Questions on the notices

heidikl

After my son studing in TSL for aound 1 month, so far I feel pretty satisfied on all espects, except that I have some comments on English subject (sorry that this is all my personal opinion and it may be wrong).
- there is lack of transparency on what the kids learnt
- there is not much exercise doing at home and not much extra activities like that for Chinese, e.g. "88 reading", "a day a read" etc.
- what I feel disappointed is that when I saw the result from the Password#1, my son only got 6 marks out of 10. I understand that "mark is not important", but all my son mistakes are due to spelling, like he spelled "mit" for "meet" and "uld" for "old". I feel good that my son already tried his best and use his own phonic system to spell the word as we never asked him to spell "meet", "old", "years" etc... Also, what we heard from the school is that there suppose to have "no textbook and no dictation". I thought the idea is good but in the implementation, it doesn't seem to be.
Here are my few suggestions to the school :
1) like my son in the kindergarten, every beginning of the month, there is a sheet listing down all the sentences he will learn (this is expect to recongize not spelling) and list down the vocab. words that suppose the kids can spell;
2) give a little bit homework a day so that the kids can practise more and add English books into the "88 superman" program or add some activities to motivate the kids to read more English books
3) In the "marking scheme", give half mark if the kids can provide the answer even though the spelling is wrong. Or provide some choices for them to select etc..

Again, this is my personal opinion and I understand that my expectation may be too high but I just want we can provide a more effective environment for the kids to learn English happily and effectively (having said so, he still feels very happy with English, maybe only myself not feel so comfortable.)
Other comments from the parents are more than welcome or can teach me how to teach my son spelling and more easy to recongnize English words. Many thanks.

little-pig

Oscar Ma,

Does Oscar being selected to learn the cello?
I got the notice and my daughter was required to buy a cello and bring it to school at the first class. Originally I thought that the school can provide the cello for learning in school and another cello was put at home for practice.

If she needs to bring it to school every lesson, I think I would withdraw as it was impossible for my thin daughter to bring the cello to school by herself....

Bluestar

heidikl,

My experience :

Piglet knew minimal Engl cos he went to a Chin nursery for N1 - N4.

He had some difficulty in Engl Maths at the beginning of P1, but picked up Engl gradually, cos the Engl environment was good, and he played with a lot of Fr students.

I was a little worried with his Engl exam (the project) for P1 Term 1, but was much more comfortable by P1 Term 2 exams.

Now we can chat at home in Engl (we've been doing that ever since P2), and his dictation is OK.  And he prefers to watch some movies (the kids movies) in Engl, also some Engl cartoons, apart from the usual Keroro, Pokemon and Superman.

I tried after-school tuition + private tuition (for all subjects, at diff times) for piglet, but quit after  1 month, and piglet did not attend any reading / writing classes, only attended general playgroup / interest group type of ECA classes.

So what I like is the Engl environment, which is similar to that in many famous grant schools.  The kids have 30 lessons in Engl a week, vs 8 - 10 lessons a week in most other local govt pr schools.  Their exposure to Engl is more than adequate.

Concl.
I am more than satisfied with their standard of Engl.  Of course the average standard may not = kids in international schoolos, but a lot would also depend on the kid + family.

TINGMUM

heidikl,

I found that our school's P1 english subject teaching method is very closed to the primary school my girl was studied in Australia.  Teachers always encourage students to do a lot of reading, train up kids listening skill , oral skill,phonic skill and creative writing. Students are required to spelling some vocabs in P1 but not as much as in P2.   When you son goes to P2, you will find that this type of teaching aprroach is really work.  Most of kids in our school love english and willing to learn more.

[ 本帖最後由 TINGMUM 於 08-10-6 13:01 編輯 ]

principal

heidikl,

In addition to Bluestar's and TINGMUM's advice below, I think you can also consider to start encourgaing your son to spell some words gradually now as the English words in the examples you quoted below are not very difficult.
It will be a good idea to start now so he will know the spelling of more/longer English words from P2 onwards.

原帖由 heidikl 於 08-10-5 22:19 發表

After my son studing in TSL for aound 1 month, so far I feel pretty satisfied on all espects, except that I have some comments on English subject (sorry that this is all my personal opinion and it may ...

[ 本帖最後由 principal 於 08-10-6 20:32 編輯 ]

heungboy

Hi heidikl, 阿理爸爸

My son also studied in 1E.
I have an question on the 1st term test:
for chinese, do you still have the 寫昨工昨紙(1-1)?
I think I have lost the paper.
Please advise me the content of this papar sheet. Thank you.

Heidiki, your kid chose Golf as the 1st choice of free ECA? My son chose Golf also and confirmed by the teacher that he has successfully enrolled.
May be our kids can play Golf together !!

principal

heungboy,

If your son has lost some of the worksheets, you can log in to e-class and then you can see "Learning Centre" on the top right corner of the first page.
Click "Learning Centre" and then click "Subject Area" in the middle and then click "Chinese" and then you can see several worksheets there.
You can then download this worksheet and print it out yourself.

But in case the worksheet you want is not there, you have to ask for other P1 parents for help again.

Actually, you can find a lot of worksheets of various subjects there and they can be downloaded from this section of the school website.

原帖由 heungboy 於 08-10-7 08:21 發表

Hi heidikl, 阿理爸爸

My son also studied in 1E.
I have an question on the 1st term test:
for chinese, do you still have the 寫昨工昨紙(1-1)?
I think I have lost the paper.
Please advise me the conte ...

[ 本帖最後由 principal 於 08-10-7 09:05 編輯 ]

heungboy

Principal,

You are really nice and helpful.
I followed your guideline and found the worksheet already !!
Thanks a lot...

principal

heungboy,

Don't mention it.
And glad to hear that you can find out the worksheet you need.

As we are on the "same boat", we should help each other.

原帖由 heungboy 於 08-10-8 08:02 發表

Principal,

You are really nice and helpful.
I followed your guideline and found the worksheet already !!
Thanks a lot...

[ 本帖最後由 principal 於 08-10-8 22:33 編輯 ]

heidikl

Hi, Heungboy,
Glad to see on more 1E parent.
I'm now not in HK for business trip and so I don't know if my son is successful enrolled in the Golf course. I'll call him tomorrow to check. What's your son's name? Mine is Ian (Leung Sze Wang).

Principal et al,
Thanks for all your advices.
Unfortunately I can't join tomorrow event. Hope you and the other parents joined have a happy visit.
But I still think that if there is more transparency on the English taught this will be helpful for us.  

原帖由 heungboy 於 08-10-7 08:21 發表
Hi heidikl, 阿理爸爸

My son also studied in 1E.
I have an question on the 1st term test:
for chinese, do you still have the 寫昨工昨紙(1-1)?
I think I have lost the paper.
Please advise me the conte ...

heungboy

Hi Heidikl,

Actually so far school has no official reply to us whether our kids has successfully or not on the enrollement of free ECA. I know the result just becauce I called to the teacher in charge.  So I think Ian still does not know yet.

My son named Jerry Seak.

阿理爸爸

Hi P1 parents,
Studing the E-cir G029  -Primary !-Scheme of Work, in which: P.1 English Scheme of work (1st Term 2008-9), there are (Test #1  on 29/9-10/10 and Passowrd#2 and Test #2 on 13/10-31/10) and a (Term Test {Reading workshop between the two tests.)



But I am so confuse that (There will be no exam.) stated in the E-Cir- G029 - appendix..

What is the contants of the tests?  
What is the meaning of (Term Test --Reading Workshop) and contants?

Hi, Hungboy... nice to meet you here, my son named Wu Hok Him Donald. I have found out Jerry in the glassmate photo on the post-board in glassroom.

I have took the photo and post at home.

Bluestar

阿理爸爸,

Instead of having a test in Engl (as for P2 - P6) on that day, all P1 kids take "Reading Workshop", i.e. no test, no Engl test / exams, just doing some light reading in school for that day.

The Test #1, #2, #3 ... and Passport #1 refer to small tests (quizzes) during Engl lessons, on what was taught.

[ 本帖最後由 Bluestar 於 08-10-14 12:31 編輯 ]

阿理爸爸

原帖由 Bluestar 於 08-10-14 12:29 發表
阿理爸爸,

Instead of having a test in Engl (as for P2 - P6) on that day, all P1 kids take "Reading Workshop", i.e. no test, no Engl test / exams, just doing some light reading in school for that day. ...

Thank you very much.
I wish to ask is the school dismissal time will be early than normal days during the "Test Days"?  Threre are still nothing arrangement hearning from the school bus co.

little-pig

Maybe you should ask the school bus "ee" for the arrival time during the "test days"

principal

阿理爸爸,

According to the circular #G039 dated Sep 29, the dismissal time during the 4-day term test period will be at 11:00 a.m.
School bus service will be provided as usual.

You better call the school bus company or the school bus nanny to confirm the arrival time of the school bus at your residence during this period.

原帖由 阿理爸爸 於 08-10-14 12:37 發表



Thank you very much.
I wish to ask is the school dismissal time will be early than normal days during the "Test Days"?  Threre are still nothing arrangement hearning from the school bus co.

Bluestar

The schoolbus company usually issues an A4-size piece of paper (or smaller size since last year) giving the pick-up time.

The bus nanny usually reminds whoever picks up the kid re the special pick up time the previous day (i.e. this Wed) this takes effect.

(You will get used to the school routine very soon, don't worry.)

[ 本帖最後由 Bluestar 於 08-10-14 15:24 編輯 ]

shanma

I have already received the notice from the bus 'ee' this morning.  Very clear!!

原帖由 阿理爸爸 於 08-10-14 12:37 發表


Thank you very much.
I wish to ask is the school dismissal time will be early than normal days during the "Test Days"?  Threre are still nothing arrangement hearning from the school bus co.

little-pig

終於測完驗啦啦!!
同佢溫書慘過自己讀書好多呀
希望佢唔好肥佬啦...

TINGMUM

little-pig,

唉!  我個仔:
test完中文, 我問佢點, 佢話識晒!!!以佢的中文能力會識晒? 我好驚訝!! 之後佢又補一句, 話自己寫字太慢所以好多未做!!!

test 完math, 我問佢點, 佢話識晒,會有100分!

今日test GS, 佢昨日唔肯溫書, 話自己唔使溫, 因為會攞100分!

過份自信, 唔知是好事定係壞事!