The Pre-Primary 1 Parents Must-Have:
The P1 Parents’ Survival Guide to Primary School
Survival Tip 9: To know what to expect during the first few weeks of school
Ssshhhh……Secrets: there are 2 screening tests that your child have to take
After the first few days of teething period for the Primary 1 students, teachers would start on the formal curriculum. Most teachers will get their pupils to do written work in class after 1 or 2 days of settling down. For some schools, there will also be homework brought home to complete. However, many schools will encourage teachers not to give the lower primary student too much homework.
• English-Stellar
For English, all MOE schools use the STELLAR approach. Students do not need to buy any textbooks. Teachers will read a Big (story) book to students first. Then different activities will be introduced to the students with the aims of teaching items like Vocabulary, Grammar, sentence structure, punctuation and so on.
• Math
For Math, there are also various textbooks/workbooks that the school will adopt. Most schools will adopt one set of textbooks/workbooks e.g. My Pals are here, Shaping Math or Targeting Math. Most schools will use the adopted textbooks and workbooks and supplement with some school worksheets.
• Screening tests
In the 3rd or 4th week (2nd week for some schools), your child will be doing some screening tests. These tests are conducted by the Learning support coordinator for English and Math. However, most likely it is not made known to your child that they are doing a test. Students will most likely be told that they are doing an exercise.
So what are these screening tests? Do you need to prepare your child for these screening tests?
There are two screening tests that your child has to do, one for English and one for Math. The aim of the screening tests is to allow additional early intervention support to be provided for these children.
• Learning Support Programmes
Children who need early intervention support for English will be in the Learning Support Programme (LSP) for English and those who need support for Math will be in the Learning Support for Mathematics (LSM)
So what do the students learn in LSP and LSM? Will it be good for your child to be in the programmes?
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