My primary school days served as the beginning of "awareness of the outside world". I studied in ZPS, one of the school that used to be located at Jalan Bukit Merah, at the bottom of SGH (But has now relocated to Jalan Membina. Hopefully I got the new location right).
My classes from Primary 1 to Primary 6: 1A, 2AA, 3D, 4C, 5F, 6F. Starting from Primary 1, the familiar feeling of studying gets stronger, as I brisked through Primary 1 easily, topping the cohort. This is also the year where I started taking the school bus to school. Waking up very early in the morning just to catch the school bus to school, even though the school was just a mere 5 minutes drive down the road. The school bus will round up the whole neighbourhood to pick up all the students before heading to school, which is why the journey took a starking 45 minutes! Anyway, school buses in the past were non air-conditioned and that they cramped lots of children in the bus. It was also much cheaper as compared to current days.
For Primary 2, I was in the afternoon session. To contrast the classes for morning and afternoon session, an additional alphabet was added to the end, and thus, 2AA. It's also this year where I begin to "reach out" more to the outside world. In other words, I became more active. Starting with simple project work, I began to hang around in my friends house... Well, took half an hour for project and a couple of hours playing... Ha ha...
For Primary 3, it was my first disappointment. I was assigned to Class 3D. D?? But my results were OK... Why "D"? Well, it was a random assignment from the school where everyone were allocated in a random manner to the various classes. Good students may not end up in the "A" class and vice-versa. In this way, there is a good mix of various calibre students and this may help to improve the standards of the classes. It was also in Primary 3 where we had our streaming. And it was in Primary 3 where I got a buddy, LWT. Doing projects together and playing about. Life was simple and good. No pressure and no worries...
Primary 4, another year of streaming. The MOE has changed their policy and changed the streaming from Primary 3 to Primary 4. And we were to take the streaming again for Primary 4. What the... The streaming will stream the pupils into EM1, EM2 and EM3. EM1 and EM2 were rather similar, except EM1 will be taking higher chinese as an extra subject. EM3 will be of a lighter curriculum. I ended up in EM2. Normal curriculum, normal studying pace, just a normal me. But still enjoying the companion of my buddy.
Primary 5... Class 5F. What? F? Such a lousy alphabet. Well, my school decided to reverse the alphabets with "A" being the last class and "G" being the first class. Class G is for the EM1 students, while "F" is considered the best of EM2. True enough, the competition in the class was rather fierce. The teachers were gearing us up for PSLE next year and the homework load was ridiculous. No more hours of playing, but hours of doing homework ay home!
Primary 6. The final year. It was the point of merely waking up in the morning, going to school, staying back for extra lessons, going home, having meals, doing homework, sleep. The monotonous life ended with the last paper of PSLE. Finally, the days of the monotonous life were over, and it's going to be endless of playing time till secondary school days! But it was also the last day of the PSLE where everyone felt a bit sad. We were be parting ways and heading to various different secondary schools. We were each given 6 choicecs to indicate our preference for secondary schools. Unfortunately, my buddy and I chose different secondary schools. And in the end, I was posted to CCHSM, while my buddy to CTSS.
All in all, even though there's 6 years of primary school education, time seems to brisk by without a trace. What will happen during secondary school days? Secondary schools days coming up next...
My classes from Primary 1 to Primary 6: 1A, 2AA, 3D, 4C, 5F, 6F. Starting from Primary 1, the familiar feeling of studying gets stronger, as I brisked through Primary 1 easily, topping the cohort. This is also the year where I started taking the school bus to school. Waking up very early in the morning just to catch the school bus to school, even though the school was just a mere 5 minutes drive down the road. The school bus will round up the whole neighbourhood to pick up all the students before heading to school, which is why the journey took a starking 45 minutes! Anyway, school buses in the past were non air-conditioned and that they cramped lots of children in the bus. It was also much cheaper as compared to current days.
For Primary 2, I was in the afternoon session. To contrast the classes for morning and afternoon session, an additional alphabet was added to the end, and thus, 2AA. It's also this year where I begin to "reach out" more to the outside world. In other words, I became more active. Starting with simple project work, I began to hang around in my friends house... Well, took half an hour for project and a couple of hours playing... Ha ha...
For Primary 3, it was my first disappointment. I was assigned to Class 3D. D?? But my results were OK... Why "D"? Well, it was a random assignment from the school where everyone were allocated in a random manner to the various classes. Good students may not end up in the "A" class and vice-versa. In this way, there is a good mix of various calibre students and this may help to improve the standards of the classes. It was also in Primary 3 where we had our streaming. And it was in Primary 3 where I got a buddy, LWT. Doing projects together and playing about. Life was simple and good. No pressure and no worries...
Primary 4, another year of streaming. The MOE has changed their policy and changed the streaming from Primary 3 to Primary 4. And we were to take the streaming again for Primary 4. What the... The streaming will stream the pupils into EM1, EM2 and EM3. EM1 and EM2 were rather similar, except EM1 will be taking higher chinese as an extra subject. EM3 will be of a lighter curriculum. I ended up in EM2. Normal curriculum, normal studying pace, just a normal me. But still enjoying the companion of my buddy.
Primary 5... Class 5F. What? F? Such a lousy alphabet. Well, my school decided to reverse the alphabets with "A" being the last class and "G" being the first class. Class G is for the EM1 students, while "F" is considered the best of EM2. True enough, the competition in the class was rather fierce. The teachers were gearing us up for PSLE next year and the homework load was ridiculous. No more hours of playing, but hours of doing homework ay home!
Primary 6. The final year. It was the point of merely waking up in the morning, going to school, staying back for extra lessons, going home, having meals, doing homework, sleep. The monotonous life ended with the last paper of PSLE. Finally, the days of the monotonous life were over, and it's going to be endless of playing time till secondary school days! But it was also the last day of the PSLE where everyone felt a bit sad. We were be parting ways and heading to various different secondary schools. We were each given 6 choicecs to indicate our preference for secondary schools. Unfortunately, my buddy and I chose different secondary schools. And in the end, I was posted to CCHSM, while my buddy to CTSS.
All in all, even though there's 6 years of primary school education, time seems to brisk by without a trace. What will happen during secondary school days? Secondary schools days coming up next...
