Raffles Girls' Primary

[KSP]

ctct61t:

Luanee:

[quote=\"ctct61t\"]
My DD told me no class this Wdenesday, it's parents teacher conferencing day for P3 and P5.

Thanks ctct! Then why was there classes on p4 PTC day last Friday?

School sent a email mentioned about special arrangement for P4 early PTC, and did not state the reason...maybe it's a new style of PTC, starting from P4 this year. anyway, i'm happy not chosen for the meeting.[/quote]
dd only has 1.5days of school this week. Mon only 3hrs and tmr is their class party... :rahrah: and holiday starts after that :imcool: :boogie:

[KSP]

suku:

getting confused!!! I believed that there is about 8 P3 classes, and if there are 4 girls selected from a sample class, then there should be about 24 (assuming average of 3 per class) to 32 (assuming average of 4 per class) selected from the school. The calculation adds up.


Elitelab says that if less than 8 of them in each class make it, then will there be 8 x 8 which is 64??? further confusion when it was mention from the best 3 classes? Is your child from RGPS? my gal is going P3 next year, but it is stated that P3 are all multi-talented ie, they get mixed up (=> the standard are similar) so will there be \"best 3 classes\"? Or perhaps I am told wrongly and the school does stream secretly (which i dont think so).....

So long as the parents are in RGPS email loop, just take that as the official channel of information from the school.

I think we should not get too anxious about the steaming. Everyone child is different. Some get matured earlier and some later. But i believe their 6yrs in RGPS will have a lifelong benefit for them.

[meekopeeko]

phtthp:

this Saturday is P6 graduation (calendar).

Congratulation !

All P6 students are welcome to join our school's JUNIOR alumni.

This is interesting! I didn't know there is a junior alumni. Is that why there were a number of old girls helping out at the Family Day funfair? Do u know if there are fun activities or reunions?

[Luanee]

KSP:

dd only has 1.5days of school this week. Mon only 3hrs and tmr is their class party... :rahrah: and holiday starts after that :imcool: :boogie:

Wow that's good!! I emailed the school to ask about whether there will be classes today and he replied there was a letter dated 5th Nov informing us about it but i didnt receive?

Anyway my dd still has to go to school this Friday speech day, to perform (not to receive prize) haha... Wonder if there be school bus on that day??

[Luanee]

BBEwee:

Hi there,

My dd is in Primary 4 this year. Happy to have found this network site.

Hello welcome here! There are many P4 parents here who are active in this forum!

[ctct61t]

Luanee:

KSP:

dd only has 1.5days of school this week. Mon only 3hrs and tmr is their class party... :rahrah: and holiday starts after that :imcool: :boogie:

Wow that's good!! I emailed the school to ask about whether there will be classes today and he replied there was a letter dated 5th Nov informing us about it but i didnt receive?

Anyway my dd still has to go to school this Friday speech day, to perform (not to receive prize) haha... Wonder if there be school bus on that day??

:hugs: My DD will go to school this Friday band performance. She is very excting althought not to receive prize.

[suku]

EliteLab:

meekopeeko:

[quote=\"EliteLab\"]meekopeeko :

Before u write on this thread, pls do ur fact findings 1st.
Also, take this feedback constructively and NOT negatively !

You are in no position to hand out advice.

There it shows how u have reacted.... not able to accept it.[/quote]
hmmm..... i can understand meekopeeko's position on such estimates as the school truly believes in \"holistic\" development and as such, do not release information that they deem to encourage competition(?) within the girls. In fact, unlike most school, we do not even know which class position that our gals had achieved in the year! Just fresh from the PTC and we are only given a broad range of her performance (eg, above average). Sigh... with such minimal info, how to be truly KSparent? So we have to extrapolate, interpolated and eventually pluck figures from the air to fit our internal model of where we think our girl is (whether lousy or good) . But this is life as a RGPS parent, but as was KSP says \"their 6yrs in RGPS will have a lifelong benefit for them\" and we have to leave it just that and accept things as it comes. Perhaps that is why we cannot do fact findings, because these are not available.

BTW, you mentioned that reputable schools has abt 5-20 GEP student, I have known for a fact that Pei Hwa has 24 selected for this year, out of which i think 19 from the top class. So there is no question abt it even though it is out of the statistic range. Out of curiousity, do you happen to know what is the number for RGPS this year? In case we are not accessing the \"fact\" properly....

[meekopeeko]

Suku,


Thanks for your understanding. Actually the number I supplied is not plucked from the air. The counting done by some parent-friends and the counting done by girls offered GEP, tallies. The number Funz DD counted/heard tallies too. Today, the girls are all brought to meet their new classmates for 2013… And, it’s still the same number for GEP, and this is the second time they are all gathered in one place. It still is 20plus, closer to 30 cos we do not know who has gone off for a holiday or quit GEP. But there are confirmed 27 faces. My DD is one of them and she certainly can count. So, RGPS has done very well.

The numbers were shared in approximate numbers cos two people asked. One out of general concern, the other to gauge her daughter’s chances to be posted to RGPS GEP. I specified that these numbers were unofficial, twice, and explained why this is so (principal does not say).

If we cannot trust our parent-friends and we cannot trust our GEP girls to add simply from 1 to 30, and choose to trust a person who claims stats from last year that is similarly unannounced by rgps PLUS GEP averages of reputed schools that MOE will never release… That would be too gullible for words.

Not only so, I find it simply RUDE to that he/she would impersonate as one of us, and insinuate that RGPS can never do so well…ok, maybe I got a bit too "patriotic" haha. If this person is so keen to fact-find, then stick to official sources like MOE and school websites, why resort to kiasuparents?

Anyway, GEP is a superficial yardstick for how well a school has done, and so are PSLE results which are due soon. I have a bunch of mommy friends with P6 girls all waiting… Hopefully it will be a good year cos I know the girls have worked hard. Heard a few papers were not easy this year… But oh, this is unverified again cos well, I did not sit for them myself!

Suku, if u really want to know how your DD did, use the class and level averages on the exam and test scripts. It is actually a very useful and accurate tool…more useful than trying to read the facial expressions of teachers. If you want to know greater detail, for instance, what it takes to qualify for EF classes, you have to make some friends and ask around. Approximate figures have been mentioned many many times on this board.

Happy holidays!

[VeryKSMum]

meekopeeko:

Suku,


Thanks for your understanding. Actually the number I supplied is not plucked from the air. The counting done by some parent-friends and the counting done by girls offered GEP, tallies. The number Funz DD counted
/heard tallies too. Today, the girls are all brought to meet their new classmates for 2013... And, it's still the same number for GEP, and this is the second time they are all gathered in one place. It still is 20plus, closer to 30 cos we do not know who has gone off for a holiday or quit GEP. But there are confirmed 27 faces. So, RGPS has done very well.

The numbers were shared in approximate numbers cos two people asked. One out of general concern, the other to gauge her daughter's chances to be posted to RGPS GEP. I specified that these numbers were unofficial, twice, and explained why this is so (principal does not say).

If we cannot trust our parent-friends and we cannot trust our GEP girls to add simply from 1 to 30, and choose to trust a person who claims stats from last year that is similarly unannounced by rgps PLUS GEP averages of reputed schools that MOE will never release... That would be too gullible for words.

Not only so, I find it simply RUDE to that he/she would impersonate as one of us, and insinuate that RGPS can never do so well...ok, maybe I got a bit too \"patriotic\" haha. If this person is so keen to fact-find, then stick to official sources like MOE and school websites, why resort to kiasuparents?

Anyway, GEP is a superficial yardstick for how well a school has done, and so are PSLE results which are due soon. I have a bunch of mommy friends with P6 girls all waiting.... Hopefully it will be a good year cos I know the girls have worked hard. Heard a few papers were not easy this year... But oh, this is unverified again cos well, I did not sit for them myself!

Suku, if u really want to know how your DD did, use the class and level averages on the exam and test scripts. It is actually a very useful and accurate tool....more useful than trying to read the facial expressions of teachers. If you want to know greater detail, for instance, what it takes to qualify for EF classes, you have to make some friends and ask around. Approximate figures have been mentioned many many times on this board.

Happy holidays!

I attended a briefing by the P. She said RGPS averagely is able to form a GEP class from their own girls every year. That is 25+/-. So 27 is definitely in that band.

[Funz]

Last day of school today. DD was happy yet sad. Happy that the holidays are here but at the same time sad that they will be going to different classes next year.


Dd said that of a class of 33, 13 are going to 4E/F while 4 made it to GEP.