About the STELLAR program

[corneyAmber]

Yes, school is doing STELLAR now.


No textbooks is good news to me cos it lifts some weight from the schoolbag. only a storybook.

In class, they would do alot of reading/discussion and it is based on some story theme and then all the grammar, vocabulary they learn will revolve around that theme, including the spelling list. There is no homework, all work done in school. I find that in this program the teacher has to produce the lesson plan and design the worksheets instead of relying on a text book so it means more involvement by the teachers.

is your child in primary school already? if not they will explain during orientation. Any concerns?

[aggellim]

[quote]Hi All,


Is any parent out there went through the STELLAR program with your children?

As this program do not have textbook, I've tried my best to search around for information but no avail.

Your sharing is very much appreciated[/quote]hi ks_me ,

i was told by a teacher of a school during their orientation last yr onwards MOE implement to all schools, some schools already started to test out this year. I've also checked with a friend who is the HOD of English in a sch and she confirmed this also. Which sch your child will be in. Or maybe the school is doing it in parallel. maybe you would want to look at this link, to read about the programme. :love:

http://www.stellarliteracy.sg/cos/o.x?c=/wbn/pagetree&func=view&rid=20699

But this link seems saying that year 2010 then implement. In Phase 1, in 2006, 30 schools were invited to pilot the programme. For phase 2, in 2007, an additional 31 schools were selected and for 2008, another 32 schools have come on board. :celebrate:

hope this helps

[KS_me]

Thank you so much for explaining..


Yes. My son is now in a neighbourhood Pri and we've went thru' the orientation. Principal did explain to us that this school had adopted this program since 2006 but I'm too eager to know about this cause I do not know what or how to revise together with him since there's no textbook to refer to....

Anyway.... thankyou very much for the link.

[titank]

How do we know which school have Stellar?


Without textbook means less $$ being spent?

[kelyn]

For my son school, they already started using STELLAR for few years. I heard that they send their teachers overseas to learn this program.


Since there was no textbook, their teachers created a book, called "
The big book", for the students to study/revise. And, they have a lot of booklet to do in school also.

My son used the booklets to study for his exam last year (P1).

But this year, i have transferred him to another school and his new school does’t use STELLAR.

[KS_me]

kelyn:

For my son school, they already started using STELLAR for few years. I heard that they send their teachers overseas to learn this program.


Since there was no textbook, their teachers created a book, called \"
The big book\", for the students to study/revise. And, they have a lot of booklet to do in school also.

My son used the booklets to study for his exam last year (P1).

But this year, i have transferred him to another school and his new school does't use STELLAR.

Hi Kelyn,
Since you been thru' 2 different system, what's your opinion? Mind to share?

[kelyn]

Hi KS_me,


:? I don’t really feel the different yet but I prefer STELLA.

STELLA system encourages students to read story books. And I always see story books in my son school bag last year. Teacher would bring some books to the class for the students to borrow or bring the students to the library.

And this year (in my son new school), he has not even step into his school library yet. Always playing during recess time, no time to go library!!! :x

[ctct61t]

kelyn:

Hi KS_me,


:? I don’t really feel the different yet but I prefer STELLA.

STELLA system encourages students to read story books. And I always see story books in my son school bag last year. Teacher would bring some books to the class for the students to borrow or bring the students to the library.

And this year (in my son new school), he has not even step into his school library yet. Always playing during recess time, no time to go library!!! :x

I think my daughter in under STELLA program, but she did not bring books home, and their teacher did not bring them to the library. School ask parents to get more story books for student reading, i'm being headache about the books.

[bebe]

ctct61t:

kelyn:

Hi KS_me,


:? I don’t really feel the different yet but I prefer STELLA.

STELLA system encourages students to read story books. And I always see story books in my son school bag last year. Teacher would bring some books to the class for the students to borrow or bring the students to the library.

And this year (in my son new school), he has not even step into his school library yet. Always playing during recess time, no time to go library!!! :x

I think my daughter in under STELLA program, but she did not bring books home, and their teacher did not bring them to the library. School ask parents to get more story books for student reading, i'm being headache about the books.

I saw a few books sold in Popular under STELLAR program - but I did not browse through them. My gal's school is using STELLAR program and she will bring her English worksheets home weekly for me to sign. The school also provides a list of recommended story books for us to buy..I also did not really take note as I usu brought the my gals to the library and let them borrow books that they fancy eg Enid Blyton, Usborne series, Doc Suess etc. Recently, the school is asking them to write a simple book review on the books they have read (maybe 5 sentences about the story).

As for Grammar, I noted that they are just like standard grammar taught in every assessment books eg Continuous tense, pronoun, punctuation.

[schellen]

My DD’s sch also uses STELLAR. But I don’t recall getting a list of recommended books. Anyway, we go to the library so often, she is never short of books to read. She doesn’t bring any storybooks home but her timetable indicates that she has a library period every week on Tuesday. She did say that they do actually go to the library. She was also asked to fill in the reading record found in her sch handbook (that every student has to buy).


I haven’t seen any grammar worksheets yet, only one colouring one and one penmanship one.