How to improve in English Grammar in Primary 5 & 6 As the Chinese New Year holidays draw to a close and students return to school, preparation for the CA1 for most of my P6s and some of my P5s continue. One of the components of Paper 2, which is Read more…
P6 SA1 Results – What to do next? The examinations are over and results are beginning to stream in. How did your child do? Some parents are beaming with pride while others are becoming anxious. I can understand it. I feel it myself as a teacher. Some students have improved Read more…
Advice on how to help your child prepare for the PSLE year By now, all the P6 students are hard at work preparing for the upcoming CA1. Yes, I have a number of ashen-faced students who have been mixing Chinese New Year late-night celebrations and tons of revision over the Read more…
International PSLE (IPSLE) & Model Composition Over the past 9 months, I had the opportunity to work with an Indonesian student sitting for her IPSLE in Jakarta. Her mother had contacted me through my blog and asked for some private English lessons for E. To be honest, I was initially Read more…
PSLE 2016 & P5 SA2 2016 It has been some time again since I posted but it has been busy, busy two months with the PSLE and SA2s. After the PSLE Oral, I was pleased to find out from my students that we had actually worked on the topic the Read more…
How We Should Prepare for the PSLE Oral Component It is the CA1 season. I know because I too, am feeling the stress of preparing my students. While everyone is knee deep in the Paper 2 components, I am always on the look out for new Stimulus-Based Conversation topics. I Read more…
By now, all the exam papers and mark scores have been returned. As next year will be this batch of students’ PSLE year, parents can be quite concerned about how their children are scoring. The consensus that I get from students (mostly in the ‘top’ schools) is that the SA2 Read more…
In my previous post I talked about how easy it is for students to go out of point with the new format compositions. Now I will discuss how to avoid this issue. 1) Read the question and study the pictures carefully. For the P3/4 make sure that you read the Read more…
I think the phrase “Out of Point” now strikes terror in my heart when it comes to the new format primary compositions. It was not a big area of concern with the old format, unless a student did the Picture composition instead of the Continuous and even then… So lets Read more…
Advice on English SA1 Results P4-P5 and PSLE year Hi everyone. By now the SA1 results are in and parents are either rejoicing or worrying. This is a good time to assess the level of your child and how he/she is performing in each component. Most schools will give the Read more…