Sherlyn84\" post_id=\"2116876\" time=\"1692517117\" user_id=\"202569:

How I wish I had read your post before sending my child to this school. Now regret..

parentfor2\" post_id=\"1914754\" time=\"1560746909\" user_id=\"178548:

Please by all means apply to Greenridge Primary. It is an amazing school. :rahrah:

I am a little taken aback and frankly disappointed with WSP.

When the results for the P4 mathematics paper were given back, the paper was set so tough. there were literally classes of failures. I looked through the paper and shocked to see it set at that level. it was just too difficult. many parents were upset. the p5 english paper had a few errors as well. these are exam papers. it should not be like that. in the other schools, the p6 kids r getting ready for psle. i don't know if those kids r ready or not.

i feel like something is off about this school. understand that holistic education is important. being a well-rounded person is important. but that does not mean that academics take a back seat.

there is an arrogance to this sch that i cannot stand. it's one thing to think u r good, it's another thing to actually be good. my suggestion is to consider other schools. not just for the academic but they are doing things for the kids, not for the school image.

Thersy\" post_id=\"2019732\" time=\"1617850726\" user_id=\"192301:

My child has graduated from WPS. It has been a rocky experience for my child. Indeed like some of the parents mentioned there are good teachers and bad ones as well. Not to mention their 1st principal who is always \"no no\" attitude when you try to feedback about their \"not-so-good\" teacher. Not sure whether the new male principal will be better to heed feedback from parents so that your child will not continue to suffer at the hands of some monster teachers.
I remember in the WPS parent chat group many parents were complaining about a particular teacher, some parent did take action to talk to the form teacher and principal, but it did not help much. If i can remember is about a female teacher humilating or insulting some of the boys in the class. My child also got the \"goodies\" from this particular teacher as well. Heard that this teacher is still around. What i did that time is for the teacher to totally condemn my child so that she can forget about him/her. The year was a terrible experience for my child. He/she totally wanted to give up on the subject which is once his/her best subject. My child catch up with his/her studies by going for tuition and own self revision and practicing including constant encourage from parents and tutor. Glad that he/she manage to score well for PSLE and landed on his/her dream school. I want to mention here, this is not and never the credit of the school. I know a handful of students from band 2 or 3 actually score much better than band 1 class student in PSLE. Should they thank the teachers for condemning them and they excel on their own?
But i want to tell parents, do not underestimate or ignore your child feedback about their teacher especially in West Spring. I found that the teachers like to play with strategies, they always like to assume your child is lazy, not working hard etc...in fact our child is suffering in school under their \"bullies\". As parent, we need to believe our child and give them support too. Today school \"bullies\" are not limited to classmates, but from teachers as well. Because the teachers are in the upper hands in such situation, if you feedback to the school, it will be a hell for your child. So my approach then was to ask my child not to take too seriously what the negative teacher had told him, don't let it affect him/her.
Other than some \"black sheep\" in the school, the school is considered just a normal neighbourhood school. Please do not \"over-market\" the school. Just because you are in the PSG and the teacher give your child \"some faces\", doesn't mean the school is so \"super\". Parents do not send their child to WPS to get insulted, humuliated or bullied by the teachers just because they do not match their expectations.

Garfield2882\" post_id=\"2007631\" time=\"1607736920\" user_id=\"188233:

snowybebe\" post_id=\"2005784\" time=\"1606670656\" user_id=\"21665:

Just to share my personal opinion of the school as a parent with two children studying at West Spring, and my older child has just graduated from P6 this year.

Throughout the year, I have been talking with friends, whose kids are also taking PSLE, to encourage each other along the way. Inevitably, we compared the level of support given by our kids' schools, though their kids are at branded schools, while mine is at a neighbourhood school. I am really appreciative of the extra revision given to the P6s at WPS (though he had to stay till 3.30pm daily) as I did not send my child for any tuition classes. This surprisingly wasn't provided at the branded schools (after hearing my friends' complaints). As my child's weakest link is oral, his teachers also went the extra mile to give him additional oral practices daily before school assembly.

Like many parents at West Spring, I was concerned about how my child will do for PSLE, given that the school does not have a proven track record as this year is the 2nd batch of students taking PSLE. With its play-based focus, I was also worried if the school's papers were of \"lower\" standard than other schools. The results are out and I am happy to say that my child has done well enough to enter IP schools.

Overall, I feel WPS is a good school as my younger child is also happy there (I am not part of PSG nor a \"cheerleader\") and perhaps positive experiences from other parents have helped elevated it to a popular school that needs balloting each year.

May I know do the teachers gv extra lessons to weaker students regardless whether they are in top class or not?

snowybebe\" post_id=\"2005784\" time=\"1606670656\" user_id=\"21665:

Just to share my personal opinion of the school as a parent with two children studying at West Spring, and my older child has just graduated from P6 this year.

Throughout the year, I have been talking with friends, whose kids are also taking PSLE, to encourage each other along the way. Inevitably, we compared the level of support given by our kids' schools, though their kids are at branded schools, while mine is at a neighbourhood school. I am really appreciative of the extra revision given to the P6s at WPS (though he had to stay till 3.30pm daily) as I did not send my child for any tuition classes. This surprisingly wasn't provided at the branded schools (after hearing my friends' complaints). As my child's weakest link is oral, his teachers also went the extra mile to give him additional oral practices daily before school assembly.

Like many parents at West Spring, I was concerned about how my child will do for PSLE, given that the school does not have a proven track record as this year is the 2nd batch of students taking PSLE. With its play-based focus, I was also worried if the school's papers were of \"lower\" standard than other schools. The results are out and I am happy to say that my child has done well enough to enter IP schools.

Overall, I feel WPS is a good school as my younger child is also happy there (I am not part of PSG nor a \"cheerleader\") and perhaps positive experiences from other parents have helped elevated it to a popular school that needs balloting each year.

snowybebe\" post_id=\"2005784\" time=\"1606670656\" user_id=\"21665:

Just to share my personal opinion of the school as a parent with two children studying at West Spring, and my older child has just graduated from P6 this year.

Throughout the year, I have been talking with friends, whose kids are also taking PSLE, to encourage each other along the way. Inevitably, we compared the level of support given by our kids' schools, though their kids are at branded schools, while mine is at a neighbourhood school. I am really appreciative of the extra revision given to the P6s at WPS (though he had to stay till 3.30pm daily) as I did not send my child for any tuition classes. This surprisingly wasn't provided at the branded schools (after hearing my friends' complaints). As my child's weakest link is oral, his teachers also went the extra mile to give him additional oral practices daily before school assembly.

Like many parents at West Spring, I was concerned about how my child will do for PSLE, given that the school does not have a proven track record as this year is the 2nd batch of students taking PSLE. With its play-based focus, I was also worried if the school's papers were of \"lower\" standard than other schools. The results are out and I am happy to say that my child has done well enough to enter IP schools.

Overall, I feel WPS is a good school as my younger child is also happy there (I am not part of PSG nor a \"cheerleader\") and perhaps positive experiences from other parents have helped elevated it to a popular school that needs balloting each year.

dragon-dad\" post_id=\"2004820\" time=\"1606450706\" user_id=\"183140:

set too easy, then psle results underperformed also complain. set too hard, psle outperformed people forget about the hard exams. everyone happy.

Deal with it. don't see the point of complaining about hard exams.

sidrobson\" post_id=\"1946114\" time=\"1573615827\" user_id=\"124724:

I have been reading these posts on and off. I am what you would call a lurker and not an active poster in the forums. However some recent events this year has made me extremely disappointed to the extent that I regret putting my son and faith in this school. So here I am to both vent out and get opinion and also to provide support to those who don't agree with the overly sugar coated, Disneyland version of the school painted by the uber positive supporters.

Note to the cheerleaders - other posts in this forum corroborate some of my experiences so you may want to restrain the general offence you seem to take for every dissenting comment on the school.

My son will be going to P6 next year. Like all parents we have been monitoring his grades which took a huge dip in P5 and when we asked the teachers we were told that P5 is a huge jump from P4 and it is natural for children to struggle. That is the common consensus generally across the board in other schools as well and am okay with that. What I am not ok with is

a) When an entire class fails their maths in the exams regularly over the year.
This is after we felt that we had prepared my son well enough - the usual drills - assessment books, top school papers, everything that every normal parent would do for their child.
This is after the maths teacher told me that my son has a good chance of improving in SA2 when I spoke to him to see what help we parents can do to help my son do well.

b) When teachers can't give honest answers to parent's feedback and instead rely on stock answers. This happened during the PTM. The form teacher kept giving stock answers when I questioned why some papers were being set so tough.

c) When the school doesn't allow parents to speak to all the teachers during the PTM. And when they have just one PTM a year - what about end of the year review? Isn't that another opportunity to take stock of the situation?

d) When the school focuses more on students repeating verbatim word by word and not testing their knowledge. Had an exchange with the science teacher who insisted that scores were not given because the keyword was not there. But the explanation of the concept was correct in normal english and easy enough for a layman to understand. So the school is obviously more concerned about students who are able to vomit without understanding. My son was disappointed naturally so I told him am happy with his knowledge to cheer him up.
(And we wonder as a society why we are not creative enough - ministers tell us to be more creative when the entire system is hell bent on destroying it)

e) When, in the name of preparing students to be resilient for failure, the school sets really tough papers to the extent that students get demoralised. And the stock answer is that it helps them to be resilient. It does when they fail once and they fail forward. Meaning they get up and can do well the next time around.
Sadly that is not the case. When they set tough paper after tough paper and every time the child has to work harder for no reward, it only demoralises the child and eventually apathy sets in. which means they stop caring about their studies and sets them on the wrong path eventually.

I am also aware that there are a lot of parents who are disappointed with this school and are slowly venting out (like me) so dont be surprised if you hear more comments similar to mine.

I do also have to credit this school though. They have a fantastic marketing spiel on holistic education and learn through play. Fantastic enough for me to get sucked into it - carrot head as they say.

There are some good things though - CCAs are part of the day's timing so the kids can come back home before 3 or 4 pm, focus on values and character etc.

That said, the weightage for those things is lower than the primary purpose of the school - educate and impart knowledge.

Looks like Disneyland from outside but frankly it is a Halloween park.

Really looking to change school if possible. Either Greenridge or Beacon. It may be too late in the day but if I can do something to salvage a year for my son, and an important year, why not?

chatelaine\" post_id=\"1948962\" time=\"1574651045\" user_id=\"6335:

qms\" post_id=\"1948529\" time=\"1574548893\" user_id=\"5718:

[quote=sidrobson post_id=1946114 time=1573615827 user_id=124724]...
c) When the school doesn't allow parents to speak to all the teachers during the PTM. And when they have just one PTM a year - what about end of the year review? Isn't that another opportunity to take stock of the situation?
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Just curious. Do you know of any schools that allow you to speak to ALL the teachers during PTM? A teacher may be your child's Science teacher but this teacher may also be the form teacher of another class and hence she needs to meet the parents of her students, too. No?

My children are not in this school, BTW. I am just curious about this point because it was highlighted by a couple of members here.

qms\" post_id=\"1948529\" time=\"1574548893\" user_id=\"5718:

sidrobson\" post_id=\"1946114\" time=\"1573615827\" user_id=\"124724:

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c) When the school doesn't allow parents to speak to all the teachers during the PTM. And when they have just one PTM a year - what about end of the year review? Isn't that another opportunity to take stock of the situation?
...

Just curious. Do you know of any schools that allow you to speak to ALL the teachers during PTM? A teacher may be your child's Science teacher but this teacher may also be the form teacher of another class and hence she needs to meet the parents of her students, too. No?

My children are not in this school, BTW. I am just curious about this point because it was highlighted by a couple of members here.

Adrena\" post_id=\"1947830\" time=\"1574395885\" user_id=\"134664:

How did the pioneer batch of children do for their PSLE?

sidrobson\" post_id=\"1946114\" time=\"1573615827\" user_id=\"124724:

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c) When the school doesn't allow parents to speak to all the teachers during the PTM. And when they have just one PTM a year - what about end of the year review? Isn't that another opportunity to take stock of the situation?
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