25 August 2015 (Tuesday)

Dear children,

As mentioned in class yesterday, I will be away for my reservist duties in the Air Force next term for two weeks from 12th to 23rd October. Before I leave you, I want to be sure that you have a strong foundation in the Maths skills to be learnt in the next 4 units. We will thus be focusing more on Maths over this week and the next.

Today, we continued with the Maths topic we started yesterday -- Time. By now, you would have learnt to:

-Tell time to the minute

-Write time to the minute

-Use "past" and "to" when telling time

-Convert time from hours and minutes to minutes only

-Convert time from minutes to hours and minutes

-Add time given in minutes

-Add time given in hours and minutes

-Subtract time given in minutes

-Subtract time given in hours and minutes

-Find the duration of a time interval

Test yourself: How would you draw a timeline for the following question?

James went to watch a movie at 8.45 p.m.

It ended at 11.15 p.m.

How long was the movie?

You received your Science Test in the afternoon and we went through some questions in Section A of the paper.

These are the children who earned ice-cream sticks for their groups for their good performance in the Science Test:

8 ice-cream sticks

Theophilus (38.5 marks) from Growtopia

Avery (37.5 marks) from Kindness

Lai Ye (37 marks) from Wise

Shineta (37 marks) from Robotics

7 ice-cream sticks

Huda (36.5 marks) and Yuqi (36 marks) from Dreamers

Ethan (36.5 marks) from Minions

Ranjiv (36 marks) from Detectives

Rowena (36 marks) from Kindness

Hayley (36 marks) and Kaedee (36 marks) from Stars

Alden (35 marks) from Lego

These are the children who worked very hard during the revision period and checked their work carefully during the test.

I was especially impressed by Shineta, Huda, Yuqi, Rowena and Hayley. These 5 girls made it to the list above even though they were previously not doing as well and had to come for the Science remedial/enrichment class held on Tuesdays. Through this test, they have shown us that with hard work, a lot is possible.

The highest score in our class is 38.5 out of 40 marks. 
The class average score is 33 marks. 
The lowest score is 24.5 marks.

Whatever your score is, I would like you to ask yourself these three important questions: 

1) Did you pay your fullest attention in class?

2) Did you put in your best during revision?

3) Did you check your work carefully during the test?

If you answered "Yes" to all three questions, then I must say to you, "Great job!" 

We will continue going through the paper tomorrow. Have a pleasant evening. :)