Learning Point - Discussion

[Ran1977]

Hi dear, what is the assessment for LP Headstart for P1 like?

How is the child assessed?
Is this simple or complicated considering that these kids are just in K1.

[Imami]

Ran1977:

Hi dear thanks for the sharing.

What waz the name of the reader that your child had to read?
Thanks

I didn't take note of the title, don't see a néed to.... Should I have taken note of the title? Hmm... :scratchhead:

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I have tried couples of English enrichment centres like creative horizons, writers place, TAS and Learning Point. Personally, I find LP the best and can see her improvements in grades on English for both papers. Hence, I am happy that she is in LP and glad that I do not have to switch centres anymore! My girl used to write well only on those themes that she has written before but after s

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I have tried couples of English enrichment centres like creative horizons, writers place, TAS and Learning Point. Personally, I find LP the best and can see her improvements in grades on English for both papers. Hence, I am happy that she is in LP and glad that I do not have to switch centres anymore! My girl used to write well only on those themes that she has written before but after spending sometimes with LP and cos of the fact that she loves reading, her CW has improved tremendously. Now she enjoys writing and using good phrases and vocab in her writing and I like her style of writing as it is no longer so boring and she has her style of writing rather than to copy exactly what was taught. I attribute her improvement to LP and her interest in reading.


Of course, this may be subjective to different people and children and I am only giving some comments as a satisfied parent.

[Ymy]

Hi!aaaaaa,


Thanks for your feedback . May I know which level is your child? And it takes about how long for you to see the improvement?

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Ymy:

Hi!aaaaaa,


Thanks for your feedback . May I know which level is your child? And it takes about how long for you to see the improvement?

Hi Ymy,

She is in P3 now. I recalled when I was doing her revision for CW for SA1, as she can't write well at that time hence I had no choice but to make her memories the story for her paper tmlo. We have spent so much time to memorise the theme and hopefully she cld spot on one that is similar to what she has learnt. I was quite frustrated as I knew it wasn't the way to teach/do her CW in long term. Hence, from recommendation by a friend, I got to know about LP and hence I withdrew her from Creative horizons and enrolled her in LP. Recently, before the SA2, I found that she could write so much better than before, some of her works was actually selected to show to her class which had never been before. In SA2, I di d not even have to go thru CW with her, or I did was to ask her to do some readings as now I feel more confident in her writing and trust that she can write well. And yes, she did very well for her English papers.

Hence I guess she has been with LP for only about 6 mths to see the improvements. I am a result oriented person, if I do not see improvement in her grades for 6mths, I will switch as I do not want to waste my time and money!

Hope it will work for u guys too.

[Ymy]

Hi! aaaaaa,


Thanks for sharing. My DD will be joining LP Next year. (P3) Hope I can see improvement in her comprehension. She is rather weak in this area.

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Ymy:

Hi! aaaaaa,


Thanks for sharing. My DD will be joining LP Next year. (P3) Hope I can see improvement in her comprehension. She is rather weak in this area.

I guess as parents sometimes we just need to \"trial and error\" hopefully to get the best of the best! Well, a lot of Parents from KS forum sing praises for TAS but it didn't work for me and hence, what benefits me but not benefits all. Hopefully we can hear from genuine parents giving their honest feedback for sharing. Hope this helps!

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Ran1977:

Hi dear, what is the assessment for LP Headstart for P1 like?

How is the child assessed?
Is this simple or complicated considering that these kids are just in K1.

i)
for assessment into LP \"HeadStart for P1\" (for K2 kids) -
it is quite simple.

after Teacher ask your child to read a few short pages from a simple reader, Teacher then proceed to ask a few questions, to test compreh.
If your child can answer compre, Teacher then proceed to ask parent -
can your child show me how to write a full complete sentence, starting with a Capital letter and end with full stop ?

if your K1 child can do all above -
then should be able to clear assessment into K2 class.
overall is quite simple.

if the kindergarten K1 teachers had taught your child Phonics properly and your child able to read simple storybook - shouldn't be an issue; dun worry.

ii)
but for entry assessment into P1 class -
the expectation is higher.

general feedback received is that most kids got stuck at writing compo part.
They can't / don't know how to begin writing a composition, when they came to sit for assessment.

Kids usually fail at composition part or poor in grammar rules; hence some couldn't clear entry assessment into P1 PIE (\"Progress in English\") class, recently. As such, still got vacancies for 2013 P1 classes. (at this point)