2018 P1 registration exercise for 2019 intake

[floppy]

tinywings:

Question: what if on the last day of registration for our phases and we go to the sch on site to ask, but the registration officer advised us to not to waste our chance and discouraged us from applying? My concerns are:


1. The sch might \"play us out\" or at real time there are withdrawals happening at the other counter, that particular officer does not know of. Hence, incorrect info/advise provided.
2. The officer find it a hassle to process additional applicants since/if all seats are filled up exactly.
3. The sch mgmt itself wish to prevent a ballot, the hassle of reporting and arranging the ballot with MOE, hence discouraged the incoming applicants on the last day from applying.

Then after the closing date you realised from the MOE balloting website that actually your distance/SC status actually u are eligible to register.

What are your thoughts if the above would happened?

1. The school officers are merely messengers.
2. You are the ultimate decision maker.

If you listen to the messenger’s advice, good. If you refuse to listen to the messenger’s advice, also good.

Ultimately you decide for yourself so there’s no one to blame but yourself.

[zac's mum]

Tinywings...I do not know. But I can share 2 interesting incidents that I personally observed during my year:


Incident A: Situation at 3.45pm is already 49 applicants <1km for 49 seats (the number has been going up since 2.30pm). At 4pm, parent who is >2km wanted to apply. The staff told him the situation and asked him: “Are you sure you still want to apply?” He walked away and had heated conversation on the phone with [spouse, I assume]. Never came back.

Incident B: Situation at 4.15pm is already 51 applicants <1km for 49 seats. Closing time is at 4.30pm. Parent who is 1-2km wanted to withdraw. The staff asked him: “Errrrr...are you sure you can make it to the other school on time??” He still insisted to withdraw. They shrugged and processed it.

From the above, I believe that whatever the staff say, if you are verrrry sure what you want to do, just do it lor.

[mc_007]

tinywings:

Question: what if on the last day of registration for our phases and we go to the sch on site to ask, but the registration officer advised us to not to waste our chance and discouraged us from applying? My concerns are:


1. The sch might \"play us out\" or at real time there are withdrawals happening at the other counter, that particular officer does not know of. Hence, incorrect info/advise provided.
2. The officer find it a hassle to process additional applicants since/if all seats are filled up exactly.
3. The sch mgmt itself wish to prevent a ballot, the hassle of reporting and arranging the ballot with MOE, hence discouraged the incoming applicants on the last day from applying.

Then after the closing date you realised from the MOE balloting website that actually your distance/SC status actually u are eligible to register.

What are your thoughts if the above would happened?

Very very unlikely.

They will advise dun waste yr chance if the results are very clear eg oversubscription rate very high within 1km so unlikely for 1-2km.

Dun wan process paper work? Now ballot centrally at MOE HQ..not in school. All is online so not really a hassel

Ultimately u can decide if you want to still go ahead and register

[maxbear]

floppy:

maxbear:

Yup. Quite unlikely to have 70 within 1km. Queenstown is not like Punggol where flats / projects pop up every month.

For one thing, at least I don't have to worry about the other 4 upcoming blocks/sites bcos the DPD is out of the 30mths timeline. As my block will be completed first. Just abit worried for the 2 biggest blocks that is already there, Skyville and SkyTerrace at Dawson. Also, if those who apply at the popular school close by in earlier phase, eg. 2b and don't get in, I know of some who have Qtps as a backup plan. Hopefully I'm so wrong and don't have to worry about it. In 2c really anything can happen.

[jenliu]

Hello!


Can I please ask if both parents need to be present for registration? Or only one parent with both ICs is good enough?

Thanks a lot!!

[Waterlili]

All the best to all of us who are registering under 2B tomorrow! best of luck!

[calzz]

Waterlili:

All the best to all of us who are registering under 2B tomorrow! best of luck!

All the best too!

[aloralora]

jenliu:

Hello!


Can I please ask if both parents need to be present for registration? Or only one parent with both ICs is good enough?

Thanks a lot!!

Only one parent is needed. You need other documents in addition to the two ICs though.

[aloralora]

summer83:

floppy:

[quote=\"summer83\"]

btw Gongshang & Poi Ching, which is a better choice?? i'm just worried abt the chinese standard in Poi Ching..

:scared:

Ha.. okok.. rephrase.. i'm worried my kid not able to catch up with the chinese standard in Poi Ching. Though poi ching looks like a better choice (in terms of maybe no need to ballot under 2B) than gongshang.[/quote]Hi,

Poi Ching definitely has more places for 2B. The chance for ballot is lower. However you do have a valid concern about the chinese standard. All children do higher chinese from p1. Some drop it at later years. For p1-2, the school uses its own set of chinese textbooks. This programme adopts a very fast paced learning and requires daily revision. Naturally if your child is able to keep up, he/she benefits from an impressive repertoire of word recognition at the end of the two years. You were asking more about the school too. As an SAP school, all children are exposed to chinese language and culture elements. Eg. Chinese calligraphy, wushu, chinese painting and various other programmes. Even the CCAs offered are chinese-y ones. At upper levels, there is a translation class for selected pupils.

Hope that helps.

[aloralora]

revils_ling:

Does anyone have any idea why Angsana isn't as popular as the other schools in the same vicinity? Like Tampines Primary, Chongzheng, Yumin, etc? Their enrolment figures seems consistently low since 2015 despite the higher no. of vacancies available. :scratchhead:

Considering it as our 2Cs back-up. Appreciate any thoughts/feedback on this school.

I have been wondering about this for many years too. The school has in fact been merged with another one and renamed. It was formerly called Qiaonan. TUR has been low since the beginning of the dataset.