House System FGD (Science Dept) by Felicia Mah https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience Pros and Cons of the 7 House system en-us 2020-07-27 08:39:44 UTC 2020-08-11 06:50:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663675154 Equal distribution of students into the houses, else some houses always have fewer students ]]> 2020-07-27 23:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663675154 Inter-stream mingling https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663675184 Students from the different streams will mix much more regularly and have more interactions :)]]> 2020-07-27 23:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663675184 https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663675563 Is it really necessary to have so many houses? Won’t it be difficult to find house meeting venues?]]> 2020-07-27 23:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663675563 E house estherzhengjiahui1 https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663675808 E house will have only 2 levels next year, and 3 levels the year after next, will that impact the morale of the house?]]> 2020-07-27 23:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663675808 https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663675879 No sense of belonging to any house since we are always roving ]]> 2020-07-27 23:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663675879 Ratio of express:NA:NT https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663675931 Usually we have more express students in the school compared to NA and NT. It is important to make sure the normal kids will not get "ostracised" or feel like they are the minority... ALBEIT mixing them together can really get them see that everyone are human and teachers will not treat different students fromd ifferent streams differently.]]> 2020-07-27 23:53:54 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663675931 chia_yi_peng2_1 https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676081 FSBB means all students within the same class only meet during CCE and very few other lessons, will they still be bonded during these house sessions?]]> 2020-07-27 23:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676081 https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676083 Not sure if parents can feel anything. They might not even know the houses we have in school ]]> 2020-07-27 23:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676083 https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676280 Alumni will feel disconnected if there is a change in names .. unless some features from old and new  are merged ]]> 2020-07-27 23:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676280 maggsmiley https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676292 Each house becomes smaller and less diversified, not in the academic profile, but in the mix of talents and interests which is an intrinsic value of having a house system - to increase school life vibrancy is Kranji. May need some recalibration of house activities to encourage excitement for house activities. 
 ]]> 2020-07-27 23:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676292 https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676805 Not sure, depends on how attached they are to the current house system ]]> 2020-07-27 23:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676805 chia_yi_peng2_1 https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676828 not excited (maybe?), cos its just another FSBB class where I mingle with a new group of students ]]> 2020-07-27 23:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676828 msliujm https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676890 SUPER UPSET AND ANGRY about the 7 house system because we already have a sense of pride and belonging to the current house. if the rest of the houses are feeling demoralised about not winning or rather, the same house is always winning... then work hard!! if we are going to change to 7 houses.. n one of the houses is gonna win all the time... then isnt it the same problem again? 


]]> 2020-07-27 23:55:27 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676890 koh_chee_how https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676909 Should be good for building identity as now the K1, K2 etc are all in the same house. 

]]> 2020-07-27 23:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663676909 https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663677088 Trs will be rotated? Within the house ]]> 2020-07-27 23:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663677088 Sad https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663677139 Teachers sadly will not get to stick to ONE house for a longggg time unless super lucky :')]]> 2020-07-27 23:55:54 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663677139 chia_yi_peng2_1 https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663677595 sian cos keep having to change house, don't have a chance to bond with students and see them through the 4 years]]> 2020-07-27 23:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663677595 koh_chee_how https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663678168 What if we have one less class in the future?]]> 2020-07-27 23:57:48 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663678168 If i dislike the people in my house, i have to see them for four years and I'll have a poor school experience. At least in the past, we can shift class after two years. https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663678373 2020-07-27 23:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663678373 Most parents are not so involved in the House system. So they will not really mind. koh_chee_how https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663678431 2020-07-27 23:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663678431 maggsmiley https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663678643 Does this mean students change house from lower sec to upper sec? 

]]> 2020-07-27 23:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663678643 Too many house. Overkill. This isn't our subject area. https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663679023 2020-07-27 23:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663679023 I'll be confused why the whole school my kid only know 39 other students for 4 years https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663679240 2020-07-27 23:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663679240 msliujm https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663679844 past alumni will not be happy at all. no sense of belonging anymore. as though its a new school. ]]> 2020-07-28 00:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663679844 Students as a class would be SUPER bonded esp when they become seniors https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663679857 Because they not only seeing each other 2 years... but 4 years!!!!!]]> 2020-07-28 00:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663679857 Sense of affinity to Kranji maggsmiley https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663680012 Streamline students' sense of belonging and allegiance from three separate groups (house vs class vs cca) into two (house+class vs cca)]]> 2020-07-28 00:01:14 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663680012 Intermingling of students https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663681427 Peers can tutor each other and help each other out. Esp because they are of varying abilities. Students gets more exposure to other streams students. Parents might be happy that they are not just "stuck" in one stream, one "mindset".]]> 2020-07-28 00:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663681427 chia_yi_peng2_1 https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663683080 The number of NT students per batch might still be small given that its usually one class worth. ]]> 2020-07-28 00:06:32 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663683080 Don't change House names feliciamah89 https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663687294 2020-07-28 00:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663687294 House should not be removed feliciamah89 https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663688958 2020-07-28 00:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663688958 House masters no form class? feliciamah89 https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663691754 House teacher issue due to deployment]]> 2020-07-28 00:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciamah89/ksshousescience/wish/663691754