But Sito was browsing Xiaohongshu and saw parents humblebragging talking about their kids' Edusave awards and so he opened the letterbox on Tuesday on his way home from sending Kai to the National Age Group Chess Championship.
Surprise! Kai has received an Edusave Scholarship for being in the top 10%! 🥳 Ok, maybe not totally unexpected as he studied hard on his own and did well in his WAs and exams.
Since he was busy with chess, we didn't tell him the good news until he came home. After reading the letter, he swept his hair up from his forehead and went, "I'm so smart!"
Hahaha! This boy can be so full of himself that it's funny!
But later, we realised he thought this was among the whole of Singapore. Eh hello, your school la. Then he wasn't as pleased; he has this 情节 about his school... Maybe coz he thought he didn't make it to ACS (Ind)... And so we had to do some education....
Yes, he went to ACS (Br) via affiliation route with his PSLE score of AL15. We know at least for his batch that the school didn't hit the 80% cap for affiliated kids, which means that more than 20% - just not sure how much more - of his peers entered the school at PSLE score of max AL10.
He has beaten more than half of these max AL10 kids to get his top 10%. And that is something to be proud of, especially since he did it all on his own - he finished his homework on time; he studied hard for WAs and exams; he dutifully went for English tuition and did the extra bits at home; he let me go through his Chinese textbook with him.
All these he did with little reminders from us, though the Chinese he did somewhat grudgingly and so that he wouldn't need to go for tuition. He came to us only in areas he wasn't sure about or good at (like factorisation at first) and to ask Papa to test him, coz we didn't get any papers for secondary school.
So Kai was settled.
Yang and Yu were both there when Sito and I opened Kai's letter. Yang lamented that he had never had an award :( Yu was quite confident he would get it again - so yaya *.* Then later that afternoon, Na told me she got the letter for her son who's the same age as Yu. Indeed, Sito opened the letterbox again today on his way home from getting lunch and there it was, Yu's letter.
Yu was pleased but was a bit sian he wouldn't know whether he was in the top 10% like GeGe. But same boy also told me last night that he didn't think he would do as well as GeGe coz he wouldn't study on his own like him *.*
Anyway, my initial happy thoughts for Yu very quickly became sad thoughts for Yang. I was hoping he could get the Good Progress Award, like Kai did at this level, as he had improved from P4. But alas, that was not to be...
So we told him that we would give him something to reward him for his improvement. Actually, Yang is the one who had put in the most effort this year. Unlike Kai who was left alone to manage his own studies, Yang was given lots of work and personalised supervision from both Sito and me. Unlike Yu who resists work, Yang even asked for more work in synthesis and transformation which he was weak in, and he really improved after working through loads of exercises!
In the end, MOE awards are just one part of the ecosystem of recognition for students. If the kid has improved or has simply put in his best, parents could and should recognise it too.
So yes, we'll congratulate all three of them for their efforts and achievements! We'll think of something for Yang by the time of the award ceremony early next year...
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