Hi


Any parent with child in P4 next year? My girl is in 4A next year. Anyone know what does this mean? I am always confused with how the school does it class position.

According to my girl, she said:
4E & 4C = First 2 top class
4A & 4D= 2nd best class
4B = Last class

My eldest boy in P6 this year, told me his class (6E) is considered as top class for Maths. When I asked my girl for the subject focus in Class 4A, she isnt aware of it.

Any parent knows the answer?

Dear Hope n Peace, I totally understand how you feel. We are exactly in the same situation and I share the same view point as you. Bonding, character development and giving my son his ‘childhood life’ is much more important than anything else.


My son’s T-score is very much below the COP of his dream school. In fact amongst all cousins and friends, he is the worst performer. My son is an average student, also someone who is not fantastic in his work.

Similarly, we also let him play computer games and watch youtube/TV after having done the practice papers/assessment books.

We stopped sending him to tuition classes as we realized that he did better in school exam when there is no tuition. We tried a few times, sending him for tuition classes (branded tuition centres, 1 to 1 tuition, etc) and each time, the results ended up failing the subject or borderline cases.

We decided to stop tuition and got him to do practice papers and assessment books and surprisely, his result was better. So, I conclude that whether tuition really help a child or not, it really depends on the individual child. So, it may not necessarily mean that you got to enrol her to tuition classes to get good result.

Tuition does not work on my child at all. It will only add on more stress to him as he had to struggle with his school work.

I do not regret my decision for choosing bonding over hothousing him. Yes, I am abit disappointed with his score but I know he has done his best. In fact, before the result release day, I was rather worried how my son will take it if he did not do well or if he fails his PSLE (cos he was sharing with me that the PSLE was more difficult than his school prelim).

I ever witnessed a child jumping out of a building near his school on PSLE result day. And it was very clear to me that the child must be too stressed up, worried that he might get scolding from his parents, etc that in the end, the child couldnt manage his psychology.

Since that incident, I told myself, this is something definitely I do not wish to see it happening to my son. As parents, we have to help them manage their mental well-being too as after all, they are just 12 years old.

I always believe that motivational teaching is very important for a child. In Singapore, life is already so stressful and competitive. We have to teach our child how to think positively and manage their pyschology from young so that when they move on to adult hood, they are prepared to face the stressful world. This is an important life teaching that a school cant teach. But parent can.

Now is the time for us to congrat our child for having gone through the PSLE phrase and to motivate our child to look forward and prepare for their Secondary phrase.

I agree with Sammifan that even if our child did not get into their dream school and they are posted to school with a lower COP, they are likely to get into one of the better classes, be recognised and excel there. I, myself, is a real life example.

I hope my long posting does not bored you down but I just want to share how I feel and congrats you for doing well as a parent. You are not alone. And your girl has done well.

Hi, Am also contemplating to send my kids to either LC Bedok or Tampines branch. I have spoken to the person in charge from Bedok Branch and was told that Teacher Ling is good. Any comments from parents who have kids in either branch? Really need help as my P5 son did badly for his English exam. Thanks