P6 Dialogue Session

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P6 Dialogue Session

• 18 January 2008

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Introduction to P6 Teachers
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Introduction to P6 Teachers
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Introduction to P6 Teachers
ML Teachers Mr Shahriman and Mdm Zakiyah TL
Teachers Mrs Marimuthu and Mr Shankar
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Our schools vision for 2008

• A choice Catholic School where
• boys are nurtured to trust in God,
• believe in themselves,
• thrive in a global environment and
• be of service to others.

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Our schools direction for 2008

• Academic Excellence
• Character Building
• Excellence in Non-Academic Areas
• Professional Development of Staff

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Our schools direction for 2008

• Academic Excellence
• Results
• Skills
• Character Building
• Faith Formation for Catholic Boys
• Josephian Values

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Our Pupil Values

• Diligence
• Humility
• Fraternity / Sense of Belonging
• Adaptability
• Integrity
• (Passion for) Life-long Learning
• Empathy

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Our schools direction for 2008

• Character Building
• CIP
• NE
• Student Leadership

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Our schools direction for 2008

• Excellence in Non-Academic Areas
• Sports
• Aesthetics
• Health

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Our schools direction for 2008

• Professional Development of Staff
• enhance their repertoire of pedagogies and
  teaching strategies
• to cultivate them to become life-long learners

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Some Realities for our Primary 6 pupils

• Our boys aspire to go to SJI.
• The cut-off for affiliated schools for SJI in
  2007 was 235.
• Currently SPS accepts all our pupils into Express
  with a special scholarship given to pupils with a
  score of 250 or more. Not all our pupils are
  able to secure a place in the Normal (Academic)
  or the Normal (Technical) class. The cut-off for
  N(A) at SPS was 163.
• Implication is that the boys have to perform
  equally well in all 4 subjects.

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Some Realities Grade System

• A - 91 and higher points
• A - 75 to 90 points (please take note of the
  range in A - stretches from Band 2 into Band 1)
• B - 60 74 points
• C - 50 59 points
• D - 35 49 points
• E - 20 34 points
• U - 0 to 19 points. A candidate scoring a U
  grade may be considered to have failed the PSLE
  and asked to repeat Primary 6 doing Foundation
  Studies.

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Some Realities Grade System

• Foundation Studies
• Band 1 - 85 to 90 points
• Band 2 - 70 - 84 points
• Band 3 - 50 69 points
• Band 4 - 30 - 49 points
• U - 0 to 29 points. A candidate scoring a U
  grade may be considered to have failed the PSLE
  and asked to repeat Primary 6 doing Foundation
  Studies.

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The Schools 2007 Performance

• Highest T-score 273(4As), an increase of 4
  points
• Pupils scoring
• 4 As - 2
• 3 As 12, an increase of 6
• 2 As - 20
• A score of over 235 and above 90
• Pupils who scored 231 and above 102, an
  increase of 28 boys

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The Schools 2007 Performance
We improved our performance in overall passes (A
- C) for CL ? 88.7 (up 2.1) ML ? 72.7 (up
12.7) TL ? 97.1 (up 0.1) EL is maintained at
100 for the second year running.
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The Schools 2007 Performance
We improved our performance in overall quality
passes (A - A) for EL? 60.3 (up 1.1) CL?
54.6 (up 12.5) ML ? 27.3 (up 22.3) Math ?
55.9 (up 2.1) Science ? 55.9 (up 2.8)
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Some Realities T-Score

• T-Score is not the mark that a pupil obtains in
  the examination.
• T-Score gives the rank or position of a pupils
  performance compared to all other pupils in that
  subject whereas the mark obtained in the
  examination only shows how good the pupil is in
  that subject.
• All 4 / 3 subjects that the pupil offers carry
  equal weighting.

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Some Realities T-Score

• How is it calculated?
• T 50 10 (X Y) / Z
• X is the pupils mark for the subject
• Y is the average mark (mean) scored by all the
  pupils
• Z is the spread of the marks around the average
  mark
• (standard deviation)
• We have no way of ascertaining what the Y and Z
  for any particular exam is
• ? Pupils need to put in their best effort for all
  subjects

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Some Realities T-Score

• Average score (Y) obtained by all pupils for a
  subject is 68.0
• Spread of marks around the average score (Z) IS
  14.0
• Therefore a child scoring 80 will obtain a score
  of
• T 50 10 (X Y) / Z or
• T 50 10(80-68) / 14 58.57
• Another child scoring 50 will obtain a score of
  
• T 50 10(50-68) / 14 37.14
• The aggregate score is the sum of the T-Scores
  for the 4 subjects.

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Some Realities Grade System

• A - 91 and higher points
• A - 75 to 90 points
• B - 60 74 points
• C - 50 59 points
• D - 35 49 points
• E - 20 34 points
• U - 0 to 19 points. A candidate scoring a U
  grade may be considered to have failed the PSLE
  and asked to repeat Primary 6 doing Foundation
  Studies.

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Some Realities T-Score

• Therefore in the example cited, the pupil based
  on his raw scores should obtain 1 A and 1 C.
• But after applying the formula for T-scores, he
  receives 1 C and 1 D.

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Some Realities 2007 Aggregate T-Scores
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Some Realities 2007 Aggregate T-Scores
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Some Realities 2007 Aggregate T-Scores
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Some Realities 2007 Aggregate T-Scores
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2007 2008 Initiatives

• P6 Form Teachers freed from CCAs to spend more
  time coaching the boys
• Almost all CL teachers teach 2 classes of P6 CL
• Boys have 2 Remedial / Supplementary days
• Tuesday and Thursday 2 3.30pm
• Mock exams in Semester 2
• CCA Days (Tuesdays 7.30 9am) in Semester 2 will
  be used for teaching purposes

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Continued Practices

• What I and my VP intend to do from February
• Lesson Observations
• Pep talks for the boys whole cohort, class,
  individual
• Sharing of assessment results with the boys
• PTM for parents whose sons are in danger of
  failing PSLE
• Missions talks to motivate the boys
• PSLE Mass in August

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How the school will work with the boys

• Delivery of lessons in as interesting a way as
  possible but boys must work with the teachers
• Remedial and supplementary lessons during term
  time and the June and September holidays
• Review of concerns raised from SA1 results and
  Prelim Results
• Exam Practice from Semester 2 onwards
• Focused Exam Practice for Oral and Listening
  Compre before the respective papers

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Calendar of Dates

• February
• 28 CA1 Mother Tongue
• 29 - CA1 HMT
• March
• 3 CA1 English
• 4 - CA1 Math
• 5 - CA1 Science
• 8 16 March Holidays

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Calendar of Dates

• April
• 21 25 - SA1 Oral
• 29 - SA1 English Paper 1 / Listening Compre.
• 30 - SA1 MT Paper 1 / Listening Compre.
• May
• 5 SA1 English Paper 2
• 6 SA1 Math

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Calendar of Dates

• May
• 7 SA1 MT Paper 2
• 8 SA1 Science
• 9 SA1 Higher Mother Tongue
• 9 - Talk by LaSallian Principals (to be
  confirmed)
• 25 Parent-Teacher Meeting
• June
• 18 20 - Supplementary Lessons

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Calendar of Dates

• July
• 26 Prelim Oral Exams
• August
• 14 15 PSLE Oral Exams
• 18 Prelim EL Paper 1 2
• 19 Prelim Math
• 20 Prelim MT
• 21 Prelim Science
• 22 Prelim HMT
• 22 PSLE Mass

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Calendar of Dates

• August / September
• 30 6 September Holidays
• 3 - 5 Supplementary Lessons
• 12 PSLE Listening Compre Exams

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Calendar of Dates

• October
• 3 PSLE English
• 6 PSLE Math
• 7 PSLE Mother Tongue
• 8 PSLE Science
• 9 PSLE Higher Mother Tongue
• November
• 20 Release of PSLE results (tentative)
• December
• 18 Release of Secondary 1 Posting Results
  (tentative)

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How parents can work with the school and the boys

• Pacing your son and monitoring his work he may
  not have developed the maturity and discipline to
  work at a steady pace
• Those who have been promoted to mainstream
  because they have passed just 1 subject, need a
  lot of work on their foundation
• Communicating and setting realistic targets for
  your son

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How parents can work with the school and the boys

• Working with the teachers and reinforcing the
  importance of completing their homework assigned
  by their teachers
• My teachers will be very firm with their pupils
  when they do not complete homework assigned to
  them ? sending mixed signals as to which homework
  is more important can be frustrating for your son
• Please ensure that your son takes assessments
  seriously ? these assessments serve as a
  yardstick of his current progress

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How parents can work with the school and the boys

• Providing your son balance offering a CCA can
  be helpful for Direct School Admission (DSA)
  possibilities and otherwise
• DSA offered for Sports as well as Math and
  Science (performance in Math or Science from P5
  is noted participation in competitions also
  noted). Please note that boys have still to
  satisfy cut-off points even when they are
  accepted under DSA.
• Ensuring that the boys spend their holidays
  wisely

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Post-PSLE timetable

• Sharing sessions by their seniors of what
  Secondary school life is all about boys from
  SJI and SPS have been coming over
• Special enrichment classes after PSLE as part of
  our Josephian Programme
• Hope to arrange
• Learning journeys and talks by professionals to
  enable our boys to have a sense of working life /
  work ethics
• Pep talks from Secondary School teachers
• We need your support for these 2 initiatives

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Conclusion

• Not promising miracles
• Hope that if school and home can work together
  from the start of the year, more of our boys can
  achieve their academic best
• Will be working closely with P6 teachers and the
  boys to try to achieve this

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Thank You