ammonite:

Misty Rain:

And once in CPF, it is neither the husbands' money too.

One government spokesperson, Kong Chee Kim, has since come out to clarify this confusion about who exactly does your CPF money belong to: “Your CPF money can, in fact, be anything you imagine it to be.”

“If you think your CPF money belongs to you, then it belongs to you.”

“If you think the CPF money doesn’t belong to you, then it doesn’t belong to you but to someone else, as a collective pool of funds for everyone’s use or locked up as part of the state’s coffers that drives the economy as it is used to finance spending.”

“Actually, to tell you the truth, this is something almost all Singaporeans don’t realise: Ask not if the CPF money belongs to you or doesn’t belong to you. Ask whether you, as a Singaporean, belong to the CPF?”

http://newnation.sg/2015/03/govt-confir ... k-it-isnt/

:slapshead: please don't believe everything you read. Go and read the \"About Us\" page of New Nation. Their logo also clearly states '50% real news'.

So the above is untruth? According to Chia Yong Yong's speech, it can't be further from the above.

I believe the CPF, to a great extent, is a good and sound policy to protect people in their old age. But Chia Yong Yong's speech really unsettles me. She might have good intentions to 'advise' people to be prudent with CPF, but to say that the money does not belong to the people, that is overboard. While she might be appealing to the people's sense of moral obligations, but her words left a bad taste in my mouth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwXIaqQkOyI

pirate:

So, apparently we are encouraged to take our money, put it into our wives' CPF account, with the end result that the money will then become NOT our wives' money. :razz:


:siam:

And once in CPF, it is neither the husbands' money too.

One government spokesperson, Kong Chee Kim, has since come out to clarify this confusion about who exactly does your CPF money belong to: “Your CPF money can, in fact, be anything you imagine it to be.”

“If you think your CPF money belongs to you, then it belongs to you.”

“If you think the CPF money doesn’t belong to you, then it doesn’t belong to you but to someone else, as a collective pool of funds for everyone’s use or locked up as part of the state’s coffers that drives the economy as it is used to finance spending.”

“Actually, to tell you the truth, this is something almost all Singaporeans don’t realise: Ask not if the CPF money belongs to you or doesn’t belong to you. Ask whether you, as a Singaporean, belong to the CPF?”

http://newnation.sg/2015/03/govt-confir ... k-it-isnt/

Nebbermind:

Misty Rain 0 rains 1.....?

You so eng, ah? No need to do spring cleaning?

Meta, or whatever names the schools choose to call, is immaterial. These classes mainly serve to create opportunities for geppers to mingle with mainstreamers (to ensure the geppers won't become elitist?). Rosyth's version is called PEAKS@Rosyth. This one from Rosyth website 2015.

3. INTERMINGLING PROGRAMME

PEAKS@Rosyth - Programme to help pupils Excel through the
Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills

Students who have been identified as high ability learners are invited for PEAKS@Rosyth to take part in enrichment activities with the GEP students. This creates greater opportunities for pupils to interact and have fun learning together.
The following are activities we have conducted under PEAKS:

Mathematics Modules - Special hands-on activities on selected topics
Poetry Workshop - Appreciation and performance of poems confidently to an audience

Some schools just picked from their top classes to form intermingling classes, no fancy names given. Students who are good in Chinese are selected to join Geppers for HCL lessons. (For CL/HCL, geppers still follow the mainstream textbooks.) Subjects for the intermingling classes, like Arts, Music and PE, are not part of GEP but mainstream curriculum. Activities that these intermingling classes engaged are rarely part of the gep curriculum but are more of enrichment nature.

As to why Meta selects only 2-5% of those who passed GEP round 1? Maybe the number of such students in nyps is large enough to form classes? For the sake of curiosity, nyps parents, do you know if these 2-5% students are also mostly from the HA classes in P3?

Edit : In NHPS, the intermingling programme is called Talented & Gifted Programme (TAG). http://www.nanhuapri.moe.edu.sg/cos/o.x ... id=1115090

mommyNg:

The list of top 2-5% students names are provided by MOE (so MOE is \"concerned\"). GEP schools have what they call intermingling classes (NYPS called them meta class), MOE's instruction is to get the GEP students to \"mingle\" with non-GEP students. But why specifically only these top 2-5% students?? That you can only ask MOE.

Well, I interpreted it as there are GEP, Meta, and Mainstream classes. For most school activities, except for English, Math and Science lessons, even during school trips and post-exam activities, the meta classes will be combined with the GEP classes. The other \"mainstream classes\", not even the HA classes, get to \"mingle\" with the GEPpers in these school-organized activities (of course, except CCAs and perhaps other smaller scale activities). I think the Meta classes also enjoy a smaller teacher:student ratio than the \"mainstream\" classes. This may sound \"nonsense\" to you, and yes, technically \"meta classes\" are considered as \"non-GEP classes\", and therefore \"mainstream classes\", but the harsh reality is the students can be treated differently.

Well... aren't we suppose to move towards \"all schools are good schools\" :roll:

A bit :offtopic: ... but....

According to a blog on nyps gep (by a teacher?), 'meta classes' refers to 'high ability classes' (based on gep selection tests and not school exams?).

Below is the entry on meta classes.
http://nypsgep.blogspot.sg/2009/02/chin ... gling.html

Two High Ability classes and four GEP classes with a total of 186 pupils form the GEP CL Intermingling programme. Each intermingling class has about 32 pupils. There are a total of 6 intermingling classes.

The teaching pedagogies used in the intermingling CL classes is different from that of the mainstream classes. They follow the GEP pedagogies. GEP pupils are also taking part in the relevant mainstream activities that have been designed for P4 pupils.

Since the main objective of the Intermingling Programme is to build a communication and interaction platform for the gifted and mainstream pupils and to create opportunities for them to learn from one another, intermingling opportunities are also available during their co-curricular activities and level common activities like the camp etc. CCA activities also provide many opportunities for pupils to make friends, to solve problems together and enhance their relationship.

I do wonder how the IB curriculum varies across the different IB schools.


In ACSI (IB), Year 1 to Year 4 is very similar to the O level curriculum except they have additional subjects like TOK, IS, ISO. IB really starts in Year 5 and Year6.

Sun_2010:

sleepy:

Not for our CC. The MP just stand there as a 活动布景. Award recipients can choose to take pic with him or leave right away after collecting cheque at a separate counter. No need to sit through any ceremony

Thanks sleepy, busy day tmr, dont want to spend whole afternoon sitting...

Depends on location. Previously, ours was held in an auditorium. We had to sit through the entire presentation. Photos were only given out at the end of the presentation.

MMM:

Misty Rain:

PMed you, MMM.


Thanks for the pdf. Her mom commented that even though she wakes up at six every morning, she is still of energy at 10pm with such a rigorous schedule.

Hi Misty Rain, glad to know that your niece is enjoying herself in CGS :imcool: That is great to know and importantly despite the heavy schedule, she is still happy and raring to go.

Depending on the nature, I suppose different cca has different requirements for DSA students. Some more than the other. Observed different schools have different practice too.

But if your niece is able to continue to contribute using her talent and bring back glory for the school. It will be a win win situation for both.

Four years is a long time. I am glad that she genuinely likes the sports she has chosen. Otherwise, the rigorous training schedule would have been too hard on her.

honeydew:

No time to waste ya...what CCA is that..


no half day this yr?

She DSAed through sports. Joined the school team's training even before the first day of school. That is a good strategy as it gives the girls an idea of what is to be expected of them when school starts.

PMed you, MMM.


Thanks for the pdf. Her mom commented that even though she wakes up at six every morning, she is still of energy at 10pm with such a rigorous schedule.

iFirefly:

When is RI (JC) Open House ?

Raffles Palette: RI (Y5-6) Open House 2015
14 January 2015 from 9am to 3pm

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