Choosing and Evaluating Primary Schools

[peasants]

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I will buy that, but not the white paper. Last time DDs went to Keming due to closest distance, nothing else to consider. Environment is suppose to toughen kids, how to not let others step onto own brand new white school shoes?

You are fortunate that Keming is the closest school to you. It is one of the more popular school in BB and need to ballot <1km or 1-2km in Phase 2C. If these popularity contests are proxies to how good a school is, it's not a bad one.

Within 1km of Keming, there's Lianhua... would you have picked the school because of closest distance? That's a school that zac's mum says her husband https://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=193&start=2300#p1914931 (even though he is a former alumni)!

In fact, if you hang around B Batok long enough, it is not just Lian Hua has pros and cons. Go to each nearby area of the schools right after dismissals you will know what I mean. That's include Keming.

And yes, I would choose Lian Hua if it is nearest. In fact the choice was between Keming and Bukit View.

[Aspirin]

Thank you@zac's mum

I think i just let her go RGPS, that's like nearest to me(no need to wake up so early😢) then 2 years later try luck of the boy to nyps back up w bt timah primary sch.

[ChiefKiasu]

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Hi all,
Want to hear your advice on my situation.
I have 2 kids. Older one is a girl, and younger one is a boy with a gap of 2 years. Staying at bt timah. My old primary school is over the east side which i dont think i will be able to arrange the logistic daily.
I am thinking if i send my girl to rgps ( seems within 1 km dont need to ballot) , then i will need to think of what to do with my boy after 2 years , if i send her to nyps, i am worried if she does not have the luck. I am wondering if i let her try ballot for nyps at phase 2C, and could not get in, will she still eligible for phase 2CS for RGPS?
Thanks a million

If I'm you, i would rather place my kids in different schools to maximise their potential. A coed school is different from a single sex school and the kids learn to react differently. I prefer a single sex school when the child is younger so that the child can be more relaxed with his/her same gender, but some others may prefer having a coed school. The problem is when you have a perfect family of different sexes you can't send them to the same school. More diversity, more trouble, but better customization

[zac's mum]

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Aspirin\" post_id=\"1915217\" time=\"1561075343\" user_id=\"174189:

Hi all,
Want to hear your advice on my situation.
I have 2 kids. Older one is a girl, and younger one is a boy with a gap of 2 years. Staying at bt timah. My old primary school is over the east side which i dont think i will be able to arrange the logistic daily.
I am thinking if i send my girl to rgps ( seems within 1 km dont need to ballot) , then i will need to think of what to do with my boy after 2 years , if i send her to nyps, i am worried if she does not have the luck. I am wondering if i let her try ballot for nyps at phase 2C, and could not get in, will she still eligible for phase 2CS for RGPS?
Thanks a million

If I'm you, i would rather place my kids in different schools to maximise their potential. A coed school is different from a single sex school and the kids learn to react differently. I prefer a single sex school when the child is younger so that the child can be more relaxed with his/her same gender, but some others may prefer having a coed school. The problem is when you have a perfect family of different sexes you can't send them to the same school. More diversity, more trouble, but better customization

Ahhh, careful there Chief

Us parents all know you’re right, from our own observations and experiences.

But why aren’t the new schools that MOE comes up with single-gender? They are invariably co-ed. Neither are they interested in conducting research or academic studies into single-gender schools leading to better output/wellbeing for the kids (though they have happily researched & removed exams for the well-being of the kids).

The bulk of the single-gender schools are religiously linked. And there are a handful of secular single-gender schools (which generally have remained popular too). But no new ones and certainly not in the burgeoning northeast population boom towns.

[floppy]

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ChiefKiasu\" post_id=\"1915284\" time=\"1561100730\" user_id=\"3:

Hi all,
Want to hear your advice on my situation.
I have 2 kids. Older one is a girl, and younger one is a boy with a gap of 2 years. Staying at bt timah. My old primary school is over the east side which i dont think i will be able to arrange the logistic daily.
I am thinking if i send my girl to rgps ( seems within 1 km dont need to ballot) , then i will need to think of what to do with my boy after 2 years , if i send her to nyps, i am worried if she does not have the luck. I am wondering if i let her try ballot for nyps at phase 2C, and could not get in, will she still eligible for phase 2CS for RGPS?
Thanks a million

If I'm you, i would rather place my kids in different schools to maximise their potential. A coed school is different from a single sex school and the kids learn to react differently. I prefer a single sex school when the child is younger so that the child can be more relaxed with his/her same gender, but some others may prefer having a coed school. The problem is when you have a perfect family of different sexes you can't send them to the same school. More diversity, more trouble, but better customization

Ahhh, careful there Chief

Us parents all know you’re right, from our own observations and experiences.

But why aren’t the new schools that MOE comes up with single-gender? They are invariably co-ed. Neither are they interested in conducting research or academic studies into single-gender schools leading to better output/wellbeing for the kids (though they have happily researched & removed exams for the well-being of the kids).

The bulk of the single-gender schools are religiously linked. And there are a handful of secular single-gender schools (which generally have remained popular too). But no new ones and certainly not in the burgeoning northeast population boom towns.[/quote]\"And there are a handful of secular single-gender schools (which generally have remained popular too).\"
There are, to be precise, only 3 such schools left. They are namely, HGS, RGPS and SCGPS - all girls' schools andof which only HGS and RGPS are the remaining government single-gender primary schools left.

Single-gender schools popular? Debatable. If popularity is based on which schools are completely filled by Phase 2Cs, the numbers tell a different tale. There are 25 single-gender schools remaining (9 boys, 16 girls). While a number of them remain highly popular, at least 8 of them (> 30%) struggle to fill up every year. And that's despite having affiliation bonus, religious affiliation, and being historical schools for most of them! Furthermore, some of the single-gender schools are going or had gone co-ed: De La Salle School and Canossa Catholic Primary / Canossa Convent Primary (which will reduce the number of single-gender schools to 24 next year).

[ChiefKiasu]

Canossa Convent going full coed?! I'm going to have a field day teasing my sisters during our family reunion

[zac's mum]

The ones that are merging/struggling to fill their places are very specifically, Catholic single-gender schools.


I think there are too many of them around to choose from, and in some far flung locations too, hence the falling enrollment. None of them provide a spectacular unique standout pull factor over the others.

[Octavia]

Hi mums, I’d like to know academic feedback/review for Wellington Primary School and Endeavour Primary School.

We are still confusing which one better. Actually we did 60 hours of PV at Canberra Primary but less chance because there are a lot of SCs. (We are PR).
Next week will be phase 2B and we still thinking for our second choice in case balloting…
Last week went to Endeavour Open House but i feel not so great compare with Canberra. Because last year we went Canberra Open house but unfortunately we missed Wellington open house which was at early May.
So we are very confused.

Hopefully get a place at Canberra.
BTW, we are <1km.

[Lexy]

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Hi mums, I'd like to know academic feedback/review for Wellington Primary School and Endeavour Primary School.
We are still confusing which one better. Actually we did 60 hours of PV at Canberra Primary but less chance because there are a lot of SCs. (We are PR).
Next week will be phase 2B and we still thinking for our second choice in case balloting..
Last week went to Endeavour Open House but i feel not so great compare with Canberra. Because last year we went Canberra Open house but unfortunately we missed Wellington open house which was at early May.
So we are very confused.

Hopefully get a place at Canberra.
BTW, we are <1km.

Were you briefed of your chances when you entered as PV? Esp as a PR? and Do you know if there is a PV limit? Please remember waitlist option (touch wood).

I think you can still visit the school and tell the admin that you missed the open house and ask them if they available to show you around.

[Remya]

Hi, 


 

I am staying in bukit panjang ( senja area) and this year its P1 registration for my elder son . We are very confused on which school to choose. 

Westspring,  westview and Greenridge are within 1km. 

But don’t think there are chances for westspring in phase 2C. So thinking on which should be best option among the other two schools Available.?? 

Any potential reviews and suggestions would be very helpful and highly appreciated . Thanks in advance.