Maris Stella High

[barbie88]

My son is currently in P6 preparing for mid year exam now. I must say that I am very disappointed with the preparation the P6 students are receiving.


I have an elder son who was previously with Nanyang Primary. The quality and quantity of work sheets given by the 2 schools are quite different. For Math, MSHS worksheets were mainly from the practice workbook and some MSHS past papers, wherelse NYPS had a lot more in-depth challenging questions on top of the past yrs papers and workbook. My son’s Math tuition teacher who has students in St Andrew commented that MSHS’s Math homework are very much lesser as compared to other schools. Mothers of past MSHS P6 boys also complained to her that MSHS gave out little homework.

At the start of the year, son told me that his English teacher said she will not be giving out a lot of homework to them this year so as not to stress them out. Now that we are mid year through, i realised the teacher kept to her word, OMG. If the school dont prepare them well this last P6 year, then when?

Since there is the P1 registration coming along shortly, I thought I’d just share with parents that it might not be worth it to push too hard to come to MSHS.

[cherryc]

During my son PSLE, not only the worksheets outdated , the form teacher cum main subject teacher went on leave quite often because her wedding is one day after Prelim. At least one third of his class mates went normal stream . I was pretty sad when this happened

[ninenine]

So sad to hear stories like this… but their exam papers are selling outside the school too right?


Cherry c, did your boy did well last year? i guess that is the reason why their standard has dropped so much but afterall are they better than neighbourhood schools? They are actually SAP school which is suppose to be better schools.

[cherryc]

Didn’t make it back to MSHS and now in neighbourhood school in express course. His PSLE was 2 years ago. I felt bad for those boys who got well below 200 points cos I knew these boys from young and believe they are capable of better results. The class was big, 40 boys with teacher screaming all the time . As you know by now, his ex principal and ex- vice principal were in newspaper for the wrong reason so I thought he definitely had experienced more things in his pri sch than others !!

[flametree]

i have 3 sons. 2 graduated from maris in year 2006 and 2010. my youngest is p3 this year. The PSLE prep experience that my elder 2 boys received was very different from what was described in the earlier 2 posts.


With the youngest in p3 now, I felt that the standard has gone up a lot compared to years ago.

I guess my boys were lucky to have their commited teachers.

hope this helps.

[cherryc]

That’s great to hear as despite my Grievances , my younger son is going p1 next year. I think our elder sons are in the same batch and I think the top score was below 265 and only 1 person got above 260?


Anyway, it is in the past , I hope the current principal and teachers will restore MSHS to its former glory .

[ninenine]

so cherryc your boy is going to P1 of MSHS next yr? if yes, it would be the same as my boy.

[cherryc]

Yup! No idea how to get into other schools!

[barbie88]

flametree:

i have 3 sons. 2 graduated from maris in year 2006 and 2010. my youngest is p3 this year. The PSLE prep experience that my elder 2 boys received was very different from what was described in the earlier 2 posts.


With the youngest in p3 now, I felt that the standard has gone up a lot compared to years ago.

I guess my boys were lucky to have their commited teachers.

hope this helps.

I guess the

Agree, teachers make the world of difference. Just thought that most schools would give the best and most committed teachers to the P6 classes.

[cherrygal]

Thanks to the P6 mums who shared their experiences. This has opened our eyes to the varying standards of different teachers. I also noticed in the school yearbook that there is always a class in upper primary that only has less than 15 students or so. Is this the supposed "worst" class? I understand that they start streaming the kids after P4 or P5.


I am really quite worried now as DS is not the hardworking sort and I would hate to have to place him in a tuition class for every subject.