Raffles Girls' Primary

[bliss-ful]

I guessed is not easy to maintain in class E & F. Well I believed the girls have worked very hard for it. Kudos to the girls as well as the parents walk along the way with them.

moonee:

aqeqiq:

My dd is in one of these classes. As the top 80 mainstream students are placed in these classes, i am using this as a yardstick as to how she is doing as she paces herself towards psle. My hope is that she remains in one of these classes at p5/6 and thereafter enters the sec school of her choice.

Yup can be very challenging being in top 80 class, really got to work hard to stay on. 9 pupils were transfered back to mainstream last year, I guess with the introduction of subject based banding

[jtoh]

moonee:

aqeqiq:

My dd is in one of these classes. As the top 80 mainstream students are placed in these classes, i am using this as a yardstick as to how she is doing as she paces herself towards psle. My hope is that she remains in one of these classes at p5/6 and thereafter enters the sec school of her choice.

Yup can be very challenging being in top 80 class, really got to work hard to stay on. 9 pupils were transfered back to mainstream last year, I guess with the introduction of subject based banding

Aren't the students kept intact in their classes from P5 to P6? That is, if you're in P5E/F, you'll be in P6E/F?

[KSP]

verykiasu2010:

htchero:

[quote=\"aqeqiq\"]
Thanks. Maybe that's why my dd was not involved since she is neither in p1 nor p6. Is it the ezilink card?

Yeah i think so.

yes it should be the ezlink card[/quote]That is equivalent to our bus card during our time. But now they put a mircochip in there to make it smarter. It can now store money value for bus/mrt and as ID for public library during P1-P6 before they get their actual IC.

[mwchua]

aqeqiq:

My dd is in one of these classes. As the top 80 mainstream students are placed in these classes, i am using this as a yardstick as to how she is doing as she paces herself towards psle. My hope is that she remains in one of these classes at p5/6 and thereafter enters the sec school of her choice.

Do you mind sharing what are the kind of results P3 kids expected to have before they are placed into E&F classes? So that parents like us know what is the benchmark to work towards.

Thanks

[KSP]

jtoh:

moonee:

[quote=\"aqeqiq\"]My dd is in one of these classes. As the top 80 mainstream students are placed in these classes, i am using this as a yardstick as to how she is doing as she paces herself towards psle. My hope is that she remains in one of these classes at p5/6 and thereafter enters the sec school of her choice.

Yup can be very challenging being in top 80 class, really got to work hard to stay on. 9 pupils were transfered back to mainstream last year, I guess with the introduction of subject based banding

Aren't the students kept intact in their classes from P5 to P6? That is, if you're in P5E/F, you'll be in P6E/F?[/quote]My understanding is they have to maintain within top 80 every year to stay in E/F classes. So it is unavoidable to see some students transfer in and out every year. But I guess the number would be small.

[ctct61t]

KSP:

My understanding is they have to maintain within top 80 every year to stay in E/F classes. So it is unavoidable to see some students transfer in and out every year. But I guess the number would be small.

There are a number of students will go to GEP (25 went to GEP in 2009).

Does it mean the top 100 students have the chances to stay in E/F classes?

[ctct61t]

mwchua:

aqeqiq:

My dd is in one of these classes. As the top 80 mainstream students are placed in these classes, i am using this as a yardstick as to how she is doing as she paces herself towards psle. My hope is that she remains in one of these classes at p5/6 and thereafter enters the sec school of her choice.

Do you mind sharing what are the kind of results P3 kids expected to have before they are placed into E&F classes? So that parents like us know what is the benchmark to work towards.

Thanks

I also want to know leh...

[KSP]

ctct61t:

25 went to GEP in 2009).

That works out to be 8.3% way higher than 1% in whole of SG. That is also achievable for some if they are always the top few in class.

I'm not sure how the school select the top 80 but the only component I can think of is based on the SA2 results (of P3/4/5). Add the total marks of the 4 subjects, do a sort and cutoff at 80.

[Luanee]

h530251:

Luanee:

[quote=\"ctct61t\"]

Don't worry, kids learn swimming very fast, 1 0r 2 month's learning, they can swim quite good.

My dd had been 'learning' swimming during her PE lessons in P1 and P2. Until now still cannot swim..

Ah PE lesson got swimming class one ah...so good ah... which swimming pool they use ?[/quote]Yeah all P1 and P2s have swimming during their PE lessons. They held it at Buona Vista swimming pool.

But as KSP said, the effectiveness is really doubtful :roll:

[Luanee]

ctct61t:

There are many swimming classes in public swimming pools. I think they are good enough for our kids.

So we just approach any coaches we see at the public pools? How to go about it?