About the STELLAR program

[janet88]

Hi Mummies,

How are you and your little ones doing in P1 ?
This is the 2nd week of school…guess the teachers would start at 1st gear or going to 2nd if they had started last week.

Daughter’s A books all brought to school. Last week, she brought back some forms…Section A was payment for some gym/dance during PE and Section B was allow deduction of Edusave funds for worksheets. I wonder if these are for English.

[LOLMum]

so far so good.


was given a list of things to bring daily till the offical timetable is ready. spelling list is out however.

most of the textbooks and activity books are kept by teachers. so it is off to school with a heavy bag and home with a light bag except the water bottle is still 3/4 full.

only met the class teacher and not the rest. she seems pretty okay and easy to talk to.

had a picnic race for all p1 boys last week and it was so fun. the feel in a boys' school is so different from a girls' school.

now we have to decide which cca to choose. all seem ffun and we might need to seek approval because ds is thinkiing of doing something everday.
:lol:

one thing i dont like however is the honking by the drivers even if it is 6+ in the morning. :x


there was a brief explanation on stellar but i am unsure how/what the school is doing. so will be asking teacher.

[janet88]

LOLMum:

so far so good.


was given a list of things to bring daily till the offical timetable is ready. spelling list is out however.

most of the textbooks and activity books are kept by teachers. so it is off to school with a heavy bag and home with a light bag except the water bottle is still 3/4 full.

had a picnic race for all p1 boys last week and it was so fun. the feel in a boys' school is so different from a girls' school.

there was a brief explanation on stellar but i am unsure how/what the school is doing. so will be asking teacher.

Same here...will find an opportunity to ask teacher more on Stellar program. My daughter's bag has only the Maths/Chinese textbook and her handbook...water bottle is also full at the end of the day...told her she must finish all the water before the end of school day.

It's really diff in an all girls' school compared to co-ed.

[mom74]

[quote]Hi Mummies,

How are you and your little ones doing in P1 ?
This is the 2nd week of school...guess the teachers would start at 1st gear or going to 2nd if they had started last week.

Daughter's A books all brought to school. Last week, she brought back some forms...Section A was payment for some gym/dance during PE and Section B was allow deduction of Edusave funds for worksheets. I wonder if these are for English.[/quote]We received a form to allow deduction of Edusave funds for CCA, not worksheet. How do we check there's sufficient fund in Edusave acc? Will the school check

[/quote]

[ctct61t]

mom74:

[quote]Hi Mummies,

How are you and your little ones doing in P1 ?
This is the 2nd week of school...guess the teachers would start at 1st gear or going to 2nd if they had started last week.

Daughter's A books all brought to school. Last week, she brought back some forms...Section A was payment for some gym/dance during PE and Section B was allow deduction of Edusave funds for worksheets. I wonder if these are for English.

We received a form to allow deduction of Edusave funds for CCA, not worksheet. How do we check there's sufficient fund in Edusave acc? Will the school check
[/quote][/quote]

You can go this site for more detail.
http://www.moe.gov.sg/initiatives/edusave/faq/#balance

[buds]

mom74:

We received a form to allow deduction of Edusave funds for CCA, not worksheet. How do we check there's sufficient fund in Edusave acc? Will the school check

I usually have to sign a form to allow deduction from Edusave account.
If not enuff, the teacher will ask child to bring cash. :lol:

[janet88]

I emailed daughter’s Eng teacher to ask how I can teach her at home.

She told me the Eng worksheets will be done in school…upon completion, the girls will bring home.

If I wish to teach my daughter in advance, she said to focus on these areas:
-tenses
-verbs
-adjectives
-subject-verb agreement

[Champion]

Hi All,

I would like to start this thread so that more parents can share how their child's school is conducting the lessons.

My gal's school started off with the following topics for Term 1 and to be covered in the coming CA1:

1) A Kitten for the King
2) The Wolf's Story
3) Fearless Philp

They have the Learning Sheet (bought from school), done in the class and brought home for corrections. On top of that, they also required to purchase the following books, kept by teachers and till now I have not seen them returned to the student.

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18897

The teacher told us that Stellar programme was only rolled out last year (2010), so they are still \"new\" to the system. Is it so? Can any parents advise me on that?

:thankyou:

[qms]

Champion:

The teacher told us that Stellar programme was only rolled out last year (2010), so they are still \"new\" to the system. Is it so? Can any parents advise me on that?

The program itself is not new. Different schools might have introduced the program at different points in time. For my kids' school, it has gone through one \"cycle\", i.e. 6 years.

[Yong HL]

With this Stellar, will the CAs and SAs go accordingly to what is covered during the school terms? And should we be revising with our kids based on what has been covered during the terms too? Or shld we just forget about stellar’s pace and just buy our own assessment books for general practices?


I just went to popular to source for "suitable" english assessment books. Most authors indicated that its "according to latest MOE syllabus" (which i suppose its the stellar since most schools are adopting it). But seems to me, they cover much more than the stellar for the term…