Qifa Primary

[cookiesol]

Dear parents,


I am staying less than 1km from Qifa. Singapore Citizen.
My kid was born in 2015 and i was wondering if i would have to do volunteer work to ensure a position or would i be able to get in for sure?

Thanks in advance!

[Davischew]

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Dear parents,

I am staying less than 1km from Qifa. Singapore Citizen.
My kid was born in 2015 and i was wondering if i would have to do volunteer work to ensure a position or would i be able to get in for sure?

Thanks in advance!

So far <1Km SC sure in at 2C

[Veyron]

Nearby condo Parc Riviera has received their TOP, so this could possibly lead to more <1km SC applicants in 2020. However I dont think there is any risk of balloting for <1km SC in 2020. At most >2km SC will get to ballot.


However when the other new condo projects Twin Vew and Whistler Grand TOP in a couple of years, 1-2km SC might need to ballot at QIFA .

[cookiesol]

thanks both!

[GeorgeTay]

Did anyone get caught in the rain while picking up your child yesterday?


I was there to pick up my boy from the main gate at around 1.30pm and the entire place was so chaotic because everyone is taking shelter at pick up area which was meant for the students. And after 15 mins of waiting there was no sight of my P1 son and then I was told that P1 kids were all waiting at the indoor sports hall (perhaps this is at SOP I missed up during orientation). And this create another chaotic scene inside the school as new parents like myself were all over the place looking for the kids.

Then comes the most perplexing thing. Despite the heavy rain the school doesnt even allow private cars to drive into the school to pick up the kid and expect the child to walk in the heavy rain. We waited till 2.15pm before decided to run for it.

Can someone share why is there such a restriction on private cars since in many schools private cars are allowed to enter after last school bus leave the school at around 1.50pm. For QIFA case I can still see school bus turning into the school at 1.50pm. Shouldnt the school buses at at school before 1.30pm to wait for the students instead? Or are they waiting outside the school due to limited space inside?

I really think the school can do better than this.

[zac's mum]

Sorry to hear about the chaos. And I dunno why Qifa does not allow cars to drive in. Not every school allows.


The easy solution would be to equip your child with a small foldable umbrella (or better yet, a raincoat/poncho), to be kept inside the school bag every day.

Then have a contingency arrangement where to meet the child outside the school, on rainy days. Avoid the crowd this way.

[GeorgeTay]

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Sorry to hear about the chaos. And I dunno why Qifa does not allow cars to drive in. Not every school allows.

The easy solution would be to equip your child with a small foldable umbrella (or better yet, a raincoat/poncho), to be kept inside the school bag every day.

Then have a contingency arrangement where to meet the child outside the school, on rainy days. Avoid the crowd this way.[/quote]

P1 and P2 students should never be allowed to leave the school compound and wait outside the school gate without guardians. And to me its ridicules to expect 7 or 8 years old kid to wait in the rain due to lack of planning from the school.

IMO contingency arrangement in such a case should be arrange by the school, such as to allow drive through during specific time so that the kids can be kept dry and safe within the school instead of out in the rain. Apparently, I was told that if the school staffs call for taxi, the school will allow the taxi to drive through for pick up. Is that true?

[zac's mum]

If it’s only the first month of primary school for your P1 child, I can understand your anxiety. Especially if it’s your first child.


I am not from this school. But I am a parent of a now P4 child.

Primary school is no longer preschool, where they lived a very sheltered life & a teacher has to be accompanying them everywhere.

Please allow your child to grow up and be independent. They are capable of being more responsible than you think.

There are kids who walk home from school themselves. Carrying their own heavy school bags and umbrella too. It is not a failure of a parent who permits that. It may even prevent strawberryism.

[floppy]

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There are kids who walk home from school themselves. Carrying their own heavy school bags and umbrella too. It is not a failure of a parent who permits that. It may even prevent strawberryism.[/quote]

“Strawberryism”

Not a parent of Qifa but I can say not every school allows drive-in, be it rain or shine. Some schools choose not to allow due to security concerns, others due to infrastructure constraints. I’m not sure why Qifa doesn’t allow it, but I’m sure they have their good reasons. If the contingency plan is to wait in the sports hall, before making the way to a waiting car outside / elsewhere, just have to work with the plan you are given.

By the way, my kid (P3) travels home from school on her own since P2. The journey involves either a bus-bus transfer or a bus-train-train transfer (and in the near future, option of train-train-train-train transfer ). If that means the parent who permits that had failed, I’m all for more parents failing

[zac's mum]

I can say that kids who take public transport home on their own, have more situational awareness. This is absolutely a good skill to have. It is sadly lacking in many strawberries.


Some parents’ instant solution is to buy the kid a handphone “to keep in contact…so u can call me if u can’t find me”. That’s like further spoiling the strawberries.