Maris Stella High
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My child is not yet in MS… but other parents with kids there told me the school is rather academically driven. I was also told the teachers are generally dedicated, especially the older ones.
You can check up on the school’s past year PSLE performances and compare it with other schools you have in mind. -
Thanks Beanstalk.
By the way, you putting your chold to MS next yr?
Hope other parents can input more information for my consideration. Many Thanks ! -
My DS is in P1 this year. I must say that his chinese teacher is very dedicated. I geve her the credit for helping my DS to achieve very good grade in his CL. Most importantly, he is also interested in learning CL.
I am sure most schools are academically driven. The PSLE standard will rise and drop every year. It is common. No school can produce top students consistently every year (the criteria for it to be considered top school). I'm a teacher in a secondary school and I can tell you those students coming from the neighbourhood schools are generally more academic driven than those students from the affiliated secondary school. I think you should find out more about school culture. This is the most important factor in we choosing MSH for DS.
As for MSH (Secondary), its results is improving. One of the award it received this year is the Sustained Achievement Award (Academic Value-added) (Special/Express). So you can see that it is adding value to the students. So if u r concerned about affiliation, the COP for 2011 is 227 (for affiliation) and 231 (for non-affiliation). It is in Band 3 in the annual ranking. Not bad in my opinion. But then again, that is like 5-6 years down the road. Things (like expectation) can change.
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As mentioned in my earlier post i m also considering MS for my boy next yr. i like their chinese environment but dun like the fact that its a boy school. tend to think that they get playful in all boy sch. so still thinking abt it…somemore we need to relocate …not sure worth the efforts
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haha i would prefer co-ed sch too. But cant have the best of everything tho… but the school bus is lslandwide , you may not need to shift house if you are eligiable for Phrase 2A.
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even if got sch bus island wide, its very poor thing for the children to get eg at 530am and reach sch 630am if they stay far. sch bus usu reach sch 630-640 cos i think they pick the working adults thereafter. even when i stay 15min from my girl sch, she will hv to catch the sch bus at 6.20 and reach sch 640 if she takes the bus in the morning. that means at nite must sleep ard 830-9am otherwise they really very tired.
so if u really want msh and if circumstances allow, i will recommend relocation.
are the boys well behaved or not in msh? my boy p1 nx year. he very small size and timid and sotong. really worried . -
Personally, I have the opinion that boys generally are more playful and active. MSH being an all-boys school plus being a SAP school henceforth in my opinion has engaged strict environment/culture to address that element.
To me, being an all boys’ school is not a bad thing. A glance at all the top secondary schools in Singapore will show that they are mainly all boys’ or all girls’ schools. A friend of mine has a boy who just entered Sec 1 this year to one of the top boys’ school. Being from a mixed primary school, he struggled to understand the culture of an all-boys school and had a hard time adapting to the strict regime of an all-boys school.
Choosing the right primary school is a big decision for all parents here. It will determine a good 6 years life of the child and more. It’s a choice which all parents have to made. All the best to all who are at that cross road making that decision right now! -
24hr-mum:
are the boys well behaved or not in msh? my boy p1 nx year. he very small size and timid and sotong. really worried .
Not to worry too much. My friends whose children are in coed school also has the same problem when it comes to bullying and fighting. It's not just the problem in an all-boys school. The most important thing is how we teach our child to react and what actions are we taking as parents. It also depend on the nature of your child. For example, if your child is the timid kind, there is no point in asking him to stand up and fight. It will make him feel worse if he can't. You must make light of the situation so that your child wouldn't feel victimised. If not, that stigma will stay for a long while.
My DS had his fair share of being bullied. In all fairness, I suspect he could be at fault or even the bully himself. We would talk to him everyday to find out what was going-on in school. As long as there was no serious injury and he was not affected physchologically, we'd leave him to cope with it by himself. It's part of learning process. -
someone told me that for young kids, girls are generally faster learners than boys. so its hard for a boy to catch up in a co-ed sch. whereas the teaching style in a boys sch is catered specially for boys.
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haha … got such thing !!!
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