FannyKohLT wrote:Hello all,
I moved to Singapore at the end of September last year and have been looking out since then. My kids are 4 and 6 years old and now they are only attending some enrichment classes. Can someone recommend me a good school for my elder boy which I suppose should be in P1. I am staying in the west around Holland Village area. It's such a pain to go through this and to compare between local and expat schools.
Please enlighten me.
Some quick enlightening:
If your children are
not Singapore citizens or permanent residents, do note that choosing a public school is less about which one you would
prefer and more about whatever available space happens to be
left.
See the MOE website for more details:
http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/admissi ... on/phases/
In simple English, it means that all Singaporean and PR children go first, and non-citizens take whatever is left (assuming there are any places left).
If you are lucky, there may be some vacancies left in the public school of your choice. In which case, you can apply to send your kids to that school. But do also bear in mind that if the number of applications exceeds the number of available places (which happens a lot at the more popular public schools), then balloting will be conducted to see who gets the remaining places.
If you are unlucky enough to
not succeed at this stage, the Ministry of Education will then simply post your child to any available public primary school with a vacancy. This posting is final and no appeals will be entertained. Schools will also not entertain any walk-in applications.