Henry Park Primary School

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Henry Park Primary School

• Welcomes Parents of P4 students
• Saturday, 24 March 2007

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Update

• The terms EM1 / EM2 will no longer be used.
  Students in EM1 / EM2 are now considered to be in
  Merged Stream.
• The course for EM1 is now known as 5S (English,
  Math, Science, MT and HMT).
• The course for EM2 is now known as 4S (English,
  Math, Science and MT).
• The Foundation course for EM3 still exists.

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Achievement and Band Grades for Primary 4
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Recommendation for students taking 5S in P5

• Criteria 1
• Criteria 2

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Recommendation for students taking Foundation
course

• Criteria - Band 4 in all subjects
• The school is open to students taking foundation
  course at Primary 5 with the following
  combinations
• FEL, Foundation Math and MT (Standard course)
• FEL, Basic MT and Math (Standard course)
• Basic MT , Foundation Math and EL (Standard
  course)

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• At the end of P5
• Students must obtain at least a Band 2 for MT to
  remain in the 5S course at Primary 6.
• Students need to pass at least 1 subject with a
  Band 3 to remain in 4S in Primary 6

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Weightage for Primary 4 Examination

• Semester 1 one standard test (5) and SA1 (25)
• Semester 2 one standard test (5) and SA2 (65)
• Total 100

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Difference in Curriculum Time (Number of periods)
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Parental Option

• The school will recommend the course for students
  to study at Primary 5, based on the Primary 4
  End-of-Year Examination results.
• Parents will indicate their choice for the type
  of course shortly after the release of the
  Primary 4 End-of-Year Examination results (in
  Middle of November).
• Arrangements will be made for the parents to meet
  the teachers when they are in the process of
  making the choices.

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How are students placed into the different
classes at Primary 5?

• Three classes for students taking 5S. They are
  ranked according to their ability in EL, Math,
  Science and MT.
• Two classes for students taking 4S (very strong
  in EL, Math and Science). They are ranked
  according to their ability in EL, Math and
  Science.
• Two classes for students taking 4S (not strong in
  EL, Math and Science). Each class size will be
  about 25 only.
• The remaining classes comprise of students with
  mixed ability.

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PSLE

• Equal weightage is given to each of the four
  subjects EL, MT, Math and Science in the
  computation of the PSLE aggregate.
• Students have to do well for the four subjects in
  order to obtain a better PSLE aggregate.
• The school is striving to introduce new
  approaches in the teaching and learning of MT.

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