*brag alert* I am sorry about the brag posts of late but we really want to share our joy with all of you. A student messaged me today to tell me he got into band 1 for his English after scoring 86/100 (compared with 77.5 in the previous test). Another parent told me his child[…]
A parent of a P2 child enquired about our class curriculum. I tried finding previous posts about the P1-2 English class to give her a sense of what we do. There were so many wonderful memories as I browsed through the contents. It’s amazing how much we have done, and this is just for the[…]
I am going to have intensive practice with my students this weekend ahead of the SA2 Paper 2. With the new English exam format, the comprehension component has changed too. Some parents are very worried- fret not. We are here to help. And guess what, it’s actually easier to score with the new system. What[…]
A lot of students are having their oral examinations this week and are terrified because of the new oral format. In the previous oral examinations (that has been almost unchanged since my days!), students have to describe a picture and then would be asked to discuss a topic. It is a bit more of a[…]
Read a piece about photography and it advises one to do this. “Learn all the rules, then break them. As much as I hate rules, they’re there for a reason. The first time I heard about the “Rule of Thirds” my mind was blown. I quickly began rearranging all my images to fit, and I[…]
As we approach the year-end examinations, we get academic queries from parents on our wall and private messages. Thought it would be great to share the questions and solutions with everyone here. Science: Question: Wallace: I’ve seen this question before. It’s not a good one to be honest. There’s elastic spring force acting on the[…]
Yesterday, I invited members from Save Our StreetDogs SOSD to give a speech to the Primary 1/2 children. When asked what one should do when his puppy grows up and is no longer adorable, one of my students said he would “let it go” in the forest. The kind volunteer explained to the students why[…]
Taking the exams is not just about knowing everything but also about being exam-smart. Vocabulary cloze, like all other cloze passages, requires you to get hints from other parts of the story. We may not understand all the words in the passage. However, we can guess the meaning from the other sentences. E.g. Anyone looking[…]
Last week, we wrote a note for students who are on the verge of failing the PSLE. Today, we focus on helping students who are eyeing the A*. Note that PSLE is based on a bell curve, i.e. your grades are based on how your peers perform. It doesn’t mean that you automatically get an[…]