Parent Teacher Conference

This is Anthea 1st PTC for her primary education and I was looking forward to the session. The PTC was held on Friday, 13 March and we were given the timeslot of 12 noon to 1pm. The timing suits my working schedule…hee : )

After work, I met up with Adrian, Anthea and Anders at her primary school. Adrian was on his guard off and Anders just recovered from a gastric flu, so we decided to keep him at home.

When I reached the school around 12.50pm, her form teacher – Mrs. Anna Koh was engaged with another parent. Anders was getting a bit listless from the wait and asked to go home 1st. So Adrian brought him home while I waited with Anthea.

Finally it was our turn. The very 1st comment that Mrs. Anna Koh said was – “you need not worry about Anthea, she is a very independent girl and she is doing well in her studies.”

Then Mrs. Koh went through with me her academic:
1. English – confidence and did very well in her topical tests. She scored full marks for the recent test. Mrs. Koh encouraged me to start her on her writing skills as the school will be doing more of this in the next term.

2. Math – equally good – only thing: a little careless. During the recent 1 hour Math topical test, she completed in 10 minutes!!! Mrs. Koh asked her to check her work which she did but had a careless mistake.

3. Mother-tongue: she is well versed in her Hanyu pin yin and her words. Only setback is her conversational part. So we need to brush up on this area.

Her overall assessment by the form teacher was very good and she even commented that she plans to make Anthea the class monitress for the next term… : P

Mrs. Koh mentioned that Anthea happened to be seat in a row of 3 and these 3 pupils are the better of the class. So among the 3 of them (Anthea, Sean and Xin Yi), there seem to be “internal competition” as to who is the top scorer. So far, Mrs. Koh said she sees this as a positive peer competition and they will motivate each other to do well…: )

I am really happy to hear of all the positive feedback from Mrs. Koh and for the part that she is weaker on, we will definitely try to improve on it. Mrs. Koh did mention that the school does stream the better children at the end of Primary 1. If Anthea maintains her results as it is, she will have no problem to get to the better class.

So far, Anthea has been pretty diligent in her school work and tuition classes. Of course, we would definitely want her to be in the better class but we know as long as put in her BEST, we will be very happy with whatever her results are.