Is it ok if my child interprets the pic of the boy as a man?

Any idea what pictures were given?

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Musings\" post_id=\"1993111\" time=\"1598759883\" user_id=\"7539:

I have a Y3 child in NUSH. It is a great school for students who wish to specialise in STEM subjects but the exposure and consequently nurturing of students in the humanities is limited. For e.g. there is inclusion of literature within the English module only in Y1. For Y2-Y3, students select and specialise in 1 humanities module which can be literature, history, geography or music or art. This means effectively after Y1, students only get exposed to 1 humanities subject. It seems less exposure than even O lvl schools where students need to study humanities in S1 and S2.

For my child who is ‘adverse’ to humanities, it is great and he spends time on his STEM subjects including Olympiad training. For others who may prefer more exposure to humanities, this could be a drawback.

Having said that, students who are keen on humanities definitely have many avenues to pursue - you can choose to take part in English Interest Group and model United Nations etc.

Hi Musing, thanks for sharing.
Sorry, can I ask, in NUSH, if I’m not wrong they have own third language classes (no need to go to MOELC)? I try to recall where I read this but couldn’t find the info.
Does your child take third language?
Thank you so much

Hi

NUSH has in house 3rd language classes for French, Japanese, Malay, Chinese only. They need to pay additional fees per month for French and Japanese (in addition to school fees). So students who are keen can choose the NUSH class or the MOELC class, there is no obligation to take the NUSH class. But students who choose German or Spanish will need to go to MOELC. My child doesn’t take 3rd lang.

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Cool nurse\" post_id=\"1993094\" time=\"1598754650\" user_id=\"185329:[quote=\"Cool nurse\" post_id=1993094 time=1598754650 user_id=185329]

I agree with Cool Nurse. Personally I prefer an all rounded education that includes good exposure to CCA, humanities and mother tongue. But I understand some students are keen to have an early specialisation in Math and Science, then NUSH is the perfect choice.

I have a Y3 child in NUSH. It is a great school for students who wish to specialise in STEM subjects but the exposure and consequently nurturing of students in the humanities is limited. For e.g. there is inclusion of literature within the English module only in Y1. For Y2-Y3, students select and specialise in 1 humanities module which can be literature, history, geography or music or art. This means effectively after Y1, students only get exposed to 1 humanities subject. It seems less exposure than even O lvl schools where students need to study humanities in S1 and S2.

For my child who is ‘adverse’ to humanities, it is great and he spends time on his STEM subjects including Olympiad training. For others who may prefer more exposure to humanities, this could be a drawback.

Having said that, students who are keen on humanities definitely have many avenues to pursue - you can choose to take part in English Interest Group and model United Nations etc.

Actually the Cori brand foam mask is more costly - it retails at $4.90 at Esso versus $3.50 for the black cloth mask. We bought the Cori brand mask for the whole family.

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Curious, may I know if there is acceleration for computing studies? Ty

We do know of student who took acceleration test and accelerated to take Y2 CS modules.

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Have trial the journey last weekend and it took us 1.5hr to and another 1.5hr back. Shacks!

I persaude DS to give up but he said he can try travelling. But this is not a try thing, it's a 6 yr committment

Will talk to him again...if he still insist, i might need to shift house. I cannot imagine a 12 yr old kid spending 3 hrs on the road daily.

Or anyone got private transport lobang?

We also stay in the east and there are many NUSH students who stay in the east including far east like Pasir Ris and Changi. We were also very apprehensive at first but this was DS dream school and he wasn’t going to let travel time get in the way! (DS had other CO offers from IP schools much closer to home but he was quite adamant about NUSH.)

What surprised me is that the students cope very well and are very enthusiastic about school despite the time spent on the road. My DS and his CCA mates stay till 1030 pm for CCA that means > than 15 hours in school yet they don’t seem to mind and coped well physically. I think these teens can handle it much better than we think. The crux is they must be passionate about the specialised curriculum.

Having said that, we carpool with other parents so it is only 30 mins journey. This is probably the best arrangement and it won’t be too difficult to locate other NUSH families staying nearby.

pirate:

RestandRelax:

My rough guide to have a shot at IP is that the child should be around top 20% in the school so he should roughly be in the best class and preferably in the top half.

What 'best class'? All mixed ability classes as per MOE's prodding leh. Can use Edusave Merit Bursary as a rough gauge instead?

But if school has say 5-6 classes, top half of 'best class' would be closer to top 10% in school, no? :siam:

Perhaps this will help to gauge the likelihood of scoring above 250/eligibility of IP. In my DS primary school which is a neighborhood school of about 240 students (6 classes), there are about 30 plus students who score above 250 translating to about 12 - 15% of the cohort. Names of these students were announced by school each year during PSLE results. Students are from the top 2 classes. Having tracked the school’s PSLE performance for several years - this % is quite consistent.

zac's mum:

For whichever schools to override MOE’s requirements, by placing an additional condition, IMO that is not being fair or sticking to the purpose of DSA.


If the schools know that they kids will not survive the academic rigor, then they should simply *not* offer those kids during the screening and interview process. Seems to me like the school just wants to make use of the kid for sporting glory. So try to lure the kid in, instead of cutting him free to consider other more suitable schools.

Those were our exact thoughts and friend is also aware. But prestige of the RI name is too attractive to pass up for most people. Anyway they are mentally prepared and have the financial means to send kid overseas if the kid cannot survive. Just reap benefit of RI education/name/opportunities first.

Harrychew:

Musings:

Last year, a friend’s DS did obtain a CO from RI when he DSA through sports. Criteria was he needs to obtain T score of 23x at PSLE. Heard similar story for DSA sports to RGS the year before last, also T score must be 23x. The girl didn’t make the cut in the end.

This is contrary to past years' info shared on DSA forum. If I am recall correctly, no one has ever gotten a CO letter that states a higher T-score requirement than what is stated in MOE website.

Can your friend can provide an image of the CO offer letter that states T-score of 23X as a requirement?

I don’t think this is publicised as both school and parents likely to want to keep it hush hush. As u can imagine, friend won’t want to show this. Just take it as something from the grapevine. Friend spent long time weighing the odds before accepting RI CO with this condition. Fear is that the kid cannot survive academically even if he can make it to RI. Indeed the boy barely clear the 23x hurdle and is struggling now n flunking tests etc. While it is still early days to tell whether the boy can survive (boy in S1 this year), the difficulties faced by sports DSA kids are real. The examples I know are of sports DSA kids - it makes sense to me in such cases to impose such conditions. Otherwise the gap in academic standards between sports DSA kids and the rest of cohort will be too large to bridge. Probably thats why we hear of the RI sports boys who had to do O lvls and cannot make it to JC.