Maris Stella High

[cherrygal]

vicki:

ninenine:

Hi How u all grade the teachers at MSH? Sorry as i went once to the school i feel that the classrooms look disorganised and according to what i know the teachers resignation are rather high.

U mean u are a old boy?

I think ninenine meant she went in during the first day of school or during orientation last year.

But I thought all school classrooms looked like that? what to expect of lower primary boys? ahahaha

Resignations were rife last year... but i think overall no effect on the boys' results... well, the teachers are Gen Y mah... changing of job or job environment is a Gen Y trait.

[24hr-mum]

ya actually i dun pin hope on sch teachers. tuitn n own hard wk more impt.

[cherrygal]

Yah, no need to grade the teachers… just pray that they grade our kids fairly. Dun pick on my boy can already… so far they are ok lah, at least they respond to my questions.

[ninenine]

Ya we went there once during the normal day class lesson.


My hubby was the old boy so thinking if we should put my boy there next year.
sound bad… rely on tuition and own coaching then might as well do home schooling. haha… but this is a SAP school it should be better than any other neighbourhood school right?

Cherylgal, why did you say that pray that they grade your child fairly? You mean there is unfair treatment practise in the school?

[cherryc]

Do you have other choices? I am wondering too how is the standard and culture in the school now as my youngest is attending P1 next year. My eldest finished PSLE 2 years ago and there was room for lots of improvements.

[cherrygal]

hehee, no unfair grading lah, I meant who are we to grade the teachers rite… it’s already a blessing if my boy can sail past the exams and dun get into their bad books. And my boy is not the shoe polisher type and likes to talk in class… Haiz…


All schools have good and not so good teachers lah. The difference would be the peers (influence) and personal drive. It’s all about personal expectations. If you want to be in Band 1 and the kid isn’t that hardworking, then he’ll need tuition and coaching even if he were in better schools. In fact, I think he’ll need even more coaching if he were in a more demanding school.

[Zoji]

seriously even if our kid is doing well in his subjects, parents would still sign up for tution lesson…who is not kiasu when come to our kids affairs? if we have chosen the pri school we want for our kid, the next step is to believe in the school.

[Need_Help_Mummy]

I do wonder about the way the school teaches chinese and english. i am not sure whether it is pertaining to just maris stella. maybe all MOE schools are the same.


my son is in P1. there is english spelling nearly every week, whereas there is less frequent tingxie. each english spelling has only 5 words. each tingxie has 10 words/terms/sentences, where each term/sentence comprising multiple words is counted as 1. given the importance of constant exposure to learn a language, i wonder why tingxie is not structured with less words but tested more often, just like the way english spelling is done.

in addition, his next week’s english spelling has simple words like "see". on the other hand, his chinese tingxie is full sentences made up of complicated words with as many as 10 strokes in a word. given that the boys are learning both spelling and tingxie at the same time, it is inevitable that they will compare and find chinese a lot more difficult, and hence lose interest in it.

for SA1 computation, the english teacher will choose the best 4 scores of 6 spellings, whereas each single tingxie counts towards the SA1 point. again, why the different treatment in the school?

i understand the need for the teacher to ramp up chinese. yet the first 3 months have been ‘wasted’ just teaching HYPY with rarely any exposure to chinese characters. i pity the chinese teachers who painstakingly taught our sons chinese characters in kindergarten, because by march in P1, most of them will have been forgotten.

guess that is where tuition fills the gap…

[Zoji]

Need_Help_Mummy:

I do wonder about the way the school teaches chinese and english. i am not sure whether it is pertaining to just maris stella. maybe all MOE schools are the same.


my son is in P1. there is english spelling nearly every week, whereas there is less frequent tingxie. each english spelling has only 5 words. each tingxie has 10 words/terms/sentences, where each term/sentence comprising multiple words is counted as 1. given the importance of constant exposure to learn a language, i wonder why tingxie is not structured with less words but tested more often, just like the way english spelling is done.

in addition, his next week's english spelling has simple words like \"see\". on the other hand, his chinese tingxie is full sentences made up of complicated words with as many as 10 strokes in a word. given that the boys are learning both spelling and tingxie at the same time, it is inevitable that they will compare and find chinese a lot more difficult, and hence lose interest in it.

for SA1 computation, the english teacher will choose the best 4 scores of 6 spellings, whereas each single tingxie counts towards the SA1 point. again, why the different treatment in the school?

i understand the need for the teacher to ramp up chinese. yet the first 3 months have been 'wasted' just teaching HYPY with rarely any exposure to chinese characters. i pity the chinese teachers who painstakingly taught our sons chinese characters in kindergarten, because by march in P1, most of them will have been forgotten.

guess that is where tuition fills the gap....

Hi, actually there is both spelling & tingxie each week. U can look up his worksheet again.
Spelling (5 words each week, total 7 worksheet = 7*10 = 70words)
Tingxie (10 words each week, total 7 worksheet = 7*10 = 70words sentence)
U can also lookup to the timetable worksheet that is given by the teacher on the 1st few days of school on the schedule for both spelling & tingxie. Based on the schedule u will see overall both spelling & tingxie frequency are quite even. Just that spelling they have split into 5 words each week whereas tingxie is 10 words each week.

Sorry is your DS in p1 this year? i dont remember my son learning \"see\" for his spelling next week.

[Need_Help_Mummy]

Zoji:

Need_Help_Mummy:

I do wonder about the way the school teaches chinese and english. i am not sure whether it is pertaining to just maris stella. maybe all MOE schools are the same.


my son is in P1. there is english spelling nearly every week, whereas there is less frequent tingxie. each english spelling has only 5 words. each tingxie has 10 words/terms/sentences, where each term/sentence comprising multiple words is counted as 1. given the importance of constant exposure to learn a language, i wonder why tingxie is not structured with less words but tested more often, just like the way english spelling is done.

in addition, his next week's english spelling has simple words like \"see\". on the other hand, his chinese tingxie is full sentences made up of complicated words with as many as 10 strokes in a word. given that the boys are learning both spelling and tingxie at the same time, it is inevitable that they will compare and find chinese a lot more difficult, and hence lose interest in it.

for SA1 computation, the english teacher will choose the best 4 scores of 6 spellings, whereas each single tingxie counts towards the SA1 point. again, why the different treatment in the school?

i understand the need for the teacher to ramp up chinese. yet the first 3 months have been 'wasted' just teaching HYPY with rarely any exposure to chinese characters. i pity the chinese teachers who painstakingly taught our sons chinese characters in kindergarten, because by march in P1, most of them will have been forgotten.

guess that is where tuition fills the gap....

Hi, actually there is both spelling & tingxie each week. U can look up his worksheet again.
Spelling (5 words each week, total 7 worksheet = 7*10 = 70words)
Tingxie (10 words each week, total 7 worksheet = 7*10 = 70words sentence)
U can also lookup to the timetable worksheet that is given by the teacher on the 1st few days of school on the schedule for both spelling & tingxie. Based on the schedule u will see overall both spelling & tingxie frequency are quite even. Just that spelling they have split into 5 words each week whereas tingxie is 10 words each week.

Sorry is your DS in p1 this year? i dont remember my son learning \"see\" for his spelling next week.

yes, my son is P1 this year. this week's spelling has \"dancing, riding, imaginary, slippery, home\". next week's spelling has \"following, see, there, swimming, after\".

though english spelling has 7 sheets. each sheet has 2 sets of spelling, which are tested in 2 different weeks. so in total, there are 14 spellings. the tingxie is 7, as you said.