Maris Stella High

[Little M]

cherrygal:

Little M:

[quote=\"2DMommy\"]The latest P1 听写my son got 90/100. 10 marks deducted because the HYPY \"San\" was written in capital S! I am quite mad, considering all the 听写 will be generated towards their CA1 marks. Should I complain?

Only the best 3 results will be taken. So having one 90/100 would not make a diff if he already has three full marks.

Eh, I thought it was best 5 out of 7 tingxie in term 1?

Anyway, cannot complain coz my son also got marks deducted for such \"minute\" errors. But apparently, they will still mark such mistakes wrong as they want to inculcate the practice of writing exactly what the teacher gave. They don't encourage \"creativity\" as this age. And there is no capital letter for HYPY unless it is a pronoun contained in a sentence made of HYPY. Same for English spelling too.[/quote]O I guess they changed the curriculum. Last time when CA1 and SA1 still exists, only the best 3 ting xie is considered. Well, an error is an error is an error...enuf said.

[bigfoot]

Just wondering, how often does MHS conduct its Parents Teacher Meeting? Would like to know the progress of our DS since there is no progress report or anything for this term (since there is no CA1). Is the results of spelling and quiz sufficient for us to guage our DS? We hope we won’t reach a stage where we realise our DS is lacking in certain area and it is too late for us to do anything.

[usaik]

bigfoot:

Just wondering, how often does MHS conduct its Parents Teacher Meeting? Would like to know the progress of our DS since there is no progress report or anything for this term (since there is no CA1). Is the results of spelling and quiz sufficient for us to guage our DS? We hope we won't reach a stage where we realise our DS is lacking in certain area and it is too late for us to do anything.

MSH will usually conduct the SA script viewing sessions after SA1 and SA2. During the sessions, parents can meet and talk to the teachers. If you refer to the Marist Buddy 2011, this has been scheduled on 27 May for SA1.

One way to know your DS's progress is to go through their coloured files. I believe the teachers will return all the files before the term ends. From the work, you can roughly know whether your child is following during the term.

If you still have concern about your boy's progress, I guess you should call the school and leave message for the teacher to call you. You can also try to email the teacher as a handful of the teachers (unfortunately not all) reply emails promptly. (However, during school holiday, I do notice that there may be a longer lead time even from the extremely prompt ones). For any concern, I felt that it's probably best for us parents to do our homework first and be specific in the concern we want to address to rip the most benefits out from such communications.

[beanstalk]

Does the school have exams in P1 and P2 now?

[Honey]

beanstalk:

Does the school have exams in P1 and P2 now?

Yes exams are in order.

[Honey]

cherrygal:

Little M:

[quote=\"2DMommy\"]The latest P1 听写my son got 90/100. 10 marks deducted because the HYPY \"San\" was written in capital S! I am quite mad, considering all the 听写 will be generated towards their CA1 marks. Should I complain?

Only the best 3 results will be taken. So having one 90/100 would not make a diff if he already has three full marks.

Eh, I thought it was best 5 out of 7 tingxie in term 1?

Anyway, cannot complain coz my son also got marks deducted for such \"minute\" errors. But apparently, they will still mark such mistakes wrong as they want to inculcate the practice of writing exactly what the teacher gave. They don't encourage \"creativity\" as this age. And there is no capital letter for HYPY unless it is a pronoun contained in a sentence made of HYPY. Same for English spelling too.[/quote]Take it positively that it is better that the teachers are strict during daily work so that during exams they know that cannot use Capital S. My son had his fair share in P1 & is more serious with his writing now.

[nms1]

I’m a probable future Maris Stella parent as my husband is an alumni. My daughter just started at CHIJ OGLC and looking at the forum for her school and this one I feel that the Maris Stella parents are a lot more stressed about tests, academic results etc already even at the beginning of term 2!


For those of you with children in other schools as well, would you say that is true? Is the pressure coming from the teachers or would you say it is the parents that are putting on pressure? I’m very surprised to see people worrying about marks for CA for P1 students. Is this the culture in the school?

[24hr-mum]

i m not a maris stella parent but mostly likely will be wheen i register this jul.


perhaps can ask parents from other top sch eg catholic high?? that hv tests for p1?

my girl sch doesnt hv exam for p1 so p1 was a breeze.

can i ask, how are the boys in Maris stella? well behaved or not generally?
asking becos of some comments i hv heard.

[cherrygal]

I am a parent of a P1 kid. To be frank, the questions in the tests are quite ok, not that difficult at all. The stress comes from the teachers who refuse to reveal the dates of the tests. If I can know when the tests are, we don’t have to stress our kids to study way ahead and worry when the tests will come.


I sincerely appeal to the P1 teachers to reveal the dates of the tests - Eng, Chi and Maths. When both the English and Math teachers say the tests are coming, which do we concentrate on?

The kids only have a limited amount of time spent with us so there really isn’t enough time to revise both subjects within the same day or week.

Please have mercy on us!

[nms1]

For my daughter only the tests will only start to count towards their CA from this term and we will be given 1 week - 10 days notice.


What I'm interested to know though, is why is it such a big deal? I mean this is supposed to be assessment to see how well they are doing. It isn't going to decide any streaming or anything so are the teachers making a big deal out of the results or is it just a case of \"kiasuism\" on the part of the parents?

I probably won't have much choice but to send my boys to Maris Stella as my f-i-l was also a teacher there but I do want to make sure that it isn't a hothouse environment that they will be going into.