Education system in Singapore is quite different to my country's system.
6 years of primary school and 4 year of secondary school. It's PACKED.
Maybe that is one of the reasons of why students' bags here are pregnant with books and other things. I just looked up for the official curriculum set out by the Ministry of Education and found out how the system is like here.
For primary students, there are 4 core subjects that they need to study plus other extra subjects like co-curricular activities, character & citizenship education, physical education and project work.
One subject, take maths for an example, will require a student to carry a textbook, a workbook and sometimes a calculator. If in a day there will be 2 subjects learned plus a PE class then hypothetically the weight that needs to be carried tripled in amount.
I don't really know what a primary student's timetable is like and how local primary school' curriculum varies from one to another but looking at the surface of this, it looks like there are many books and equipments to be carried to school everyday.
I will research into it later.
I don't really know what a primary student's timetable is like and how local primary school' curriculum varies from one to another but looking at the surface of this, it looks like there are many books and equipments to be carried to school everyday.
I will research into it later.
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