How to coach and support your GEP child?
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yusim_lim:
Just relax:
It is important to emphasize reading books, to your child. GEP requires a lot of project work and there is an ERP list which contains many books which the children are to read. Get the ERP list early, start looking for books on the list and get your child to read over the school holidays. As your child will only get the list in P4 it may be good to ask GEP parents of the current P4 GEP to let you have a copy of the list to start borrowing or buying the books. For the other subjects let your child find his/her own pace first to se how well they cope before deciding how to help.
Can you help us to post the ERP list here?
How about maths, does doing maths olympiad help?
I will check if I have the list. Hopefully other GE parents will be able to help as well. I understand that the list usually does not change very much each year. Anyway there are so many books on the list that it is not possible to read every book!
Maths Olympiad and Science Olympiad are for the children with the real interest in the subjects as it is very challenging. Children do this if they feel it can help with the DSA at P6 or actually want to challenge themselves.
But note GE students who want to go to IP or IB schools via DSA must apply via the GEP DSA only and for that you have to do well in GE from P4 - P6 >80% for 4 subjects to avoid the GAT or HAST but all GE students will still be interviewed even if exempted from GAT or HAST. -
Just relax:
Do you mean must be > 80% in all subjects to avoid GAT ? :scratchhead: How about if your results are 'skewed' towards Science & Maths where they can be in the 90+% range but both languages < 80% and overall > 80% ?
But note GE students who want to go to IP or IB schools via DSA must apply via the GEP DSA only and for that you have to do well in GE from P4 - P6 >80% for 4 subjects to avoid the GAT or HAST but all GE students will
still be interviewed even if exempted from GAT or HAST.
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dagong99:
Do you mean must be > 80% in all subjects to avoid GAT ? :scratchhead: How about if your results are 'skewed' towards Science & Maths where they can be in the 90+% range but both languages < 80% and overall > 80% ?
It's OK, not all subjects must be >80%. I doubt many can get >80% for HMT. As long as overall > 80% can already. Will be exempted from all GAT test. -
Fun fun:
My ds will be in p6 GEP next year, he is the happy go lucky type. Always do project last minute. I asked him recently how he find he GEP programme. He said good, he gets to learn interesting stuff, he makes more friends than in mainstream. So don't worry, let your child have this experience. The homework is also beyond us parents but the kid seems to be able to handle them.
Agree. There's no need to coach them, leave that to the GEP teachers. Support is OK esp if your kid is the disorganised type, maybe teach them how to organise and manage time. Sit back and watch how they grow & mature during these 3 years. -
yusim_lim:
My colleague who has a boy in Taonan GEP P4 this year pass me this list he received last year from Taonan. Unsure if the list will be the same this year and across GEP schools. He told me it is quite impossible to finish reading all the books as some of the books are old classic which are Out of Print and some only appeal to girls or boys.Just relax:
It is important to emphasize reading books, to your child. GEP requires a lot of project work and there is an ERP list which contains many books which the children are to read. Get the ERP list early, start looking for books on the list and get your child to read over the school holidays. As your child will only get the list in P4 it may be good to ask GEP parents of the current P4 GEP to let you have a copy of the list to start borrowing or buying the books. For the other subjects let your child find his/her own pace first to se how well they cope before deciding how to help.
Can you help us to post the ERP list here?
How about maths, does doing maths olympiad help?
GIFTED EDUCATION PROGRAMME
EXTENSIVE READING PROGRAM
PRIMARY 4: LIST A - NOVELS
1. Joan Aiken, ls Underqround
2. Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
3. Allan Ahlberg, The Better Brown Stories
4. Natalie Babbitt, Eyes of ihe Amaryllis
5. Nina Bawden, A Handful of Thieves
6. Nina Bawden, Granny the Paq
7. Sandra Belton, From Miss lda's Porch #
8. Judy Blume, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
9. Lucy M. Boston, The Sea Egg
10.Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
11.Betty Byars, The Midnight Fox
12.Sylvia Cassedy, Behind the Attic Wall
13.Arthur Bowie Chrisman, Shen of the Sea #
14.Beverly Cleary, Dear Mr. Henshaw
15.Andrew Clements, Frindle
16.Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Cat Who Went To Heaven
17.Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising
18.Julia Cunningham, Macaroon #
19.Karen Cushman, The Ballad of Lucy whipple
20.Roald Dahl, The BFG
21.Roald Dahl, Dannv. The Champion of the World
22.Penelope Farmer, A Castle of Bone #
23.Anne Fine, Step by Wicked Step
24.Gail Gauthier, A Year with Butch and Spike
25.Fred Gipson, Old Yeller
26.Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse #
27.Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
28.Joyce Hansen, The Gift-giver #
29.Russell Hoban, The Mouse and his Child
30.Norton Jester, The Phantom Tollbooth
31.Eric P. Kelly, The Trumpeter of krakow
32.Garry Kilworth, The Electric Kid
33.Norma Klein, Confessions of an Only Child! #
34.Elaine L. Konigsburg, Fathe/s Arcane Dauqhter #
35.E.L. Konigsburg, The View fiom Saturday
36.Robert Lawson, Rabbit Hill
37.Lois Lenski, Strawberry Girl
38.Lois Lowry, Anastasia Krupnick #
39.Lois Lowry, See You Around. Sam
40.George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
41.Margaret Mahy, The door in the air and other stories
42.Anna Myers, Spotting the Leopard
43.Emily Neville, lt's Like This. Cat
44.Robed C. O' Brien, Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
45.'Ed\\ /ard Osmond, A Valley Grows Up
46.Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
47.Gary Paulsen, Hatchet
48.K. M. Peyton, Poor Badger
49.Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post
50.Judlth Benet R,chadson, First Came in Owl
51.Cynthia Rylant, The Van Gogh Cafe
52.Dodie Smih, The Hundred and One Dalmatians
53.Doris Buchanan Smith, A Taste of Blackberries
54.Johanna Spyri, Heidi
55.Todd Strasser, Help! I'm trapped in my teacher's body
56.Zilpha Keatley Synder, The Witches of Worm
57.Stephanie Tolan, Pride of the Peacock
58.Stephanie rolan, Sophie and the Sidewalk Man
59.Rachel Vail, Daring to be Abigail
60.Hendrik Willem van Loon, The Story of Mankind
61.Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs
62.Maia Wojciechowska, Shadow of a Bull
63.Don L. Wulffson, Amazing True Stories #
# - these books are not avallable at the Nalional Library and its branches, and may not be easlly ar/8ilable. -
I just saw the list but 2009 on this website, by level and alphabetical order.
http://p5resilientenglish2009.wikispaces.com/GEP+ERP+LISTS+P4-6 -
To get the story books in the reading list, you can try Kinokuniya. I also order from The Book Depository (http://www.bookdepository.co.uk) that offers free international shipping. Their prices are good, usually cheaper than what you can get locally.
Can go bankrupt just buying books :yikes: . I get my girl to do book exchange with her classmates -
Is this list only for Tao Nan? A little confused…I kinda thought that all the 9 schools will use the same books and resources but the book lists I got during the briefing proved otherwise.
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You do not need to buy all of them, only need to choose some so that your child can do the book review.
However, most of the books in the book list are great book to read.
May be, we can get our child to choose some and buy only some so that they can read them during this holidays… -
tired mom:
Hi tired mom, thanks for the sharing. Are you a working mum? I am working currently and based on what I hear so far, it seems that parental support and guidance are crucial esp in the first year of GEP. I am concerned about my own time management between work and family :nailbite:Just sharing my own experience.....
My DD was in P6 GEP this year. Academically, the teaching she received from school was enough for her to tackle her homework/ tests/ exams. Personally, she had private tuition for compo (cause she is a poor writer) and science (more practice on open-ended questions)
The more challenging homework are those project-types. They usually involve researching and collating data (which are also taught in school), organising them and writing up reports.
I had to hand-hold her quite a bit in P4, as all these are very new to her. But I do not do the projects for her, just guiding her closely through all the steps. It was a difficult year for both of us. I had to invest a lot of time, and she was on a steep learning curve.
By the time she reached P5, she was starting to soar. In that year, she handled almost all the projects by herself, I only provided some ideas on initial brain-storming and final editing. By P6, I was hands-off.
These \"difficult\"\" home work are in my opinion, quite possible to manage once we show them the way. Just have to persevere through the first year. But the benefits are enormous. She has never looked back since.
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