All About English Creative Writing

[Ymy]

My DD started to write picture composition in term 2. I heard that the weightage of the composition gets higher as they progress to P2/P3. Being a kiasu mum, I started to worry for her because DD is not a very creative person.

[awfullyKS]

JKKiasu:

Hi any tips on how students can score above 30 marks for compo? Please help!

Hi JKKiasu,

I also am not sure. it is not easy. I heard from a friend who has her child in Rosyth that for her son's class when he gets 29, it is considered good because the teacher marks very strictly. In the exam, he will get about 32 or sometimes higher.

How is your child doing now?

[awfullyKS]

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[mum2010]

Laurenwkids:

Hi JKKiasu,


The teachers are trained by the boss. They are trained to teach in a certain methodology. When I wanted to sign my child up, it was also difficult to contact them as they have certain timings that they are off or the line is engaged. But after a few tries, i managed to get them and my questions were also answered well. From my experience of calling some other renowned centres, it is the same. Some never have their lines free.

You could try out their trial and see whether it suits your child.

Hi,
I sent my gal for the trial lesson. After the lesson, she was very happy as she told me the teacher taught a lot of descriptive words and phrases. So we decided to signed up for the class. And guess what? Till now, THAT was the only lesson the teacher was so enuthiastic in teaching the class descriptive words for compo.

Also she's yet to write a compo, this really upset her as she loves writing. There was one 'writing', they were told to copy the descriptive paragraph from onto foolscape for the teacher to mark n till now I've not seen the pieace of copied 'compo'.

Hope to share what we are going thro'.

[awfullyKS]

Hi mum2010,


Oh dear, I have also joined TAS and so far the teacher is very good. Which centre are you at?

[awfullyKS]

Could your dd be in a new class? I heard from another friend whose ds joined a new class that in the beginning, the compo writing will not be one whole compo, it will be parts of the compo for the kids to memorise and write out. They usually memorise the important parts then write out. I think for my case after about 3-4 weeks, then they went on to write whole compos. I asked the teacher about the pacing and she said as they move on and can understand the techniques more, it will be one compo written almost every week or every 2 weeks.

[coolit]

For compo, they do a lot of class work, they will have to learn the different sentence structures and write on their own mini whiteboard and also

learn key phrases by memorisation. Initially, I was also not sure whether memorisation will help and I wanted to see actual work written but after
they were in TAS for about half a year, I realize that the memorisation helps
my kids to internalize the writing style and skills much faster and after that,
it is much less memory work and more application and then you will see a lot more writing of whole compos. This is from my experience. But I think it
is better that you ask the teacher and clarify any misgivings. How old is your child?

She sounds quite bright. Maybe she is not suitable for a class of her age
level. One of my friend’s child is now in P3 but he is in the P5 class because
he is way ahead of his age and it helps stretch him more.

[Monster Mummy]

mum2010:

Hi,
I sent my gal for the trial lesson. After the lesson, she was very happy as she told me the teacher taught a lot of descriptive words and phrases. So we decided to signed up for the class. And guess what? Till now, THAT was the only lesson the teacher was so enuthiastic in teaching the class descriptive words for compo.

Also she's yet to write a compo, this really upset her as she loves writing. There was one 'writing', they were told to copy the descriptive paragraph from onto foolscape for the teacher to mark n till now I've not seen the pieace of copied 'compo'.

Hope to share what we are going thro'.

Hi,
May I understand whether that this is purely creative writing class. To my uderstanding the kid is writing a composition with the different situation quoted. Maybe it will wise to speak to the teacher to clear out your doubt.

[sleepy]

mum2010:

Hi,

I sent my gal for the trial lesson. After the lesson, she was very happy as she told me the teacher taught a lot of descriptive words and phrases. So we decided to signed up for the class. And guess what? Till now, THAT was the only lesson the teacher was so enuthiastic in teaching the class descriptive words for compo.

Also she's yet to write a compo, this really upset her as she loves writing. There was one 'writing', they were told to copy the descriptive paragraph from onto foolscape for the teacher to mark n till now I've not seen the pieace of copied 'compo'.

Hope to share what we are going thro'.

FYI another thread with more feedback on TAS
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=23547&start=20

[mum2010]

awfullyKS:

Hi mum2010,


Oh dear, I have also joined TAS and so far the teacher is very good. Which centre are you at?

Hi,

Guessed my girl is not as lucky. May I know which centre your kid is in? Well, I dont mind to transfer my girl to there based on your feedback.
TIA.