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Just to share my personal opinion of the school as a parent with two children studying at West Spring, and my older child has just graduated from P6 this year.

Throughout the year, I have been talking with friends, whose kids are also taking PSLE, to encourage each other along the way. Inevitably, we compared the level of support given by our kids' schools, though their kids are at branded schools, while mine is at a neighbourhood school. I am really appreciative of the extra revision given to the P6s at WPS (though he had to stay till 3.30pm daily) as I did not send my child for any tuition classes. This surprisingly wasn't provided at the branded schools (after hearing my friends' complaints). As my child's weakest link is oral, his teachers also went the extra mile to give him additional oral practices daily before school assembly.

Like many parents at West Spring, I was concerned about how my child will do for PSLE, given that the school does not have a proven track record as this year is the 2nd batch of students taking PSLE. With its play-based focus, I was also worried if the school's papers were of \"lower\" standard than other schools. The results are out and I am happy to say that my child has done well enough to enter IP schools.

Overall, I feel WPS is a good school as my younger child is also happy there (I am not part of PSG nor a \"cheerleader\") and perhaps positive experiences from other parents have helped elevated it to a popular school that needs balloting each year.

May I know do the teachers gv extra lessons to weaker students regardless whether they are in top class or not?

From my experience, WPS mixes students of different academic grades together in one class, so there is no top class. Each class will take the non-core subjects like PE and social studies together but during the core subjects, the students will move around and change classrooms to attend classes with students from other classes who are at the same academic level. This used to be the arrangement prior to COVID-19, so perhaps they might switch to having students of same level of learning in the same class moving forward to reduce the movement of students.

From P2 to P5, students who are identified as weaker in certain subjects will be asked to attend remedial lessons after classes to help them to catch up, while students who are identified as strong in academics will be asked to attend enrichment after classes to develop them further (like ELAP for English, Critical Thinking for Maths, CLAP for Chinese). I know this cos I have one child attending enrichment and the other attending remedial, but I think majority of the students who are coping fairly well in school will not need to stay back.

As for P6 to prepare for PSLE, ALL students will need to stay back daily till 3 plus for extra lessons (which they called PLUS but not sure what it stands for).

Just to share my personal opinion of the school as a parent with two children studying at West Spring, and my older child has just graduated from P6 this year.


Throughout the year, I have been talking with friends, whose kids are also taking PSLE, to encourage each other along the way. Inevitably, we compared the level of support given by our kids’ schools, though their kids are at branded schools, while mine is at a neighbourhood school. I am really appreciative of the extra revision given to the P6s at WPS (though he had to stay till 3.30pm daily) as I did not send my child for any tuition classes. This surprisingly wasn’t provided at the branded schools (after hearing my friends’ complaints). As my child’s weakest link is oral, his teachers also went the extra mile to give him additional oral practices daily before school assembly.

Like many parents at West Spring, I was concerned about how my child will do for PSLE, given that the school does not have a proven track record as this year is the 2nd batch of students taking PSLE. With its play-based focus, I was also worried if the school’s papers were of "lower" standard than other schools. The results are out and I am happy to say that my child has done well enough to enter IP schools.

Overall, I feel WPS is a good school as my younger child is also happy there (I am not part of PSG nor a "cheerleader") and perhaps positive experiences from other parents have helped elevated it to a popular school that needs balloting each year.