Ko Ko's first Exam Results

26 May 2009 (Tuesday)

A backdated post. But I think I need to note it down for future reference..ha ha ha

I went personally went to collect Ko Ko's results at 6.00 pm as parents were asked to collect personally. My boss was so nice to let me leave a bit early so that I could be in time to collect the results. Thank you, boss.

When it was my turn, surprisingly, the Form Teacher did not say anything much. She just asked if there was anything I would like to ask her. I thought she should have some things to tell me instead of I had to ask her. If not, why the school asked the parents to go and collect the kid's results. At least she should prepare on what she should say about each student. Hmmmm...

Well, I must say I was not prepared since I thought I was to be briefed by the teacher on the overall results, performance or behaviour of my boy. Well since she had already asked me, so I just asked her how's my boy was doing in the class, a natural question that I think most parents would ask. She did not say anything much, just that Ko Ko was a bit playful...

Hmmm..I saw that other parents could ask so many questions and the teacher said so many things. Just wondering what they were asking so much about....kiasu parents???

After all, we should know more how our kids were like better than the teacher. After all, the teacher had to look after 51 kids in a class and she had only the allocated hours with them. I really had no ideas what to ask. So my turn was very fast. Well, I do know what my playful pampered boy is like.

One thing that surprised that day was the standing that Ko Ko got in the class (27/49) and in the whole of Primary 1 (474/707). Hmmm...that was not very good.

Before I saw Ko Ko's standing in the class, I felt that they were ok for a boy who didn't go to a good kindergarten and didn't spend so much time to study every day. The shock was that his standing was a bit low than I expected. That means there were a lot of very high performance students out there.

Well, since I do not want to be so exam oriented kind of parent, I said to myself, that's fine. What I need from him was to just to sit with me every schooling night (Monday to Friday) at least one hour to do some exercises. For me, it is important for him to brush up his languages namely Chinese, Malay & English, regardless whether they will be useful for him during his future working life.

So long that he's following our national school, he must master the 3 languages.

One thing is he's more keen in Maths than any other subjects. Guess, that is typical of boys. Hmmm...I am not so keen to focus too much time on Maths as the level of Maths in Standard is quite low. However, I do have to teach him Maths since he's always asking to do Maths.

Daddy should come in once a while to teach the boys Maths. It would be good that they have a different parent to tutor in order to maintain their interest. Different parent can bring in different insights into what they are learning. After all, different people have different styles and perception of things.