Bukit Timah Primary

[phtthp]

2011 PSLE :-

school need to improve on languages Chinese and esp. Malay

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=424&start=2600

[GemStone]

Thanks all for your info. Appreciate that.

[huaywenandkenneth]

That is strange. Thought I saw those ppt slides on the school website before this year’s PSLE as I posted in this thread that the best PSLE score was 26 something. [scratch head]?

[hopes]

I guess may be one reason for low score for malay or chinese partly is these r not their ‘spoken’ mother tongue for some students.


Yet i know few foreign students In my girl class score well in chinese with extra tuition/enrichment since young.

Agree that quality of chinese teacher r not equally the same.
Some extra help are needed.

[huaywenandkenneth]

Oh I know. phttph posted link for 2011 PSLE. Is there one for 2012? :scratchhead:

But I do agree that MTL results generally can be better.

The students need to read more. DS Chinese was ok in P1 but in P2 it dropped drastically. I had to send him for CL tuition and he has improved, but his reading in EL is way above his non-existent reading in CL :roll:

He has a Indonesian classmate in his CL class who does not speak CL at home at all (parents do not speak CL) but still manage to do well in CL - also had extra help and he works hard (compared to my boy).

[hopes]

During P3, Chinese teacher has prepared some extra materials (Eg: oral notes, phrases for compo as spelling, extra words/terms beside text book lists) beside school text book, my DD did not prepare for that (me too!)

A bit stress for her at first half year.

May be P2 is a too happy for her since not much exam and homework vs p3.

[huaywenandkenneth]

Thanks hopes for sharing. DS is going to P3 next year and what I heard from my friends that it might be a shock for them, since P1 and P2 seemed like honeymoon years in school. Also could be due to the fact that there is an extra subject (Science) and also the subjects are "counted" unlike the lower primary. Anything to lookout for P3 pls?

[hopes]

Hi, huaywenandkenneth, happy new year to you.


P3 is first big shock as most parents mention. I think is the home work.

My girl is weak in languages.
I think what shock her the most is the amount of 习字(each topic 20词汇 ). She wrote very slow plus she day dream once there is 习字.Haha !!!
As i mentioned before with those extra chinese works, she struggle. She starts to hate chinese.
Lucky with the help from her chinese tuition teacher n sweet talk to her, she did not give up and score well ( for my standard)

Her case is very unique. Hihi! Big shock from chinese homework.

For her science, she loves the way the lesson was conducted. With experiments and some fun activities via Sam, she learned the concept.
Beside that, she used those common guide book to learn science key words.

Oth than that, she enjoyed her p3 life.

Btw, p3 science is not counted in streaming as this is new subject to learn.

[huaywenandkenneth]

Happy New Year to you too hopes!


Thanks for the tips. Will brace ourselves for the mountain of homework and CL work then - my son is a hopeless \"potato\" but luckily he works well with tuition and sweet talk (like your daughter )

[GemStone]

Hi huaywenandkenneth, my son is in P3 this year too! After reading on what hopes shares, I find that P3 is really a big jump with many preparations and planning on our part! Great tips Thanks!