I genuinely believe MOE has good intention to make children's life less meritocratic. But the sad truth is that there are only this many vacancies in JC, followed by less vacancies in local collages, follow by so called \"good jobs\". And salary gaps between different jobs are huge. And regardless of how much you earn, Singaporeans work longer hours. So no matter what new rules MOE will implement, we kiasuparents will put extra effort to participate in this game.


What I cannot accept about the new system is the balloting part. For adults in workplace, hardworking is recognized, talent is recognized. And both are well rewarded. For those unlucky children who are balloting out their dream school and land who knows where. What can we tell them? Sorry, life is unfair!? I do acknowledge that. But isn't it our job to drive the system fairer and transparent rather than the other way? We buy toto for fun, we don't work hard for it. So it's ok that normally we don't win . But PSLE, the children and their family work hard to achieve something equally worth their effort. Potential large scale of balloting is not acceptable. This also make the submitting of choice of school worth studying. Good for the already booming enrichment industry. They can have new class just to teach you how to properly fill the schools to minimize heart attack. :censored:

I strongly suggest MOE to run simulation, start from 2016 PSLE. Request the students to hand in 6 choices of school. And later calculate the percentile of those got ballot out of all their 6 choices. Then compare his score to the highest score from the school he landed, and the lowest score from his choice. I believe the result will be shocking!

desnha:

Can any mummy please share what will happen during P1 orientation tomorrow? Are the girls expected to turn up in their uniforms and white shoes?

On reg day, one teach told me the girls don't need to wear uniform. Just need to wear the temporary name tag.

Hi wfaith, I collected for the tag for my gal and a friend’s gal, they have different house color. The background and the letters have same color.

dardar63:

zephyrfei:

I just got the name tags from Bibibaba. The instruction only show where the tags should go on the dresses, does it mean no need to sew it onto the PE shirt? TIA!

Ya. It's only for pinafore. PE shirt no need tags

Thank you, dardar63!

I just got the name tags from Bibibaba. The instruction only show where the tags should go on the dresses, does it mean no need to sew it onto the PE shirt? TIA!

I have one question regarding the English class. Is there a vocabulary list for primary student, breakdown into different levels? I found many workbooks in Popular stated as P1 or P1/P2 vocabulary. But the words in different books are very different. Does MOE provide any guide line? Thank you!

dardar63:

There's only textbook for math and Chinese. These come back everyday. But workbooks will be kept in school and the teacher will return portion by portion of what is done in class. The Chinese and math workbooks can be torn into pages to be worksheets and then after completion we will file them at home. English follows the stellar system so no textbooks. They also do worksheets in class and bring back when completed.

Thanks for the info, dardar63!

It's composition written by students, whose reputation to protect? :scratchhead:


Does RGPS allow the students to bring back text books, activity books? Some single session school does not allow. They provide lockers for the students, in order to reduce the weight of the backpacks. It is good. But it's more difficult for the parents to track the kid's progress.

25 out of 270 is 9.3%. This is really high. Is this baseline performance?