Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary

[janet88]

Hi Jennifer,

My son has to write a journal every now and then...this week, he has to produce one with 350 words. I'm not involved with his school homework this year...hands off since he was in P4. Not done or forget to bring, prepare to get punished. Have to learn what responsibility is.

I dont understand why PH cannot allocate Math teachers to help kids handle the crazy tough problems at P5. Why wait till P6 ? It's too late !!! There is so much to learn and time is SO short this year. No way can we possibly depend on school at all :mad: school literally forced parents to outsource.

[janet88]

FQW:

Happy Mama:

See! Now he siam already. :rotflmao:

But fear not. After the first one, I've devised a way to make milk in the wee hours of the morning using my leg. How? I just kick my wife and say 'Oei, baby is crying, go and make milk leh.' Muahahaha :rotflmao:

FQW,
Did you say 'make milk'? I thought human machine is 24/7? :rotflmao:
Sorry everyone :offtopic:

Whether it's newborn or 8 years old, kids will still cry and 'manja'.
My daughter here kept me up all night for the past 2 nights...high fever.
Pray hard the education minister keeps Phase 2A2, and you now, try for #2. :evil:

[php]

janet_lee88:

Hi Jennifer,

My son has to write a journal every now and then...this week, he has to produce one with 350 words. I'm not involved with his school homework this year...hands off since he was in P4. Not done or forget to bring, prepare to get punished. Have to learn what responsibility is.

I dont understand why PH cannot allocate Math teachers to help kids handle the crazy tough problems at P5. Why wait till P6 ? It's too late !!! There is so much to learn and time is SO short this year. No way can we possibly depend on school at all :mad: school literally forced parents to outsource.

i tot this year is longer than last 3 years....you have one extra day...hahaha.....

[janet88]

php:

janet_lee88:

I dont understand why PH cannot allocate Math teachers to help kids handle the crazy tough problems at P5. Why wait till P6 ? It's too late !!! There is so much to learn and time is SO short this year. No way can we possibly depend on school at all :mad: school literally forced parents to outsource.

i tot this year is longer than last 3 years....you have one extra day...hahaha.....

It's only like 6 months more to go before PSLE.
Oral starts in Aug :frustrated: I really dread to think of the crazy times ahead. It's nerve-wrecking man.

[iRabbit]

Jennifer:

During my elder boy's time, the EL teacher made it compulsory to write a journal every week, for the topics brought up by the school during assembly, any special celebration events, etc.

Last year, my younger boy only wrote 1 journal - about myself. The exercise book was not used at all after that.

This year, the EL teacher printed out a list of what-to-do to improve EL standard and journal writing was one of the recommendations. Again, the task of enforcing, monitoring, discussing what is written is passed back to parents :stompfeet:

The MA teacher is also a disappointment. He believed my boy is capable to do more, but is not willing to do more. So? He does not push? I was so angry, I sort of told him off that it is the sch responsibility to assign work & to push the pupils. Why else shld I leave my child in sch for 8 hours doing the minimal, then go back home to do more worksheets to be given by parents becos the sch does not give in the sch?

Sorry for the ranting. I am really very disappointed.

Jennifer,

You know that your willingness to share the good stuff here made me hold your posts with high regard. Like IJJ, I'm also very sorry to hear of your disappointment. From the way you wrote this post, your disappointment seems almost palpable to me.

Many parents have expressed similar adverse feelings towards PH during this period. All this talk is getting me worried as I don't revise any school work with ds (except for spelling and the occasional presentation), preferring instead to spend the time to do other stuff with him. :gloomy:

[janet88]

Jennifer:

Again, the task of enforcing, monitoring, discussing what is written is passed back to parents :stompfeet:


The MA teacher is also a disappointment. He believed my boy is capable to do more, but is not willing to do more. So? He does not push? I was so angry, I sort of told him off that it is the sch responsibility to assign work & to push the pupils. Why else shld I leave my child in sch for 8 hours doing the minimal, then go back home to do more worksheets to be given by parents becos the sch does not give in the sch?

Sorry for the ranting. I am really very disappointed.

It's ok...no need to apologize. I totally understand what you're going through. It's very sad and frustrating that parents have to monitor and coach kids when school is compulsory.

Back then, my son had CA1 and SA1/2 in P1. I had to be very hands-on with him. This no CA/SA thing in PH now is scary...will kids in P2 know what to do in Oct when they face their first major exam ? Come P3, will they have a bigger shock when there is Science thrown in plus an increase in workload ?

[php]

janet_lee88:

Jennifer:

Again, the task of enforcing, monitoring, discussing what is written is passed back to parents :stompfeet:


The MA teacher is also a disappointment. He believed my boy is capable to do more, but is not willing to do more. So? He does not push? I was so angry, I sort of told him off that it is the sch responsibility to assign work & to push the pupils. Why else shld I leave my child in sch for 8 hours doing the minimal, then go back home to do more worksheets to be given by parents becos the sch does not give in the sch?

Sorry for the ranting. I am really very disappointed.

It's ok...no need to apologize. I totally understand what you're going through. It's very sad and frustrating that parents have to monitor and coach kids when school is compulsory.

Back then, my son had CA1 and SA1/2 in P1. I had to be very hands-on with him. This no CA/SA thing in PH now is scary...will kids in P2 know what to do in Oct when they face their first major exam ? Come P3, will they have a bigger shock when there is Science thrown in plus an increase in workload ?

We already had a big shock in P3 English paper... Science paper was acceptable....

[Jennifer]

FQW:

All this talk is getting me worried as I don't revise any school work with ds (except for spelling and the occasional presentation), preferring instead to spend the time to do other stuff with him. :gloomy:

U should be worried, no joke.

Last year, the MA teacher did not use the textbook, but made the pupils kept a MA journal exercise book that recorded impt notes.

This year, the MA teacher did not use the textbook nor practise keeping a journal.

For my younger boy who is not an auditory learner, u can imagine how much info flied over his head at sch:faint: He did not understand the order of 4 operations, he did not understand fraction divided by a whole number. And I found out these while doing damage repair by going through term 1 MA with him ytd.

The MA teacher brushed these qns (order of operations & fraction divided by a whole number) as CARELESS mistakes my boy made :mad:

And I was naive to think that this shld be a GREAT MA teacher :frustrated:

After thinking abt this outsourcing of work to parents, I am seriously considering not letting my boy continuing with the Tues/Thurs supplementary lessons, except for CL lessons.

[iRabbit]

Jennifer:

U should be worried, no joke.

After thinking abt this outsourcing of work to parents, I am seriously considering not letting my boy continuing with the Tues/Thurs supplementary lessons, except for CL lessons.

I am worried. I'm internalising the issue as I type. When I see parents - of what I considered as very smart kids - complaining about teaching/exam stds, I can sort of predict the kind of road block my ds will come up against in the near future.

Will my ds be tasked with P4 level qns in the year-end exams? Maybe. Will it hit us like a train? Definitely. Is there anything we can do about this? Not much.

I think I've to pyscho myself not to care too much about the short term outcome for now.

[janet88]

Son flunked CL. What should I expect for SA1 ? Another heart attack ?


It’s really hard to understand why PH is so relaxed…although I did mention the heavy workload last year. When I meant heavy workload, I was referring to stuff like art, social studies, project work. P5 Math is very tough, as we all know. All the more, teachers should be preparing the kids to handle the problem sums and how to handle the exam - Section A (no calculator) and have to finish questions within a short period of time - speed and accuracy.