2013 Sec 1 Discussions

[kwcllf]

fifiyeo:

Hi Kwcllf,


Thanks for your encouraging words.
DS actually did ok with 4 As but just not good enough for people who wanted only elite branded schools and nothing else. Yes, I'm sure my boy will move on. He's very happy in his new school and looking forward to be a part of the Flying Club.

Btw, we have 5 choices for CCAs. DS only got 2 in mind so trying to thinking what other possible options just in case kena posted those CCA instead.

Did your DS' school conduct a CCA Open House or sort of? This will allow parents and children to find out more about the various CCAs on offer. If not, perhaps you can go to the school's website and search under \"CCA\" what are the choices available.

[BeContented]

kwcllf:

BeContented:

At DS Sec school, students have to do 2 CCAs.

- 1 uniform group MANDATORY
+ 1 performing arts/sports/clubs & societies.

Not sure other schools besides ACS(I) require 2 CCAs. Actually it is not a bad thing if they can cope and UG can also help prepare the children for NS. But then, some children like my DS is not so keen on UG unless \"boh pian\".

Guess it's all a trade-off.
Less CCA = more time to pursue other areas be it academic or others
More CCA = more tiring but without that extra time/energy, perhaps the kids will be trained to have more time-management and kept in sch and up to less mischief?? Shall take it as a training ground and hopefully, UG will teach them the value of teamwork as well.

[janet88]

Son keen on Infocomm and robotics…since he will be involved for next 4 years, better take CCA he enjoys. Pref once a week as teachers issued warning…fail any test and they have to attend remedial. Passed Math test (whew!!!)…now waiting to know Eng and Chinese results. Next week geography and literature test…all tests streaming in.

[Jonathan Lim]

Rmb to choose a CCA that gives lots of points , so you can have 1 or 2 bonus points which u will need in Sec 4 to apply for JC

[fifiyeo]

kwcllf:

fifiyeo:

Hi Kwcllf,


Thanks for your encouraging words.
DS actually did ok with 4 As but just not good enough for people who wanted only elite branded schools and nothing else. Yes, I'm sure my boy will move on. He's very happy in his new school and looking forward to be a part of the Flying Club.

Btw, we have 5 choices for CCAs. DS only got 2 in mind so trying to thinking what other possible options just in case kena posted those CCA instead.

Did your DS' school conduct a CCA Open House or sort of? This will allow parents and children to find out more about the various CCAs on offer. If not, perhaps you can go to the school's website and search under \"CCA\" what are the choices available.

Yes, there was a CCA open house. But DS not interested in anything else.

[janet88]

Son just had his first home econs lesson…made honeydew sago, next week baking something. as for cca, yet to know which one he will be accepted for.

didn’t know his chinese text book had only 4 chapters…homework is starting to increase too.

[kwcllf]

Yeah, things are building up in DS school, slowly but surely. Has to decide his 6 CCA choices by this week and still has difficulties filling it up.


Had Home Econ class as well and taught to make egg mayo sandwiches. But when I asked him whether he ate what he made, he said dare not eat.........hmmmmmm! :slapshead:

[janet88]

kwcllf:

Yeah, things are building up in DS school, slowly but surely. Has to decide his 6 CCA choices by this week and still has difficulties filling it up.


Had Home Econ class as well and taught to make egg mayo sandwiches. But when I asked him whether he ate what he made, he said dare not eat.........hmmmmmm! :slapshead:

听写/默写 today...there are also some xxxx for 默写 which are unknown. he really has to build up his vocab.

6 cca choices not easy to decide...we had problems with 3...had to make sure he likes all the choices and that these ccas do not take up more than 2 days (max) after school.

next week he mentioned baking some cake...i asked him if he ate the dessert made yest...he doesn't like honeydew and it contained coconut. he was apprehensive eating it bcos his stomach is allergic to coconut...but overall i think it is a new experience. most importantly, he is looking forward to school.

[kwcllf]

He had 听写/默写 as well and got 16/20. DS whole class is taking Higher Chinese and he said passing mark is 17/20, and the whole class failed and will need to re-take.....Woah!! set very high standard


DS also did some English vocab over the weekend. Some words very \"chimp\" and even I need some effort to tackle them before I could help DS.

[HAPPYH]

kwcllf:

He had 听写/默写 as well and got 16/20. DS whole class is taking Higher Chinese and he said passing mark is 17/20, and the whole class failed and will need to re-take.....Woah!! set very high standard


DS also did some English vocab over the weekend. Some words very \"chimp\" and even I need some effort to tackle them before I could help DS.

When will this marathon end? I thought after Primary level, kids will be more relaxed. Looks like may not be true.