sunflower2005:

hi, Just want to share our family Redang trip in Jun, There is a wonderful trip to my 5 year old gal.

http://tongfamilysabrina.blogspot.com/search/label/holiday

Any good hotel to stay in that area?

atutor2001:

The above method for estimating aggregate used to be quite accurate in the past as the \"means\" of all subjects were around 70 to 75. However, it is not so anymore. With the increase in the \"means\" for math and Chinese, any student who does not perform well enough in either of these subjects will find their aggregate T-score being pulled down disproportionately. My friends' kids suffered such fate last year. A low \"A\" in any one of those 2 subjects can bring the overall T-score down by as much as 5 to 10 points, compared to a student with the same results in the past. The drop will be greater when the standard deviation is bigger.

Hi atutor,

Can I find out more about this, i did not know that now the means for chinese and maths is higher so does that mean that they are more important than english and science? (their weightage higher?)

Au:

May I know the answer for his question?


If only you ________ to me earler, I could have helped you.
(1)come
(2)came
(3)has come
(4)had come

_______ winning the singing contest, she has received many offers to sing professionally.
(1)For
(2)Since
(3)Unless
(4)Despite

Thanks in advance!

I think the answer for the first one should be (4) and answer for second is (2). Are you a PSLE student, if so, all the best for you exams tomorrow!!

ZY_Mom:

DC Mummy:

ZY Mom

Really envy you that your DS able to read on his own. Btw, how old is he?? Sometimes, I am just wondering when will my DS (3.5 yo) able to read on his own. Whenever I ask him to try reading a simple word, he will stop, hesitant and simply brush off. As I read many stories to him with my finger pointing the words, his eyes only look at the pictures.......He is in PRP at SK for 2 terms already, but lack of word recognition and didn't even try to decode the words though he has a good and sound understanding of those stories read to him ...Am I too paranoid? Which level did your DS first started?

My DS is almost 5 now. He 1st started at PRP for about 5 months and later got promoted to ICR. Don't worry, I think your DS is doing fine. Probably he doesn't want to read at home. Some children are like that. Or you could check with his ICR teacher on his progress.

Sorry can I check with you what is PRP, am doing some research for my brother whose 6 year old still cannot recognise some basic words like 'what' 'who' etc..and is ICR very effective, how fast would they be able to get a child to read?

Funx3:

i3mum:

Hi

Anyone knows where to buy gymnastics leotards & shorts for kids in Singapore?

My Gal attended BazGym at Jurong SAFRA early this year - the Gym does sell Gym shorts for <S$10.
For Gym Leotard, U could approach their office staff to check on available size / pattern.

Their web site :
http://www.bazgym.com/contact.html
Tel : 6256 8191

Hi Funx3,

How is BazGym? I am looking for a gym for my kids..they are in gym in school but other that, they are not in any outside gym. Is BazGym suitable for kids like that?

catddy2002:

mummy of 3:

[quote=\"MMM\"]Just heard from another parent who send his kid to Mindstretcher for EL. The son is still having issues grammatically and for compo despite attending the class. Not much improvement to results as well.


Difficult to have a good centre...... :roll:

Hi MMM,
any good centre in the west that teach P1 preparatory? Urgent to find or will put my DD1 at Read in a week and mpm maths.

Hi,

What about 'The Alternative Story' at Bukit Timah Shopping Centre?
Just shifted my P4 son from Mind Stretcher to there.
My son been studying in Mind Stretcher since beginning of the year but his grammer and composition still need to improve.
He's quite enjoy his class at The Alternative Story.
Every lesson, he's teacher will feedback his weakness and ways to improve.[/quote]Hi,

Agree with what catddy2002 said about The Alternative Story. Actually, my two younger kids have been with them for slightly more than a year. They are at the Yishun branch. The older one takes all 3 subjects and the younger takes English and Science. My girl who is in P6 this year passed Maths for the first time after being with The Alternative Story. Her science was about 60 plus in the past, now it is 70s, almost 80. For English, her composition was picked by the teacher to show to the whole class as a good piece of writing. That never happened before. Overall, her English, she topped her class this year for prelims. My youngest also improved quite a bit. I recommended this centre before to some forummers but never really talked about it but I have seen a lot of improvement for myself for my own kids. I can't speak for other parents as I don't usually go down to the centre to pick my kids but I can really see improvement for my children. It is quite a new centre from what I know. But to me what is most important is effective teaching.

CJS:

Fongg:

Hi CJS,

Do you know anything about the culture there, how is the environment for learning like, I heard horror stories of some girls going to good schools but getting influenced to start BGR and hanging out till late at night.

The school emphasises a lot on teamwork. Most of the girls' school projects are team based and lots of leadership programme training. My dd likes the school so much tat she did not even want to try DSA for IP schools this year.

This year, my dd is attending the talent development programme which is offered to the top 20% in the level. This will continue into S3 & 4 if she continues to remain in the top 20%.

My dd says the principal is very pleased with being selected to offer the IP from 2012 where the girls will journey into VJC as VJC is seen as the top 3 JC in Singapore after RJC and HCJC.

As for the girls turning wayward, I dun hear stories like tat from my dd. My dd herself is still very well behaved and typical of the modern teenager. She is glued to the PC once she comes back from school either for school projects or assignments, and of course, facebook and wat nots.

BTW most of the school's homework are done online. She hardly has hard copy worksheets to complete at home.

Hope this helps u in ur decision in deciding a secondary school. Let me know if u want to know more. I got all this info fr my dd just now.

Oh it sounds very good. So they must be in the top 20% to make it for the
talent programme, what is that programme out? Tks for giving so much
info, it helps a lot!

Hi TAS,


Tks for the detailed description of the book, it sounds cheem but good,
do you provide worksheets to go along as I may not be able to come
up with all those discussion pts. :?

CJS:

DadOfGirl:

Any one has update on Cedar as it has moved to new campus?

I visited the campus during their open house last year. I like the spaciousness compared to some other secondary schools. The school is very well renovated the I like the design of the buildings. Overall, the learning environment in the school is very conducive.

Hi CJS,

Do you know anything about the culture there, how is the environment for learning like, I heard horror stories of some girls going to good schools but getting influenced to start BGR and hanging out till late at night.

Hi TAS,


Got a question about how to use ‘a’, ‘an’. I know ‘an’ is for the vowels but European is ‘a’ right? How to explain it?

TIA!!