All the excitement is over now. No more exams, no more marking...Tuesday and wednesday were holiday for students... Moderation and Promotion exercise in school. These are the days when teachers sit down in a room, and go through all the students who do not meet the critiria for promotion. There, were decide whether to push them up, or to transfer laterally, or to retain them. Push them up, means to promote them... Usually occurs for deserving students... those whom the teachers feel that they have good learning attitudes and good behaviour. Of course there are some who are pushed up because there's no space in other classes. Laterally transfer can mean two ways. Either downwards from Exp to NA to NT, or upwards from NT to NA to Exp. My form class have two students promoted to Express class next year. So happy for them... but that'll mean I have less two good students in my class next year... sigh... Retain... well, goes for students who practically failed all subjects... which means they can't cope, or they don't deserved to be 'saved' as we call it. After we decide all these, we come to allocation of classes. Sec 3 is the easiest... they usually go up to the same class in Sec 4. Sec 1 and 2 more problematic... Cos there's streaming... So students are 'streamed' according to their results into various classes. Of course the better one will go into the first class and so on. But there're still certain criteria here and there... Don't quite understand though...My students kept coming to ask me... which class I go to? I want to go 'this' class... can you help me? Sigh... how I help you?? If your results don't help you? There's really nothing much I can do for you. Yes yes, I know which class you're going to.... BUT I CANT TELL YOU!! Special orders from the top you know... you want my head to roll? So I can only say... "I don't know... I don't know... I don't know." So PLEASE understand ok? Don't worry people, you'll know when you get your result slip... which is soon...So meanwhile, enjoy the post exam activities all lined up for you... Still hazy out there... so some times outdoor activities may be stopped. But relax all you can... Cos in two months time... that's next year, there'll be another round of hard work.
:D 10/22/2006 12:59:00 PM
