West Spring Primary

[tenko]

Hi STHL28,

delighted to know that you are considering West Spring primary for your child. West Spring Primary follows the MOE curriculum just like in any primary school. They also include Purposeful Learning Activities for the Young, which are an addition to the curriculum. The school has an excellent team of teachers and staff that help every child achieve their goal. I am a parent of a child in the school and would highly recommend this school.

The school is fortunate to have a school based student care to help working parents with after school arrangements for their child. There are many advantages of a school based student care, which include the student care centre working closely with the school and its curriculum.

Please do take a look at the school website which would give more information on West Spring Primary and its student care service.

[LFC4ever]

STHL28:

Hi all


This is my first post here

Will be enrolling my boy for P1 soon next month. I am deciding between Greenridge or West Spring. Quite like the methodology of Purposely learning through Play. But like to know how would they transit from this method when they reach Upper Primary? Cos I believe this would be more useful for lower primary.
My 2nd question is how helpful is student care? I do have a helper who can help fetch my boy after class but he would be alone at home with helper. Not sure whether it would be more beneficial for him to attend student care after class. Any views and comments are welcomed.

Hi STHL28,
It is great to know that you have an interest to register your boy at WPS. I am one of the pioneer batch of parents at WPS and my girl is in P3 now. The school is like one big family we have a wonderful group of parents(PSG) who consistently help up with the school activities bcos of their helpfulness the school is able to organise fantastic learning programme for the students. The school is also very proactive in engaging the parents. Every school events one of the parents(due to space constraint) will be invited to attend. Every year the principle will have twice chit chat sessions with the parents to hear feedback from them and in return also provide information and updates with regards to the school. WPS teachers are caring and commited as well. My girl enjoys going to school. I can understand your concern if the child will be ready by the time they enter upper primary level. All I can advise you is no worries your child will certainly be ready once they are in P3. The school is good at nurturing students as well. By the way,the school has recruited a number of highly experienced upper primary teahers who are experienced with PSLE preparation in their previously schools & whose students had done well at PSLE in previously schools. So that when these teachers teach our children now,they're already indirectly preparing children for PSLE through PLAY(Purposeful Learning Activities for the Young)approach. Very important for children to enjoy learning as school prepares them for PSLE. The school shared that PLAY will be progressively balanced with intense PSLE preparation at the upper primary levels. Infact,children are already given additional worksheets to practise on at the lower primary levels to ensure rigour in learning. The school has also done very well at the national maths olympiad,being in top ranks. This shows that PLAY approach is effective. You may find out more information from the school website http://www.westspringpri.moe.edu.sg/ or the Official FaceBook page of the school. Hope to see your child in the school in 2017. :snuggles:

[ilovemykids1528]

Just to share with potential parents importance of choosing right school for your child so that he/she enjoys going to school & loves learning at young age.


Based on past years,some parents had decided to take risk & choose supposed brand name schools far from Bukit Panjang. Then when they discover that it’s tiring for child & parent to make such daily travel distances,they then try to enroll child into West Spring.

By then,due to popular demand,all places had already been taken up by other parents who chose West Spring as first choice school.They end up having to put child on wait list. Till today,there’re still many children on wait list to the school.

If you have any further queries,pls feel free to PM tenko,lfc4ever,Magstar & kisscut

[West Spring Primary School]

:congrats: Fantastic news!


Dear Parents / Guardians,

:rahrah: We would like to share with you the fantastic news that just came in. :rahrah:

West Spring Primary received the following National Awards recently:

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1. The ‘Most Fun Eco Award’ at Eco Action Day 2016

2. The Platinum Award in the Community in Bloom Awards 2016


:thankyou: to all our students, staff and parents :grphug: for playing an active role to help us achieve the above awards as we work together to educate our children holistically. As a young school, we have already achieved a number of notable national awards attesting to our good academic and character development programmes. :imcool: :boogie:

We look forward to the continued support of our fantastic parents as we journey together to bring out the best in your children. :hi5:

[West Spring Primary School]

Dear potential parents,


As we are not having an Open House this year, our enthusiastic Parent Support Group (PSG) members; tenko, lfc4ever, kisscut, Magstar and ilovemykids1528 who have volunteered to help answer any queries that you may have with regards to the upcoming P1 registration exercise on this forum as the school will not be attending to these queries on the forum.

However, the PSG may not be able to answer some of your queries. When that happens, please do contact Mdm Noor at 6314 4192 from Monday to Friday, 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

At West Spring Primary, we're very fortunate to have very supportive and enthusiastic PSG and hope to see some of you joining them next year.

:thankyou: once again to our PSG for always being there to help us out. :hi5:

[ilovemykids1528]

Hello all,


Just would like to share that I am also in the psg & so do get to interact with other parents who tell me about experiences heard. Some have shared that they call school & have been told to put their child on waitlist first.So I just want to share as I was very anxious at P1 registration the last time as well & try to advise parents now.The choice is of course up to parents to make.

Happy weekend!

[West Spring Primary School]

Dear potential parents,


This is the link of our official school facebook maintained by our Parent Support Group (PSG); https://www.facebook.com/West-Spring-Primary-763228920471063/

Aside from calling our school up and visiting our website, the best insights to our great school will come from reviews and comments posted on facebook by our parents.

:thankyou: once again to our supportive parents! :hi5: :grphug:

[blueeyes123]

ilovemykids1528:

Hello all,


Just would like to share that I am also in the psg & so do get to interact with other parents who tell me about experiences heard. Some have shared that they call school & have been told to put their child on waitlist first.So I just want to share as I was very anxious at P1 registration the last time as well & try to advise parents now.The choice is of course up to parents to make.

Happy weekend!

Hi I don't understand what you mean call school and have been told to put their child on waitlist first? I intending to enrol my child to this school next year hence any information please kindly share further.

Thanks.

[ilovemykids1528]

Hello,


What I mean is that when after P1 registration exercise,parents change mind about a school they already registered child in.Then,parent has to most probably put child on waitlist of preferred school.So that is why my advice is must choose the right school suited for your child at registration time.

blueeyes123:

ilovemykids1528:

Hello all,

Just would like to share that I am also in the psg & so do get to interact with other parents who tell me about experiences heard. Some have shared that they call school & have been told to put their child on waitlist first.So I just want to share as I was very anxious at P1 registration the last time as well & try to advise parents now.The choice is of course up to parents to make.

Happy weekend!

Hi I don't understand what you mean call school and have been told to put their child on waitlist first? I intending to enrol my child to this school next year hence any information please kindly share further.

Thanks.

[LFC4ever]

As P1 registration is just round the corner. I would like to take this chance to share some of the information about WPS with potential parents and guardians. I am one of the pioneer parents who have place our faith and believe with this \"new kid on the block\" back in 2014 the year the school started. What I like about this school is they engage parents and the school leadership dare to try out new ideas in educating the children as it is a new school hence they don't have the old baggage to carry with them. Every week the school will upload some photos about the school activities at their online album, Flickr(Yahoo) parents are able to find out what is happening in the school but the school is thoughtful enough to seek permission from the parents if they want their child photos to appear. Parents who want to safe guard the privacy of their children can indicate to the school not to have their child photos uploaded. Every year the school will organize outing for the children to visit so far the places they have visited are East Coast Park(sand castle building), Garden by the bay(to learn about plants), Dairy farm @ Hillview(to learn about nature and environment) this year my girl is going to Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve come this July. The school believe in going outdoor to enhance a child knowledge and make learning fun. One of the most popular events organize by the school is the sports day. A lot of parents actually like this event as there is an activity which require both parents and child to take part together so it is a great time for bonding. Despite not having any PSLE results to show for the school has done well in the recent Singapore & Asian Schools Maths Olympiad(SASMO)where thousands of students participate internationally & established schools in Singapore participate as well, West Spring performed very well for a new school, out-performing well-established schools as well.


WPS clinched top position for P2-clinching top 4th position out of 595 international participants. For P3-clinching top 7th position out of 881 international participants.

In total, the school garnered 16 Gold,9 Silver & 14 Bronze awards for this international maths competition showing the learning approach is effective in the school. The students who are involved in the competition were trained by experienced teachers from the school. I do heard that some school engage vendors to train their students for maths Olympiad.

The recent award the school received ECO ACTION DAY 2016 testifies the school's good academic & character development programme where students learn through experiences themselves. For example in learning about science students get to grow, water & harvest the vegetables at the LIFE garden in the school. It's so lovely to even see parent support group members chipping in to help out at the garden too ! Fantastic teamwork with students, teachers, staff & parents all working together in the WPS family for our children's education.

This way, students get to learn from experience how vegetables grow & learn about character development as well when they learn to work together harmoniously in teams of students.
Nowadays, Singapore is so urbanized that children don't know how vegetables are grown.
The school also teaches the children good values as every day, 5mins before school ends, they must automatically clean up the classrooms. This also happens in the canteen where children must learn to clean up after they have eaten & learn to be caring & considerate by keeping the school clean. The school also won the Gold Award this year for maintaining clean toilets & again students are taught to be considerate & to keep the toilets clean after use & to care for the old aunty & uncle cleaners who need to clean the toilets every day. Nowadays, children are so pampered that they don't help out at home. It's good that children at WPS get exposed to such experiences in school as it teaches good basic values. My daughter now volunteers to also help out with housework at home because of what she learnt in school every day.

The school also introduces science at P1 & P2 through fun ways to get children interested in science from a young age. Good job as that helps students love learning & will ensure they do well at PSLE.

West Spring Primary is also the very first school in Singapore to have a sand pit to facilitate sand castle building. Sand castle building helps to enhance a child creativity.

Here are some of the reviews and comments written by parents about the school on the school FB page. https://www.facebook.com/West-Spring-Pr ... 3/reviews/