Dialogue with Sec 1 Parents WELCOME TO

PEICAI

Talk about Life in Peicai

Talk about Life as a Secondary School Student

Share some thoughts the role of parents as supportive partners

START WITH LIFE IN PEICAI

Information Booklet

• Gives a very broad overview of what your child would experience in Peicai

• Help you to ask more questions for today

• Presentation today will just re-cap some of the information from the booklet

• 20 of you who have other children who were in Peicai

We start with 2 Key Ideas about school

School experience must be a positive learning experience which grows students to become persons for others

When students leave the school, the key we give them must open as many doors as possible

Reality Check for Everyone …

We can’t give ALL the keys to ALL the doors

We can only try to make sure that the keys we give lead them to a room which will allow them to earn the other keys

Core Values

Self -Awareness

Self -Management

Social -Awareness Relationship

Management

Responsible Decision- Making

21st Century Skills

Social & Emotional Competencies

Core Values – R3ICH Respect, Responsibility, Resilience,

Integrity, Care, Harmony

Confident Person

Concerned Citizen

Active Contributor

Self-Directed Learner

Our Hope as a School:

Head

“Heart”

Hand - Habits

Heart 1. Demonstrate

PRRIDE values & Social Emotional Competencies

2. 60 hours Significant Contributions

3. Internationalisation Experience

4. CCE@Peicai

Head

1. Progression to Post-Secondary Education

2. Discovered and Stretched Potential

Hand

1. B3 CCA grade 2. NAPFA Silver 3. Competent in 2

physical activities 4. Organised a

School Event 5. Appreciate

Aesthetics 6. Student

Leadership@ Peicai

Common

School

Experiences Segmentise

Needs,

Differentiate

Approaches Discover

Strengths,

Stretch

Potential

Leverage

&Integrate

Processes &

Platforms

4 Key Long-Term Strategies

Developing Students the Peicai Way

Common School Experiences

• Ensures a basic but unique educational foundation for all

Peicaian students

• Provides, common purpose, coherence and stability in

student programmes as they progress from one year to

the next

• Enhances students’ sense of belonging to the school

• Enables the community to demonstrate school values,

nurture a culture of care and inspires giving back

Character and Citizenship

Education

PRRIDE Lessons - 1 hour a week (Perseverance,

Respect, Responsibility, Integrity, Discipline,

Empathy)

Level Programmes (Sexuality Education,

Educational and Career Guidance, Cyberwellness)

– 1 hour a week

Heart-2-Heart – Teacher-Pupil Conference

Voices and Vision every fortnight – Reflect and

Share on values

Quote and Student of the Fortnight

Commendable Act Awards

Student Leadership

Development

4 Levels of Leadership (Class Committees,

Class Leaders, Aesthetics Ambassadors,

Camp Leaders, CCA, Student Council,

Peer Support Leaders, Exco Leaders)

Not only teachers but peer and self-

nomination

Leadership Lessons in the CCE Curriculum

Platforms to practice leadership

Some examples • Sec 1 Charity

Fair All Sec 1 Classes set

up a stall to raise funds

Run concurrently with Racial Harmony Day

• Sec 2 Level Camp

Begins with selection and training for Camp Leaders at the end of Sec 1

These leaders help to run the Camp programme with the teachers in Sec 2

Sec 3 Event Organisation

• Started in 2009

• Each Sec 3 Class assigned a school event to organise:

Total Defence Day

Racial Harmony Day

National Day

International Friendship Day

Awards Day

Your Free Day • To enable students to self-

organise and take ownership of conducting an activity/ programme that they like in order to develop their leadership skills in planning and organising

• Provide Opportunities for students to Practice Ownership and Responsibility

Internationalisation Experiences

• Sec 4 and 5 Humanities Trip – Cameron Highlands in 2013

• Uniformed Groups Expedition – Taiwan in 2013

• Mountain Expedition – Mount Kinabalu in 2009, 2011, 2012)

• Student Leaders Overseas Outreach every two years

• Depending on Funding

• Art Trips to Malaysia and Bali

• CCA groups – Performing Arts, Sports Groups

• Subject-Based Excursions

Peicai Around the World

China

Hong Kong

Japan

Cambodia

Indonesia

Malaysia

Vietnam

Australia Maldives

France

65% of the 2012 cohort have had an internationalisation experience

Segmented Needs Differentiated Approach

Normal Academic Segmented Programmes

Focus on Foundation Subject Students in Sec 1

GIANT and ACES Programme

Partnership with external Agencies

Normal Technical 4+1 Curriculum

Explore, Engage, Empower, Exemplify

Outdoor Activities and Skills

Elective Modules – Hairstyling, Culinary, Motor-Cycle Repair,

Game Design

Discover Strengths Stretch Potential

Talent Management

Advanced Elective Modules

Thru’ Train O levels

Student-Teach-Students CCAs

4-year workplan

CIP and Values in Action in CCAs

Integrated Enrichment

Some information about CCAs

• CCAs are compulsory – each student must participate in a school-based CCA

• We cannot offer every CCA to meet every child’s needs

• For Sports – the PE programme covers many sports, Sports Carnival, Fun Run

• For Aesthetics – Aesthetics Programme, Lunchtime Concerts, Performances during School Events, IGNITE Public Concert every 2 years

• Please come for CCA Orientation this Friday at 2.30pm

Lunch-time Concerts

LIFE AS A SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT

Longer Time in School

• Academic Curriculum - Lower Sec

• Last Possible Lesson ends at 2.10 pm (Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays)

• On Wednesday, school starts at 8.50 and ends possibly at 3.30

• Friday – majority ends at 12.20, but some classes may have lessons up to 1.10pm

• Upper Sec – may end at 3.30pm on Mondays and Tuesdays

Longer Time in School

• Non-Academic Curriculum

• Humanities Learning Journeys

• ICT Lessons

• CCAs

• Student Leadership Activities

• Community Involvement (Values-In-Action)

• Subject-Based Enrichment

• Project Completion

Longer Time in School

• Unstructured Time

• Waiting for Friends

• Hanging out with Friends

• At the Library

• In the Canteen

• At the Teenage Power House

• Self-Revision

• Additional training/ Self-Directed CCA sessions

More Subjects, Tests, Assessments, Exams

• Common Test at the end of Term 1

• Class Tests – On-Going in Term 1, 2 and 3

• Mid-Year Exams • End-of-Year Exams • Projects • Group Assignments • Home-Based

Learning

• English • Mother Tongue • Mathematics • Science • Geography (Exp/NA) • History (Exp/NA) • Literature (Exp/NA) • Social Studies (NT) • Design & Technology/ Technical

Studies • Home Economics • CPA (NT) • Visual Arts • PE

HELPING YOU/ YOUR CHILD ADJUST

• Merging Subjects

Design & Technology & Art

English & Social Studies (NT)

Project Work & Electives

Modular Approach – alternate subjects each Semester

History & Geography

D&T and Home Econs

• Incorporating Programmes into Curriculum

Learning Journeys

NT Elective Modules

HELPING YOU/ YOUR CHILD ADJUST

• Regular checks on his/her progress:

Assessment (exams, tests, assignments, homework, class work)

Regular Communication with parents (letters and SMS)

• Remediation

Extra lessons

Focused programmes for students

• Rapport Building

FT class time – Teacher-Pupil Conferencing (Heart-2-Heart)

After-school programmes

Your Free Day

Getting to know your child

Regular Communication with Parents

UPPER SEC EMPHASIS

• Structured After-School Academic

Programmes

• Vacation Programmes

• Project Homerun (Evening Study

Sessions)

• Oral Exams Preparations

Sec 1 Pilot

Homework Monitoring

To underscore the importance of

homework

To develop self-directedness and

collaborative learning

To increase parental involvement in the

life of the students

To provide early indication of the need

for intervention

Key Structures

Enhanced Class Diary

Enhanced Student Handbook

Enhanced Class Routines

Support for Collaboration across subjects

Class diary

Emphasis on 4 components of academic work:

Pre-lesson – Prior Reading, Research, Watching a TV programme or video

Homework – work given to reinforce lesson for the day

Collaboration – Group projects, pair work

Assessment – Date of Assessment, what is to be assessed (Monthly Test/ Assessment Schedule)

Student handbook

Sections on work to be completed by

student

Parents’ Acknowledgement

Once in a while, get your child to show

you his handbook

SOME THOUGHTS ON HOW PARENTS CAN HELP

Some ideas

• Join the PTSC – Our Parents’ Support Group

• Participate in the SFE programme – especially the parent-child events

• Maintain an interest in your child’s life – strike a balance

• Keep encouraging them to aspire to become better

Secondary

Express/

Special

Secondary

Normal

Technical

Secondary

Normal

Academic

GCE O

Polytechnic

Diploma

(3yrs)

Junior

College

(2yrs)

Millenia

Institute

(3yrs)

ITE Higher NITEC

UNIVERSITY DEGREE

GCE A

All Pathways can

lead to a

University Degree GCE A Diploma

FP

ITE NITEC

DES NITEC

Higher

NITEC

Higher

NITEC

Higher NITEC

GCE O

GCE N

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A word about ITE progression to Polytechnics

• Can progress directly from the Basic NITEC 2-year programme

• More than 30 courses that allow your child to do so – need to get a minimum Grade Point Average of 3.5 (maximum 4.0)

• Aerospace Aveonics, Machine Technology, Chemical Process Technology, Infocomm Technology (Cloud Computing)

Promotion Criteria • Express

– Pass EL & pass %age in Average of all subjects

– Promotion Criteria not met – move to Sec 2NA

• Normal Academic

– Grade 5 or better in

• EL & 2 other subjects OR 4 subjects (NA)

• 70% average – consider transfer to 2

Express

• Normal Technical

– Grade 5 or better in

• 2 subjects – one must be EL or Maths

• 70% average – consider transfer to 2

Normal Academic

What you are now, does not

determine what you become later in

life …

Bouncing Back from Setback

Tommy Cheng from Hong Kah Secondary

Express Stream Student

Transferred to Normal Academic Stream after Secondary Two

Qualified to go to Jurong Junior College

Scored 4As in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Economics (H1) in A Levels

From Polytechnic, to becoming

Doctors

Soong Jun Wei & Ron Ng

Polytechnic Students

1st two polytechnic graduates to be

accepted to faculty of medicine in the

National University of Singapore

From Normal Tech to NTU

Shankar Gunalan from Naval Base

Secondary

Normal Technical Student

Went to ITE AMK (electrical

engineering)

Qualified for Singapore Polytechnic

(computer control engineering)

Qualified for Nanyang Technological

University

Which primary school you came from

What was your PSLE T-score

What house you live in

Your desire to become better than when you first came to Peicai

Your dedication to work hard to achieve positive goals

Your belief in the fact that the school, any school, will do what it takes to get you there

Lou Xi and Andy Joined Peicai in 2006 Identical T-Score of 222 2009 ‘O’ levels - Qualified for Nanyang Junior College

Lou Xi - Direct School Admission

Andy – 3 A1s and 2 A2s

Done well for the 2011 ‘A’ levels

3 As and 1 B in H2 Subjects

Thaddeus Joined Peicai in 2006 PSLE T-score - 195 O levels 2009 - 2 A1s and 2 A2s Successfully appealed to enter Catholic Junior College

A levels 2011 – 4 As in H2 subjects

Bee Hui O levels 2007 – 2 A2s Chose to attend Millennia Institute – 3-year A level Curriculum A levels 2010 – 3 H2 Distinctions (As)

The Bay Yew Chuan Scholar Award given to the most academically-outstanding student distinguished herself from her peers by being a passionate learner

and above all, a confident and creative thinker given to one who strikes a fine balance between intellectual humility

while being fully confident of her own unique perspectives A forward-looking 21st century thinker and individual

170 candidates - 30% eligible for JCs, 78% eligible for Polytechnics

Achieved the best results in the last three years

Express

39.5% eligible for Junior Colleges

91.2% eligible for Polytechnics

Normal Academic

10.7% Eligible for Junior Colleges

51.8% Eligible for Polytechnics

Keys to Open Many Doors

Almost 40% secured their first choice of course in a polytechnic or a junior college (highest in the last 5 years)

2 students successfully attained Direct School Admission to a Junior College (most in the last 5 years)

6 students successfully attained Direct Polytechnic Admission (most in the last 5 years)

Achievement and Distinction Awards

Samuel

• Achievement Awardee

• PSLE T-score – 164 (1B and 2Cs)

• O levels – 3As and 3Bs

• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in Ngee Ann Polytechnic

• Member of the Infocomm Club

• Very responsible member of the PA/AVA crew

Fan Jun

• Achievement Awardee

• PSLE T-score – 166 (3Bs and 1E)

• O levels – 3As and 1B

• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in Ngee Ann Polytechnic

• Master Sergeant in the School Band

• Committee Member for School Ignite Concert in 2010

Regina

• Achievement Awardee

• T-score of 196

• O levels – 3As and 4Bs

• Assistant Company Leader – Girl Guides

• Vice-President – Peer Support Leaders

• Model Peicaian Award Winner

• Serangoon Junior College

• Self-driven even in Lower Sec

Nicole

• 3A1s 2A2s

• President of the Student Council

• Vice-President of the Drama Club

• Direct Polytechnic Admission

• Ngee Poly Scholar

• Distinction Award

Nur Ariena Rahimi – Temasek Poly Scholar (Childhood Education)

Home Ministry Scholars – Guan Wei (2011), Nur Hafizah (2010)

Our Commitment …

• To do the best that we can for your child

• Develop him/ her to have a Critical Mind and Compassionate Heart (our Vision)

We end we some of your questions

• Those I have partly answered …

• After-school Cabin Programme/ Care Services

• Support/ Remedial Lessons

• Moving from NT to NA – how can my child be helped?

• CCA – why only 3 sports?

• O Levels and Beyond

We end we some of your questions …

• Interesting ones which we may want to share

• Any programmes which contribute back to society?

• How to motivate lazy people/ child?

• How to reduce usage of technological gadgets

THANK YOU