Maris Stella High

[leia_sgm]

Thanks, cherrygal for the invaluable info.


Up to 3 weekdays/week for non-school team sounds like hell a lot of commitment!!! Really wonder if it’s worth the amount of time/sacrifice when after 3 years/X hours of grounding, the kid doesn’t get into the school team for whatever reasons.

I mean, I can understand that not every kid has the talent in the sport. And I am quite sure that the selection criteria for the trial is super lax (like mine got selected for all 3 too and it sounded like a big fat "kelong" to me cos I know my boy!). As I understand from my boy, the stuff that they were asked to do at the trials were nothing overly technical.

I’m feeling very skeptical about the whole YDP thingy now. The big sounding name is but another marketing gimmick! Yes, it does sound like big deal to be in a "youth development program". But at the end of the day, knowing that you and not the school are paying the training fee and investing so much time which may reap little benefits, is it worth it?

Back in my schooling days, they have differentiated training for school team vs non-school team. Non-school team is once a week. School team has a heavier commitment for obvious reasons. If everyone trains as hard but one group is school team and the other is not, for the amount of effort put in, it’s super bo hua for the non-school team.

Just my 2cts…

[olivegal77]

hi all


my son is selected for table tennis and wushu, if we never choose now, for P2 is there another round of selection for their CCA? or can we choose to enter later part of the year like after June?

[cherrygal]

Yes, the parents have already given feedback about this excessive training for non-school team members, but nothing has changed. You just have to either take it or leave it. They have more than enough people asking to join so they don’t want pple to join and complain…

[cherrygal]

olivegal77:

hi all


my son is selected for table tennis and wushu, if we never choose now, for P2 is there another round of selection for their CCA? or can we choose to enter later part of the year like after June?

I think should be ok coz table tennis and wushu are less popular than badminton. I know of a few who dropped badminton in P2 and joined wushu.

[khaine]

Anybody knows how much are the fees for wushu and what type of wushu they are teaching??

[bbyy]

hi for Pri 1 parents, do anyone will be putting their kid in table tennis? My boy shows huge interest and i wonder will i kill his passion for cca if i disagree. so thought of signing him up.

[nguan]

khaine:

Anybody knows how much are the fees for wushu and what type of wushu they are teaching??

My kid was also signed up in wushu.....

[vicki]

nguan:

khaine:

Anybody knows how much are the fees for wushu and what type of wushu they are teaching??

My kid was also signed up in wushu.....

Basically I thk start off with
五步拳 then the 三段刀/剑/棍/枪
N then the 四段 (per abv).

[rejoice688]

bbyy:

hi for Pri 1 parents, do anyone will be putting their kid in table tennis? My boy shows huge interest and i wonder will i kill his passion for cca if i disagree. so thought of signing him up.

Hi I hv signed up my boy for table tennis as well. Don't like the training schedule tho. Sunday 1:30pm...quite rush for us since we have church service ended at 12:30pm. Still toying the idea to take up or not.

[bbyy]

Hi I hv signed up my boy for table tennis as well. Don’t like the training schedule tho. Sunday 1:30pm…quite rush for us since we have church service ended at 12:30pm. Still toying the idea to take up or not.[/quote]


Ya… me too! he has piano class at 10.30am, wonder can we make it in time. i reminded my boy hopefully he is able to say no table tennis haha… what a bad mother he has.