All About GEP

[keroppi]

trileets:

The problem is that he takes the school bus at 5.45am, we don't drive him

Don't choose a school that is so far away if you don't drive. In the end, the child suffers. They need enough sleep to attentive in class and to absorb what is being taught and to grow up well. Moreover there is a lot more project work and homework in GE - don't waste time commuting.

[blur-daddy]

keroppi:

Don't choose a school that is so far away if you don't drive. In the end, the child suffers. They need enough sleep to attentive in class and to absorb what is being taught and to grow up well. Moreover there is a lot more project work and homework in GE - don't waste time commuting.

Agreed. It is a total waste of time for long journey ride...
But for my case, already choose the nearest school but still must wake up at 5.30am as sch bus arrived at 6am... I did think of next yr, stop sch bus, personally send DS1 in morning, and let him take public transport back himself... the challenge now I faced is we intend to transfer DS2 over, and I'm not comfortable having a P3 and P5 taking public transport back on their own... sigh... seems like must stuck with sch bus for time being.

[trileets]

keroppi:

trileets:

The problem is that he takes the school bus at 5.45am, we don't drive him

Don't choose a school that is so far away if you don't drive. In the end, the child suffers. They need enough sleep to attentive in class and to absorb what is being taught and to grow up well. Moreover there is a lot more project work and homework in GE - don't waste time commuting.

Agree. But we were near the school until we had to shift for some reason. He copes well and has enough sleep as I make sure he sleeps at 8.30 to 8.45pm. As not much homework was given, he can still stick to usual sleeping schedule.
My concern is that GEP will rob him of alot of time and hus sleep will be compromised. But I guess he will then have to work on his time management skill much more next year.

[lwzh]

ngbrdad:

Attended Nan Hua meet the parents session for P3 today.

Next year's P4 will only have one twinning class with a student population of around 25.
There will still be 2 GEP classes.
16 on Nan Hua's students made it to GEP, 8 from 3E and 8 from 3F.
Assuming all of them accept and stay in the school, they have vacancy of around 30 for students from other school for the 2 classes.

Do they mentioned what's the reason for only one twinning class this year?

[ksme]

blur-daddy:

keroppi:

Don't choose a school that is so far away if you don't drive. In the end, the child suffers. They need enough sleep to attentive in class and to absorb what is being taught and to grow up well. Moreover there is a lot more project work and homework in GE - don't waste time commuting.

Agreed. It is a total waste of time for long journey ride...
But for my case, already choose the nearest school but still must wake up at 5.30am as sch bus arrived at 6am... I did think of next yr, stop sch bus, personally send DS1 in morning, and let him take public transport back himself... the challenge now I faced is we intend to transfer DS2 over, and I'm not comfortable having a P3 and P5 taking public transport back on their own... sigh... seems like must stuck with sch bus for time being.

Take 1 way school bus, ie only the home journey so you can still send them to school and they can sleep a little more. That's what we do. 1 way school bus cost almost same as 2 ways but sleep more important lah.

[Zann]

lwzh:

ngbrdad:

Attended Nan Hua meet the parents session for P3 today.

Next year's P4 will only have one twinning class with a student population of around 25.
There will still be 2 GEP classes.
16 on Nan Hua's students made it to GEP, 8 from 3E and 8 from 3F.
Assuming all of them accept and stay in the school, they have vacancy of around 30 for students from other school for the 2 classes.

Do they mentioned what's the reason for only one twinning class this year?

did they mention whether the mainstream pupil in twining class will still be taking SS, IRS, CEP lessons? Was told some of them are not serious as they are not graded to them and some totally bochap and push the work to the GEP pupil who are in the same project team as them.

[pokemon]

comfy:

EY2001:

[quote=\"comfy\"]
Wow!, you might be really smart to know how to teach. Even though if you dd didn't enter GEP ( Touch wood ), you would be popular with other parents who are keen for the children to enter GEP. Care to share how you teach?
Anyway, all the best to your dd.

For Maths and GA only lah - IQ maths, Olympiad Maths, GA mainy on picture pattern.

For me, very \"naive\", only realise that there are quite a few GA books than can be found in the Popular bookself. Too late by then dd has already sit for the paper. :oops:[/quote]comfy,

Besides IQ maths and olympaid maths, i dont see any GA books in popular. Is it only selling in certain popular or which section is being placed under. My ds love olympaid maths and those right brain question, i thought he would also love those GA questions.

[comfy]

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[comfy]

EY2001:

[I'm P3 student father, I think she should get in GEP, but still waiting for school's result.

Hello EY2001, did your DD get into GEP?

[ngbrdad]

Zann:

lwzh:

[quote=\"ngbrdad\"]Attended Nan Hua meet the parents session for P3 today.

Next year's P4 will only have one twinning class with a student population of around 25.
There will still be 2 GEP classes.
16 on Nan Hua's students made it to GEP, 8 from 3E and 8 from 3F.
Assuming all of them accept and stay in the school, they have vacancy of around 30 for students from other school for the 2 classes.

Do they mentioned what's the reason for only one twinning class this year?

did they mention whether the mainstream pupil in twining class will still be taking SS, IRS, CEP lessons? Was told some of them are not serious as they are not graded to them and some totally bochap and push the work to the GEP pupil who are in the same project team as them.[/quote]I think so