When MOE announced that there will be no mid-year exams for Primary 3 and 5 students starting from 2020, there were a lot of buzz among parents. The main concern was how they would assess their children’s progress. Without a score to help them determine how their children measured against their peers, parents began to...
With schools having reopened for over a month now, you may be asking yourself this question: is there really still a need for online learning? After all, weren’t online lessons just a temporary stopgap measure to protect our children from being exposed to COVID-19? Barring a resurgence of the virus (touch wood!), there should be...
Starting Primary 1 is one of the major milestones your children go through in their educational journey. It is both exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time. Many parents prepare their children for this big change ahead of time so that their children can be emotionally and mentally ready for the next phase of their...
Giving your children an early start into the performing arts can have many benefits on their development – greater confidence, better self-expression, increased disciplined, just to name a few. It is no wonder then that the performing arts for children have been garnering much attention in recent years as schools attempt to integrate such courses...
PSLE oral exams are an important component of your child’s PSLE journey, as they make up 25% of his/her overall score in the subject. Also known as Paper 4, the English oral exam lasts for 10 minutes – five minutes for preparation and five minutes for the actual oral exam. The PSLE English Oral exam...
Every term, our preschoolers at MindChamps Chinese PreSchool are exposed to a different aspect of the Chinese culture. Now you too can journey through 5,000 years of Chinese civilisation with them in our Chinese Cultural Corner blog series! For our very first article, we are shining the spotlight on the traditional folk art of Chinese...
It is a scene that any parent will find familiar, played out in households every day all over the world. Parents put aside their work or settle down beside beds in the evening to read to their children – only to react with amused exasperation when their kids pull out the same dog-eared book they...
Singapore’s education system has been put in a unique situation this year with the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, many countries have had to close schools to minimise the spread of the virus among the children. For schools in some countries, the closure is for an indefinite period of time. An Unprecedented Change in the School Calendar...
Almost half the world has been in the confines of their home since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the first half of this year. In some countries, schools have been forced to close to minimise the spread of COVID-19. Singapore is no different. Under the Circuit Breaker (CB), schools have been ordered to shut since...
It has indeed been an eventful year so far, and once again, the primary one (P1) registration for 2020 is coming up. As announced by the Ministry of Education, the registration of children for P1 in 2021 will be done online this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting this year, the intake of permanent...
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