24 Nov 2021 - Release of PSLE results

Today was an exciting day for all P6 students and their parents.  Yes, it's the release of PSLE results.  To adhere to the Safe Management Measures, only one parent can accompany the child to school to collect the PSLE results.  After entering the school, students went to their respective classrooms while accompanying parents got to wait at designated waiting venues.  At 11am, there was a briefing by the School's Principal and P6 Year Head regarding the school's performance in this year's PSLE and Secondary 1 posting respectively.  Rosyth School did pretty well this year with 100% pass for all students taking 4 standard subjects.  Out of which, 33% had achieved a total AL score of 8 and below.  During the briefing, I could hear non-stop shouting/cheering coming from the P6 classrooms as they received their results.  Once the collection of results was completed for their class, P6 students were led to the waiting venues to meet up with their parents.

When I met up with Javier, I saw that he's very calm and his facial expression did not give me any clue whether his result was ok.  He then passed me a file containing his results and said to me softly, "I got overall AL5".  I was so happy for him because it's a very good result considering AL4 is the best one can get.  He even got a Merit for his Higher Chinese Language.  The result is better than what he had expected as he was actually aiming for AL7-8 with a Pass for HCL.  If we convert AL5 to T-Score used in previous years, it will be 265 and above.  Well done, Javier!

When we reached home, I realized that there was an Eligibility Letter from MOE in the file.  Based on Javier's result, he was eligible for Edusave Scholarships for Independent Schools (ESIS).  However, he will not be offered the scholarship because he has already been admitted to a non-IS (TJC) through Direct School Admission (DSA).  I then read up more about ESIS and found out that it's only offered to the top 3% of students taking PSLE that year.  Really proud of Javier's achievement, which definitely exceeded mine some 30+ years ago......haha.......

Based on the results, he can actually get admitted into any of the so called "top" schools.  So I asked him whether he has any regret accepting the offer from TJC.  He immediately said "No, why should I?".  He said he has already thought through it very carefully during the DSA application.  At that time, he actually visited the schools' websites to find out more about the various schools.  He also made use of MOE's school finder to filter out schools that match his criteria.  His criteria are as follow:

- Prefer a co-ed school over a boys school

- School that offers Integrated Programme (IP)

- School that offers InfoComm Club as CCA

- Location after considering the above

So based on the above criteria, TJC is the best match and he's very firm with his decision.  I am very glad that he has such a logical and matured thinking at his age.  That's why I fully supported his decision.  It is very important for a child to choose a school that really suit his needs instead of just going for the "best" school based on Cut-Off Point (COP), which I see many parents are now stressing over.

Anyway, it's now time to enjoy the remaining school holidays before embarking on the next chapter of his learning journey.