ds1246:

zac's mum:

[quote=\"ds1246\"]I am looking for the priority order from below school list for O Level.


Anderson Secondary - 245
Anglo Chinese School ( Independent ) - 249
St. Joseph Institution - 244
Swiss Cottage - 239
Victoria School - 246
Yishun Town Secondary - 235

1. Anglo Chinese School ( Independent ) - 249
2. Victoria School - 246
3. Anderson Secondary - 245
4. St. Joseph Institution - 244
5. Swiss Cottage - 239
6. Yishun Town Secondary - 235

Thanks a lot for your time ans suggestion, for your info tscore is 246
In case of victoria school we are worried travel time, as we stay in north.[/quote]My son is in year 2 next year. He has a classmate who lives in the North (where exactly I don't know), he stays at the boarding school on weekdays and goes home on weekends. Depends on individual boy whether he can be independent, not every child likes this arrangement.

Imabitamazed:

If all the 4 of your child did well, ok signing up this year to write in kiasuforum to thank mrs lee is perfectly normal. But registering kiasuforum 8 year back ( such a long time) together and now posting consecutive 4 postive thread together make people question. Not that i purposely want to question. Or maybe theres really coincidence. I dont know.

You really are full of conspiracy theory :siao: , did you also check whether we are all siblings, drive the same car, kids in same school, same alumni, or whatever

don't know what to say about such person other than to distance myself from them

anyway, my son is done with psle, so I am getting out of this topic.

So long, this is my last post to this, thank you very much to this parent.

NobodyButMe:

We put 3 choices : Nanyang, Rosyth and RGPS.

Wow, short of sending your child to St Hilda's, this is the 2nd furthest school from Yishun. I wonder why GEB send your child to TN. I would definitely appeal if I were you.

NobodyButMe:

Received also, with big surprise, posted to Tao Nan, a very good school, but we stay at Yishun, too far away, will appeal for Rosyth, don't know the chance of success, sigh, already put Rosyth as second choice initially, something went wrong?

Since you stay Yishun, what was your first choice? Which choice did you put TNS as? The public transport would definitely take more than an hour one way, this would be too tiring for 10 year old kids

I didn’t know we can sell TH notes? Don’t think it is morally right to do so. Besides the works sheets had all been worked on, and in my son’s case has many of his drawings.


I started sending my son to TH in 2017 to prepare for PSLE. His performance at the lesson had been average, sometimes can score well and sometimes atrocious, most of the time at average A-/B+ level. I never pay attention to what was being taught. Overall I think he enjoyed the lessons there and does not find it a chore.

Glad he scored A in PSLE. He would be taking Higher Chinese in Sec 1 next year. We’ll see how he adapts at the new secondary school. If he needs help, we’ll consider sending him back to TH.

Silentreader:

May i ask is it true? So easy A*?

Because nickle bee tutors facebook just posted their A* students this year. Only 1 from gep and 3 from normal standard got A*
And nickle bee charges $600 a month.
I also heard from my friend this year her daughter says only those consistently A* in p6 got it. About 6 people frm her top class

Short of taking photo of my son's PSLE results to show you, which I am not going to do, I am not here to convince anyone. Just want to share my experience. If Mrs Lee bothers to compile her students results, you might get a better sense of her teaching results. You can also question or challenge whether this is true or not.

I have a younger daughter in P4 next year, but I don't think I'll send to Mrs Lee as my DD is the \"soft\" kind who would cry if the teacher is harsh to her. So what works for one might not work for he other. In financing term, this is called DYDD - Do Your Due Diligence.

After doing some research, I took a leap of faith and sent my son to Mrs Lee in Q416 when I noticed my boy, while not doing too badly and still managed a low A, struggling to understand the math concepts during the transition from P4 to P5. He continued with her in P6 this year. Boy being boy, he is more of the cheeky & mischievous kind. I believe he picks up the concept quite fast, but always rushes through his work without fully understand the questions and make lots of careless mistakes. In one CA test, I counted he lost almost 20 marks through avoidable mistakes which you can’t even imagine - untidy handwriting that he can’t even read his own numbers and calculated wrongly, many times transfer error, reading + as -, etc


I needed a strict teacher that would put him in his place, and focus on what’s on hand and not be distracted. Her style of teaching is the no nonsense kind, so if you want a mollycoddle kind of teacher, she might not be the one. But it worked for me. There was once just a couple of months before the PSLE, she chased my son out of the classroom as he was fooling around and disturb the class. News spread as he had other school classmates in the same class, by next day he was already notorious in his P6 cohort as "the boy who was chased out by Mrs Lee". I had to convince and assure Mrs Lee to give him one more chance.

Thankfully, he finally woke up his idea and from then on, i noticed he becomes more serious and knuckled down to his work.

Finally, he got A* for his PSLE, and according to him, 2 other school classmates also got A*. Both of them were at borderline/fail when they join Mrs Lee.

So different strokes for different folks. I am just sharing my experience.

Thank you, Mrs Lee (if you are reading this, I believe you know who my son is

Surprised to receive the letter from MOE this evening, letter was dated 24 Nov. It seems like the intention is to inform parents by 29 Nov, not send out the letter on that day.


My DD is posted to Tao Nan. Hope to meet up with more parents from my daughter’s cohort. We shall be heading down to TNS to buy her school uniform and books this weekend.

Cheers

CoolAlan:

Briefing on 11 Nov but some schools are already giving tours next week, e.g. Catholic High. =(

Where do you get the intelligence that some schools are already giving out tour? We stay at the East so my DD would most likely choose Tao Nan, but still would like her to see other schools in case she does not get in.

Thanks

Ngee Ann Primary also released today - 2 students from a class got the brown envelop, my girl and another boy. I am not sure how many in total, my girl did not ask and I know know what she knows.


Letter is dated 1 Nov and briefing is next Sat 11 Nov, so I believe most schools would let the students know latest by tomorrow.