Pei Chun Public

[Lemon.041316tea]

Hi all, I am thinking of setting up a Facebook group so that we can upload the kids Sch works when the parents do not know to do too, esp Math.


We can upload the solution by just taking a photo and upload it.

any views ?

[lionqueen]

For parents intending to send their children for wushu 三段刀 enrichment, I have one for sale. Please contact me if interested. Bought from the teacher previously, still in good condition.

[muska]

Lemon. Tea, the forum here hv academic support for each subject by level. They r a lot of expert there to help really challenging quest. U should check it out instead of new fb group.


I really benefited fr the math thread especially.

[Strong Mummy]

sorry can I check if anyone of u stay at punggol or sengkang and fetch kids up and down to the school?

I have to track back the 200+ message and is very tiring… lolz.
I would like to know the school bus timing and did anyone engage premier school bus?

Sorry, I have to standby for my child to will turn 6 in another 2 year.
My Hub is alumni so my girl will go in the early phrase.
But if I decide not to place her there since the distance is a problem for us, we are thinking of placing her to MEE TOH (MY eldest son-ex primary school)…

We have to brainstorm either to move house to central which the school bus can travel shorter distance or i have to drive her …

[Precious2.012911lee]

Hi, just wondering if there’s any update yet regarding the temporarily holding site of the school?

[Precious050911]

Anyone with compo marking to share on SA1? I heard marked by other teachers instead of own.

[muska]

for p3, i know chinese compo definitely mark by own teacher.

I think english too.

For upper pri, not sure.

I think teachers in general are quite standard in their marking…do you expect a lot of difference?

[A reliable source]

Hello parents,


Perhaps this might shed light.

Regardless of level,

The compositions are marked by their own class teacher as well as a "second" marker from another class of the same level. This is to maintain the "fairness" and standardisation of the marking. This eliminates any bias in the marking.

Call it quality control.

Before that, the teachers will go through one round of standardisation marking together as a level. Meaning, the teachers will come together to mark random scripts of different quality from different classes to do bench marking, before arriving at an acceptable band for both content and language.

All in all, the teachers would have marked about 100 scripts over a period of 3 weeks. (bench marking scripts, class scripts, "2nd marking" scripts)

So please do show your appreciation during PTM to the teachers this coming end May, because I know I will.

:B

[Precious2.012911lee]

Thank you for the sharing - A reliable source & muska.


Now I know why DS only got back the paper 2 but not paper 1 yet.. since it needs to be reviewed by another teacher.

From my observation, I find the marking of Chinese composition very strict. In one of the recent classwork (similar story line and writing style), my DS scored 18/20, marked by his china tutor from a relatively well-known Chinese enrichment school. However, his class teacher only gave 13/20. He said teacher read his composition to the class so this score is quite ok already and already the highest among his group. He said many got 10 or 11 and some failed. This means either Pei Chun's Chinese standard is too high or my DS's class standard is too low, that's why 13/20 is already one of the better ones.

Anyway, I feel marking needs to be realistic, based on a P3 standard. After all, aren't the students expected to write 50 words only. Unless drastically out of context, I feel most of them should get at least 14-15 and not a borderline grade.

[muska]

precious2lee,

For english compo, we’ll never get it back. Only know the marks unless its those good for level/class distribution.

I know many other school even kept compo& oral marks from parents to prevent dispute. So PCPS at least is doing something for us to know our kiddos weakness.

For chinese compo, we can get back the papers. I certainly find pcps marking std for chinese is very lenient…at least to my ds class last yr…