All About Parent Volunteers (PV)
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Husband & wife can combine & chip in effort together, to clock in pv hours.
Husband’s pv duties may be different from wife’s pv duties.
But mother cannot come in to help daughter clock in pv hours.
Example:-
Most primary schools have learning support programme (lsp) for p1 English & p1 Maths. Some p1 pupils come in - they’re weak in reading both English & Chinese storybooks. So most schools will welcome pv to read simple storybooks, both in English & Chinese to the p1 pupils.
Suppose a mother’s pv duty is to read storybooks to the p1 LSp students. She happen to have a mother who is a retired ex school teacher or ex head of dept (for English or Chinese language). Her mother has plenty of time at home, to help her grand child clock pv hrs, since now retired & very experienced, having taught in school for so many years. In fact, the grandmother has a greater capacity to contribute to the school, than the mother.
If on that day the child’s mother is very busy, can’t go down school do pv - she can’t pull in her mother (an retired, experienced ex school teacher), to help her do pv. Grandparents are not allowed - no matter how experienced this grandparent may had been, in the education sector before. -
Thank u
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Some of the pv already have alma mater schools to register their child into first, under phase 2a. Is not that they don’t have alma mater to go to, and also not because their alma mater had closed down. some of them - their alma mater still "alive".
However, they choose to pv into hot, popular schools under phase 2b, because it could be the standard of their alma mater school had dropped quite bad. Perhaps due to a change in school principal, somehow the school standard no longer the same as in her glorious past once before. So these parents do not mind joining 2b and clock up pv hours, one by one.
However there is also another group of parents who join pv, because they don’t have alma mater, or had closed down. -
ChiefKiasu:
Do all PV work is in terms of just 1 hour kinda of job? Do PV assignment occurs in weekend?usagibb:
May I know what are the general questions they will ask during interviews?
It's like a job interview. You are effectively offering your services to the school. Some schools may have specific requirements for menial tasks to require little skill (eg. traffic wardens, helping out in canteens during recess times), while others may have jobs that require specific competencies (eg. helping out with CCA classes such as IT training, organising and managing external trips, giving talks or performances, etc). Obviously, if you have the skill to do something that the school needs, you will stand a good chance of being \"employed\".
So the key question they would ask would be what you can do for them. -
Most of the time if it is a regular duty/program eg. reading to students, then usually it is about an hour per week. If it is traffic warden, then should be less than a hour per day (a few days a week). There are other ad hoc duties like school camps and outing, then you may be able to clock several hours (provided you are selected for this event).
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Besides regular reading English/ Chinese program, traffic warden duties, involved in drama action skits or prop set up for character education program to demo values like humility, graciousness, honesty, compassion/caring, integrity, etc, sometimes they may also recruit pv who are medical trained personnel. Eg : on first aid standby duties for the school’s sports events, school camping/outing, or any major school events that require medical aid.
Sports day events are often held on Saturdays, so that parents can come to school to support their children participating in the sports events, to cheer their kids on "Jia you, jia you" ! So pv involved in events on Saturday can also clock in pv hrs.
However regular reading pgm to support kids in LSp ( learning suppt pgm) are usually clocked during week days mon to Fri, because pupils are in school premises to attend LSp.
Parents should also find out from school roughly each year how many pv the school intend to take in.
Usually there is a cap for pv,
because there is also another unknown number coming In from grassroot activity leaders, also under the same phase 2b. -
byrfren:
a lot of parents do volunteering work for the desired school that they want to enrol their child in. is this really a way to have a better chance of securing a seat for my child? heard that this volunteering-work system will be strike off soon, anybody heard of it?
The PV will not be strike off as the school need extra helps from Parents and their in house Parent support group. Especially the school is having events, concerts,festival,sport day etc..
It is an earlier phrase for parents to register in 2B and secure a place for your child, or extra chance to ballot again in 2C (2nd choice school) if you're balloted out from 2B phrase.
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2013 P1 Registration for 2014 In-take
Phrase 2B- 22-23 July 2013
Phrase 2C- 30,31 July -1 August 2013 -
Barbiemoney:
Because most primary schools have LSp pgm for p1 kids, schools will still need pv on regular basis, to help weaker pupils improve in their reading.
It is an earlier phrase for parents to register in 2B and secure a place for your child, or extra chance to ballot again in 2C (2nd choice school) if you're balloted out from 2B phrase.
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However, that part about extra chance to ballot again in 2c -
Is true only if the pv stay within 1 km from popular school.
If the pv stay more than 2 km from popular school, then there is no extra chance for her under 2c. -
When do we apply for pv?
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