Mee Toh
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You cant blame relief teacher. You should blame the absent teacher for not giving clear instructions to his/her colleagues to pass message to the relief teachers. Main teachers should prepare their worksheets about 2 weeks in advance in the cupboard. These are for emergency purposes.
Aiyoh pregnant ones…good luck. Morning sickness every week for 9 mths. -
Anyone subscribe to the math magazine?
I received a call from the company, saying that Mee Together doesn’t want to distribute the magazines for us. Why is that so? Anyone knows? -
Horizon allows drop-off
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Hi all,
Did anyone read the Stomp posting last week on an incident outside gate 3 of meetoh school? Based on the roadname and the photo, the school in mentioned should be meetoh school...
Below is the link:
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sgseen/what_bugs_me/1654354/parent_concerned_by_man_who_went_up_to_my_daughter.html -
Not sure if you’re still around in the forum, but I have similar situation as you. My P4 girl also did very badly for maths CA1. She scored the lowest in class, even lower than the overall school average. But I have to admit that her maths foundation is quite weak, and she tends to forget what she has learnt. I looked at their CA1 maths paper, and the problem sums were rather difficult, which is where she lost most of her points. I’m now asking her to do some problem sums every day, hoping that practice will make perfect.
My girl’s English teacher also just went on maternity leave. I guess the school can’t do anything about that, since teachers are also like us. We all want to have our own children. Cannot say because they’re teachers, then you don’t allow them to take MC or leave right? But I’m happy with her new English teacher because she seems quite enthusiastic. We have already received 2 progress update letters from her. Now I know what my daughter has learnt in class. None of my kids’ previous teachers have ever done that before. So I guess the school will do something when they have the resources. Can’t have the class getting relief teachers all the time, if not how the kids learn, right?
If you feel that writing to the principal is no use, what about writing to the teachers? They inform parents of their emails at the beginning of every year. My husband and I have written to our girl’s form teacher before because my girl kept forgetting to hand in her work in the beginning and her teacher alerted us about that. She was quite understanding after we explained things to her, and she promised to keep a look-out for our daughter. -
zinc6539:
The problem sums questions set for P4 CA1 Maths are challenging and closely aligned with OnSponge Math. You should look at the OnSponge Math worksheets and do a comparison with the test paper. Some questions have the same style of solving the problem.Not sure if you're still around in the forum, but I have similar situation as you. My P4 girl also did very badly for maths CA1. She scored the lowest in class, even lower than the overall school average. But I have to admit that her maths foundation is quite weak, and she tends to forget what she has learnt. I looked at their CA1 maths paper, and the problem sums were rather difficult, which is where she lost most of her points. I'm now asking her to do some problem sums every day, hoping that practice will make perfect.
My girl's English teacher also just went on maternity leave. I guess the school can't do anything about that, since teachers are also like us. We all want to have our own children. Cannot say because they're teachers, then you don't allow them to take MC or leave right? But I'm happy with her new English teacher because she seems quite enthusiastic. We have already received 2 progress update letters from her. Now I know what my daughter has learnt in class. None of my kids' previous teachers have ever done that before. So I guess the school will do something when they have the resources. Can't have the class getting relief teachers all the time, if not how the kids learn, right?
If you feel that writing to the principal is no use, what about writing to the teachers? They inform parents of their emails at the beginning of every year. My husband and I have written to our girl's form teacher before because my girl kept forgetting to hand in her work in the beginning and her teacher alerted us about that. She was quite understanding after we explained things to her, and she promised to keep a look-out for our daughter.
Another tip is to practise lots of last year Math exam papers. In fact now should be the time to practise SA1 top school test papers. No time to wait till May to practise. -
Hahaha, sorry, this mummy is a procrastinator
. I ask my kids to do past year papers only 1 to 2 weeks before tests/exams, because I don't like marking them myself. Anyway, how do u ask your kid to start doing SA1 papers now when some of the topics aren't even taught yet? I faced this problem with my son doing Science papers because MTS had different curriculum from other schools. He'd skip all those questions he hadn't been taught yet, then I'd keep them and let him do for SA2. Very troublesome to keep the undone questions and answer sheets.
My girl has no problem doing the OnSponge Math because the solved examples are right in front of each unit, so she just refer back and use back the same \"formula\". But when it comes to test paper, she doesn't remember which \"formula\" to use. -
Those that the school teachers have taught before, can let the child do. Those that haven’t can be put off till a later date to do or teach the child on the spot how to do.
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zinc6539:
Hi Zinc6539,Not sure if you're still around in the forum, but I have similar situation as you. My P4 girl also did very badly for maths CA1. She scored the lowest in class, even lower than the overall school average. But I have to admit that her maths foundation is quite weak, and she tends to forget what she has learnt. I looked at their CA1 maths paper, and the problem sums were rather difficult, which is where she lost most of her points. I'm now asking her to do some problem sums every day, hoping that practice will make perfect.
My girl's English teacher also just went on maternity leave. I guess the school can't do anything about that, since teachers are also like us. We all want to have our own children. Cannot say because they're teachers, then you don't allow them to take MC or leave right? But I'm happy with her new English teacher because she seems quite enthusiastic. We have already received 2 progress update letters from her. Now I know what my daughter has learnt in class. None of my kids' previous teachers have ever done that before. So I guess the school will do something when they have the resources. Can't have the class getting relief teachers all the time, if not how the kids learn, right?
If you feel that writing to the principal is no use, what about writing to the teachers? They inform parents of their emails at the beginning of every year. My husband and I have written to our girl's form teacher before because my girl kept forgetting to hand in her work in the beginning and her teacher alerted us about that. She was quite understanding after we explained things to her, and she promised to keep a look-out for our daughter.
A little bit of my background. I am Mr Chua the father of 3 children now age 15, 13 and 10 and also currently an educator in a Secondary School. My eldest daughter enrolled into Mee Toh School back in 2005, the Pioneer batch when Mee Toh first moved to Punggol. Back then she also faced with no teachers, worst still, no form teacher when she was in P3. Ding Dong here and there for 5 months until such that she failed almost all subjects that I decided to write to the then Principal Miss Fong. She was very efficient and replied the next day to look into the matter. And on the third day she replied with an apology and the action taken to rectify the situation. Though a bit too late for my daughter but I still appreciate her effort even up till today.
She was also very weak in Maths and I asked around my friends until I found OnSponge Maths when she was in P5 and I decided to start her OnSponge Maths from P3 instead of going directly to P5. And almost everyday, I had to sit beside her to guide her even for the P3 OnSponge Maths. She showed a little improvement in her SA2 and I continued with her in P6 in 2010. Thank god she managed to get into the Express Stream now study in a neighbourhood school in Punggol. She is doing pretty well and taking 8 subjects now.
For my son, he is now in Sec 1 in an IP school. He is much luckier than her Jie Jie because he had good teachers in Mee Toh. Teachers like Miss Quek, Mrs Lee and Mrs Ang (Miss Quek is now on study leave). However, things did not went easy for him too when he was in P3. His P3 Form Teacher (2009) happened to be her Jie Jie's Form Teacher too when her Jie Jie was in P4 (2008). And the best of all, her Jie Jie's class and his class was the worst behaved class under this Form Teacher. Her Jie Jie was timid and dared not tell us when her FT asked the whole class to slap themselves. However, my son came back and told me he didn't want to go to school. Until further probed, he told me what had happened. His FT asked the whole class to slap themselves and he felt humiliated when he was not the trouble maker type. So I wrote to the then P, Miss Fong again about what happened but I insisted in my email that I was against changing the FT. So an apology was made by the FT and also methods of handling discipline issues were also discussed with the FT over the phone. However, despite assurance, my son was scared to go to school and insisted that he wanted to change class. I had to continue to encourage him and by saying this to him \"The only way to get out of the class is to study hard\". And he made it and went to 4-11 in 2010. Today, he is in an IP school and also this teacher particular teacher I mentioned was happier and also well-like by the pupils as well as the parents (Feedback from parents that I know). I don't know whether this teacher is teaching lower primary or upper primary now but I am sure this teacher has improved.
I shall not dwell into the current situation using this platform firstly, I have created an uproar over my post which have been deleted by moderator and secondly,I have no confident in the current Principal. I would only share if you don't mind using email. My email is [email protected]
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