bigfoot:

Mvm:

[quote=\"clayman\"]The school calendar says its CNY celebrations tomorrow. Is there early dismissal and do they need to wear the corporate-T?

From what my son told me, they finish later than usual - at 2.40 :yikes: coz the white space time is being used for the celebrations. He did not mention anything about having to wear the corporate T but I will check with him later.

Students are encouraged to wear their ethnic costumes school tomorrow. Corporate-T is usually worn on the last Friday of every month.

For tomorrow, lesson will carry on as usual until 11.45am. The celebration will start at 12 noon and should end by 1 pm. However, CCA in the afternoon (if any) will continue as usual.[/quote]Thanks for the helpful info, bigfoot!!

unclebao:

autolycus:

[quote=\"ngbrdad\"]Malay special programme is in house and no need to go to Moelc right ?

Can a student who did not indicate any preference for 3rd language in S1 form take it up now ?

Yes, and yes. The relevant info and application form can be found http://www.acs.sch.edu.sg/acs_indep/pages/Regional_Studies_Programme. Note that the closing date for applications is this Friday 20 Jan 2012.

Can a student in the express stream apply for the RSP?[/quote]Hi unclebao,

If you are referring to the Regional Studies Programme, I think it is only open to Year 1 IP students according to the school website.

Mvm:

clayman:

The school calendar says its CNY celebrations tomorrow. Is there early dismissal and do they need to wear the corporate-T?

From what my son told me, they finish later than usual - at 2.40 :yikes: coz the white space time is being used for the celebrations. He did not mention anything about having to wear the corporate T but I will check with him later.

:thankyou: Mvm

The school calendar says its CNY celebrations tomorrow. Is there early dismissal and do they need to wear the corporate-T?

ngbrdad:

dwwww:

[quote=\"autolycus\"]Just remember that ACS(I) provides a very large and eclectic buffet. Some of the dishes are completely incompatible with others, even though their common setting is fairly well designed.


At my age, I've come to realise that you don't have to eat some of every available dish in order to get your money's worth. Indeed, the best approach is just to eat a lot of what you like to eat, and then do corrective or remedial exercise to get into the desired shape if you really have to.

In other schools, the buffet may be smaller but more rigorous. There are some places which seem to provide nothing but salads, others which only deal in protein. That's fine too, as long as the child eventually compensates for it. After all, we humans are omnivores.

And lastly, 'well-rounded' doesn't mean obese.

hi autolycus, really appreciate all your insights, knowledge AND sense of humor! truly appreciate it!

Autolycus should be a foodie too. [/quote]and into buffets too....selectively of course...

ngbrdad:

clayman:

Most of the clubs and societies CCAs meet on Wednesdays. As my son's 3rd language class at Bishan is also on Wednesdays so it's going to be difficult to choose one that meets on other days.


Any suggestions to get around this besides changing his 3rd language class to another day?

Think it will be quite hard.
This is part of the reason that my son did not take up a 3rd language.

short of joining the co-op or the art club, both of which my son is not too keen on.

Most of the clubs and societies CCAs meet on Wednesdays. As my son’s 3rd language class at Bishan is also on Wednesdays so it’s going to be difficult to choose one that meets on other days.


Any suggestions to get around this besides changing his 3rd language class to another day?

autolycus:

clayman:

Any reason why the school needs to have 2 sets of time-tables? And even though school supposedly finishes at 1.20pm on Wednesdays, my DS's time-table for week B has him finishing at 2.40pm instead and he was late for his 3rd Language class.

The reason for this is greater time-tabling flexibility.

Examples:

If the school has decided to allocate 3.5 periods for a subject, it can be 4 periods in Week A and 3 in Week B for one class — and the other way around for another class. Also, it means that a class need not always suffer 'last period syndrome', where some poor teacher always has the last period of the day and everyone is tired — now that can be alternated with some other poor teacher.

Essentially, if you have a 10-day cycle to play around with instead of a 5-day cycle, you can do lots more. Or at least, that's what I thought when I decided to do it that way; I got the idea of the 10-day cycle from one school and the 20-min increment from another school and put the two concepts together.

So the best way to handle it is to think of it as a fortnightly timetable, rather than a weekly one...

Thanks once again autolycus :udaman:

Mandarin:

wormy:

Time table is split into week a and week b, not told if they represent odd and even week respectively

They represent the odd and even weeks within the school term. 10 weeks in each term, so you always start with week A.

Hi Mandarin,

Any reason why the school needs to have 2 sets of time-tables? And even though school supposedly finishes at 1.20pm on Wednesdays, my DS's time-table for week B has him finishing at 2.40pm instead and he was late for his 3rd Language class.

autolycus:

clayman:

Hi autolycus,


My son was informed by the teacher that the fulfillment of 30 hours of CIP is part of the promotion criteria to Year 2. May I know what activities will fall under CIP, besides being in the class committee, which I understand will log you 12 hours.

Thanks.

It's also community service (e.g. helping out at various homes and charities, flag selling, or activities like charity walkathons). The school creates and/or manages many such activities to ensure that every student has more than enough opportunities to reach 30 hours. It should not be particularly onerous. In fact, the reason why pastoral care periods are at the end of the day is so they can be used for an early lunch before students are transported off-campus for service activities, hence off-setting the time spent on such activities with curriculum time.

Many thanks autolycus. You've been a real treasure trove of information for all the ACS parents here.