Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
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ngbrdad:
DS said that there's no school next Monday (14 Jan) because of good 'O' level and IBDP resultsWow 37 perfect scorers for IB.
So when is the one day holiday ?
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julialai:
Yes, yippeee!!!! A good time for my elder boy in Yr 4 to nurse his bad flu!
DS said that there's no school next Monday (14 Jan) because of good 'O' level and IBDP resultsngbrdad:
Wow 37 perfect scorers for IB.
So when is the one day holiday ?
There's a talk for yr 1s during white space today.. wonder what it would cover...
Hope all the yr 1s have settled in. My little one is having a great time with his new class mates (even though out of the 27 boys in his class, 23 are from feeder schools, and he is not)
have a great wkend, one and all! -
Yes Monday 14 jan. email came from W. Hodge.
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breezy:
Yes, yippeee!!!! A good time for my elder boy in Yr 4 to nurse his bad flu!
DS said that there's no school next Monday (14 Jan) because of good 'O' level and IBDP resultsjulialai:
[quote=\"ngbrdad\"]Wow 37 perfect scorers for IB.
So when is the one day holiday ?
There's a talk for yr 1s during white space today.. wonder what it would cover...
Hope all the yr 1s have settled in. My little one is having a great time with his new class mates (even though out of the 27 boys in his class, 23 are from feeder schools, and he is not)
have a great wkend, one and all![/quote]Hi breezy, Hope your elder get well soon. Just a thanks for offering advice & help whenever we need. DS seems to be settling in, guess the fact the 22 of them are from non-feeder helps in some way - all new to each other :). But the whatsapp group they setup is getting way too 'trashy'
Everyday they just send a 'yay/yo', a face icon etc & I see hundreds of new wa msg daily.
Anyway, for a start it's good that they are comfy with each other
You have a good weekend too. -
Year 2 boys will be very happy.
No school on Monday.
So 4 more days and they are off for their OEP trip for one week in Malaysia.
Don’t think they can really study next week anyway. -
ngbrdad:
ACS boys: can't really study, but they can study, really.Year 2 boys will be very happy.
No school on Monday.
So 4 more days and they are off for their OEP trip for one week in Malaysia.
Don't think they can really study next week anyway.
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Does anyone know how the Year 1s are allocated to their classes? There seems to be a mix of ability in all the classes but my DS’s teacher told him that the better Express classes are 1.5 to 1.9?
I also heard from a friend who said that there are boys who enter via DSA Sports who are doing IP although they don’t meet the IP cut-off at 256. I thought that these boys can only do Express and IP is either via DSA-HAST or PSLE t-score.
There seems to be a sizeable number of boys doing HMT, my DS is in the minority who does Normal Chinese. He and two others from his class has to combine with other Express and IP students to form a class for Chinese lessons. I am very surprised because the general perception is that ACS boys are not so pro at Chinese! -
Oodles Mummy:
1. Year 1s are allocated to classes on a semi-random basis. That is, the criteria may include factors such whether they take the same MT subject (because you might have to combine classes and so the timetable must factor that in), what 'stream' they are in, and so on. Apart from such criteria, there is mostly randomness.Does anyone know how the Year 1s are allocated to their classes? There seems to be a mix of ability in all the classes but my DS's teacher told him that the better Express classes are 1.5 to 1.9?
I also heard from a friend who said that there are boys who enter via DSA Sports who are doing IP although they don't meet the IP cut-off at 256. I thought that these boys can only do Express and IP is either via DSA-HAST or PSLE t-score.
There seems to be a sizeable number of boys doing HMT, my DS is in the minority who does Normal Chinese. He and two others from his class has to combine with other Express and IP students to form a class for Chinese lessons. I am very surprised because the general perception is that ACS boys are not so pro at Chinese!
2. Entry by DSA Sports does not preclude sufficient talent in other areas to be in the IP, you know...
3. ACS(I) has had increasing prowess at Chinese for some time. I remember when we surpassed the national average, and also when we started producing decent HCMT grades. Part of it is due to the influence of many PRC students and teachers; part of it is changing demographics.
Oh, by the way, that teacher ought to be censured for releasing confidential information. What an idiot. This kind of situation can occur for many simple reasons: for example, a class where all the boys do HC MT will on average have a higher PSLE score than one where they all do CL MT, right? And that goes back to timetabling constraints. -
zuluwarriors1879:
I heard that the Humanities Scholarship Programme pioneer class did very well in the recent IB examinations. Anyone would like to share what are the reasons for this achievement?
Selectivity and performativity. After all, these are top 5% or better students; if they didn't do well, we must have damaged them somehow!
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zuluwarriors1879:
So all credit goes to the students? I presume you are implying that there was nothing unique about the programme or processes that contributed to the results? Well, I guess this would mean that all HSP schools are equal so it does not matter where one goes.
I think my point is that ACS(I) is sui generis. There's only one 'mainstream' IB Diploma programme within the SG education system, and it's one of the three largest IB schools anywhere in the world. It has also had five years to develop its effectiveness; it had three of those years before the Humanities programme began, so it already 'knows' how to score good results.
The school pays close attention to the examination criteria and regulations — this is called performativity; the school has a good cohort which is specially selected — this is called selectivity. The IB programme (relatively speaking) also selects for arts/humanities types, since EVERY IB student must do Lit. That means you have a relatively large pool to choose good humanities students from, by whatever means of selection.
In fact, the post-2002 A-levels were modified to force students to take an 'opposing subject' because the large majority were taking pure science/math combinations and there were very few humanities students left (one elite JC had only ONE humanities class one year!). This explains why there's been a huge market increase in Econs tuition, because all those pragmatic parents want kids to do Math/Science courses, and that leaves the only 'reasonable' humanities subject in JC A-level courses as Economics.
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