2012 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[mummy so kiasu]

Chenonceau:

kay22:

May I please have your contact for 2012 prelim papers for sale? I need them.

Hi, you can contact Jeremy @ 98518229 or 98518226.[/quote]

Thanks Kay22... thanks mummy so kiasu for your concern... I will watch his stress levels like a hawk.[/quote]

Next month will be the final lap for all the P6. All the best to your son! With you around, he will be one of the top scorer. :rahrah:

[sea]

Hi parents,


Anyone knows when is the psle marking days?

TIA

[8228]

sea:

Hi parents,


Anyone knows when is the psle marking days?

TIA

Oct 15 - 18.

[HAPPYH]

8228:

sea:

Hi parents,


Anyone knows when is the psle marking days?

TIA

Oct 15 - 18.

Hmm. School holidays for my DD:)

[janet88]

sea:

Hi parents,


Anyone knows when is the psle marking days?

TIA

Yes, good time to take a break since all kids have no school...ie if you do not have younger ones who will be having SA2.
Really yearning to go to universal studios the next day after last paper. But my younger one still has school...unless :evil:

[sea]

:thankyou:

[sea]

:thankyou:

[psle2011mum]

mummy so kiasu:

Surprise that some mummies are keen to get this year Prelim papers. Some schools only get back their Prelim results this week & the papers will probably out next week. Less than a month to PSLE & still receiving homework from school. Can find time to do? Why stress the poor kids?

We did do the Prelim papers of other schools in the Sept \"hols\" of 2011 [ bought the full suite version from Jeremy Papers]; but it is absolutely correct that you must see if doing this will help your child or merely add stress.

By this last leg of the PSLE in 2011, we were practically on our own time-table of revision. School was for DD to play and meet her friends so some days she went to school and on other days she didn't -- so we had time. All the more at this last stage, where the homework was deemed not that useful for DD, we did it after we had done our own revision material. I was more than prepared for DD to complete and hand this in after the PSLE if necessary.

DD did look somewhat tired out by this time so I sorted the Sept 2011 Prelim papers out and she did only what I felt were \"reasonable\" papers --- more for her engines to continue at their steady high hum rather than \"full steam ahead\". NYPS papers did not make this \"reasonable paper\" test and remained in their pristine state at the end of our PSLE 2011.

Mrswongtuition generously shared papers from schools not necessarily represented by Jeremy's Papers and we did some of those too.

By this time, I was just interested in keeping DD's form in shape and to \"inspire\" her somewhat flagging spirits, I stacked all the papers she had tackled into one giant mountain and told her \" You conquered this Everest - just a little more to go!\". Afterall,...

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author unknown

I know many Mums and Dads out there would already have seen your P6 DC mature through this P6 journey. I remember that in this last leg I cried mixed tears of joy and sadness as I saw DD learn first hand that :

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Press On and Gb!

[mummy so kiasu]

HAPPYH:

8228:

[quote=\"sea\"]Hi parents,


Anyone knows when is the psle marking days?

TIA

Oct 15 - 18.

Hmm. School holidays for my DD:)[/quote]My boy's birthday is on 14 Oct. Normally, we don't celebrate his birthday for him due to SA2. Will have a simple birthday celebration cum farewell party for him this year.

[beanbear]

I’m very concerned that our kids don’t get burned out at this last stage. It’s really like a marathon and if you know how marathon runners train, they do alot of resting during the last stage of preparation and run less than their usual.


DS has been very much on his own and this Prelim’s results will show whether our strategy of doing less is getting more results. I’m already quite concerned that even with my releasing so much, he suddenly had headaches the past few nights with no other symptoms. Thought he might be having anxiety attacks but he seems very relaxed especially since his mummy has been off his back for many weeks already. He seems fine after a panadol. Today is last science prelim paper. In the morning he complained of headache again. Took panadol and I told him to go and run a couple of rounds at the school field. I suspect not enough oxygen circulating. I remembered when I used to have headaches, I would go for a run and felt good relief after that. Hopefully it helps him. He hasn’t called me to pick him up from school so I guess he must be fine.

In the coming 4 weeks, I’m hoping to help DS learn the marathoner’s attitude, spirit and discipline (even though I’ve never run a marathon myself!!). It’s good nutrition, good sleep, good exercise and then do a few quality pieces of work, fill in the gaps and belief in yourself. That’s really all you can do. Add more stress to the child and you can be sure it will backfire. And of course, lots of hugs and tell him I’ll love him no matter what happens.