGS and when they see how the O levels track friends have to work doubly hard, they count their blessings. You will realize that you are not alone. As a 264 high scorer, I am sure you have the resilence to overcome obstacles and get adjusted to IP life quickly. Then next year you can go to Cedar IP thread and contribute your learnings as a matured Cedar IP senior and look at how helpful DHS parents have been to assure you that there is indeed no slack IP...
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Augmum:
Thank you Augmum
Ya, i ever heard fr my gal saying that scouts need to go back sch on Sat and it is rather often.mum_sugoku:
Alas DS will be in school the whole day (8am-5:30pm) today for his CCA (Scout).. Not sure if he would need to go back to school on Sat for CCA on regular basis..and I really hope not. Cos I notice that he's currently loaded with quite a fair amount of homeworks (maths, history, LA) + spelling (english + chen yi), with test (HCL, maths, history) coming up next week.. and such workload is likely to be the norm now.. Don't know how he's gonna cope!
Now I think about it, I also feel stressed..
Yes, time would be v tight if Sat is being used up for CCA, hope he would cope well......
BTW you mentioned something regarding \"end up in 3A or those 7 units classes by end of yr2\" in another post, may I know what is this \"3A or 7 units classes\" about? -
Augmum:
Wei han, this is not something new in DHS too.....
I can recognise this as a feature of the TfU (Teaching for Understanding framework) way of testing students' depth of understanding. I have tried to explain this framework in RV's thread. So far, RV is the pioneering school using this framework for teaching. Cedar-VS alliance IP has also adopted this framework. It is very promising.WeiHan:
[quote=\"EllyInTheSkies\"]
one maths graded assignment where you even need to explain with words how you derived your answer and what logical reasoning you used and tons of homework from other subjects.
2 yrs ago i had already seen my gal 's maths assignments having questions,
asking for proving of how one derived his / her answers,
Also required full n clear explanation of why not able to use this or that methods of solving....etc....[/quote]Ya. For instance here is one I found in DS's maths assignment: Estimate the quotient of 84.12/1.69 and 9.02/2.98 to one significant figure.... What guidelines would you give on how to estimate the value of a quotient to 1 sig fig? -
mum_sugoku:
Thank you Augmum
Ya, i ever heard fr my gal saying that scouts need to go back sch on Sat and it is rather often.Augmum:
[quote=\"mum_sugoku\"]Alas DS will be in school the whole day (8am-5:30pm) today for his CCA (Scout).. Not sure if he would need to go back to school on Sat for CCA on regular basis..and I really hope not. Cos I notice that he's currently loaded with quite a fair amount of homeworks (maths, history, LA) + spelling (english + chen yi), with test (HCL, maths, history) coming up next week.. and such workload is likely to be the norm now.. Don't know how he's gonna cope!
Now I think about it, I also feel stressed..
Yes, time would be v tight if Sat is being used up for CCA, hope he would cope well......
BTW you mentioned something regarding \"end up in 3A or those 7 units classes by end of yr2\" in another post, may I know what is this \"3A or 7 units classes\" about?[/quote]Not at all, mum_Sugoku......
Class 3A is an O lvl class.
what it is alarming is that It even comprises of few pupils from the 2 Gep classes.
The 7 units classes offer 7 subjects instead of the 8 subjects if pupils obtain GPA of below 2.8
( btw, Grade B is equal to GPA of 2.8)
That 's why i said that one cant afford to slack here......
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