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    Rivervale Primary

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      gloyt
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      A lot of sch whether good or avg has a lot of new teachers, reliefs teachers and change of teachers nowadays. So must adapt to changes. It happen in All sch fr pri to sec nowadays. Teachers must attend course to upgrade n to move on for career changes too. Do not expect to see a teacher for 10 yrs. move with the change to improve.

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        friendship
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        Using Kiasuparent forum to vent the anger based on personal agenda is not following the T&C of the forum.


        Based on 2011 PSLE results, seems like no. 1 and no. 2 schools in Sengkang are tie. There are 4 girls entered RGS from each school.

        About 33 years ago, St Nick and Rulang were also neighbourhood schools. Students from nearby flats in Jurong and AMK respectively, family background also ranging from poor to rich. Now they are famous school.

        Those graduated from Rivervale must get Alumni membership for their children’s sake in 25 years’ time.

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          daranic
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          friendship:
          Using Kiasuparent forum to vent the anger based on personal agenda is not following the T&C of the forum.


          Based on 2011 PSLE results, seems like no. 1 and no. 2 schools in Sengkang are tie. There are 4 girls entered RGS from each school.
          My daughter's classmate entered RI, and several of them made it to RGS, Duman High, etc. Her class did well in last year's PSLE and I must say, lots of efforts came from her teachers. They gave lots of remedial lessons nearing to PSLE. And I must especially thank her Chinese teacher because I noticed the concern she has for the class. She even made my daughter stay till 6pm on a particular day just to revise Chinese oral with her as she was worried for my daughter.

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            J and J
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            friendship:
            Using Kiasuparent forum to vent the anger based on personal agenda is not following the T&C of the forum.


            Based on 2011 PSLE results, seems like no. 1 and no. 2 schools in Sengkang are tie. There are 4 girls entered RGS from each school.

            About 33 years ago, St Nick and Rulang were also neighbourhood schools. Students from nearby flats in Jurong and AMK respectively, family background also ranging from poor to rich. Now they are famous school.

            Those graduated from Rivervale must get Alumni membership for their children's sake in 25 years' time.

            Pardon me. May I know what is quality pass rate of various subjects in both schools and their mean T-scores like? I think this info more relevent to me. If the school produces a high mean T-score and higher quality pass rate, that infers the school most likely be able to generate more students with quality results. As if my child is not one of the 4 girls to RGS, what will he be ended with these school? Sorry I don't want to stress my child to squeeze into the top 4 by loading lots of tuitions and worksheets. I am fine if he is not in the top 4 but I need to know what most likely he will be with these schools and whether his projected results match my expectation against the national standard.

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              Sunflower mummy
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              Their PSLE T-mean scores:-


              year 2009 - Tscore199.4
              year 2010 - Tscore199.8
              year 2011 - Tscore202 (the school website indicated more students scoring 250. Information extracted:- year 2010, 27 students vs year 2011, 33 students)

              In my opinion, when I measure the school performance, I look at the school PSLE T-mean score.
              With higher T-mean score it is an indicator that the school has done reasonally well and thus most students should able to get into a better secondary school.

              Thus what does the above T-mean score indicate? :rahrah:

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                Sunflower mummy
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                Pardon me. May I know what is quality pass rate of various subjects in both schools and their mean T-scores like? I think this info more relevent to me. If the school produces a high mean T-score and higher quality pass rate, that infers the school most likely be able to generate more students with quality results. As if my child is not one of the 4 girls to RGS, what will he be ended with these school? Sorry I don't want to stress my child to squeeze into the top 4 by loading lots of tuitions and worksheets. I am fine if he is not in the top 4 but I need to know what most likely he will be with these schools and whether his projected results match my expectation against the national standard.[/quote]


                :goodpost:

                I fully agreed.

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                  Sunflower mummy
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                  Not sure if RV still around for alumni membership in 25 years time, subject to MOE, as many new schools build over the years. 😂

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                    gloyt
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                    That’s why with the tough competition RV is going to face, the sch needs to raise n keep up the std of the students as fast as possible to stay ahead!


                    Since it is still young n growing in neighbourhood, like I said some students are not yet "first class" thus these students will definitely pull down the sch mean T score.
                    FYI, avg T score of 180 means can go into express stream in Sec schools.

                    This means 2011 results, with a mean of above 180, mean students manage to get into express stream! So the results n std is in fact rising. But we must accept the fact that there are neigbourhood kids who scored mayb 2 digits only to pull down overall mean score.
                    Compare to MGS or ACS , St Nick etc u hardly get a neighbourhood child in established these branded sch. Such are some unfair factors to affect a sch T score.

                    As for tuition, if u want your child to get good results,most parents send their kids to all subjects tuition be it in neighbourhood or branded sch.

                    Sometimes, I am also puzzled why the exam std are higher or even more difficult than branded sch? But I think, the sch wants the students to work harder n harder…

                    FYI, all P,Vp, teachers are changing every few yrs, this is a fact of MOE sch. Not just RV only.

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                      friendship
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                      4 entered RI, 4 entered RGS, 6 entered DHS, 1 entered NYGH, 2 cedar IP and the rest St Nick, VS, Catholic High, etc

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                        J and J
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                        Sunflower mummy:
                        Their PSLE T-mean scores:-


                        year 2009 - Tscore199.4
                        year 2010 - Tscore199.8
                        year 2011 - Tscore202 (the school website indicated more students scoring 250. Information extracted:- year 2010, 27 students vs year 2011, 33 students)

                        In my opinion, when I measure the school performance, I look at the school PSLE T-mean score.
                        With higher T-mean score it is an indicator that the school has done reasonally well and thus most students should able to get into a better secondary school.

                        Thus what does the above T-mean score indicate? :rahrah:
                        Hmm. It looks to me (purely personal perception) it is an average school as the result matched well with the National profile. top 10% in 2011=> T-score above 250. If the school has 33 students score 250 or above, out of 330 roughly ( estimated as intake 6 yrs ago was 360).

                        It would helpful if anyone can provide similar info of another popular school(NC). It looks to me NC offerring more unquie programmes and activities. Of course, I do not have any experience with them. But NC school website really catches my eyeballs with lots of updated information and in par with other popular schools in other areas.

                        No matter which school my child will be with, as a parent, I still have to coach him, stand by him wholeheartly.

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