Cedar Girls Secondary School

[ilovelaksa]

MomOfOne:

Hi


Anyone any idea for science for sec 1, which is taught first - chemistry, physics or biology?

Thanks

The various classes take turns. One class will do Bio in term 1, another does Chem in term 1. The sch lab cant accommodate the entire lvl doing lab wk for 1 subj.

[ilovelaksa]

Nsw28:

Need advise. DD is going to IP year 1 next year. Not sure when is Cedar's exam period. Any clash (with exam or project work) if we go overseas during the 1 week March sch holiday?

My daughter spent her Mar, Jun and Sept holidays on projects, cca, mtgs and hw (loads of it). She uses the Mar hol to prep for exam in end Apr, Jun hol to cover all the proj and Sept hol to prep for exams in end Sept and early Oct. Accordg to her, take a hol in MarJunSept is just too risky for her gpa, ldrship and sports cca commitment.

[ilovelaksa]

Btw, for sports cca, they train throughout the year. I do kn my dd’s fren who is in npcc going bc to sch during the dec hol for traing as well.

[MomOfOne]

Thanks ilovelaksa for your reply.

[ilovelaksa]

Someone asked an interesting qn. What happens if the child wants to switch from IP to O lvl if the child is doin well in IP? As far as I kn, it is not allowed. The school wants to minimise disruption in curriculum and adjustments issues. In this case, you are ‘bound’ to complete the 6yr course. Alternatively you can purposely do badly, fail just one subj in Sec 2 and you are automatically transferred : ) But any movement can only be done at the end of Sec2. I kn of a girl who had adjustment issue. She failed several subjs in sec1 IP. She was not transferred to o lvl track till end of Sec 2

[ilovelaksa]

IP and O lvl in Cedar are different only in curriculum. For IP the prog prep for A lvl. For O lvl, the prep is for O lvl. The reason for transfers at the end of sec 2 is the ‘actual’ o lvl prep req 2 yrs, sec 3 and 4.

I wld like to emphasise both programmes are equal in prestige for Cedar. The O lvl program in Cedar is equal in rigour to the IP prog. You will see that the average psle scores for students on these 2 prog are almost the same too! It doesn’t mean if you cant cope in IP, you can do well on their O lvl prog.

[ilovelaksa]

I may abit blunt here. If you cant cope in the ip1-4, it will be EXTREMELY difficult to handle the A lvl prog in VJC. I hvnt attended the last PTM. If I am not wrong, almost all Cedarians score >gpa 3.2 at yr 4 which is the min criteria for 4H2. The Victorians are a different story : ) Generally Cedarians do very well in VJ.

[Nsw28]

ilovelaksa:

Nsw28:

Need advise. DD is going to IP year 1 next year. Not sure when is Cedar's exam period. Any clash (with exam or project work) if we go overseas during the 1 week March sch holiday?

My daughter spent her Mar, Jun and Sept holidays on projects, cca, mtgs and hw (loads of it). She uses the Mar hol to prep for exam in end Apr, Jun hol to cover all the proj and Sept hol to prep for exams in end Sept and early Oct. Accordg to her, take a hol in MarJunSept is just too risky for her gpa, ldrship and sports cca commitment.

Thanks for the info/advice.

[isetan]

ilovelaksa:

Nsw28:

Need advise. DD is going to IP year 1 next year. Not sure when is Cedar's exam period. Any clash (with exam or project work) if we go overseas during the 1 week March sch holiday?

My daughter spent her Mar, Jun and Sept holidays on projects, cca, mtgs and hw (loads of it). She uses the Mar hol to prep for exam in end Apr, Jun hol to cover all the proj and Sept hol to prep for exams in end Sept and early Oct. Accordg to her, take a hol in MarJunSept is just too risky for her gpa, ldrship and sports cca commitment.

There are still some students whose parents still chose to travel during march holidays. And that affects the group project works. In my DD case, she has to even do those portions where her grp members supposed to do but they were not around due to travelling. I think it's a bit unfair here as it's meant to be teamwork and the marks is for everybody and not individual.

[Olive3]

After having my dd in Cedar IP for 2 years, I realised that the best time to hv an overseas vacation is after the EOY exams. That’s when she can truly relax and enjoy. Dd continues to be rather busy during the Mar, Jun & Sept hols. Her CCA continues till end Nov.


It is indeed very frustrating to hv missing members when doing project work.