How to improve in English Grammar in Primary 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 always tested, 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 and 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 Saturday 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…
What To Expect & How To Help Your Child in English Language 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 Read more…
New Format Compositions and How to follow the theme – Part 2 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 Read more…
New Format Compositions & going out of point Part 1 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 Read more…
Practical Advice for PSLE Good morning! I hope everyone is relaxing and enjoying the school holidays! While it is great for the children to put their feet up and relax- usually meaning grabbing the ipad, tablet, computer or phone- I remind my students this is a great time to read Read more…