Announcement

There was a holiday homework:

Our holiday attachment where they were supposed to "work" for a day either at the parent's working place or "work" at home as a housekeeper.

We will be getting them to share throughout the whole of January. Please do not worry if you have not completed or started. There is no urgency. I'll give out the worksheets next Monday for those who have not received or misplaced it over the holidays. 

Schedule of Maths:

We will start with Chapter 1 (numbers to 1000) pretty fast,

Followed by Chapter 2 and 3.. The key focus for this term. 

Addition and subtraction within 1000.

Another key focus is the problem sums for chapter 2 and 3... It would form the foundation for Primary 2. And it's really important that they understand these topics. There's a spiral effect if they do not understand, it will be tough moving on to Primary 3 onwards... As the numbers would only gets bigger and stories will be more complex and difficult to comprehend.

Hence, would seek your kind attention on these key topics for the first term. They would really be crucial for the whole year. 

We will have the PSLE booklet to complete. There are many pages and there may be homework for these pages from time to time... Depending on the speed they take to complete in school.

Do prepare them mentally. P2 is not quite like P1 with more testing and deeper learning of other subject content. 

Thanks.

Regards

Mdm Chan 

Things to bring for the first day of school

Things to bring for first day of school:

1) Maths Workbook 2A

2) English: the 5 items below

3) Spelling: an exercise book (lines are smaller, unlike the ones used in Primary 1)

4) a small rag to clean up the new classroom

5) art materials (the whole bag of art materials to be placed in class if you wish to do so like in 2015.)

6) story book and pencil case along with colour pencils - We will be decorating the classroom together during next week. 

7) optional items: if you can donate 1 English and 1 Mother tongue story book to be used in our the class library. And the rest of the classmates can read them if they forget to bring a story book on that day, that would be great. 

Age level: anything can be picture books to something like young adult fiction. Or a book you may not want it anymore... And you are more than willing to donate to our classroom library. 😊 this is truly optional... It's not compulsory and pls do not buy a new book for this purpose. I would prefer OLD and USED books.

Thanks and regards, 

Mdm Chan

2014 Exam papers P2

Greetings to all!

Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2016!


Moving onto the new year, I have uploaded the exam papers from various schools for English and Mathematics. These are 2014 papers. 2015 papers should be available from the website in late January or early February.

Here's the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hvbz2qme6i4uzjw/AADuu7K5r5Zv5hxxuSqXK77Ca?dl=0

There are English, Mathematics and Chinese. They have been labelled whether they are SA1, SA2, CA1 or CA2.


Explanation for these terminology:
SA1: Usually for mid year papers in May. For our context, it could be useful in April/ May.
SA2: Final year papers. The most important paper for the whole year.

CA1: First continual assessment. (Late Feb/March) before term 1 closes.
CA2: Second continual assessment. (Late Aug/September) before term 3 closes.

Hope this explains.

I hope this won't put any pressure to download or to start doing...you may want to go through some of these papers around the deadlines for the unit reviews. :)

The focus should be on MATHS. It's tougher to score for Maths as compared to English because we have open-ended questions for all unit reviews and there are no MCQ till the final year SA2. Do note these is based on past papers in our school for the past few years... it may still be subjected to changes for the year 2016.


Thanks and have a restful break till 2016.

See you all in school next Monday. :)

Cheers
Mdm Chan