Hello everyone! It's been awhile

Hello everyone, its been a long while since I last posted. I am so sorry everyone but I have been caught in the thick of action and life had certainly been overwhelming for me!!

So what had I been up to?

Well for a start I have taken up some part time studies. Just felt that my brain is getting a little rusty after all these while so I figured I did take up some studies to keep my brain working again.

Thanks for the support from everyone for the past half a year and please continue to send your feedbacks to be with regards to anything! Oh yah NYPS are in the midst of migrating over to a new email system. Please email me @ Low_kiah_wee@nyps.edu.sg in future. Thank you!

Omnimax theatre

The boys are all ready!

A shy girl together with shuhui

Charles posing for the camera

It's been a long time everyone. Sorry got caught up in the exam fever and was busy with the exam papers. As I get ready the report cards, I manage to find a little bit of time to update the blog. Oh well though not everyone scored 80 marks and above for their Maths paper, we decided to go ahead with the plans as well. So here are some pictures of the kids at the omnimax theatre. Didn't manage to capture alot of pictures of the girls as they are pretty camera shy. Everyone had fun at the omnimax! = )

Reservist 21-24th of April

Dear Parents, I will be doing my reservist from the 21st to the 24th of April. Not to worry, I will assign the necessary work with the form teacher before leaving. Also you may noticed that this year I have made the pupils file their worksheets and their activity workbook into their files right away after they are completed. Hopefully by now everyone has a complete set. After 2 very long rounds of marking, I have finally completed their corrections marking but as usual our lovely pupils are still making some mistakes even after the 2nd round of corrections. Due to time constrain, I will not be collecting their files for the 3rd time for corrections marking, however please feel free to ask your child to clarify with me should they have any doubts in work. Thank you.

What's up lately?

Hello everyone hope that your have been tuning in to the blog lately. I am soooo sorry that I haven't been posting lately as I had been pretty busy with the Science Nova practical as I was the overall in charge of the whole program.

Quite a few things have been happening lately in school, let's give Mrs Kor our strongest support during this difficult period for her. Heh heh and for start in case your do not know, I have marked everyone science nova on behalf of Mrs Kor.

Also during the prefect investiture week, We saw Ellie became prefect. Well "with more powers come more responsibility!" Congratulations Ellie but I will be expecting much more as well. As for those who are keen in taking on the leadership role in School, Mrs Kor and myself will be watching out for potential prefects next year!

These were my former students from 3E. Spot where is Ellie!

Welcome back!

Welcome back everyone. It's going to be a bitter struggle term with SA1 in the 8th week. This term is really going to be a real tight one so may I invite everyone to tune yourself and get ready for the battle. No more late submissions of work and no more "teacher I forget to do...." As I have shared with everyone, just to cover 84 pages of the activity book in 7 weeks can already be a challenge and coupled with worksheets and practice papers. It will be a challenge as well. So let's work hand in hand alright.

The shanghai trip was excellent, I get to share pupils' life's and see how they are like for 7 whole days, something which I don't get to see. I would like to encourage everyone to sign up for a trip especially the short ones as there are many lessons in life that cannot be found in textbooks. For now I shall leave everyone with a video of us "launching a rocket". Enjoy! = )

Parents Let's hear your opinions!

I have spend my lovely Saturday afternoon doing marking! While I must say that everyone had performed much better in this PBT test there is something that disturbs me pretty much.

I still find pupils not showing proper working despite numerous reminders in class. This means that quite a handful of pupils still use the top down approach and scribble their working all over the space provided. They did not use the left to right approach, writing line by line on how they arrive at the answer.

This time round, I still award working marks to the pupils but I am afraid in official exams I will have to follow strictly to the marking scheme. I know in some cases that other teachers do deduct some marks from pupils. The reason is that since it is a practice where marks are not recorded down, teachers want to allow pupils to understand the importance of showing proper working.

As such this results in some confusion, parents will wonder "Why this teacher never deduct marks while others do or why last time never deduct now in exams marks are deducted." Do your think that I should deduct marks even for practice to set things right from the start? Parents, I would like to hear from you. You can email me your feedback to Low_kiah_wee@moe.edu.sg

Thank you.

Mr Low falls Sick....

Hello everyone...how was the PBT test today? Did your find the paper easy? Hopefully everyone can do much better this time round. So sorry that I had to miss out all the action in school these 2 days as I am down with fever and stomach flu. But nonetheless my heart is with your! Just make sure your don't give me a heart attach when I marked your papers hor....heh heh these are some photos I secretly took of your during the mock test. Sorry I didn't have the time to post it up! Enjoy everyone! = )

Hmmm this is easy (oops is jason by the way)

Ellie can't believe her eyes and her jaws starts to drop!

Ethan and Wei Ern in their moments of concentration

Sean: This is easy!

Yi Xuan: I can do it.... I can do it!!