2016 P1 Registration Exercise for 2017 In-Take

[sun sun sun]

Thanks Sembgal. That’s my master plan! Will try 2B and 2C if need to…I am within 1km!

[sun sun sun]

sembgal:

sun sun sun:

checking in! Hoping to get into st nicks!

If within 1km can try to ballot. If cannot go any school first. Once you secure a primary school for your girl, go waitlist at St Nic. Update the school every 6 months with result slips. Most likely the school will contact you when your child is in P2 at the end of October or 1st week Nov if they shortlist your girl to be transfer in student for P3. St Nic see results and results must be excellent in order to get shortlisted to be transferred in.

My niece managed to get in via the transfer route but only at P4. Praying hard!

[sembgal]

sun sun sun:

sembgal:

[quote=\"sun sun sun\"]checking in! Hoping to get into st nicks!

If within 1km can try to ballot. If cannot go any school first. Once you secure a primary school for your girl, go waitlist at St Nic. Update the school every 6 months with result slips. Most likely the school will contact you when your child is in P2 at the end of October or 1st week Nov if they shortlist your girl to be transfer in student for P3. St Nic see results and results must be excellent in order to get shortlisted to be transferred in.

My niece managed to get in via the transfer route but only at P4. Praying hard![/quote]My friend asked me to transfer my child to St Nic. Still thinking as I want to see who are the teachers teaching my dd next year in her current school. Praying for the excellent teachers that I have in mind. Those teachers usually follow for 2 years. Of course there are top schools too but distance very far. If go to top school, all are small fish in the pond. Being a big fish in the pond is also not bad now.

[Orb]

patsyops:

Thanks Sembgal & Orb for your advise.


One more thing to check, table in the balloting history, shows Phase 2C as yellow, APP 115%, TUR 100%
under Maris. Does yellow legend means balloting required for SC 1-2km, and those within 1km gets admitted directly?

Sorry for my stupid question

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/toa-payoh

Yellow indicates balloting for SC within 1-2km. But this may change as I understand that Bartley Residences and Bartley Ridge can use their addresses for registration. Do monitor and make an informed decision based on calculated risk and probability. Balloting is not for the faint hearted.

[sun sun sun]

Hi Sembgal. True indeed. Big fish in a small pond or small fish in a big pond. Have been debating this issue with my hubby since my girl was born. In the end, we decide to just try our luck. Never try never know!

[patsyops]

Thanks ORB!!! feeling the stress to enrol these lil ones :nailbite: :nailbite:

[CS673]

Dear Parents

1 Day old to this forum as a member and really anxious on these registration thingy…
Does any experience parents able to advice the odds in the placement in SJIJ for 2B (Grassroots) > 2Km if ballot?

Anxious
Thank you

[phtthp]

sembgal:

sun sun sun:

checking in! Hoping to get into st nicks!

My niece managed to get in via the transfer route but only at P4. Praying hard!

My friend asked me to transfer my child to St Nic. Still thinking as I want to see who are the teachers teaching my dd next year in her current school. Praying for the excellent teachers that I have in mind. Those teachers usually follow for 2 years. Of course there are top schools too but distance very far. If go to top school, all are small fish in the pond. Being a big fish in the pond is also not bad now.

Since u mention St Nick, have thing to say ...

While you belong to one group of parents, still figuring whether to remain as big fish in a small pond vs to remain as small fish in a big pond, another group of parents are brilliantly strategizing ahead, how to transfer or position their daughter favorably, to gain transfer into CHIJ St Niçholas primary, a very popular school that faced intense balloting under Phase 2A1, in recent years.

Tense P1 balloting for alumni members (Phase 2A1), at CHIJ St Nicholas primary (full school)
73 balloted, for 68 vacancies available
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/e ... t-nicholas

there are quite a number of China parents, whose daughter are PR.
Of late, what they plan or strategise, is temporarily just enrol their daughter into a Local school, first.
This year, Marymount under Phase 2C have so many remaining vacant seats, even under Phase 2C Supplementary Phase & Phase 3 (foreigners), still have a lot left, for PR/SC.

So, what these China parents' strategy :
is to enrol their PR daughter, into Marymount Convent first.
Marymount, being a Convent school : English standard is pretty good / high.
This is their strategy : first, find a local school easy to get in, but that can train their children strong in English, for initial first few years.
Since Marymount is easy to enter (with so many vacancies left in Phase 2C / 2CS / Phase 3), enter Marymount first, as a stepping stone.

Then, at the end of P2 :
Their daughter apply for Transfer, into CHIJ St Nicholas primary.
If their P1/P2 results are good, conduct good, St Nick being a SAP school, also being a Convent school (similar to Marymount, also Catholic convent school, on common ground) will be happy to accept them in via Transfer, since being China students, Chinese is a breeze for them.

Besides Marymount, others also Transfer into St Nick, via SAP schools (another route), or via Any CHIJ primary school, as they're within the same CHIJ family

what I wish to highlight is :-
Not only Singaporean parents out here wish to Transfer their daughter into St Nick, but China parents also competing, seeking Transfer doing the same thing

[GS1329]

I wonder if the lower birth rates in 2010 would help us in the registration. Any thoughts?

[sun sun sun]

GS1329:

I wonder if the lower birth rates in 2010 would help us in the registration. Any thoughts?

Seriously I hope it will help esp mine is a girl! But surprising my surrounding is full of tiger babies. I never really go and check the birth rates for 2010. Is it really lower?