Hi qms,


Thanks for coming back to me!

I didn’t visit a school in Singapore, as I am foreigner. My wife is Singaporean (so are our children), but unfortunately her former primary school is far far away from our home.

What I meant is a policy that would give children priority for the closest school to their home, regardless of the distance. That’s exactly the case for us. Have checked on "One Map", but there is really no Primary School within 2km radius to our home(seems a very unique situation). Closest school (around 2.2.km) is Fairfield Methodist, but this one is popular and even under 2B (if accepted as a volunteer) we may not get a seat because of the more than 2km distance.

Hence I thought if distance generally plays a role for seat allocation in primary school, then there should also be a policy related to our case, but I couldn’t find anything on it. Do you have an idea?

Thanks a lot!

Hi,

I figured out that we don’t have any primary school within 2 km from our house. We would like to send our child to the closest school, but that’s a rather popular one for which I won’t get a seat under 2C or even 2B with distance of more than 2km.
Would anybody know whether there is an MOE policy related to sending your child to the nearest primary school, even though is more than 2 km?
Thanks a lot!