Pat's Schoolhouse

[producer]

Any comments on Pat Sch Tanglin??

How’s their principal and quality of teachers?

[camleelaa]

For what it’s worth, my son is in K1 at Pats Serangoon and his first show and tell will be held this month.

[producer]

Pardon my ignorance

Whats a show and tell?
What does the child need to do
Thanks

[camleelaa]

There are different ways to do show & tell…my niece in P2 had to talk about her Chinese New Year (so no show, only tell). At Pats the K1 assignment is to use recycled materials and junk to create a sculpture. I guess the child is then supposed to show it to his classmates and talk about it? I told my son to talk about what materials he used to make his sculpture and what the function of his sculpture is. I thought it was quite a creative assignment, and we had fun collecting materials and assembling something of his choice.

[empressplace]

The curriculum does not appear to be consistently applied, it appears. In Claymore centre, show and tell only started in last quarter of K1 for 2012.

[badgal]

empressplace:

The curriculum does not appear to be consistently applied, it appears. In Claymore centre, show and tell only started in last quarter of K1 for 2012.

For Halifax, show & tell starts at K2 only

[Qus]

Hi, i am thinking of withdrawing my younger son from pat’s at mount emily. I and many of friends whom their kids used to study fell that their standard drop a lot, recently, eg quality of teachers, principal not so manageably skillful,etc.


So, i would like to hear about how is it at pat’s at tanglin.

Thanks

[Qus]

With the new principal (after ms teresa left) at pat’s mount emily, i hardly see her in the morning-staff there said she usually comes to work around 9.30-10 am, and hardly see her step out of her office.


How’s the principal at tanglin?

[Momlicious]

For those who ask about Tanglin's branch, the teachers seem to work quite closely with the kids in terms of work display and activities.

They had just finished the Lunar New Year celebrations last month and doing a tea party to showcase their curriculum and kids' performance in mid Mar.

We are fortunate to have teachers who are understanding and patient with the N2s whereby not all in the kids in the class have sustained attention span; looking @ the way my boy looks forward to interact with his teachers and friends, I won't say Tanglin is fantastic but so far so good...keeping my fingers crossed. :xedfingers:

Principal Ada Teo seems quite an approachable and understanding principal; the working environment seems congenial to be in. I had seen her sitting in to do relief for a teacher for EL!

The admin. is also quite helpful...hopefully it stays this way... :rahrah:

[Karl12]

For my case, I don’t even know when the Show and Tell session is for my K1 in aroozoo. The school never mention about this. Is it stated in the comm book?


Just browse through my DS’s class schedule in the comm book.
Realize that the time spend on academic each day is very little.
English - 30mins
Chinese - 30mins
Project time (arts) - 40 mins
Music - 30 mins

Any idea if the teachers really adhere to that sort of timing? I showed my DS words that I got from my colleagues with K1 kids from kindergartens and other childcares. These are simple words they had for spelling and 听写. He can’t read most of the words. It’s worrying how different schools can have such big differences in the things taught in K1.

Does the school give us any weekly updates on what are the words they learn each week? It will be good as we can reinforce at home. I hope they have started to introduce words to them by now. Too much of learn thru play may overkill.

Basically I am clueless on what he is doing everyday. The parents portal is empty. No pics, no Friday feedback. Occasionally I will receive a piece of paper on fastrack music. That’s all.

My nephew’s kindergarten had files for different subject and the topics taught are properly documented. My SIL know exactly what he learn everyday. His fee is 35% of pats and he only need to spend 3 hours in school to learn twice the amount of things my DS learn.