2012 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[fifiyeo]

DS sleeps till 8.30am these days.


Still moving like tortise. Happy go lucky. Don’t know to be happy for him or stress for him!

I think right now if can stay healthy physically and mentally with some revision, it’s good enough.

[ruohoo97]

The game is going to start! \"May the odd will be ever in your favour\"


That is what my DD told me the other day. The group of friends in her class were busying themselves with Hunger Game rather than PSLE. :shock: When I suggested to her to skip school, she told me it more fun to study together with friends. Guess have to pray hard, \"May the odd will be ever in their favour.\"

[niza6666.028774hotmail.028774com]

ruohoo97:

The game is going to start! \"May the odd will be ever in your favour\"


That is what my DD told me the other day. The group of friends in her class were busying themselves with Hunger Game rather than PSLE. :shock: When I suggested to her to skip school, she told me it more fun to study together with friends. Guess have to pray hard, \"May the odd will be ever in their favour.\"

My ds does not want to skip school either.

[yukilei]

ruohoo97:

The game is going to start! \"May the odd will be ever in your favour\"


That is what my DD told me the other day. The group of friends in her class were busying themselves with Hunger Game rather than PSLE. :shock: When I suggested to her to skip school, she told me it more fun to study together with friends. Guess have to pray hard, \"May the odd will be ever in their favour.\"

haha, DS & friends are busy with Soccer Game preparation like sourcing for players, managing the team etc.

[its888me]

BeContented:

janet_lee88:

[quote=\"its888me\"]I'm not sure why school is scaring the children as if PSLE is like the end of the world if they do not do well. They also attempted to reward them telling them if they improve by XX marks, they will get some materialistic thing. My child told me they are getting more scared. The school and staff must have some KPI to meet. Do they know that doing so may have the opposite effect?! Is that the right thing to do!?!!

I feel that this should be highlighted to HSK. He should know what is happening and what the school is doing in its attempt to get glory.
This is ridiculous ! Every child is already so stressed :mad: As long as they have done their best, that is EFFORT. It's obvious they are trying to exceed the KPI.

Errrrmmmm. Are we over-reacting? I think the intention is to give them some motivation to look forward to, I dun think we should always lump it with trying to meet their KPI. If i am a teacher, i can jolly well dun waste my own money cos we all know that parents & their tutors will be pushing hard for good results anyway......
Maybe it's me, I dun quite understand. :scratchhead: I do that sometimes & some of my kids' teachers as well eg. if they get certain award during competition & the whole team will get a treat to pizza.
My kids do not tell me they are scared, in fact they looked forward to it.

I would reason with my kids that as teachers, they will be proud when their students do well. Similarly, as parents, we will be proud when our children do well. Intention the same.
Importantly, we, the parents should be calming our kids down & assuring them that we still will love & accept them whatever the result is.[/quote]I do not think it's over-reacting. The teacher even called me several times telling me my child is not doing the best. I thought it's only my child. I learnt only yesterday that she is telling the whole class the same thing. It is one of the best classes with T-score already 26X. She also told them PSLE is the ONLY exam that decides their future.... ?! I hope it's either my child misunderstood the message or the teacher didn't convey the message in the right way. Anyway!

[janet88]

For Math, it is about practice, so I think the tutor is doing ok. As for science, tutor gives one paper but due the next week. I personally do not pump my son with past year papers. Chinese and English, he focuses mainly on those weak areas. I've been monitoring the work given by the tutors...always believe in quality.


Next Wednesday, I was told there will be a briefing in school.
I kept him at home bcos of the crazy pumping of past year papers, classmates shooting rubber bands and being hit by rackets during PE :mad:

[its888me]

janet_lee88:

For Math, it is about practice, so I think the tutor is doing ok. As for science, tutor gives one paper but due the next week. I personally do not pump my son with past year papers. Chinese and English, he focuses mainly on those weak areas. I've been monitoring the work given by the tutors...always believe in quality.


Next Wednesday, I was told there will be a briefing in school.
I kept him at home bcos of the crazy pumping of past year papers, classmates shooting rubber bands and being hit by rackets during PE :mad:

Janet,

At least your child still has PE class. Mine, all PE lessons were cancelled for the whole month and used for lessons. Everyday supplementary classes still not enough.... Sat still need to go to school from 8am to 12:45pm for supplementary. The supp classes still continues next week.... hope this thing will be ending soon.

[its888me]

BTW, can mummies advise how to avoid careless mistake? My child said they check through all the work but still had careless mistakes. How to tackle this problem?

[fightingmom]

its888me:

janet_lee88:

For Math, it is about practice, so I think the tutor is doing ok. As for science, tutor gives one paper but due the next week. I personally do not pump my son with past year papers. Chinese and English, he focuses mainly on those weak areas. I've been monitoring the work given by the tutors...always believe in quality.


Next Wednesday, I was told there will be a briefing in school.
I kept him at home bcos of the crazy pumping of past year papers, classmates shooting rubber bands and being hit by rackets during PE :mad:

Janet,

At least your child still has PE class. Mine, all PE lessons were cancelled for the whole month and used for lessons. Everyday supplementary classes still not enough.... Sat still need to go to school from 8am to 12:45pm for supplementary. The supp classes still continues next week.... hope this thing will be ending soon.

:scared: Wah... its888me, your dc's teachers very on ! Still have to conduct lessons on Saturday ?!

Hope your child has sufficient rest.

[mummy so kiasu]

its888me:

BeContented:

[quote=\"its888me\"]I'm not sure why school is scaring the children as if PSLE is like the end of the world if they do not do well. They also attempted to reward them telling them if they improve by XX marks, they will get some materialistic thing. My child told me they are getting more scared. The school and staff must have some KPI to meet. Do they know that doing so may have the opposite effect?! Is that the right thing to do!?!!

Errrrmmmm. Are we over-reacting? I think the intention is to give them some motivation to look forward to, I dun think we should always lump it with trying to meet their KPI. If i am a teacher, i can jolly well dun waste my own money cos we all know that parents & their tutors will be pushing hard for good results anyway......

Maybe it's me, I dun quite understand. :scratchhead: I do that sometimes & some of my kids' teachers as well eg. if they get certain award during competition & the whole team will get a treat to pizza. My kids do not tell me they are scared, in fact they looked forward to it.

I would reason with my kids that as teachers, they will be proud when their students do well. Similarly, as parents, we will be proud when our children do well. Intention the same. Importantly, we, the parents should be calming our kids down & assuring them that we still will love & accept them whatever the result is.

I do not think it's over-reacting. The teacher even called me several times telling me my child is not doing the best. I thought it's only my child. I learnt only yesterday that she is telling the whole class the same thing. It is one of the best classes with T-score already 26X. She also told them PSLE is the ONLY exam that decides their future.... ?! I hope it's either my child misunderstood the message or the teacher didn't convey the message in the right way. Anyway![/quote]I think most schools will push the kids hard in P6, not just your boy's school. The schools will try to stretch them as much as possible & use reward system to motivate them. I also use \"carrot\" to motivate my boy during this period of time. Whereas for my boy's school, the principal told them that P6 classes with great improvement will get to go to the Universal Studio or BBQ after PSLE.