Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary

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mommyNg,


As a child who has experienced both single sex and mix, I’ll still choose to forfeit the mix. Maybe i’m the tomboy type and prefer to sit with my legs wide open without worrying any boys peeping at me type haha. Miss those days I could simply fold my pinafore into my panties till they looks like bloomers to play ‘zero point’.

Yup that mom gave up her high flying career as a lawyer to be with her kids. Her family is well-to-do and her hub earns a great deal as a lawyer too so I guess financially, it’s a small sacrifice. She somehow still finds time to freelance! I wonder how she manages it.

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Hi everyone


went to Bk shop yesterday to buy uniform.understand from the lady that the new PE T-shirts was by a new supplier. Got complains: T-shirts colour runs during washing. If you bought the T-shirt with the "Hansland" label it is safe cos was from previous supplier.you can try washing the T-shirt to see if the colour runs. The lady said can exchange.

Regards

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dyh:

[i know of a boy who jumps from pa2 to gr3.

Yes, it is possible to jump/improve as my girl bus mate had jumped several class to CH3. She had put in lots and lots of efforts and pressurised by her father in the whole year.

Similiarly for those who slacken down like my girl will drop from Ch2 to Fa3. Anyway, it is fair as my girl slacken in her efforts.
However it is no joke to stay in CH. U will have chance to maintain in CH if u have high 90s for all 3 subjects. My girl marks has dropped to ave low 90s.

Hi Donkey, your kid had done v well to improve so much. Hat off to her. Great efforts.

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However, I noticed at prize giving that many kids from one of the same class got 10 top in school. I guess teachers that taught that class does matter isn't it? Esp since the teachers are in control of how to set their own class teaching materials.

For P2 class onwards, they are already banded so it is not surprisingly if Top 10 in school are mostly if not all from Charity class.

I does not think that the teacher that taught the class matter but more on the attitude of the teacher. For the top class, usually the parent and students are on auto mode or tons of enrichment classes and will usually do well with or without the teacher.
All teaching material are almost similiar and some additional efforts are from individual teacher and may not be the top classes.

I seen caring and motivating teacher which encourage the whole class regardless of their results vs focus on top of cream. I will prefer caring/motivating teacher.

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Hi everyone


went to Bk shop yesterday to buy uniform.understand from the lady that the new PE T-shirts was by a new supplier. Got complains: T-shirts colour runs during washing. If you bought the T-shirt with the \"Hansland\" label it is safe cos was from previous supplier.you can try washing the T-shirt to see if the colour runs. The lady said can exchange.

Regards

Unfortunately, mine was tagged \"Pioneer book centre\". Indeed it runs...whole sleeves turned green. Thanks for telling me, I handwashed it separately from the rest of clothes. Called the book store guy and they agreed to exchange when new stock arrives (around 28th dec). # to call 91987946.

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For P2 class onwards, they are already banded so it is not surprisingly if Top 10 in school are mostly if not all from Charity class.

Well, actually it's only P1 before they're banded when I noticed many kids from a single class (Loyalty 1) got top 10 that's why I was thinking they must have good motivating teachers.

My son has a caring teacher in P1 but I feel that she doesn't have much focus on academics. When I asked her, \"how's DS doing in school?\" her reply was \"oh, he's so cute! I wish I can hug him/squeeze his cheeks!\" needless to say, my mind was like HUH? :?. Another time, she said \"wow, he can draw really well\".

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taz:

Yes, it is possible to jump/improve as my girl bus mate had jumped several class to CH3. She had put in lots and lots of efforts and pressurised by her father in the whole year.


Similiarly for those who slacken down like my girl will drop from Ch2 to Fa3. Anyway, it is fair as my girl slacken in her efforts.
However it is no joke to stay in CH. U will have chance to maintain in CH if u have high 90s for all 3 subjects. My girl marks has dropped to ave low 90s.

Hi Donkey, your kid had done v well to improve so much. Hat off to her. Great efforts.

Low 90s already very good. I believe the marks of the pupils are all very close at the top. So just a few careless mistakes can make a big diffference. But from P3 onwards, I think it will show who are really the brilliant ones because careless mistakes will play a smaller part; the level of difficulty in P3 should be much higher, that's why the school only starts to have top in level subject prizes from P3.

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Hi I am new here. Just to clarify. Kids from Loyalty One did not have permanent teachers throughout. They have a perm for first 3 months, then a relief teacher to see them to SA1. It was only after June hols, then they had a permanent teacher. By then, parents and kids had already woken up to pull up their socks for SA2. Those in top ten were already in the tops for SA1 so frankly, a lot of credit went to the parents or the children themselves. No doubt, teachers do play an important role but for this class, they suffered a lot of changes in semester one. Someone analysed that kids from Loyalty One come from phase 2B so many have parents who volunteered to get their children into the school thus they would also try to put in more effort to ensure that their kids stay in the school. Unknowingly, resulting in some kids in the class doing better than others.

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Hi I am new here. Just to clarify. Kids from Loyalty One did not have permanent teachers throughout. They have a perm for first 3 months, then a relief teacher to see them to SA1. It was only after June hols, then they had a permanent teacher. By then, parents and kids had already woken up to pull up their socks for SA2. Those in top ten were already in the tops for SA1 so frankly, a lot of credit went to the parents or the children themselves. No doubt, teachers do play an important role but for this class, they suffered a lot of changes in semester one. Someone analysed that kids from Loyalty One come from phase 2B so many have parents who volunteered to get their children into the school thus they would also try to put in more effort to ensure that their kids stay in the school. Unknowingly, resulting in some kids in the class doing better than others.

I'm beginning to wonder if it's a common practice to change teachers as DS too changed teachers around that time. I'm not sure if the analysis of kids from 2B are in Loyalty is true as mine also 2B but put in Truth. DS's class top is from China, parents are Profs in the local unis. Only kid from that class that went to Charity.

Well, guess we've to face reality, not only are we against brighter kids of this generation but also external competition. Just put 0.01% of China's brightest kids in Singapore and our kids can migrate to Africa to study.

I heard from another parent, to be in Charity, one has to score above 95 for all subjects and most of the kids score around 97-100. Gosh, it must be stressful for those kids!

Also, is it true that PH has their own GEP program in P4 onwards for kids who didn't make it to GEP schools?

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Also, is it true that PH has their own GEP program in P4 onwards for kids who didn't make it to GEP schools?

I heard from my twin nieces who graduated from phpps not long ago, Charity is a 'class' of its own (esp for the P5 and 6), but I am not sure what special programmes it has for the kids in there.