A great way to revise for the upcoming English Paper 1 Preliminary is by planning out previous questions. We do this every year right before the Prelim composition. Thanks to my P6 students every year, we always have a list to work with. Below is the SA1 2021 List of Read more…
Certain themes can be difficult for students to write on. Describing certain emotions that are not often dealt with in compositions can be challenging for some. Recently, we worked on the theme of embarrassment. Unlike being sad, happy or afraid, describing being embarrassed is an emotion not often described during Read more…
Today, I will bid farewell to the last class of my 2020 P6 students. Like every year, it will take me some time to get used to not seeing them on a weekly basis. At the same time I feel excited for them as they take the first step towards Read more…
Firstly, congratulations to my students for their excellent Preliminary English scores. Some targets have been surpassed while others have been narrowly missed. And of course, there are also some disappointments. For those who are disappointed, don’t feel disheartened. There is still a month to go and a lot can be Read more…
This week marks the start of the Preliminary examinations. We have been working on writing diligently and regularly all year long. Despite the Circuit Breaker period, we continued on the weekly writing process and thanks to the help of the parents, work was submitted via scanning and email. My students Read more…
Congratulations to one of our most hardworking P6 students, Sophia, for being shortlisted as one of the Top 50 finalist in the SOTA P6 Creative Writing Competition 2020!!!! We are very proud that your piece was selected as one of the top 50 out of 1500 creative writing essays sent Read more…
It has been a very busy two weeks and somewhat stressful. After the announcement that all enrichment and tuition centres had to close, Thinking Factory, was hard at work thinking of the best way to continue on with teaching and learning. My main focus was on continuing the lessons with Read more…
Bullies and bullying are common characters and themes that students like to use in their compositions. This is understandable because this topic is ever present in children’s lives, be it through books, the media and sadly for some, real life experiences. Before the March holidays, I gave my P5 and Read more…
This is the second composition theme my Primary 6 students are attempting for January. This theme was set for the 2019 English Preliminary for one of my students last year. I felt that this theme and the pictures given were not as easy to write about as some students believed. Read more…
Tomorrow we begin our PSLE Intensives until December 18th. I would like to congratulate my 2019 PSLE students for their accomplishments and results – from A*s and As and to my student who worked hard to accomplish his B grade, which he believed was not possible. Sometimes parents ask me Read more…