MeettheParents Session

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Meet-the-Parents Session
Welcome

• P3 Parents
• 8 March 2007

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Parents Pledge

• As partners in education and role
• models, we, the parents of CHIJ St.
• Nicholas Girls School pledge that
• We will support and participate
• wholeheartedly and selflessly in the
• activities of the school to achieve all
• round development for our
• daughters .

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• We will work hand in hand with the
• principal and teachers to guide our
• daughters to develop a sense of
• aesthetics, social responsibility and
• moral values.
• We will be totally committed to help the
• school and our daughters in their
• efforts to build a gracious and continually
• progressing nation.

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Programme

• Introduction
• School Vision, Mission and Values
• Highlight of Programmes for P2 and P3
• Interaction with Form Teacher
• Getting to know your Parent Class Rep

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Principal

• Ms Chan Wan Siong
• Chan_wan_siong_at_moe.gov.sg
• Science trained
• Started teaching in June 1984
• Appointed Principal/Naval Base Sec in Dec 1997
• Joined School Appraisal Branch as Senior Quality
  Assessor in Dec 2001
• Joined SNG on 15 Dec 2006

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Vice-Principal

• Mdm Jo-marie
• Jo-Marie_ALAGU_at_moe.gov.sg
• Science trained
• Started teaching in Ahmad Ibrahim Sec in May 1998
• HOD/Pupil Development from 2002-2006.
• Joined SNG on 15 Dec 2006

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Key Personnel
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Key Personnel
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Key Personnel
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P3 Form Teachers
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Other P2 and P3 Teachers

• Mdm Ruth Tan
• Mdm Ong Ee Hoon
• Mr Goh Sai Wee
• Mr Muthukumaran
• Miss Leny Nuurlina

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School Mission, Vision Values
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School Mission
The mission of CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls School is
the creation of a Christ-centred school community
where all work together for the promotion of
truth, justice, freedom and love, with special
reference to the need of the pupils who are
disadvantaged in any way.
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School Vision
A Leader in Every Student Every student believes
she has the talent and the capacity to make a
positive difference. She translates that belief
into practice guided by the values of truth,
justice, freedom and love. The staff embody the
same belief in their work, inspiring the students
to be the best they can be.
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School Values

• Truth
• Justice
• Freedom
• Love

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School Values
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PRIME

• Upgrading of existing school building
• Move out in Dec 2008 to Kebun Bahru Pri School
  along AMK Ave 2
• Expected completion date Dec 2010

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A SNG Pupil

• Emphasis on total development of the child
• 5 Areas of development Moral, Intellectual,
  Physical, Social Aesthetics

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A SNG Pupil Moral Development

• Health Education An integrated approach
• Personal and Social Education through Lifeskills
  Programme (P2-, P3-)
• CME CIP (P2- My Class, P3 -My School)

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A SNG Pupil Intellectual Development

• Curricular Programme (P2 SEED)
• Gifted Education Programme
• Maths Science Trail
• P3 Project Work (Theme of Learning Journey
  Our Forefathers)
• P2 Learning Journey (Theme on Maths)

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A SNG Pupil Curriculum

• SEED _at_ SNG for P2
• Transition in P3 Curriculum
• Introduction of Science in P3

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A SNG Pupil Physical Development

• CCA
• Healthy Lifestyle Programme Good eating habits,
  exercise
• Sports Carnival

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A SNG Pupil Aesthetics Development

• P3 Cultural Arts Prog Chinese Calligraphy
• P3 Language Arts Prog Chinese Poetry Recitation
  Composition

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Thank you
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Welcome to Primary 3 Meet-the-Parents Session
2007
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CA1 components
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CA1 results (level)
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EnglishArea of Concern

• Comprehension
• Pupils are weak in vocabulary which
• impedes their understanding
• Pupils do not answer what the question is asking
  for (e.g. Why question - pupils
• give an answer to a How question)

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English Suggestions for Improvement

• For comprehension
• - Highlight the key words in the questions
• (W-H Why, Where, What,How)
• - Read the text at least twice to find the main
• idea(s) in each paragraph
• - Highlight or underline the answer(s) from
• the passage
• - Check the tenses of the question and the
• answer (They must be in the same tense.)

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English Areas of concerns

• Composition
• - Pupils need to use more descriptive
• words and elaborate more on the
• pictures.
• - Pupils need to be more careful in their
• spelling and grammar (tenses,
  punctuation).
• - Pupils need to use a variety of linking
• words and suitable connectives. (e.g.
• Meanwhile, As soon as, Just then etc)

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English Suggestions for Improvement

• For composition
• - Read good model compositions e.g.
• Young Writers
• - Pick out and write down good phrases in an
• exercise book
• - Read different types of books e.g.
• Contemporary fiction, tales/folklores, non-
• fiction

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Chinese

• Daily Work include
• Weekly spelling
• Sentence-construction
• Revision Paper
• Enrichment Worksheet after every unit
• Picture Composition - will form part of the
  assessment for SA1 SA2

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Areas of concerns

• Fill in the blanks with the given hanyu pinyin
  (????)
• - Pupils are able to read hanyu pinyin,
• but unable to recall how to write the
• chinese characters.

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Areas of concerns
Comprehension (????) Ability to deduce word
definition (????) - Pupils must be able to
deduce the correct word written within a
passage from the definition provided in
the question
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Areas of concerns

• Composition writing(??)
• - Pupils must be able to write a complete
• essay based on the given 4 pictures.

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Suggestions for Improvement

• Practice writing to reinforce memory so that
  pupils are able to do the fill in the blanks
  (????).
• Pupils need to read the text very carefully for
  clues hidden in the given passage when deducing
  word definition.
• Pupils have to read more model essays and learn
  beautiful phrases for the composition writing.

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MathematicsArea of Concern

• Pupils need
• 1) to review place values
• Eg. In 6 789, the digit 7 stands for ____
• (Ans 700)
• Eg. 40 tens ______(Ans 400)
• 7 hundreds ____ ones
• (Ans 700)

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MathematicsArea of Concern

• Pupils need
• 2) to exercise caution when dealing with
  regrouping in addition and subtraction of numbers
• 3) to practice doing word problems involving
  more than one step
• 4) to read the question more thoroughly

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Suggestions for Improvement

• Pupils should
• review place values
• learn to check their answers (eg. work backwards)
  
• learn to use model drawing to help them
  understand the more challenging word problems.

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Science Area of Concern

• Pupils do not answer the question being asked
• Example
• The classification table below shows how some
  animals are grouped according to the way they
  reproduce.

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Science Area of Concern

• Give suitable headings for Group A and B.
• Many pupils wrote headings like They are
  land animals, They are sea animals instead on
  focussing on the way the animals reproduce.

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Science Area of Concern

• When comparing objects, organisms, pupils gave
  answers that are too general or do not explain
  observations FULLY.
• Example
• State one difference between the cow and the
  toadstool.
• Pupils wrote
• The cow is an animal but the toadstool is a
  fungi.
• The cow moves. (How about the toadstool?)

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Suggestions for Improvement

• Read the question carefully
• Underline the key word (s) if any
• Analyse the information given
• Do NOT jump to conclusions
• Take time to explain thoughts clearly and
  carefully

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School Diary

• Parents to get information from the school diary
  (eg. CA/SA dates, school rules, calendar of
  events etc.)
• Make use of diary as a channel to communicate
  with parents.
• Highlight rules

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THANK YOU