West Grove Primary

[mother777]

JR:

alicechua:

Hi, any parent whose children are in West Grove Primary? Would like to check how primary 1 children class are allocated? I understand from my friend that her daughter will take a test before class is allocated. Does West Grove do that?


Please share.

Thanks

My son did not need to take a test when he enrolled this year. The class was already allocated when we received the letter from the school about the orientation. Have no idea how they allocate the class, I suppose it is random.

Hi,

My daughter is also doing P1 in westgroove this year. She was also alloted a P1G before the school orientation. Not sure how they alloted it.

But my DD did mention that on the first day of school the teacher did ask them some questions in english, maths etc. May be just to judge the knowledge of the class overall.

[super tired]

same… no idea how the calss allocation was done.

my boy at P1E this year.

[mother777]

I do now that after SA1, there was a shuffling in chinese class assigned in the beginning of the school year.


My DD was moved from 1CL7 to 1CL2. No clue why?

what about your DS?

[kohbee2.06303gmail.06303com]

For Chinese, my understanding is that the resuffling is based on their SA1 results. Students with better results are in the first few classes which also have more students.

[mother777]

wow.. so stressful for kids..


just hope our kids can maintain their grades thru the coming SA2 exams

[mother777]

wow.. so stressful for kids..


just hope our kids can maintain their grades thru the coming SA2 exams

[super tired]

Thanks JR.


His command for eng quite ok, managed to get Band 1 for his eng during mid yr exam.

From the picture, i tried to ask him to make sentences using the helping words and linked up all the sentences for the story. Ended up he just joined up those sentences to form a passage. Dont know whether he is too lazy to think, too tired after school or do not understand what is story writing.

These 4 days school holiday will make him log in to mc online to practices.

Thanks for your suggestions.

[kohbee2.06303gmail.06303com]

mother777:

wow.. so stressful for kids..


just hope our kids can maintain their grades thru the coming SA2 exams

I think the reshuffling of Chinese class is more to facilitate the teaching of the language. The weaker students get to progress at a pace that is suitable for them and with the smaller teacher-student ratio, the teacher can focus more on areas that they may need help in. The better students on the other hand will get to cover the more advanced topics (sheng kwang) and probably do more challenging worksheets.

[scm292]

Speaking about allocating classes according to the strenghts of the students, it is not only MT.

WGPS do put the top students into top 3 classes from P2 onwards and the rest randomly mixed. The school will deny doing this but it is a known fact by most parents and even the students themselves. The grouping may be done with only certain subjects and not the total marks of all subjects; not sure of the exact criteria.

[mother777]

Yes, you are correct. I have heard about this too.


I had spoken to my daughter’s class teacher and she mentioned that based on P2 results, the students will be grouped again.

As you mentioned, she did not tell based on what criteria this banding will be done.

Lets just hope for the best for our kids