CHIJ St Nicholas Girls'

[pinnacles]

Can any experienced upper primary SNG mum here share how are the P2 girls being allocated into their respective P3 classes?


Is there further segregation among the 3 higher ability classes, meaning 1st, 2nd and 3rd higher ability classes? Or the top 120 (was given to understand that each class will have 40 girls) total aggregate scorers in the P2 cohort will be evenly allocated into these 3 higher ability classes?

Are these higher ability classes being taught at a faster pace?

Thanks

[vem137]

pinnacles:

Can any experienced upper primary SNG mum here share how are the P2 girls being allocated into their respective P3 classes?


Is there further segregation among the 3 higher ability classes, meaning 1st, 2nd and 3rd higher ability classes? Or the top 120 (was given to understand that each class will have 40 girls) total aggregate scorers in the P2 cohort will be evenly allocated into these 3 higher ability classes?

Are these higher ability classes being taught at a faster pace?

Thanks

They will be allocated based on their overall score. So the top 40 goes to 1st class, then next 40 goes to 2nd class and so on. but after the top 3 classes, the rest of the classes are evenly allocated.

I can't say whether the top 3 classes are taught at faster pace cos didn't do any comparison, but there are some extra materials for maths for the top 2 classes (presumably to stretch the girls).

[pinnacles]

Thanks for the info!


Presumably, all the good academic awardees (ie: top 10% of cohort) will all be in 1st class of higher ability with remainder of class filled up by next top 19 aggregate scorers, right? Geez … the girls in that class must stay resilient …

Upon request, would the form teacher tell the parents at MTP whether the girls are allocated to which class category and which percentile they are in among the cohort?

[24hr-mum]

teachers wont reveal.

but i know top class girls hv really v gd grades , over 95 or so

[pinnacles]

In SNG, 95% and above are very good grades. For 90 to 94%, are they considered average?


What are the expectation (%) when it comes to P3?

So much guessing game here…can’t understand the rationale of letting parents know their kids’ standing among the cohort and the highest aggregate for their cohort? It’s for the good reason getting the girls setting a target/goal for themselves for the new year.

[pinnacles]

I mean can’t understand the school’s rationale of not revealing the requested info by parents.

[vem137]

pinnacles:

Thanks for the info!


Presumably, all the good academic awardees (ie: top 10% of cohort) will all be in 1st class of higher ability with remainder of class filled up by next top 19 aggregate scorers, right? Geez ..... the girls in that class must stay resilient .....

Upon request, would the form teacher tell the parents at MTP whether the girls are allocated to which class category and which percentile they are in among the cohort?

They used to tell which percentile girls fall in for each subject but with this new principal they have taken out this info. Now they only tell highest score, ave score and std dev.

For girls in top class, they gotta stay focused on their own grades and not worry too much abt how their other classmates do. Cos there will definitely be the super high scorers and no pt comparing and comparing and stressing urself out

[vem137]

24hr-mum:

teachers wont reveal.

but i know top class girls hv really v gd grades , over 95 or so

Uhrm maybe only for a few top top scorers? Anyway my girl doesn't get such grades

[24hr-mum]

hi mummies,


wil sch cramp part of
p6 syllabus into p5 ?
based on experience if the child scores ave 70s in sch, is it like tat in psle?

[BlessedGal]

pinnacles:

In SNG, 95% and above are very good grades. For 90 to 94%, are they considered average?


What are the expectation (%) when it comes to P3?

So much guessing game here....can't understand the rationale of letting parents know their kids' standing among the cohort and the highest aggregate for their cohort? It's for the good reason getting the girls setting a target/goal for themselves for the new year.

95% and above is definitely not the norm for the top class. This only applies to the few top students in class (who are also the top students in the entire cohort). High 80% to low 90% should be the average in the the class.