1. CHIJ OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL
Primary 3 Compassion
Meet-The-Parents Session
6 March 2012

2. Form Teacher :Mrs Fazli
English :Mrs Fazli
Science :Mrs Joyce Tan
Mathematics :Mrs Fazli
FTGP / Character Development: Mrs Fazli
Social Studies: Mdm Mahal
Music: Ms Sim Seok Woon
Health Education: Mdm Mahal
Physical Education: Mrs Jessie Goh
Art & Craft: Mrs Fazli

3. Teachers
Mother Tongue teachers:
3C - Mdm Jin Qing
3H - Mrs Pearlyn See
3I - Mr Bernard Ng
3P - Mdm Yeo Kah Gek
3S - Ms Lee Yen Hoon
ML - Mdm Norahida
TL - Mrs Shahul

4. Punctuality
 Pupils to be in school by 7.20 am
everyday.
 School dismissal is at 1.30pm except on
Friday which will be at 1.45pm.

5. Absence from school
 Letter from parent/Medical Certificate (MC) to
be submitted the following day.
 For absence from exams, MC / relevant
document with valid reason is required.
 Reply slips of letters and circulars that are
given to the child must be handed in the
following day.
 Extra time will be given to pupils to complete
her work if needed for up to 3 days. (write a
note in the diary)

6. A Parent’s Guide
to STELLAR
A new English Language Curriculum for Primary Schools in Singapore
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7. PROGRAMME
 What is STELLAR?
 The STELLAR Vision
 What is a STELLAR lesson like?
 Materials used in STELLAR
 Modes of Assessment
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8. What is STELLAR?
Strategies
for English
Language Learning and
Reading
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9. The STELLAR Vision
Children who
love reading and
have a strong foundation in the English
Language
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10. What is a STELLAR lesson like in
Semester 1?
1.Shared Book
Approach
(1) Reading for understanding
and enjoyment
(2) Explicit teaching of language
items, structures and skills
3. Language Use Activities 2. Modified Language
Experience Approach
The teacher prepares mini lessons (1) Shared experience
based on specific needs of children to followed by Class Writing
prepare them for reading & writing
activities; e.g. grammar, vocabulary, (2) Group Writing
word recognition, decoding skills,
(3) Individual Writing
spelling
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11. What is a STELLAR lesson like
Semester 2?
(1) Reading for understanding and enjoyment
(2) Explicit teaching of language items,
structures and skills
(3) Sentence manipulation
2. Writing Process Cycle
3. Language Use Activities
(1) Class
(2) Group
(3) Individual
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12. KWL
K W L
What do you What do you What did you
KNOW about WANT to know LEARN about
crocodiles? about crocodiles?
crocodiles?

13. Making the Transition
(From Lower to Upper Primary)
Learning to Read Reading to Learn
Shared Reading Silent Reading
Big Books Range of Text Types
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14. Materials Used in STELLAR
 Semester 1: 10 Big Book Titles
 Semester 2: 8 Texts
 Unit Worksheets
 Picture Composition, MLEA, Situational
Writing, WPC
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15. Modes of Assessment:
Progress Test 1 / Holistic Assessment
(HA) - (Term 1)
Progress Test 2 / HA(Term 3)
Semestral Assessments 1 (30%) and 2
(70%)
Progress cards for Terms 1 and 3
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16.  Components
- Vocabulary (MCQ)
- Grammar (MCQ)
- Grammar Cloze (Pronouns)
- Grammar Cloze (Tenses, SVA)
- Editing for Spelling and Punctuation
- Comprehension Cloze
- Comprehension (MCQ and OE)
- Listening Comprehension (SA1 and SA2)
- Dictation (SA1 and SA2)
- Note-taking (SA1 and SA2)

17. English
 Spelling
- Every Monday (Starting from Term 2)
- 15 words and phrases (IMPORTANT)
 Dictation
- Every Monday (Once a fortnight for Term 2
and 3)

18. English
 Pages of Knowledge
- Every Thursday
- Helps to improve language and writing
 Reading with Mum and Dad Programme

19. Mathematics Department

20. Assessment Format for
Semestral Assessments
 Primary 2 to Primary 4
 Part 1 Section A - Multiple Choice Qns
 20 Qns (40 marks)
 Part 2 Section B – Short Answer Qns
 20 Qns (40 marks)
 Part 2 Section C – Long Answer Qns
 5 Qns (20 marks)

21. Assessment Format for
Semestral Assessments
 Duration of Paper
 P2 – 1 hr 30 min
 P3 & P4 – 1 hr 45 min

22. Pupils’ Work
 Topical Worksheets
 Heuristic Skills Worksheets
 Activity Books
 Topical Tests from Maths Test 3
 Mental Sums
 Supplementary book

23. Math Enrichment Programmes
 Cooking Fun with Math (P3 – Term 3)
 Math Olympiad (Optional)

24. How do I go about solving
Word Problems?

25. Polya's Four Step Problem
Solving Process
1. Understand the Problem
2. Devise a plan
3. Carry out the plan
4. Check / Reflect

26. Step 1: Understand the problem
 Look for information given
 Read the question at least 3 times
 Highlight the key words & numbers
 Read the question again & ask
yourself, “What am I given”
“What do I need to find/solve?”
 Visualise the information
 Organise the information
 Connect the information
 Why are the highlighted words &
numbers important?

27. Step 2: Devise a plan
 Select a strategy (Think of the 4 operations)
 Attempt common heuristics – Model-drawing,
Guess & Check, Draw a Diagram, Make a
Table…

28. Step 3: Carry out the plan
 Pen the strategy
 Revise and modify the plan
 Do not be afraid to start over if plan fails.

29. Step 4: Check/Reflect
 Read the question again
 Check the solution
 “Are my calculations correct?”
 “Are my working shown correctly?”
 “Did I answer the question?”
 “Does my answer make sense?”

30. Chinese Department
Primary 3

31. Assessment
Progress Test 1 & 2:
Holistic Assessment
 Reading Proficiency Test
 Speaking Proficiency Test
 Listening Proficiency Test / Spelling
 Writing Proficiency Test
 Language Use Proficiency Test
 Show & Tell

32. Assessment
Semestral Examination 1 & 2:
Component Marks
Composition 15
Listening Comprehension 10
Oral
•Reading (10 marks)
25
•Picture Description (10 marks)
•Conversation (5 marks)
Language Use 45
Total 100

33. Modular Curriculum
 Ability banding to enable teachers to customise
their teaching approaches to the needs of the
pupils.
 Pupils learn at a pace and environment suitable
for them.

34. Parent Support
 Encourage your child to speak to family
members in Mandarin
 Encourage your child to read good Chinese
books
 Publiclibraries
 Books with attractive illustrations to start the child
 Audio books, electronic books

35. Parent Support
 Expose your child to good Chinese television
programmes, e.g. cartoons
 Tap on the environment such as road signs and
advertisements to engage your child in Chinese
conversations during outings

36. Parent Support
 Do not excessively correct your child’s mistakes
 Build up their confidence
 Children are more willing to use the language,
thus, will acquire it better
 Allow the children to learn through meaningful
games

37.  Ensure that your child completes her homework
and submit them on time.
 Spending time with your child to help them to
prepare for the weekly spelling and all
assessments.

38. Some useful CL Websites:
 Digital Instructional Resources (DIR) for the new
CL Curriculum
 http://xuele.edumall.sg/xuele/slot/u107/index.html
A website for parents and students to access the digital
instructional resources used in the teaching and
 learning of CL in school. Except for the section
containing pictures, videos and animations, resources
 corresponding to the various parts of the textbook are
available for access.

39. Some useful CL Websites:
 Oracy eLand
 http://eland.edumall.sg
 The portal helps to equip primary 1 to 3 students with
commonly used vocabulary and sentence patterns that
they can use in their daily conversations with others.
 It is designed around a variety of common themes that
students are familiar with. These themes include school,
home, food, animals, hobbies and more.
 It offers a whole range of multimedia content that will
entice students to learn with joy, such as flash
animation, interactive activities and online games.

40. Some useful CL Websites:
 Chinese Language Word Games
 http://game.iflashbook.com/
 A NEW online learning portal promises to make learning
Chinese fun for Primary 1 to 3 pupils.
 Developed by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and local
company Creative Knowledge, it offers various word games
to test the child's grasp of Chinese characters and phrases
and how they are pronounced, using hanyu pinyin.
 The games are also set up with different degrees of difficulty
for pupils of each level, and are based on material covered in
the textbooks used by the schools.

41. Some useful ICT Resources:
 The iFlashbook: an Online Interactive CL
Textbook
 Developed by Creative Technology Limited, the iFlashbook features
the Chinese Language Textbooks for Primary Schools published by
Panpac Education Private Limited.
 It employs speech recognition technology to guide pronunciation
practices, comes with a “floating” electronic dictionary and uses a
multimedia mode of presentation.
 Yearly subscription is required.

42. Tamil Department
Ladies of Grace and Character, Leaders of the future
Engaging pupils through
Developing Talents Various Programmes
through Various  Learning Journey to Little India
Competitions Collaboration with MRL)
 Reading  Tamil Art of Speaking
 Singing (Collaboration with MRL)
 Combined IJ schools language camp
 Story Telling
 Theatre Workshop
 Poster Making  Deepavali Show
 Drama Engaging pupils through
 Oratorical ICT
 Tamil Art of  Blogging
Speaking  Discussion Forums
 Projects using Murasu
Anjal Programme
 Video Editing
 Tamil Portal -
Pazhahutamil

43. AREAS ASSESSED

45. How Parents Can
Help…
1.Talk to your daughters in spoken Tamil daily.
2.Engage in interesting conversations with her.
3.Read out Tamil stories & ask questions
to see if she understands the story.
4. Ask her what she learnt in school everyday
& spend at least 20mins daily on Tamil
lessons at home with your child.

46. 2012
Primary 3
Malay Language
With greater focus in
Reading and Conversing

47. Reading and Conversational
 Objective: To create confident
users of the Malay Language
through reading and
conversing
 Library Period: Fortnightly
Pupils are encouraged to
read Malay
Language books and
share stories with
fellow classmates

48. Science Department Vision (wef
2012)
 A green innovator with an inquiring
mind who loves and takes
responsibility for the environment.
Science Department Mission
(wef 2012)
 To ignite passion in the learning of
Science through creative and
practical experiences.

49. Science Teaching Materials
 My Pals are Here! Textbooks
 My Pals are Here! Activity Books
 EPH Thematic Science Process Skills
Worksheets
 EPH PSLE Ultimate Science Guide
 Practice Papers
 Science File
 Nature Study Book

50. Primary 3 Science - Themes
Lower Block
 Diversity – Living and Non-living things,
Materials
 Interactions – Magnets
 Cycles – Life Cycles
 Keep all materials to revise till Primary 6.
Cycles ‘Matter’ is taught in Primary 4.

51. Science – Assessment Format
 Written Paper [1 hour 45 minutes]
Booklet A
-30 multiple-choice questions [60 marks]
Booklet B
-16 open-ended questions [40 marks]
 Practical Test in Term 3
- 20 marks added to SA2

52. 12 Skills and Processes
Skills Processes
 Observing • Creative problem solving
 Comparing • Decision-making
•Investigation
 Classifying
 Using apparatus and equipment
 Communicating
 Inferring
 Formulating
 Hypothesis
 Predicting
 Analysing
 Generating possibilities
 Evaluating

53. Science – How to excel
 Must have practice in answering questions
-Two types of questions:
1. Knowledge with understanding
e.g. Name Object X shown on the right.
2. Application
e.g. To move the ballerina using the magnet, pupils to give an
example each of material X and material Y .

54. Some tips on coaching
your child in Science
 Read the Textbook Summary at the end of
each topic
 Study Ultimate Science PSLE Guide
- Read notes for content knowledge
- Read sample questions and model answers
- Study the concept map
 Read Science-related articles from
newspapers, magazines, books
 Written practices

55. Programmes and
Competitions
 ICAS Written Competition (Optional; 27 Mar; $9)
 Young Zoologist Card (Whole level; Term 2; $2.50)
 Zoological Gardens (Whole level; Term 2; $10)
 Sony Toy Competition (Optional; Term 2)
 Drama in Science (Selected; Term 2)

56. Pastoral Care
Department

57. Cognition Emotion Action
Form Teacher Guidance Period (FTGP)
1) provide quality interaction time between form
teachers and pupils, and
2) equip pupils with social and emotional
competencies.

58. Values of the Term
Term Value
1 Compassion
2 Humility
3 Integrity
4 Perseverance
Parents could help to reinforce values at home by
•doing together a home activity assigned by the school each term
•affirming your child when she demonstrates the value
•setting family goals related to the value
•reading stories that emphasize the value
•discussing quotes on the value
•discussing a person demonstrating the value
•conscientiously inculcating everyday
habits of courtesies (manners matter)
Thank you May I Good Hello!
Very much! please… morning!

59. Learning Area My goals for this Progress as at Progress as at Words of Encouragement
term… ___ Oct ___ Nov from Parent/Guardian
Self Improvement Non-Academic Area
(What are my own How I would like to
demonstrate
personal goals)
Compassion:
What CCA goals I want
to achieve:
What
health/fitness/sports
goals I want to achieve:
What hobbies/interests/
other goals I want to
achieve:
My Personal Goals Action Plan

60. School Diary
A Form of Communication
 Target Setting
 Daily Homework

61. General Appearance
 Hair / Hair Accessories
 Uniform
 Shoes and socks
 Fingernails

62. ROLE OF PARENTS
Parents play an important part in the children’s education. Parents
can consider doing the following to support their children in their
learning.
• Check the child’s Pupil’s Handbook daily to view the homework
assignments for the day.
• Spend time to go through your child’s school work.
• Spend time to supervise your child in doing the homework
assignments and learning through the homework assignments.
• Remind your child to complete the school homework before doing
the tuition work (if any).
• Do not do the work for your child if you want your child to learn.
• Guide your child to set aside a regular study time and establish
good study habits.

63.  Mrs Fazli
 Office: 6281 4132
 Staff Room: 6281 7026
 Email: norlizah_said@moe.edu.sg
 www.chijourladyofgoodcounsel.moe.edu.sg
 http://primary3compassion.blogspot.com

64.  Together we work hand in hand to achieve
Ladies of Grace and Character, Leaders
of the Future!
THANK YOU!