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[ellehcim]

my son’s neighbourhood school give spellings that includes single words, double words and sentences each time, starting from the first spelling. I had a shock when i saw the list. Now term 2, their list for the terms are slowly doing out single words and becoming double then triple words, in few weeks to come. But sentences (min 2) are definitely included. They are having Stellar Prog for english also.


Heard from one of my friend, her girl in another neighbourhood school having not simple spelling as well. Alternate week, they will have sentences for spellings. Actually how the schools managed are based on their individual, as long as they are within the MOE guideline.

[nmhmum]

there is actually good and bad for children who have easier spelling list. The good is they are not so stress compare to others, but bad thing is same level, but others are learning much more difficult words. So you want your child not to be so stress or learn more difficult words.. Very difficult to decide :?

[Mummyprincess]

Hi All,


Actually, I feel that learning difficult words is good for a child in the long run. For my case, my child is having STELLAR program in neighbourhood sch and I find that the teacher still give simple one-word spelling for them to learn even though they are in the top class. I could see from my friend’s son that he is learning spelling in the form of passages.

[san76]

Mummyprincess:

Hi All,


Actually, I feel that learning difficult words is good for a child in the long run. For my case, my child is having STELLAR program in neighbourhood sch and I find that the teacher still give simple one-word spelling for them to learn even though they are in the top class. I could see from my friend's son that he is learning spelling in the form of passages.

You are right, learning more is better and benefit the kid in the future. I think all the P1 in Spore is learning through Stellar. Maybe I am wrong...
My school (SAP), is giving only key words for spelling.

Tough in intial stage, easy in later stage.

[daisyt]

tamarind:

caroline3sg:

Hi all

On one hand, seems no tuition cannot survice coz nowadays we know schs don't really teach or even they teach, is not enough to tackle exams.
Thank you

Hi caroline,
I am quite concerned when I see this statement.

Is this typical of all schools in Singapore now ? Or only the top schools ?

Hi, sorry to bring out this old discussion. I was somehow a bit bored and reading through some old postings and got to see this.

Hi caroline, hope you still remember me

I am quite puzzled by this statement. :? So far, for my girl's case, the teachers did teach and even gave extra remedial lessons during P6, to teach them how to tackle questions. When my girl faced difficulties, she would ask the teachers and they did explained to her. And my girl had no tuition in the entire primary school life and no too, in Sec 1 now.

[ellehcim]

Hi mummies, wanna check with you, did your P1 kids have any compo for SA papers? Me recieved the SA schedule and format for his subjects liao and surprised to see got so call paper 1 for compo (picture description) type as compo leh... :?

[MMM]

Hi,


My P1 had it last year for english written expression. Then for SA2, they also have chinese compo.

But this year, they seem to do away with the written expression for P1 for SA1. Which was a relief. I know they still do it in school but probably not examinable at this stage.

[ellehcim]

I was caught by surprised that they will be tested in SA1 loh… lucky no contribution fm SA1 for this yr. Will base on SA2 100% for whole yr performance. Just hope that he don’t fare badly for it, for his compo is horrible.

[MMM]

I personally think it’s alittle harsh to test them on written expression on SA1. Even chinese compo for SA2 and I am also… My nephew at Rosyth didn’t have this too. My girl struggled with the written expression. Eg. she could have scored better results but it was pulled down by her written expression score that constitute 10%. For them SA1 and SA2 results are all considered in FY. Can’t remember if it is 50% or slightly lower for SA1.


However, I do see some of her friends who are able to write perfect sentences (grammatically perfect and great sentencing) for P1 SA1!!! So it’s probably voice down to their exposure. This is probably something I am targetting for my nursery in the future too.

[ellehcim]

hi MMM, i do agree with you. We got to look at the kids on the whole. If some of them are bad in their sentence structures or what, then their written compo will pull down their marks, not to mentioned they will do badly in their compreh in paper 2 also. For those kids who are exposed more on these areas are of course score much better. they should be tested on what they had learnt in school. For the compo, only lately I've noticed my child bring back some worksheets to do, but not sure if the teacher got teach them how to constuct the sentences or not... they are left to do themselve at home leh! So guess parents contribution or tuition is required then.