Maris Stella High

[cherrygal]

Namie:

Sometimes reading these stuff make me feel sad. That there was a time my son likes cartoon t-shirts, cartoon stationaries, cartoon bags and jackets. He even insisted he wanted a Transformer birthday cake. Very soon these will be too embarrasing for him.


Just the other day, he asked me if me, my husband and my daughter will still visit Maris Stella with a birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday for him together with his classmates. I told him I don't think he would want that to happen. He innocently asked me why not.

:love: Our kids are growing up faster than we know... we can still have our cartoon cakes at home!

My boy is very sad that most of his K2 friends will be leaving childcare end Nov to test out their after-school care providers.

[Namie]

I am thinking should I get him a non-digital. My first watch from my parents was a non digital watch because my parents insisted I must learn how to tell time, and not just read off the numbers.


Wasn’t even thinking of Casio. Just those push carts ones.

[24hr-mum]

the child is only p1 next yr right? they will still be quite childish lah.

i only see some maturity in my girl when she reach p2.

i wonder when my boy will outgrow his passion for thomas, chuggington, lightning mcqueen etc so when we go out he wont pester me for toys again.

usually when will the boys outgrow such toys? p1?

also, when will boys start to 开窍？ i still waiting

by the way i noticed MSH’s COP is not on the very high side. shd be a gd thing for my boy if he gets in.

[24hr-mum]

existing parents can share wif me the culture and stress level in MSH? esp if compared to CHS?

[mum2jj]

Sorry, side track here: how do u guys label everything. I bought a label that comes with protective film but it just doesnt stick onto his canvas school bag, then I paste over with masking tape, but it came off soon after my boy touched it, how ah?

[24hr-mum]

can try put normal scotch tape over the label. but for canvas material its difficult to stick anythg. maybe try that those luggage tag kind of labels. ie hook a key chain cum label onto the zip

[Namie]

Does anyone know if the children wear their own preferred jacket to school on a cold day or do they have a school jacket that they must wear?

[CayennePepper]

24hr-mum:

existing parents can share wif me the culture and stress level in MSH? esp if compared to CHS?

Can't comment on CHS, but for MS, neither my son (going on to P2) nor I felt much stress. Granted there was homework almost every day, but the volume wasn't much, just a few pages of worksheets. The only times when he had many many pages to complete were after teachers' absences.

Weekly spelling lists were short (five only lah), tingxie was 10 phrases/sentences but usually fortnightly. I think picture composition was started only either in Term 2 or 3. Sorry can't quite recall. No CL compo yet.
We attend Berries but no English/Maths classes. Honestly, I think my son sailed through the whole year with zero stress. He did pretty well too cos we got to attend the year-end prize presentation.

[24hr-mum]

that’s great.

for my girl, in sng, also no stress in p1.
for p2 starts to get more hmwk but the real stress for me comes for year SA2 cos that is when after that exam they get banded into top 3 classes in p3.

when does MS do the banding?
p1 got exam in MS this year? what abt nx yr?

[CayennePepper]

24hr-mum, nice to know no stress in SNG; that’s where my dd will go in 2 yrs time. Are there exams for P1? How about ranking?


For Maris, yes there were P1 exams this year: SA1, CA2 and SA2. There were tests throughout the year which counted towards the SA and CA computation.
But I hear that there won’t be any P1 exams from next year.
Errrrr actually I do not know if they do banding, formally, for P3. They will go to different classes for P3, but not sure if this is based on merit. Can enlightened parents comment on this, thanks!