P4 Parents Engagement Session
22 January 2016
Overview of Briefing
Introduction of Subject Teachers
 Class Expectations
 New updates in 2016
 Holistic Education in MJS
 P4 Assessment Plan & Subject based
banding
 Partnership with Parents
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New updates in 2016
Curriculum Time : 7.30 a.m. – 1.35p.m.
(Reporting time remains at 7.20a.m.)
 Recess time
: 10.40a.m. -11.05a.m. (25 mins)
 3 block periods : For activity based lessons in
English, Mathematics & Science
 Camp
: Term 1 Week 10
Thursday 10 Mar- Friday 11Mar
 E-learning day : Friday 22 April (home-based)
 Homecoming Carnival: Sat 23 April
 Founder’s Day( School holiday) : Monday 25 April
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Home-Based learning : Mon, 17 October – Thu, 20
October 2016
Holistic Education in MJS
ENGLISH @ MJS
Writing
• Process Writing
• Quality vs Quantity
• Progressive Teaching of Writing Skills
-Introduction
-Problem
-Resolution
-Conclusion
Reading Programme @ MJS
• Boys need rituals
- Daily 10 min independent silent reading /
read aloud
- pupils must bring an English storybook daily
• Boys need to have direct access to books
-weekly library visits
-class library books
-monthly-themed activities
-termly mobile library visits
-book recommendations
Reading Programme @ MJS
• Boys need role models
- teachers read with their pupils daily for at
least 10 mins
- teachers share their favourite story books
- silent reading in the hall / courtyard on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with
teachers
- assembly talks by local authors
Home Support
Set aside time each day for independent
reading time
Surround your son with books
Read aloud to your son
Show that you too love reading / books
P4 Assessment Plan
TERM 2
-Semestral Assessment 1
 Grammar
 Vocabulary
 Comprehension
 Oral
 Listening
Comprehension
 Composition Writing
TERM 4
-Semestral Assessment 2
 Grammar
 Vocabulary
 Comprehension
 Oral
 Listening
Comprehension
 Composition Writing
Primary 4
Talent Management Programme
Term 1
• Oracy Skills
Workshop
Term 2
• You Can Be An
Author Too!
by Eliza Teoh
• Spelling Bee /
Debate
• Literature & Poetry
Appreciation
- White Fang
Term 3
• Literature &
Poetry
Appreciation
- Charlotte web
- Boy-Centric Poems
• Publish Level
Newsletter
To build strong
foundation in
Mathematics, each
new topic is taught
through a structured
approach using the
Concrete-PictorialAbstract (CPA)
approach.
2
T1: Performance Task and
Review test
T2: Semestral Assessment 1
T3:Performance Task and
Review test
T4: Semestral Assessment 2
1. Learning through
TMP/ TSP/ LSM
programme
2. Koobits
(Online mathematics resource
learning platform – daily challenge.)
P4 SCIENCE SYLLABUS – SYSTEMS &
INTERACTIONS
THEME
TOPIC
Human System
(Digestive)
•Functions of digestive system
•Organ systems in humans
Plant System
(Plant Parts and
Functions)
•Plant parts and functions
•Organism is a system
Interactions of forces
(magnets)
•Uses of magnets
•Magnet making
•Characteristics of magnets
P4 SCIENCE SYLLABUS - ENERGY
THEME-
TOPIC
Energy Forms and
Uses (Light)
•Formation of shadow
• transparency of materials
• object is a source of light or
reflects light
Energy Forms and
Uses (Heat)
•Good and bad conductors of heat
• effects of heat gain and heat loss
•heat and temperature
• common sources of heat
P4 SA1 and SA2 Format
Section
Type of question
Marks
A
Multiple choice
28 Questions
56 m
B
Open-ended
12 Questions
44 m
Total:
100 m
Duration of Exam : 1 h 45 min
Includes revision topics covered in P3
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING SUPPLEMENTARY
PROGRAMME
Objective - To ensure that our students have ample
opportunities to appreciate and apply scientific
concepts, language and skills
Focus – Meaningful hands-on activities designed as part
of the science curriculum
Time – Every Friday 2 to 3.30 pm
TALENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME
Objective - To stretch students’ great
potential in science by nurturing the
spirit of inquiry, equipping them with
higher-order thinking and process skills
and granting them exposure through
problem-solving
Focus – Excellence 2000 (E2K)
Programme, Competitions
Time – Every Friday 2 to 3.30 pm
Montfort Junior School
P4 Mother – Tongue Assessment Plan
Term 1
Listening
Speaking
Reading
Integrated & Interactive Performance
task : Book reflection (oral
presentation with question and
answer segment)
Reading Aloud
Writing
Written Paper 2
CL
1.Word recognition
2.Choosing the vocabulary
3.Matching of vocabulary
4.Complete the sentence
5.Cloze passage
6.Comprehension (MCQ)
7.Comprehension (OE)
Language use
ML
1.Idioms (FIB)
2.Cloze passge
3.Comprehension(OE)
TL
1.Meaning of the words
2.Cloze Comprehension
3.Comprehension (OE)
Term 2
Semestral
Assessment 1
1. Listening
Comprehension
2. Oral
Reading Aloud
Picture Description
Conversation
3. Composition
4. Language Use &
Comprehension
Grammar
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Term 3
Integrated & Interactive Performance
task : Dialogue / Presentation based on
reading
Reading Aloud
Written Paper 2
CL
1.Word recognition
2.Choosing the vocabulary
3.Matching of vocabulary
4.Complete the sentence
5.Cloze passage
6.Comprehension (MCQ)
7.Comprehension (OE)
ML
1.Idioms (FIB)
2.Cloze passge
3.Comprehension(OE)
TL
1.Meaning of the words
2.Cloze Comprehension
3.Comprehension (OE)
ML
1.Idioms (FIB)
2.Cloze passge
3.Comprehension(OE)
TL
1.Case Markers (MCQ)
2.Comprehension (MCQ)
Term 4
Semestral
Assessment 2
1. Listening
Comprehension
2. Oral
Reading Aloud
Picture Description
Conversation
3. Composition
4. Language Use &
Comprehension
Grammar
Vocabulary
Comprehension
P4 MTL Programmes:
1.Reading programme:
- Silent reading
- MSSR
2.MTL week (Cultural Base Activities)
3. ICT – Lessons – IMTL portal
CCE Programmes
Every Montfortian a Scholar and Gentleman
Form Teacher Guidance Period (FTGP)
Explicit teaching
of values and
social emotional
competencies
Lifeskills
• Leadership
Training
• Career Awareness
• Cyberwellness
Building positive
relationship with
peers and teachers
through play
(Interaction Time)
CCE Programmes
Every Montfortian a Leader
Leadership development
Leadership Opportunities
Leadership Training
Based on The Leadership
Challenge Model
• Model The Way
• Encourage The Heart
• Enable Others To Act
• Inspire A Shared Vision
• Challenge The Process
Pupils are given leadership roles in
class or other platforms to develop
their leadership qualities
Primary Four
Physical Education
Learning Areas (according to MOE syllabus):
Sports and Games
Educational Gymnastics
Outdoor Education
Dance
Health Education
Athletics
NAPFA
(to be conducted in May/July)
Items to be tested:
 Sit up in 1 minute
 Standing Board Jump
 Sit & Reach
 Inclined Pull ups in 30 seconds
 4 X 10 m Shuttle Run
 1.6km Run-Walk
Modular CCA
Claymation – Pupils will be
using clay figurine to make a
stop motion animation based
on their own story.
Animation will be the focus of
our Montfort Art progammes.
Pupils will be exposed to
many different ways to do
animation throughout their six
years with us.
Curriculum
Pupils will be doing:
Term 1 – Digital Art
Term2 – Relief Art
Term3 – Chinese Brush Painting
Term 4 – Pixel Art
• Continuation
of ensemble playing
• Guitar
• Angklung
• Xylophone
• Creation
and metallophone
through “soundscapes”
• Recreating
sounds from familiar and unfamiliar
using voice and body percussion
• Music
environments
elements taught through soundscapes:
•
Advanced Form
•
Graphic notation
•
Rhythm
•
Pitch
•
Creativity and collaboration
•
Ensemble skills
• Continuation
of learning musical elements through games, singing and other activities
• Rhythm
and time signatures - compound time and advanced simple time
• Tonality
- Chord construction
• Texture
- Melody and accompaniment
• Timbre
• Continuation
of ensemble playing
• Guitar
• Angklung
• Xylophone
• Creation
and metallophone
through “soundscapes”
• Recreating
sounds from familiar and unfamiliar
using voice and body percussion
• Music
environments
elements taught through soundscapes:
•
Advanced Form
•
Graphic notation
•
Rhythm
•
Pitch
•
Creativity and collaboration
•
Ensemble skills
• Continuation
of learning musical elements through games, singing and other activities
• Rhythm
and time signatures - compound time and advanced simple time
• Tonality
- Chord construction
• Texture
- Melody and accompaniment
• Timbre
Primary 3 & 4 MCCA
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MCCA means Modular CCA.
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To expose and develop a love for sports,
appreciation of visual or performance arts
and computational thinking among
Montfortians.
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As a school, on every Friday from 8.10am
to 9.40am.
MCCA - Every Friday, 8.10 to 9.40am
Class
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
3C
Computational Thinking
Badminton
Picasso’s Pal
3H
Picasso’s Pal
Computational Thinking
Badminton
3R
Badminton
Picasso’s Pal
Computational Thinking
3I
Badminton
Picasso’s Pal
Computational Thinking
3S
Picasso’s Pal
Computational Thinking
Badminton
3T
Computational Thinking
Badminton
Picasso’s Pal
Class
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
4C
Computational Thinking
Football
Picasso’s Pal
4H
Computational Thinking
Football
Picasso’s Pal
4R
Picasso’s Pal
Computational Thinking
Football
4S
Picasso’s Pal
Computational Thinking
Football
4I
Football
Picasso’s Pal
Computational Thinking
P4 Assessment Plan
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Rationale : Important aspect of learning and
teaching to support holistic development of our
pupils
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Term 4
HA
SA1
HA
SA2
(Streaming
Exam.)
Why introduce Subject-based Banding?
• To provide more flexibility to pupils with strengths
and abilities that vary across subjects
• To encourage greater interaction among pupils
with different strengths
“We recognise different abilities... and help each student to
proceed at a pace that he can manage.”
Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Former Minister for Education
How does Subject-based Banding work?
How does Subject-based Banding work?
Likely Subject Combinations
Likely Subject Combinations
•Any other subject-based combinations will be
recommended on a case-by-case basis
After Pri 5
• Pupils will offer the same subject combination,
subject to performance
• The school will make the final decision,
considering the best interest of the child
Achievement Bands
Criteria for Recommendation for
Higher Mother Tongue
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English, Math and Science: at least high Band 2
Mother Tongue: at least a Band 1
Interest and aptitude for Mother Tongue Language
Teachers’ recommendation
HMT will be recommended for all pupils who meet
the criteria, regardless of P5 class
Process for Subject-based Banding
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After SA2, option forms will be issued where the
school will recommend the subject combination
The scores of all 4 subjects (or all 3 subjects if child
is exempted from Mother Tongue) and previous
years’ performance will be considered.
Process for Subject-based Banding
• Parents will indicate the options they would prefer their child
to take. They are strongly encouraged to adopt the school’s
recommendation which was carefully analysed based on the
child’s results and professional inputs from teachers who
have taught the child.
• Parents to meet form teacher to collect results and option form
after SA2.
• Pupils will submit option form to the form teachers by
the deadline
• Pri 5 classes will be assigned by 1st week of December. A
notice will be put up in school and the school website.
• At the end of Pri 5, any changes to subject combinations will
be decided by the school.
Progression to Secondary Level
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Progression to secondary level depends on PSLE
Score. Different expectations of standard and
foundation subjects will be taken into account when
the PSLE score is calculated.
Offering subjects at foundation level is not a
disadvantage. Your child will be able to focus on
building up strong fundamentals in the weaker
subjects.
Parents are strongly encouraged to prepare their
child early for the subject-based banding.
Progression to Secondary Level
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More information on secondary school
courses
http://www.moe.edu.sg/education/secondary/
courses
Partnership with Parents
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Every parent a Supportive partner through :
Design daily time-table together with your son for homework and
revision so as to manage his time more efficiently
Teach them the discipline to follow the time-table
Check your son’s diary daily for homework or note from teacher
Inculcate and nurture good habits – completion of homework,
revision of topics taught, packing of bag daily, coming to school
regularly and punctually
Partnership with Parents
Contact us if you have any queries or feedback
through Montfort diary or email or phone call
 Read all circulars and termly calendar
 Get school’s notifications through SNAAPP
(Please download the app in your mobile phone)
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