Move of class website to SJI Junior's school website

Dear Parents and Students,

Please note that our class website has moved.

You can go to the school website and click on the link "Class Websites" located at the top right corner. When you are at the class websites page, you DO NOT need to login to see messages and homework lists. You only need to login when you want to download files from the class website.

UserID: student's NRIC
Password: password

Please change your password after you have logged in for the frst time.

E-Learning Day preparations

Please note that for E-Learning Day on 26 Mar, the school will be using www.wiziq.com to teach a half-hour lesson. For P6 students, it will be a half-hour lesson in Mother Tongue only.

Students who have not signed up for an account with Wiziq, please do so before Friday this week. When signing up for an account, please take note of the following:

- Sign up using the school's email account given to each student. To access the your school's email account, go to the school website, click on SJIJ Gmail located at the top right corner of the page. Your UserID is your NRIC and your password is "password".

On the actual day, an email invitation will be sent to each student to the student's school email account. Please login and click on the link in the email to access the virtual classroom.

Supp classes to resume next week (Term 2 Week 2)

Dear Parents,

Please note that there is no supp classes this week. All supp classes resume next week.

Also, please be reminded that morning CCAs on Tues resume tomorrow.

Science answer keys ready for download

Please note that Science Practice Paper 2 answer keys are uploaded.

Click on the "Files Download" link to download the answer key. Make sure you have done the paper before downloading it. Use it to check against your answers and read carefully how the answers are answered according to the type of questions.

Science Practice Paper 1 Answer Key

I have uploaded the above answer key. Please download it to check against your answers and to ensure your corrections are written correctly.

You can download it by clicking on the "Files Download" link.

Recommended Math Practice book

As recommended last year, this is the Math practice book which I find is a very useful book to prepare for PSLE Math. It consists of many problem sums that enable students to learn the skills needed in PSLE.

I suggest students get a copy of this in Popular bookstores. Parents or tuition teachers can help to explain the answers. As for tuition teachers, it is highly advisable to hire those who are current Primary school teachers.

Students can come to me for help as well whenever they have problems.

Cancellation of Supplementary classes on 18 Feb, Thurs.

Please note that supp classes on 18 Feb, Thurs have been cancelled due to the swimming heats to be held on that day.

Swimming heats participants will go for their lunch at 12.30pm.

Reminder to bring "Interactions" books for next Sci lesson

Please be reminded to bring "Interactions" Activity Book, Coursebook and the 2 Process Skills booklets for the next Science lesson onwards.

REMINDER!!! Cancellation of Supplementary Class on Thurs, 4 Feb.

Please note that there will be no supplementary class on Thurs, 4 Feb. There is a school function and I am involved in it. I will be giving homework for the supp class and students can do it at home.

Locker keys not yet returned from 2009

Please note that the following students have not returned locker keys from 5 Anthony's classroom last year:

Currently in 6 Anthony
1) Arivarasu
2) Douglas Chia
3) Aaron D'Cruz
4) Ho Juin Jie
5) Kang Minkoo
6) Ng Jun Long
7) Daniel Tong

In other classes
1) Ajay
2) Yastain
3) Gerard Luke
4) Parampal
5) Sundar

Please return the locker keys as soon as possible.

Cancellation of Supplementary Class on Thurs, 4 Feb.

Please note that there will be no supplementary class on Thurs, 4 Feb. There is a school function and I am involved in it. I will be giving homework for the supp class and students can do it at home.

School email account ready for use!

To all students,

Please note that our school email accounts are ready for use!

Simply key in your birth certificate number as the UserID, as well as "password" for password.

If you want to change your password, please go to Settings to do that.

Sony Creative Science Award (SCSA)

Singapore Science Centre and A*STAR are jointly organising an annual competition, Sony Creative Science Award (SCSA). The creative toys competition is aimed to promote creativity among primary school students and to learn about science beyond the classrooms in a fun and enjoyable way.

The school can send a maximum of 8 boys for this competition. They will attend courses at the Science Centre for creative and technical workshops.

If you have the skill, knowledge or even just the passion for toy making, please let me know if you are interested to take part. This is open for boys from P3 to P6. As there is a limit to 8 participants, it will be first come - first serve. Prizes are attractive.

Dialogue session on Fri, 22 Jan.

Dear Parents,

As all of you have known, our P6 dialogue session will be held tomorrow. I understand many of you may find it difficult to reach our school at 7pm due to work or personal commitments. I have decided to put up here what I am going to say tomorrow, so that if you have any questions, please feel free to email me. The highlight of tomorrow's session will be my Principal's talk as it will be matters pertaining to PSLE. The gist of my short 25-minute talk will be on the following matters:

1) I have a very strict policy of submitting work or forms on time. From time to time, I will be writing in the students' diaries should any of them constantly forgot to submit punctually. I seek your help to remind them to write in their diaries whatever they need to bring the next day, and make them read through their diary one last time before they go to bed to ensure they have packed everything in their bags.

2) I am trying to instill a sense of responsibility in our students through their corrections. Last year, I will be folding their pages whenever I find corrections undone. This resulted in pages being unfolded by them and corrections still remained undone. This time, I told them that they have to check on their past work to see if they have missed out on any corrections. If they have, they are to do them (clarify with me if they do not know how to do), and then fold the page when they submit the book to me. I will mark according to the pages they have folded.I started this late last year, and I have seen positive change of behaviour in several students.

3) Many students have tuition. However many students seem to think that tuition homework is more important than school homework. Whenever they are running short of time, they choose to finish tuition work over school work. This makes things very difficult for school teachers as we cannot access their level of understanding.

At the same time, I hope our students will have a balanced work and play time. I have seen several students already complaining to me that after school they have much more work to finish. My concern is that with too much work, they will be feeling tired even before PSLE. I hope they will be allowed time for relaxation even during weekdays as they need time to recharge for another bout of work the next day.

4) Although this is our students' final and critical year, please allow them time for participation in CCA. CCA helps them de-stress by letting them do what they like and to break the monotony of endless hours of work.

5) I have created a Facebook account with a blog site for the class. I am encouraging them to reflect on what they have learnt and to share them with the class. Their reflections will be posted on Facebook. The blog site is for them to post questions pertaining to the topics they have learnt. Their fellow classmates can help to answer them ,and for my part, I will clarify the questions in class.

6) Last but not least, I will be be posting any relevant information about our class in this website. Please check on this website from time to time. My email address is here as well and this will be the best way of communication for me.

This will be a summary of my short talk for tomorrow. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

As mentioned just now, the highlight of tomorrow's session is the talk by my Principal. If you cannot make it by 7pm, just arrive by 7.30pm for my Principal's talk.

See you tomorrow!

Mr Andy Lam

Class timetable uploaded

Please note that I have uploaded the class timetable for all of you. If you need a copy, simply download it and print it out.

Click on the "Files Download" link on the left side of this webpage to start downloading it.

Very important reminders!!!

Please remember to bring the following as soon as possible:

1) Pupils' particulars forms
2) Class funds (it is preferable to hand in cheques rather than cash)
3) Supplementary class forms

Please be reminded to bring thermometers every Thursday.

Reminder!

Please bring your Science textbook and workbook (Interactions) on Tues
for Science lessons.

Sent from my iPhone

Collection of questions

I have created another blogsite, http://asksjij.blogspot.com, for students who have questions relevant to the topics that they are taught. They can type the questions in there and I will go through them. These questions can either be answered by me the next day, or students can also type in their responses to the questions if they know.

This is meant to be a platform for sharing. Please refrain from posting negative comments in it.

Welcome to 2010!

Welcome back to school!

I hope everyone had a good break during the Dec holidays.

This year is a critical year for the entire class. Every student has to work hard, clearing all doubts about any topic, and practice as much as he can.

I hope everyone will help one another, share resources and achieve better grades together. At the same time, there must be a balance of work and play. Do not load yourselves with too much tuition work. I do not want any student to be stressed and tired before the major exams.

Be sensible and this year will be an enjoyable and fruitful one for everyone.