Could anybody recommend a primary school?

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Could anybody recommend a primary school?

Post by edmond » Sun, 31 Aug 2008 3:13 pm

Dear Parents,

My son will go to school Jan 2009. We are singapore PR, but my son is not. so we have to wait untill 28 August 2008 to register him. But I am overseas from middle august till now.

anyway the nearer school all have no available places when i visited them on early august.

Could you give me some advice on how to register him? can i register him later? If a school has no available places, can i register him there as a students that pay higher fees?

thank you and regards

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Post by viajera » Mon, 01 Sep 2008 1:44 am

presume you are referring to local schools.

you can register your child any time, subject to vacancies. if you check the MOE website now, you will see which schools have vacancies.

you can also seek the help of MOE in placing your child, but no, you can't pay your way into a school.

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Post by edmond » Mon, 01 Sep 2008 8:52 am

Thank you. Viajera. I will go to check the MOE website now. Nice day.

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Post by lalat » Tue, 02 Sep 2008 2:44 pm

and i guess, you could choose a primary school which is near your house....

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Post by edmond » Wed, 03 Sep 2008 8:36 am

Only 3 schools have vacancies. the nearest one is Juying. Is Juying good? Thanks.

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Post by here_i_am » Wed, 10 Sep 2008 8:46 pm

Check out nationmaster, kiasuparents, wikipedia, and MOE. I find these sites very helpful when i need to review a school proscpect.

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Post by edmond » Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:24 am

Thank you. Here_i_am.

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Post by chixchix » Mon, 15 Sep 2008 9:53 am

Edmund, hii .. i am presuming Juying must be in Jurong West ..I just shifted to Jurong West and I did a good check on schools before shifting here..my boy will be doing his P1 registration next year..and from my research and feedbacks,, I realised that West Grove Primary was a good school..you may want to check out this forum,,I find it quite informative


www.kiasuparents.com and go under Forum.

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Post by ZaOx » Mon, 15 Sep 2008 7:36 pm

i know rulang is a fairly good school (i went there myself)

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Post by chixchix » Tue, 16 Sep 2008 7:03 pm

Yeah Rulang is another good school i heard.
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Post by madura » Tue, 07 Oct 2008 7:06 pm

on the contrary, I'm doubtful whether rulang is a good choice for expats.

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Post by molihua » Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:50 pm

Try Raffles Gal primary School.

they hv gifted pgm if your child is bright.

methodist gal is also good bcos secondary you can go easily as they say have affilations. Some catholic school CHIJ also hv affilations.

Raffles has no affilations so you dun get priority if yr child results not so good. They hv to go to the Sec school which their gardes meet unless they have special talent like sports or whatever.

Good school hv a lot of rich kids, many peer pressures , lots bday invites.
Got bullies in school too

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Post by sundaymorningstaple » Sun, 09 Nov 2008 2:35 pm

molihua,

I don't think you are quite the walking advertisement for the type of schools that expats are looking for. One of the things that they DON'T want is to have their kids growing up and writing like you do. If you are going to write on an Expat centric board, you should have the courtesy to type in English rather than little schoolgirl sms-texting. Here we tend to try to use the full keyboard as we are not limited to the length of our posts. This way most here don't have to try to decipher what you are actually writing and can spend more time on the information being given. :roll:
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers

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Post by hometutors.sg » Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:27 am

In Singapore, the places are more or less allocated based on where you live.

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Post by boffenl » Fri, 14 Nov 2008 3:52 pm

Sorry, places in local are NOT allocated to expats based on where we live. If ANY local school has space available during the third stage of balloting, then you can line up at 6am to be the first on the list. For expats, it doesn't matter where you live, it only matters if the school has space available during the final balloting exercise.

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