PCF/PAP Kindergartens
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I used to be a tutor for P1-P4 children and had taught this 2 siblings in P1 & P2. The siblings had more than 30 assessment books on top of their school books and their mother expected me to complete these assessment with them!!! As they have so much work, the elder sibling resorted to peek at the answers just so he can finish the work & play/rest! Do we really need so many assessment for the kids? It may just backfire instead of helping them to learn more…
I have another friend whose son is in P4 in one of the top pri school. As they are half local, my friend will bring the children back to the father’s home country in Jun & Dec holiday to visit their grandparents. But since the boy was in P3, the school teachers insisted my friend to stay in Singapore cos the school have revision classes during Jun school holiday and they think "it’s a good time for the children to attend enrichment classes" during the holiday!
My friend simply bochap and wrote to the school to opt out and even challenged the teachers why her boy need revision when all his subjects are already in the 90+ range??? I applause her for this and encourage more parents to do likewise for their kids too as not all children needs revision classes. Play is an important learning process too… -
Yes the schools are also responsible for adding pressure to the student. I think they are killing the child’s passion for learning, not nurturing it.
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30 assessment books?!?!? That's horrible
I will be very unhappy if I'm the kid too...
Yes, play is very important.
Maybe these parents focus a lot on the IQ portion of bringing up their kids. But many forget that the life skills that make a kid successful as an adult is not IQ only.
I wonder if the other parts of the world are like that too? When we were young, our teachers used to say that in Taiwan and Japan it is very competitive, even when schooling. -
yup. 30 ab’s is terrible.
Read an article somewhere on the net recently about this teenager in the Uk who was very bright. However, he suffered some mental disorder and went out and killed someone because he was bored. He stabbed some nurse 72 times and when the police arrested him, he even said he felt nothing and was surprised that the nurse died.
Agree that life skills, and mental balance is equally important and many parents miss that out. -
tamarind:
Yes the schools are also responsible for adding pressure to the student. I think they are killing the child's passion for learning, not nurturing it.
No offence. But some parents would be complaining if the schools do not conduct enough revision with the kids...hehe -
hi tamarind,
My daughter is also in kindergarten 1 and every week there will be a list of 5-7 words of spelling and homework of about 3-10pgs.
Spelling words includes aeroplane, basket etc...
I think not only PCF standard is high, basically now the education standard in Singapore is very high. We send our kids to school for education but the teachers conveniently throw the balls back to parents -
guiltymummy,
where is your gal studying? -
Hi kaitlynangelica,
My gal is in Learning Seeds Ctr(partial montessori with yamaha music) -
oic…where is learning seeds located? Sounds interesting that they use yamaha music. My k1 gal doesn’t have spelling but she has quite a tonne of worksheets which she brings home from time-to-time.
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Hi kaitlynangelica,
Learning Seeds is located at PSA Club near ViVo city. Just enrolled my gal in Mar'08 and saw some improvement. My gal attended a church kindergarten for 2yrs before the switch. Learning Seeds have their own compound. There's a mixture of foreigners and locals. Their fees are reasonable.(In fact its cheap) There's also a montessori room and yamaha music corner. They actually engaged a montessori and yamaha teacher from outside. I like the director as she is friendly and showed me around and answer to all my queries before I enrolled. Hee.. Till now, they still didnt collect any payment for her sch fees, deposit, uniform and transport. (almost 3 mths liao) Not so money face unlike other schools. In fact, I just called them up to ask them about deduction of payment from my bank a/c :shock: you may check from their website http://learningseedscdc.com/
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