Maris Stella High

[Miracle Child]

Allocation to P3 classes is random i.e. there is no "top three classes" concept.

[Namie]

Usually it will base on something, no matter what is being said. Alphabetical order of family name, overall standard ranking, class ranking, strength in certain subjects, etc.

[Miracle Child]

Haha....from what I heard from grapevine is that all pupils in P2 will be ranked according to their P2 results (of course by the school and parents will not know the ranking) and then top student of cohort goes to 3A, second top student goes to 3B, third top student goes to 3C and so on...so in that sense, no \"top class\".


But I don't know how true this is

[bigfoot]

The top boy in my DS class will be going to 3B. Anyone else DS is going to 3B as well? I don’t believe in randomly assigned as it doesn’t make sense. If they choose to split then there must be some reason. It may not be purely academic. If it is academic, then it will be quite obvious. My two cents worth.

[cindyll]

All P3 classes are of mixed ability.

[vicki]

Yup. I also heard that it is random - from current year’s P3 parents.

[flametree]

Yes, it’s random allocation for p3.

[bigfoot]

When allocating the students to the classes, no matter how random you may claim there will definitely be a method how this randomness comes about. It's the method of randomness we are Namie was referring I believe. I agree with her. Even if you use the computer to assign, it will still prompt you for parameters. If done manually, then who are the one assigning? FTs?


Anyway, no point speculating. It really doesn't matter. What matter at the end of the day is as long as our DS are happy with their new found friends.

[cherrygal]

I think it’s not random and they make the form teachers break up the supposed cliques. My boy’s clique has been split up and he will be in the same class as the top boy from his class. Not 3B. So they mix up all the top boys too.

[CayennePepper]

Last year we were told that the cliques would be broken up. When we saw the new p3 class lists, we were amazed at how thorough the splitting up had been done!

Oh, and the top three boys were not assigned to the same class. Our p3 class has a few no. 1s, 2s and 3s from across the p2 classes.
This year, most of the p3 classes had a good number of kids who went through the gep screening tests (round 1).