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Notification No: 023/2017

16 January 2017

P3 Level Letter (Term 1)

Dear Parent / Guardian,

Our Primary Three level wishes you ‘Happy New Year’ and warmly welcomes your child back to

school. We look forward to working with you and your child this year.

Each term, you will receive a letter which serves to inform and update you on matters pertaining

to the Primary Three level. We seek your patience in thoroughly reading the contents of the letters.

Do contact or email your child’s form teacher if you need any clarifications or have any concerns.

We strongly recommend that you call the office at 63687705 to make an appointment with your

child’s teacher should you wish to meet him/her.

At the last MOE’s Workplan Seminar, Minister of Education Mr Ng Chee Meng has recommended

3 key strategies in developing the 21st century learner:

1. Joy of Learning 2. Entrepreneurial Dare 3. Strengthening the Singapore Spirit

Joy of Learning

At the Primary Three level, we want to provide a conducive learning environment where our pupils

find learning a joyful experience. We want to ignite in our pupils a sense of wonderment in their

learning. We will do this through the level motto, “Listen. Think. Try”. We want our pupils to

adopt the following mindset:

“Before you act, Listen”

“Before you react, Think”

“Before you quit, Try”

As pupils advance from Primary 2 to Primary 3, they will experience changes in academic

workload and examination formats. Hence, their learning curve will be steep. Through myriad

activities that we’ve planned for our pupils this year, we aim to develop them into reflective and

resilient pupils who will embrace changes confidently and always strive their very best.

We have a team of experienced teachers who will be working together and with you to support

our pupils. The e-mail addresses of the level teachers are listed in Appendix A. Do feel free to

contact your child’s form/subject teacher should you require any clarification.

EVERGREEN PRIMARY SCHOOL 31 WOODLANDS CIRCLE SINGAPORE 738908. TEL: 6368 7705 FAX: 6368 8084

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Entrepreneurial Dare

Entrepreneurial Dare is a mindset. It is an attitude of wanting to do better, find breakthroughs, of

wanting to innovate. This is in line with one of our school’s shared values, “Dare to innovate”.

We hope to work with parents to instill in our pupils the resilience to preserve in times of failures,

overcome obstacles and succeed in life. As quoted from Henry Ford, “Failure is simply the

opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently” we must encourage pupils to have

the grit to move on so that they can become more tenacious and independent.

Strengthening the Singapore Spirit

With many uncertainties around the world, we must refresh our efforts to promote a strong

Singapore Spirit, so that our pupils can develop a strong sense of belonging to Singapore, a

keener sense of social unity and cohesion, and a desire to contribute beyond themselves to help

fellow Singaporeans succeed. Through our National Education and values inculcation

programmes, we will engage the pupils on how they can be contributing and gracious citizens of

Singapore. We hope you can use teachable moments at home to educate your child too.

Parent as a Partner

Bringing up a child is like a voyage, and as a parent, you are the key navigator of your child’s

growth. His development is set primarily at home and in school, and when these two environments

are in tune with each other, your child benefits the most. A number of studies have connected

home-school collaboration to better learning, healthy self-esteem, and more positive attitude and

behaviour in life. Therefore, your involvement is essential in your child’s education journey. It is

important that we work hand-in-hand to maximise your child’s potential in life.

To build a better working relationship with each other, let’s observe the following principles:

Trust is the foundation

Remember the child

Understand our shared responsibilities

Seek common ground

Together we work towards common goals

You can help by:

Reinforcing good thinking habits with your child at home

Setting learning goals with your child

Providing a conducive learning environment at home for

your child

Monitoring and checking your child’s work daily

Affirming and encouraging your child regularly

Working closely with the teachers

Being part of the Parents’ Support Group as a Parent Volunteer

Please visit the Parent-In-Education (PIE) website at http://parents-in-education.moe.gov.sg for more information on how you can be involved in your child’s education journey.

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Finally, let me share with you an article on how a mother helps her kids blossom (and avoid root rot). We urge parents not to constantly smoothen pathway for their child but to allow them to fail and try again; to develop the X-factor – that entrepreneurial dare.

While other mums were hipster gardening goddesses, I was the kind who hollered once every few days, "Did anyone remember to water the plants?", before sending a sullen Julian out with an elephant-shaped sprinkling can.

But orchids were different. It is testament to their hardy natures that I have managed to keep two orchids in the house for a couple of years

"Look at this one," I said. "It has a chin as long as Jay Leno's."

Over the next few days, I began scouring nurseries and Gardens by the Bay gift shops in search of unusual-looking (to me) orchids. I found one with huge purple blooms, speckled with white, its roots dangling free from a basket. I also acquired an unidentified Cattleya with delicate, thin petals and a lip like a fairy's pink cigar, as well as another Dendrobium plant with orange-yellow flowers like a sunset.

I started spending more time with my orchids than my children. I drove to orchid farms in Choa Chu Kang and forgot the time to pick them up from school. While the boys played in the living room, I sat at the dining table, fretting about my orchids' health. Too wet? Too dry? Root rot? Not enough sun? Sunburn? Water too hard? After the kids went to bed, I spent hours Googling orchid care methods, as well as scouring websites featuring exotic species. Once, I woke up at 3am to perform emergency repotting and root-amputation on an ailing moth orchid!

"Why won't my orchids grow properly?" I moaned to my husband, at every first sign of a yellowing leaf or bud blast. I stopped sleeping. I looked at my family's faces and saw an assemblage of dorsal and lateral sepals.

It was nothing like the urban farming mothers I saw online. My children did not smile blissfully as they helped me propagate seedlings or artfully arrange greenhouses. They did not listen with heads cocked while I recited amazing trivia about the natural world or life cycles. They spent zero minutes admiring the tiny orchid collection that I painstakingly tended to.

I supposed I was the same at their age: ignoring my mother as she pottered about her garden, giving her the most perfunctory of grunts as she waxed lyrical about how well her cherry tree was growing.

"Do you know that there is an orchid that depends on tiny crabs to fertilise its flowers?" I piped up, apropos of nothing, at the dinner table one evening.

The boys continued chewing their food, waiting patiently for me to be done with my monologue about orchids that mimicked bees, butterflies and so on to seduce them into pollinating them. Then they continued giggling over something else.

It struck me then that growing orchids was not dissimilar to rearing children. One could not force an orchid to grow or be something it didn't want to. In some cases, pampering an orchid and overwatering it was the fastest way to kill it. To make your orchid happy, once you have satisfied its needs and given it an optimum environment, leave it alone.

As a parent, I watch for telltale signs that something is not right, before hopefully adjusting the conditions accordingly and quickly. A lot is trial and error. It will also take time, and the orchid - I mean, kid - might not respond immediately. But we can all strive to be constant gardeners - prepared to change and, infinitely harder, resist the urge to cultivate to the point of interference.

I feel better these days about giving my kids some "benign neglect" - not every moment has to be an educational or productive one. They learn lots of things without me shoving it down their throats.

Adapted from http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/how-I-help-my-kids-blossom-and-avoid-root-rot.

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Please refer to the following Appendices for more information.

Appendix A: Form/Co-Form/Subject teachers

Appendix B: General Information

Appendix C: Assessment Plan – 2017

Appendix D: Programmes / Events / Activities - Term 1

Do contact or email your child’s form teacher if you need any clarifications or have any concerns.

Kindly acknowledge the receipt of this letter and return the acknowledgement slip via your child

to his/her form teacher by Wednesday, 18 January 2017.

Thank you.

On behalf of the P3 Level,

Yours sincerely,

Mrs Janice Chang

P3 & P4 Year Head

cc. P and VPs

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Acknowledgement Slip

P3 Level Letter 2017 (Term 1)

I have noted the contents of this letter.

Please tick () the appropriate box.

I am able to help out as a parent volunteer.

Availability (please tick):

I am available between 8.00 a.m. and 1.30 p.m.

I am available after school hours from 1.30 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.

I am a working parent (need to take leave)

I am unable to help out as a parent volunteer.

Name of Child / Ward: __________________________________

Class: P 3 ( )

Name of Parent / Guardian: _______________________________

E-mail Address: ___________________________________________

(Please provide a valid e-mail address for further correspondence)

__________________________ ____________

Signature of Parent / Guardian Date

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Appendix A

FORM TEACHERS / SUBJECT TEACHERS CONTACTS

Class Form Teacher / Co-Form Teacher E-mail address

3 Care Mrs Low Kwee Huang teo_kwee_huang@moe.edu.sg

Miss Ang Ping Jun (Co-FT) ang_ping_jun@moe.edu.sg

3 Charity Ms Khairunnisa Bin Azman Khairunnnissa_azman@moe.edu.sg

Mdm Chong Shu Bao (Co-FT) Chong_shu_bao@moe.edu.sg

3 Faith Mrs Tina Eng Tina_leong@moe.edu.sg

Mdm Norizawaty Bte Sulaiman (Co-FT) Norizawaty_sulaiman@moe.edu.sg

3 Grace Mrs Rekha Naidu rekha_karunanithi@moe.edu.sg

Mrdm Guan Minhang (Co-FT) guan_minhang@moe.edu.sg

3 Hope Ms Rachel Tan Shiya tan_shi_ya@moe.edu.sg

Mr Tan Tek Hing (Co-FT) tan_tek_hing@moe.edu.sg

3 Joy Mdm Nurulhuda Bte Samsuri nurul_huda@moe.edu.sg

Mdm Nornizah Said (Co-FT) Nornizah_said@moe.edu.sg

Class English Math Science

3 Care Ms Eliza Tan Hui En Mrs Low Kwee Huang Mrs Linden Ng

3 Charity Ms Khairunnisa Bin Azman Mdm Zawiah Bte Ahmad Ms Jayanthi Jayaram

3 Faith Mrs Tina Eng Mrs Tina Eng Mdm Ling Yun Chin

3 Grace Mrs Rekka Naidu Mrs Rekha Naidu Ms Nur Shireen

3 Hope Ms Rachel Tan Shiya Mr Rezuan Bin Kassim Mdm Nurhida Binte Sapiie

3 Joy Mdm Nurulhuda Bte Samsuri Mrs Gay Ai Choo Mdm Nornizah

P3 Pull-Out

Mdm Nurulhuda Bte Samsuri Ms Sally Tan Bee Kheng

MT Class Mother-tongue Teacher MT Class Mother-tongue Teacher

3 Care Mr Lim Tian Swee Language Room 1 Ms Ratha d/o Pichai

Qdayar

3 Charity Mdm Chong Shu Bao Language Room 2 Mdm Huang Donghong

3 Faith Mdm Norizawaty Bte

Sulaiman

Language Room 3 Mdm Guan Minghang

3 Grace Mdm Kee Wai Ying Teaching Lab Ms Siti Safura

3 Hope Mr Tan Tek Hing SBB 2 & 3 Mr Qamarul Azhar B

Ahmad Kamail

3 Joy Mr Liew Ching Shyang SBB 3 & 4 Mr Amirul Asri Bin Hussin

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Appendix B

GENERAL INFORMATION

Remarks

1. 4Ps (Present, , Punctual, Proper & Perform)

As a school, we would like to reiterate the code of conduct for our pupils

in this academic year. The code of conduct is categorised according to

the 4Ps: Present, Punctual, Proper and Perform.

Please note that pupils are required to be in school by 7.20 a.m. Flag-

raising will start at 7.30 a.m. sharp. Pupils are considered late after 7.30

a.m. Punctuality is a good habit to cultivate from young. Thus, we need

your assistance in ensuring that your child is punctual for school.

2. Absence from school

We take the pupils’ holistic development very seriously and hence, urge

all parents to ensure regular attendance for their children so as not to

miss out on their studies and CCA. Pupils are to be in school during

term time and not allowed to leave the country earlier. Teachers are not

required to provide worksheets or homework in advance in such cases.

We seek parents’ kind co-operation on this.

If there should be a need for your child to be absent during term time,

please furnish either a medical certificate or a letter.

3. Discipline and Well-Being

During the orientation week, your child was briefed on discipline matters

and class/school expectations. Every form teacher had spent a

substantial time to teach, guide and share with your child their

expectations. You can read more about school rules and expectations

in the Student Diary.

Pupils are not allowed to bring mobile phones or any other digital

devices. Pupils who need to contact their parents may use the payphone

located in the canteen.

Please ensure that your child packs hisaccording to the given timetable.

Not only will this teach him/her to be more responsible but also prevents

your child from bringing heavy bags to school.

If you do have concerns on these matters, please speak with the Form

teacher.

4. Mode of Communication

The Student Diary will be used as the mode of communication between

teachers and parents. You may also contact the teachers through email

or call the office at 63687705. Please make an appointment with the

teacher if you would like to meet him / her. (Meeting of teachers is strictly

by appointment only.)

5. Temperature-taking

Pupils must exercise social responsibility and take the basic precautions

to safeguard themselves and their schoolmates. Temperature-taking is

an important aspect of that.

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Please ensure your child has his thermometer in his/her bag during

temperature-taking exercise.

6. Homework Policy

All homework will be recorded by pupils in their Student Diary. We would

also like to seek your help to monitor your child’s homework so that he

has consistent practice and is able to manage time effectively.

7. Whole-School Approach Reading Programme and Speak Internationally Acceptable English (IAE)

Pupils are to read age-appropriate English storybooks and to speak in

Internationally Acceptable English at ALL times to enhance their

proficiency in English (except during MT periods).

Please ensure that your child brings an age-appropriate English

storybook to school every day.

8. Weekly Spelling Exercise

Your child will have his/her weekly Mother Tongue and English spelling

exercises on Tuesdays and Thursdays respectively, starting from Week

3. If a public holiday falls on the spelling days, the spelling exercise will

be held on the next school day.

9. Remedial Remedial are targeted and conducted on a needs basis. More details

will be given at a near date.

10. Assessments The school uses varied modes of assessments to assess pupils

appropriately for follow-up actions. These assessments include the

Revision Tests, Practical Tests and Semester Assessments.

More information on SAs will be furnished nearer the dates.

(Please refer to Appendix C for the Assessment Plan Term 1)

11. Learning through Computer Applications

The pupils will be using Mconline and other ICT tools in the learning

process. These tools serve as platforms for pupils to access information

posted by their teachers, share their knowledge with their peers, as well

as to engage in collaborative work with their group members. We

strongly encourage all parents to allow their children to log onto the

computer to access these tools so as to supplement their learning from

Term 1 onwards.

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Appendix C

ASSESSMENT PLAN FOR PRIMARY 3 TERM 1 2017

By Date/Period of Assessment

Date/Period Subject Description of

Assessment

Units/Topics to be tested

6/2 – 10/2 Chinese Language Show & Tell My Ambition

9/2 English Language Listening Comprehension General

13/2 - 17/2 Malay Language Pick & Tell Topic

1. Kawan Baik Saya 2. Tempat yang Paling Saya Gemari 3. Guru Kesayangan Saya 4. Aktiviti / Beriadah Bersama Keluarga

15/2 - 17/2 Tamil Language Speaking

(Picture Description)

General

23/2 English Language Topical Test 1 Units 1 & 2

28/2 Math Topical Test 1 Chap 1: Numbers to 10 000

Chap 2: Addition Within 10 000

Chap 3: Subtraction Within 10 000

Chap 4: Solving Word Problems

1/3 Malay Language Topical Test Unit 1: Kembali ke Sekolah

Unit 2: Menghargai Diri

Unit 3: Bekerjasama

Components tested:

1. Melengkapkan Teks 2. Kata Hubung - dan, kerana, sambil 3. Kefahaman Objektif

1/3

Tamil Language Topical Test Theen Thamizh

Units 1 to 3

1/3 Chinese Language Topical Test Units 1 to 3

7/3 Science Topical Test 1 Chapter 2: Plants

Chapter 3: Animals

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ASSESSMENT PLAN FOR PRIMARY 3 TERM 1 2017

By Subject

Subject Description of Assessment Unit/ Topic to be Tested Weighting

English

Language

Listening Comprehension General 5%

Topical Test 1 Units 1 & 2 5%

Total Weighting 10%

Mathematics Topical Test 1 Chap 1: Numbers to 10 00 Chap 2: Addition Within 10 000 Chap 3: Subtraction Within 10 000 Chap 4: Solving Word Problems

10%

Total Weighting 10%

Science Topical Test 1 Chapter 2: Plants Chapter 3: Animals

10%

Total Weighting 10%

Chinese

Language

Show & Tell My Ambition 5%

Topical Test Units 1 to 4 5%

Total Weighting 10%

Malay

Language

Pick & Tell Topic: 1. Kawan Baik Saya

2. Tempat yang Paling Saya Gemari

3. Guru Kesayangan Saya

4. Aktiviti / Beriadah Bersama Keluarga

5%

Topical Test Components tested: 1. Melengkapkan Teks

2. Kata Hubung - dan, kerana, sambil

3. Kefahaman Objektif

5%

Total Weighting 10%

Tamil Language

Speaking (Picture Description)

General 5%

Topical Test Theen Thamizh Units 1 to 3 5%

Total Weighting 10%

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Please take note of some important examination regulations:

All pupils must be punctual for tests and examinations

Pupils who are not able to sit for the tests / examinations must produce an official document e.g medical certificate. Absentees without such official documents will not have their marks for their tests / examinations pro-rated. We seek your cooperation to exercise social responsibility when you child is unwell. Pupils are advised to stay away from school until they are deemed fit by the medical doctor to return to school. Parents should inform the school of the absence of their child.

If a student misbehaves or does not follow the examination regulations during the examination, he/she may be expelled from the examination room/hall and will not be allowed to sit for subsequent papers. His/her examination results may also be forfeited.

All pupils must be honest and truthful during test / examinations. Any pupil caught cheating or involved in cheating any way during tests / examinations as well as attempts to alter marks and/or answers on tests/examinations will be heavily penalized for that subject and subject to disciplinary actions.

There will not be any makeup examination sessions for pupils who are absent from any of the examinations with the exception of Oral Examinations.

Kindly note that for pupils who may have sat for external examinations/competitions such as Music Examinations, there will be no special arrangements made for them. Parents are advised to request for a reschedule of the external event dates where possible should there be a clash with the school’s assessment dates.

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Appendix D

PROGRAMMES / EVENTS / ACTIVITIES – TERM 1

Programme / Event /

Activity Remarks

Date / Time /

Duration

1. Chinese New Year Celebration

As there is early dismissal, please make the

necessary transport arrangement. Lessons

will be suspended on that day and pupils are

strongly encouraged to put on Chinese

raditional costume or Sunday Best or any

other attire in red with school shoes. Pupils

will only need to bring their water bottles that

morning.

Lessons will resume on Wednesday, 1

February 2017.

27 January

7.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.

2. Total Defence Day (More details will be provided at a later

date)

15 February