NUS High School of Mathematics and Science (Diploma)

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Rio\" post_id=\"1939737\" time=\"1570162287\" user_id=\"788:

The email to invite students to attend the Newton Fun Camp on the 18 Oct is out. Do check your email and indicate interest by 13 Oct. Mine went to Spam folder, so chk tat as well.

Rio. Regarding this fun camp, do the school organise it yearly? What is the purpose of this camp? Any idea?

[myrick88]

Have trial the journey last weekend and it took us 1.5hr to and another 1.5hr back. Shacks!


I persaude DS to give up but he said he can try travelling. But this is not a try thing, it’s a 6 yr committment

Will talk to him again…if he still insist, i might need to shift house. I cannot imagine a 12 yr old kid spending 3 hrs on the road daily.

Or anyone got private transport lobang?

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myrick88\" post_id=\"1940393\" time=\"1570578306\" user_id=\"6175:

Have trial the journey last weekend and it took us 1.5hr to and another 1.5hr back. Shacks!

I persaude DS to give up but he said he can try travelling. But this is not a try thing, it's a 6 yr committment

Will talk to him again...if he still insist, i might need to shift house. I cannot imagine a 12 yr old kid spending 3 hrs on the road daily.

Or anyone got private transport lobang?

NUSH and HCI is not too far off yah so if choose HCI how much travelling time does it cut? tbh, SG is not too big where travelling time/distance is a concern. NUSH is a specialized school so if your son is selected, it means he has that something special that others may not have. I think if he wants to go, the travelling should not be a stumbling block. Instead of moving cos homes in Clementi are not cheap, have you considered Grab etc? It may not be that costly after all......definitely cheaper than moving. My gals also stay more than 1.5h away from school each way.....but we still send them there regardless......however we fetch both ways lah (before 8 and after 6) so travelling becomes like 0.5h each way.

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myrick88\" post_id=\"1940393\" time=\"1570578306\" user_id=\"6175:

Have trial the journey last weekend and it took us 1.5hr to and another 1.5hr back. Shacks!

I persaude DS to give up but he said he can try travelling. But this is not a try thing, it's a 6 yr committment

Will talk to him again...if he still insist, i might need to shift house. I cannot imagine a 12 yr old kid spending 3 hrs on the road daily.

Or anyone got private transport lobang?

There is school bus to the school, but not for return as everyone end at different time. Some parents also try to group together and share transport.

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myrick88\" post_id=\"1940393\" time=\"1570578306\" user_id=\"6175:

Have trial the journey last weekend and it took us 1.5hr to and another 1.5hr back. Shacks!

I persaude DS to give up but he said he can try travelling. But this is not a try thing, it's a 6 yr committment

Will talk to him again...if he still insist, i might need to shift house. I cannot imagine a 12 yr old kid spending 3 hrs on the road daily.

Or anyone got private transport lobang?

TBH, 1.5hr is not a very long journey
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myrick88\" post_id=\"1940393\" time=\"1570578306\" user_id=\"6175:

Have trial the journey last weekend and it took us 1.5hr to and another 1.5hr back. Shacks!

I persaude DS to give up but he said he can try travelling. But this is not a try thing, it's a 6 yr committment

Will talk to him again...if he still insist, i might need to shift house. I cannot imagine a 12 yr old kid spending 3 hrs on the road daily.

Or anyone got private transport lobang?

it could be better to create a whatsapp group after people all decide their acceptance. Then maybe you can easily find people living nearby.

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myrick88\" post_id=\"1940393\" time=\"1570578306\" user_id=\"6175:

Have trial the journey last weekend and it took us 1.5hr to and another 1.5hr back. Shacks!

I persaude DS to give up but he said he can try travelling. But this is not a try thing, it's a 6 yr committment

Will talk to him again...if he still insist, i might need to shift house. I cannot imagine a 12 yr old kid spending 3 hrs on the road daily.

Or anyone got private transport lobang?

We also stay in the east and there are many NUSH students who stay in the east including far east like Pasir Ris and Changi. We were also very apprehensive at first but this was DS dream school and he wasn’t going to let travel time get in the way! (DS had other CO offers from IP schools much closer to home but he was quite adamant about NUSH.)

What surprised me is that the students cope very well and are very enthusiastic about school despite the time spent on the road. My DS and his CCA mates stay till 1030 pm for CCA that means > than 15 hours in school yet they don’t seem to mind and coped well physically. I think these teens can handle it much better than we think. The crux is they must be passionate about the specialised curriculum.

Having said that, we carpool with other parents so it is only 30 mins journey. This is probably the best arrangement and it won’t be too difficult to locate other NUSH families staying nearby.

[myrick88]

Hi all, thanks for the advise here. Perhaps it’s us parents who are worried if it’s too tiring to spend so much time on the road. Current Primary School is only 15 min away.


The father work at Changi so it’s virtually impossible for him to send DS to school.

So hopefully there will be some private transport that we can share.

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Curious, may I know if there is acceleration for computing studies? Ty

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Rio\" post_id=\"1939737\" time=\"1570162287\" user_id=\"788:

The email to invite students to attend the Newton Fun Camp on the 18 Oct is out. Do check your email and indicate interest by 13 Oct. Mine went to Spam folder, so chk tat as well.

Wah thank so much for informing! I suddenly had a hunch to kaypoh here a bit & saw your msg went to check , it was hidden in the spam box of both my DD & my email since 4 oct.. they sent to her too but both went spam box! Heng ah, lucky for you Rio! Thanks so much :thankyou:
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