Reservist 21-24th of April

Dear Parents, I will be away for reservist from next Monday till Thursday next Week. I understand that it is the exam periods and I have briefed the relief teacher on what needs to be done next week. Please feel free to email me should you have any queries.

These were some photos taken during the Kg Glam trip last week. So Sorry that I am unable to post the pictures till now. The kids had a great time and I hoped that they have some take away from the trips as well as the valuable time spent with their friends.

Jie Kai, Kai Lin, Amanda and Yi-xinn all excited!!

Lee Yi and Herman (the best of friends group)

Everyone listening to the tour guide's explaination

A class photo together

All that's been happening lately

Hello Everyone, sorry I had been busy lately and didn't have much time to post in our class blog. Well had fell sick when I returned from Shanghai and had been busy with the Science Nova week lately. Well a lot of things have been happening in School lately and just thought I did share with everyone. Firstly we celebrated International Friendship Day. We are really fortunate to have so many guest who gave a show and tell session to the pupils. The information was really useful and it allowed us to understand other people's culture better.

Some of the different interesting costumes

As your would have know by now, the school introduced the local immersion for the first time this year. Pupils get to stay at Nanyang Girls High hostel for a good 20 days. Everyday they will go school and after that they will return to NYGH's hostel to stay before going to school the following day. Over the weekend, they will have different exciting activities. Well, the girls from my class sure is excited about it. If only I had such immersion during my time...The following are those who will be going to the immersion!
Eden, Grace, Megan, Ferderico

Also we had our prefect investiture lately. Well I am so pleased that 6 pupils from my former class 3E have been elected PREFECTS! Congratulations to them! Well Done!!

My Former 3E pupils

Prefects in our Class 4E

Well I suppose "with greater powers, comes more responsibilities!". I am not exactly a discipline freak but I do have my expectations of my prefects. As for those who are keen to take on the role as prefects, I am watching! = )

Science Nova this coming Frion 28/03

Dear Parents,
This coming Friday would be the science nova day where pupils will get to have hands-on experience and get to carry out certain experiments. Not to worry this experiment will not be graded but more of a means to allow pupils to gain more experience in science.

This term is really a tight one and I urged everyone to work closely and submit their work on time alright. I am sure everyone in 4E can do much better than this. Some of your are not really up to standard yet.

Oh yah we are going to Kampong Glam on the 7th of April. Any parent volunteers? Please email me at low_kiah_wee@moe.edu.sg Have a great day everyone!

Welcome back to school as we celebrate Janel's Bday as well!

Welcome back everyone. It's going to be a bitter struggle term with SA1 in the 8th week. This term is really going to be a real tight one so may I invite everyone to tune yourself and get ready for the battle.

But for a start on the first day of school, let's celebrate Janel's birthday! She turns 10 on the first day of the 2nd term. Her birthday always falls during the holidays so this year is an exception. We allowed her to hold a mini celebration. I shall let the pictures do the talking!

The Birthday cake!

My EXCITED pupils

Mdm Leong and Janel's Mummy get excited too!

Oooo Ain't it Sweet!! Mummy and Daughter...

Parents, I want your opinions.

I have spend my lovely Saturday afternoon doing marking! While I must say that everyone had performed much better in this PBT test there is something that disturbs me pretty much.

I still find pupils not showing proper working despite numerous reminders in class. This means that quite a handful of pupils still use the top down approach and scribble their working all over the space provided. They did not use the left to right approach, writing line by line on how they arrive at the answer.

This time round, I still award working marks to the pupils but I am afraid in official exams I will have to follow strictly to the marking scheme. I know in some cases that other teachers do deduct some marks from pupils. The reason is that since it is a practice where marks are not recorded down, teachers want to allow pupils to understand the importance of showing proper working.

As such this results in some confusion, parents will wonder "Why this teacher never deduct marks while others do or why last time never deduct now in exams marks are deducted." Do your think that I should deduct marks even for practice to set things right from the start? Parents, I would like to hear from you. You can email me your feedback to Low_kiah_wee@moe.edu.sg

Thank you.

Mr Low Falls Sick......

Hello everyone. How was the PBT test today? Was it easy? I sure hope everyone can do much better than the mock paper. Bet your must be really happy right then I didn't come school these 2 days. I am down with fever and stomach flu in case your are wondering why I did not come to school these 2 days. Yucks had to eat all the plain porridge that my mum cooked (Make sure your don't tell my mum about her horrible porridge else she is going to come after me).

Well I miss everyone. Hope your did not give the relief teachers a tough time eh! Alright I am gonna get your PBT papers tomorrow to mark them . Please don't give me more heart attacks ah!!

See your on Monday! = )

Addressing all Parents!

Hope everyone is very familiar with the word PBT by now. By explaining more about PBT I hope that not so many parents will lose sleep over this PBT. = p So sorry for not being able to update the blog as frequent this week. Well I would like to give everyone a summary in case you are wondering how your child had fared based on his grades as well as how he/she fared as compared to his/her peers.

Basically the class did not do well with almost half the class scoring 30 marks or less. For the first time, pupils this year have to sit this problem based task as such they are not really comfortable with the questions. Instead of the usual "one answer only" problems, pupils now have to give all the POSSIBLE answers and as such they tend to overlook. For most pupils, you will observe that they did not do well in the areas where they are asked to list possible answers like the arrangement of chair and table combination, as well as questions asking them for their opinion like which is a better deal 10 or 11 chairs. This is very common amongst pupils at this level. So fret not! I am sure they will do better in this coming test on Friday.

As the schedule is very tight for me due to the upcoming Shanghai trip. This Friday's paper may only be returned to pupils when school reopen. As for those parents who wishes to view the paper, I am afraid this can be done only when school reopens. I am sorry for any inconveniences caused.