Raffles Girls' School (Secondary) [*IP]

[Choco05]

chatterbox321:

Happy Mama:

Hi choco05, thank you so much for your reply. You have been most helpful.


Just curious, will the school be having an open house today (Sat morning)? We missed this year's open house as it clashed with another school's open house.

nope, we will not be having another open house today!

Our open house is usually in May, same day as RI's. Ah, but the new campus is coming up :evil:

[Happy Mama]

Choco05:

Our open house is usually in May, same day as RI's. Ah, but the new campus is coming up :evil:

Yes, and it always clashes with the other school. Haha! When will the school be moving to its new campus?

[Spica]

Hi choco05 & chatterbox321,


Did you take any 3rd language? Any advice which one is interesting to do?

Thanks.

[pirated]

Choco05:

Happy Mama:

Hi, not sure if anyone's asked this question before as I'm new to this thread...


May I know how the Year 1s are classed? Do they separate the GEPpers from the Mainstreamers? For Mainstreamers, are they classed according to their T-scores? Will the lower classes be given less priorities / opportunities or be outcast by the GEPpers?

Also, may I know what the culture is like? Is it a caring and sharing environment? Cos I've heard some of the girls tend to be self-centred as compared to the other girls' school (sorry, no offense meant here)...

Thank you so much.

Hello! Every year there will be someone asking this, don't worry!

As of previous years, year 1 classes are as such: about 8 classes of mainstreamers including like sports DSA, and the remaining 5 consists of GEP DSAs+high mainstreamers. The scores of these high mainstreamers varies from year to year, it has been around 269^ for the previous years.

No, they will not get more opportunities, programs, better teachers, more notes... nothing. Honestly not that much of a difference haha. There are plenty of opportunities for interaction between GEP and non-GEP, such as CCAs, interest groups etc! Anyway in year 3 they split the classes according to subject combi again, and by the end of year 1, nobody cares if you were from GE anyway. We are all part of a big family!!

I'd say it's definitely a caring and sharing environment!! Of course there are a few oddballs of selfish people (as of every other school) but majority are really nice people with really good hearts :love: :love:

well said

[Happy Mama]

Spica:

Hi choco05 & chatterbox321,


Did you take any 3rd language? Any advice which one is interesting to do?

Thanks.

Haha! I had wanted to ask this question too! Dd is very keen to take up Spanish, though we would prefer her to do Japanese...

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Happy Mama:

Spica:

Hi choco05 & chatterbox321,


Did you take any 3rd language? Any advice which one is interesting to do?

Thanks.

Haha! I had wanted to ask this question too! Dd is very keen to take up Spanish, though we would prefer her to do Japanese...

the difference is J-S....*LOL*

[jetsetter]

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the difference is J-S....*LOL*

Really! :oops:

[Miaow]

Hi all , look at the matter, can I say that the student there mostly are very smart and I always hear from my girl school parents said that the pupils are high class human??? I am very concerns whether my girl can cook there ??? I am a mother and as father parent!! Hope can see more opinions from the yours. Thanks.

[chatterbox321]

Spica:

Hi choco05 & chatterbox321,


Did you take any 3rd language? Any advice which one is interesting to do?

Thanks.

I used to take MSP (Malay Special Programme) for 2 years because of its convenience (held in school), but I guess for 3rd language, it should be fine to choose based on your daughters preference!

But do make sure your child will be able to commit to the 3rd language, because many people end up dropping out after taking the 3rd language due to increasing commitments etc. along the way from year 1 to year 4.

Interesting to do wise, I think all of them would be interesting, especially those really foreign languages like japanese, french, German and Spanish!

[chatterbox321]

Miaow:

Hi all , look at the matter, can I say that the student there mostly are very smart and I always hear from my girl school parents said that the pupils are high class human??? I am very concerns whether my girl can cook there ??? I am a mother and as father parent!! Hope can see more opinions from the yours. Thanks.

hello! I'm a current student at RGS. Hahaha I dont think that all of us are very high class or whatsoever, but I guess that is just a common stereotype of us! We are still just normal people after all especially since we all get into our school based on merit, there is a good mix of students from various backgrounds!

Also we do have a kitchen in our school where we do home economics for a term in year 2! So hopefully your girl would be able to pick up some cooking then.