P6 Composition Theme – An Adventure First of all, congratulations to my students on their preliminary results. Many of them have reached the goals that they have set for themselves. This is our last month of revision at Thinking Factory. This is a time when nothing new is introduced. Everything Read more…
2019 Preliminary Composition Themes As the school holidays approach, I am pretty sure like my own P6s, it isn’t a time of rest. This is the last stretch before the PSLE. Hang in there! The school holiday is really the perfect time for revision and planning out possible composition themes. Read more…
PSLE Oral 2019 & Stimulus-based conversation- Acts of kindness It was a good year for PSLE oral at Thinking Factory! I was super pleased to get messages from my students’ parents and students themselves on their thoughts after the oral examination. Everyone was confident for both days. ‘Reading’ seemed like Read more…
2019 Preliminary Oral Topics These are the Preliminary topics my students faced this year. Many schools had the same topics and questions were also similar All the best for the PSLE Oral!! ACS Junior/ Southwest/ Alexandra Theme: Addiction to Gadgets Picture: Talk about gadget addiction 1) Would you take part Read more…
List of PSLE Oral Themes by Thinking Factory This year my P6 classes compiled their SA1 oral themes. but we realised that many of the themes tested had already been tested in class. Overall, 25 topics and themes were tested in class, mostly individually or in a group. This year, Read more…
PSLE 2016 English Composition Theme – A Secret We have begun working on the writing and oral components of the past PSLE years. During the June holidays, we worked on the PSLE 2016 English composition – Theme: A Secret. This is one of those themes that I feel students may Read more…
PSLE 2019 SA1 Composition Themes As we approach the end of the June school holidays, our P6s will begin on their next leg of the ‘race’ to the PSLE. To prepare them for the writing component, I compiled a list of my students’ SA1 composition themes and we have been Read more…
P6 Composition: Achieving a goal As many students move on from their Oral SA1 to their Paper 1, here are a few tips to help you in your writing. (1) Study the theme and pictures carefully before you plan Make sure that you understand what the theme is asking you Read more…
PSLE Composition Theme – An Unusual Incident Using the theme correctly is important in composition writing. It is easy for even good writers to lose track of the theme even a little and marks can be subtracted. During the planning stage of this composition, I had to ask students to Read more…
PSLE Oral – Stimulus Based Conversation We are hard at work preparing for the upcoming CA1 for the P6 classes. However, I have also started preparing for the start of Oral testing for my P6s. At Thinking Factory, this usually begins at the start of March and continues all the Read more…