Blangah Rise Primary School

E-Learning:

I bet I better start saving to buy myself my own computer… My two daughters have been using my PC extensively ever since my eldest daughter had her account activated in the MOE’s Litespeed E-Learning Website. They have been enjoying add-on lessons through an interactive teacher in this website.

The School:

Daniella goes to a government primary school here in Singapore. The government subsidizes most of the school fees thus we are only paying SGD15.00 per month. The school has the facilities of a private school though: They have computer rooms and classrooms have its own PC and projector to name a few. When I attended the orientation, we were informed that they do not practice giving the students a lot of homework since most of the time homeworks are answered by the parents—they have more seatwork instead. They said homework gives children a negative impact-- they have been studying the whole day, they should rest and play at home but of course, they can always log-in to Litespeed if they want to study more...

Students are also encourage to bring English reading materials for their daily reading time while waiting for assembly to start. Primary 1 students will not be sitting for their quarterly assessment, instead they will have diagnostic test as formative assessment to gauge their standard (There is no graded report card by the way instead they make use of a performance-based progress report). Other activities like Chinese dancing and swimming are also presented with half of the fees paid by the government.

EZ-Link:

MOE issued an EZ-Link Card to every student. The card will not only serve as an Identification Card that will hold the student’s basic information but it will as also serve as a non-contact stored value ticket for use on the MRT, LRT and the buses as well– that is 45cents per ride regardless of the distance.