DSA 2012

[4lessStress]

[quote]As for DSA sports students all being in the same class, this varies from school to school. Some spread them out, some (like RI) group them all in the same class. The reason being they want to work around their competition schedules and to give them more attention knowing that they sometimes have to miss classes bec of training or competitions. I don't think the schools would focus any less academically on these students though. Maybe parents whose kids have children in DSA sports can comment.[/quote]
Just a correction to the above, DSA sports students in RI are not automatically grouped into the 2 sports class. If the student qualifies entry into RI by merit, he will join the normal class based on his PSLE aggregate scores. There are some boys who excel in both sports and study. These are the rare ones.

[phankao]

whitety:

With the kids spending so much time preparing for syf (even full day on weekends and even skip classes), the poor kids have no time for revision and yet got to achieve such high score for all subjects. How did your kids manage to perform well? I try not to stress dd by letting her concentrate on syf first but after syf, dd only has abt 1 mth to prepare for SA1. How???

I fully understand how syf years are. I never said my kids performed well. haha. My younger son got into a fairly good sec school by DSA not by his score, and not bc he got 80% average either. Actually he had that from P4 and below, but that dropped to like below 70% in p5 and never revived. LOL. The school he applied for dsa doesn't have a criteria for academic average.

[janicelhl]

What are the school in the east region offer DSA ?

[MMM]

phankao:

I fully understand how syf years are. I never said my kids performed well. haha. My younger son got into a fairly good sec school by DSA not by his score, and not bc he got 80% average either. Actually he had that from P4 and below, but that dropped to like below 70% in p5 and never revived. LOL. The school he applied for dsa doesn't have a criteria for academic average.

You revived my hope

I am hoping to put my P4 ds to Maris Stella for band. So that he can continue his passion for band.

For my P5 dd, must strategise.....

But just to add, for DSA, I would also prefer to choose a school around their std academically. I heard of some kids who got into a school via dsa but later on, struggled academically.

[phankao]

MMM:

phankao:

I fully understand how syf years are. I never said my kids performed well. haha. My younger son got into a fairly good sec school by DSA not by his score, and not bc he got 80% average either. Actually he had that from P4 and below, but that dropped to like below 70% in p5 and never revived. LOL. The school he applied for dsa doesn't have a criteria for academic average.

You revived my hope

I am hoping to put my P4 ds to Maris Stella for band. So that he can continue his passion for band.

For my P5 dd, must strategise.....

But just to add, for DSA, I would also prefer to choose a school around their std academically. I heard of some kids who got into a school via dsa but later on, struggled academically.

My boy missed affiliated COP by several points, so v thankful for DSA. The good thing I notice for him is that, the teachers seem to keep quite close tabs on his performance bc he is in via DSA. Just like how the Sports boys have a special class and they have dedicated teachers that closely monitor how they are doing academically. I don't know how it is in other similar O-level schools.

If your child is section leader or other position holder in the band, it would give him/her an extra edge in the DSA application. Grading certificates are useful too.

[underthesea]

whitety:

With the kids spending so much time preparing for syf (even full day on weekends and even skip classes), the poor kids have no time for revision and yet got to achieve such high score for all subjects. How did your kids manage to perform well? I try not to stress dd by letting her concentrate on syf first but after syf, dd only has abt 1 mth to prepare for SA1. How???

My dd has only 1 week to prepare for SA1 as Chinese Orchestra is at the end of April!! I also don't know who to get her to do revision.

[ks2011]

Dunman High and Victoria school IP

[MMM]

underthesea:

My dd has only 1 week to prepare for SA1 as Chinese Orchestra is at the end of April!! I also don't know who to get her to do revision.

Yah, I heard Chinese orchestra SYF is pretty late and near to SA1. My kids' SYF will be on 12th April. They spent most of the march hols in school. This week, they have to spend 4 days on the CCA to prepare for SYF. I am hoping to see their SYF performance and actually feeling jittery if they can upkeep the school's track record. This is afterall important for DSA.

In any case, I suppose they will have to utilise sat and sun for revision then.

[yukilei]

Funx3:

yukilei:

[quote=\"jtoh\"]
Depends on the school you're applying for. Some schools only require you to submit an online application and when you're called up for the next stage, you'll be required to bring your original certs for verification by the staff. Some schools request that you send in certified hard copies of your certs. Usually it's a good practice to get the school to certify your important documents like your school results and important competition results and have these on standby.

Thks Jtoh. In this case, better to prepare a few sets for the school to certify during school holiday. The admin staff will be busy with this then.
Once again, thks for the info

Better to do it one shot with the P6 SA1 Results, Else U'll Have to Run to the Sch Admin More than Once [/quote]Wll do. Reserving all my leaves for this DSA thingy. So, must make use of leaves fully.

[phankao]

MMM:

underthesea:

My dd has only 1 week to prepare for SA1 as Chinese Orchestra is at the end of April!! I also don't know who to get her to do revision.

Yah, I heard Chinese orchestra SYF is pretty late and near to SA1. My kids' SYF will be on 12th April. They spent most of the march hols in school. This week, they have to spend 4 days on the CCA to prepare for SYF. I am hoping to see their SYF performance and actually feeling jittery if they can upkeep the school's track record. This is afterall important for DSA.

In any case, I suppose they will have to utilise sat and sun for revision then.

You can go and watch them on the actual SYF day. For Primary school SYF, so far don't need any tickets. Just go earlier. In reality, how good the child itself is is more important than the whole school's DSA results. The whole band or orchestra cannot be dependant on your child wat. My boy did SYF with Gold(Honours) one year and SIlver one year. But like I said, he or even a few members alone cannot guarantee that the whole group does extremely well, right? It's a team effort.