PM Says new Stat Board to oversee pre-school education
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Sun_2010:
maybe a man-thing :evil:
daddy d, maybe you are not hawking over your kid? Just establishing a presence \" like hey, let me know if you need me ok?\"Imami:
[quote=\"Daddy D\"]I'm cool... :imcool:
I just thought need parental presence when kid is doing homework... Sometimes need my help, sometimes dun need (then I can surf KSP
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Call that bonding?
Or paranoid?
As long as i can be paged , means I am working even if I never got paged :laugh:[/quote]Hmmm., then the one at my home must be programmed differently. He hardly bothers with our child's school work! He is more into hands on learning rather than paper work. -
DD1 is in K2 and starting P1 in a girls’ sch come January. I am a FTWM and quite relaxed with DD1 and DD2 (K1).
They do not go to any type of enrichments/tuition. Mainly that is because I am very lazy (!) and I also want them to enjoy their childhood. I just cannot imagine spending so much $ on enrichment and spending my rest days dashing around like a mad woman.
DH says they dun have to learn so much. Both of us have never attended tuition in our lives. I come from a so-called elite girls’ sch and he came from a neighbourhood sch but I feel he is much more knowledgeable than me! After I met him, I think elite sch may not be so elite afterall hahaha!
Sure I get anxious when I hear about what other kids do for enrichment, but I simply refuse to start them on enrichment lessons now. It’s like a cycle. I feel anxious, then the feeling passes. Then I surf KSP and start feeling anxious again lol.
On weekdays when I reach home they will be watching cartoons on TV or having dinner, but usually watching TV! After my dinner I will chat/play with them but I always have some me-time reading, surfing the net, watching TV etc.
Then an hour before bedtime or so we would be reading bedtime stories for about 30 min before they go to bed. They would take some time to wind down in their shared bedroom before they fall asleep.
Weekends DD1 has ballet in the am and they both go for gym class in the evening. On Sundays they do their homework and we would go swimming, blading, cycling, shopping, library etc for the rest of the day.
DD1 can read but she is not advanced in any way. Her hw consists of Chinese writing, Chinese zhao jv and English "essay". I noticed not much Maths hw. She would need help with Chinese zhao jv (typically 5 qns) cos she won’t know how to write certain words. Same for English essay. For e.g. her essay could be "Write 5 sentences about Singapore". She would need help to organise her thoughts and spell certain words.
I feel that our parenting style is v relaxed and I am trying to be an ostrich for now! Looking fwd to seeing whether I can still be so laid back when DD1 starts P1! -
I am quite like you too, my gals are quite relaxed too. No tuition except Chinese (I can’t teach Chinese, ok I know, bad excuse!). They do, however, go for non-academic enrichments on the weekends.
My eldest is in P2, so far so good when she transitioned from K2 to P1. No major issues. I don’t intend to do anything different to my gals for next year P1. Like you, I would often be paranoid when I read updates on what parents in KSP do but I guess the comparison is often limitless, just be happy with your child’s progress and space to play/learn. I reckon my gals don’t need to top the class or school, just decent enough to get by and enough space to grow/play would suffice for me and my hubby. -
Hi 2hotTOhandle,
I’m surprise your DD1 has a fair bit of hw to do in K2. Mine also K2, next yr P1 but her childcare doesn’t give her any hw. This semester, they just started on ting xie & spelling (5 words weekly). No essay writing at all so my DD is very relaxed on weekdays…watch tv & korean drama, play games on ipad, go playground & cycling etc. On weekends, she goes for piano & abacus. Comparatively, my friends’ children have more hectic schedules…swimming, drawing, ballet, language courses & the list goes on.
Yes, Imp 75 is right. Don’t compare or it makes me nervous sometimes. Easier said than done though. -
I just hope the new stat board will make pre-school education compulsory. Plus for curriculum to set a base std for literacy, not just Eng, numeracy, science and life skills.
I think to a certain extent, it’s important for parents to know the syllabus for primary education and look through the PSLE papers and decide what’s needed or not needed for your child, taking into account the child’s abilities. -
Doubt they will. They are not ready for that yet.
What I hope to see the stats board doing is bridging the gap between what they have proposed as the curriculum guideline for preschools and the expectations on the kids when the kid goes to primary school.
One of the reason preschools are facing more and more pressure to do more and more by parents is because there is a disparity. Here they tell preschools not to touch HYPY and no need to do spelling or tingxie. But when parents send their kids to P1, the realise that the schools may skip the basics and move ahead if they think majority of the kids already know them. Thus parents turn around and say the preschool did not prepare the kids well enough and in order the cater to parent’s expectations, the standards are raised and the cycle continues. Primary schools need to stick to their guns and not let the over prepared kids dictate the speed which each subject is taught. -
Funz:
Primary schools need to stick to their guns and not let the over prepared kids dictate the speed which each subject is taught.
Yes!!!!!! MOE are you reading this? -
My dd1’s kindy do not have ting xie but faces no problem in P1 becos during lessons her Chi trs will practise with the the class by incorporating it as part of her lesson plans.
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my K2 gals tingxie is in sentence instead of single words, I think a bit scary!
but agree that hw is only once a week during weekends only, no other hw during weekdays.
As I am a FTWM, I can’t be there to supervise my gals so I made them read widely, their choice of books (perhaps half an hour per day) to make them enjoy reading. No assessment books necessary. -
SAHM_TAN:
taking into account the child's abilities.
That is the key sentence....there is a school of thought amongst some parents that every child is of equal ability and the only determinant of success is how good a school is or how much cramming is done.
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