ngbrdad:

Personally I find that twinning really helped my DS2 in his development , not only in school work.

He is learning a lot of history , geography, general knowledge in social studies, picking up computer skill in CEP lesson etc.

It's the best of both world. You do mainstream math, science and English, probably at a more advance level compared to the rest of the classes, but take same exams in these subjects.
The they join and take same CL/HCL as the GEP kids.
They take the GE social studies exam too even though it's not graded.

I agree. TAG class has its advantages such as smaller class size -25, better and nicer teachers according to my son. He does not want to go to mainstream class now cos he's really enjoying himself in TAG class

dream:

wwcookie:

That's right. Nan Hua reduced the twinning class to one from this year onwards, so there are only 25 places available. Previously, there are 2 twinning classes or 50 places and some students who did not pass the GEP first round were also offered the program based on their P3 overall result.

As Nanhua only has 5 students cleared the second run, there should be a lot of good students who nearly miss the GEP. It must be very difficult to get into the twinning class now.

Do u know how many cleared the first round? Last year, about 60 cleared first round and 10+ went into GEP. So minus about 25 to twinning class, about 20+ went to 4E or F..

That’s right. Nan Hua reduced the twinning class to one from this year onwards, so there are only 25 places available. Previously, there are 2 twinning classes or 50 places and some students who did not pass the GEP first round were also offered the program based on their P3 overall result.

DJN:

dagong99:

Hi,


Just to check, do we need to buy the dictionary, mini science encyclopedia, transparencies & ring files as stated in the P4 GEP book list ? Is it a must ? Can we buy somewhere else ? Must have school logo is it on these items ? Thanks.

Yes, the ring files have to have the nan hua school logo. not sure about the rest though.

Hi. Is the green file meant for Science and the light blue file for Social Studies?? If so, can recycle P4 files heehee

ngbrdad:

Bbee:

School bus pick-up can be very early, depending on where you stay, as early as 6am.

That's roughly the pick-up time for people staying around Clementi. But not confirmed because it depends on the final number of students taking the bus.

From Clementi that's about the time one starts commuting to SJI anyway right ?

With the new Circle Line opened, it takes less than 15 mins to reach Botanic Gdns station from Clementi or West Coast area. So it will be ideal if there is school bus pickup from Botanic Gdns station.

So there is school bus service that will pick up the boys from Botanic Gardens station?


Going home is fine cos there is no time constraint and some days they will stay back for CCA so will not be able to take the school bus anyway. It is the morning part that is very important to ensure that they get to school in the shortest possible time (equals more sleep time ) and public bus timings can be quite unreliable.

I wonder whether the school bus can pick up students from Botanic Garden MRT station? That will be a good alternative instead of having the kids change another bus from the MRT station to reach the school.

raisintan:

Hi,


Thanks all.. Went to check the balloting history. Indeed the intake reduced from 270 to 240. Which means full P6 cohort should be 320 in earlier years and 290 in recent years. Looking at its past P6 graduating students statistics, its P6 cohort has not been full except for last year.

Ermm.. i think you are assuming that the school takes in 50 GEP kids every year to bump up the enrolment to 320 or 290? You are forgetting that the school can only offer the remaining GEP places to children from other schools only after catering for its own students who were also selected for the program.

DJN:

lwzh:

I think it is because it has only one twinning class instead of two since last year.

From what I know : the P6 twinning class this year is divided into 2 tag classes 6 tag 1 and 2 and 2 gep classes (6 tag 3 and 4)for english, maths and science. For Social Studies and Chinese there will be three classes, 6 GJ and K, and the tag pupils are mixed with the gep pupils.

From this year 2011 onwards, the twinning class for P4 is reduced to 1 class (TAG 1) while GEP has 2 classes (TAG 2 & 3). Their form class still remains as 3 classes - 4G, H, J.

Their P1 intake is 240 (8 classes of 30 pupils) when my son was in P1 in 2008. Then come P4 they will take in about 30 plus to 40 for GEP, and plus minus transfers in and out the final figure is about 280. I believe for earlier years the P1 intake was bigger hence the total enrolment for P6 was larger in previous years.