Choosing and Evaluating Primary Schools
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zac's mum\" post_id=\"2028343\" time=\"1624878002\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=2028343 time=1624878002 user_id=53606]
I’m just thinking of 6 months + 1 month. Of cos if successful, must continue to pay more and more.
Oh how u calculate 10k? Some ppl so confident buy at $2M+. If rent HDB 3 room, seems like $2.7k per month.[/quote] -
I remember one forummer a few years back. Balloted out at 2C but living next to Farrer Road MRT. I guess they’d bought. For 2CS school they explored schools along the Circle Line. They chose Guangyang Pri in the end. But GYPS is no longer a backup plan right, as they’re shutting down.
New Town Primary remains as a backup via direct bus. -
The moment you choose to ballot, you will have to hope for the best but plan for the worst. If there are good back up for 2CS, that’s not too bad.
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Frankly speaking, i can’t get her to tell me why she dislike the primary school. But since Jun holiday she having having misfits of going to the daycare since the MK kindergarten was closed during school holiday. And we starting to had a hard time persuading her to go school these days. This was not seen ever before. We can’t place our bet that we insist she go to the primary school since we observe so much adverse reactions from her recently. The most valid reason we heard so far is it is boring to go there. She wants to stay at home. It could be spin off from covid-19 stay at home effect.
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Almost every kid in my son's preschool seems to have parents who have either moved to D'leedon, Leedon Residence, Sienna or in the process of moving there. Can't imagine how intense the balloting would be 😱 Can BTPS be an option for 2Cs?
zac's mum\" post_id=\"2028346\" time=\"1624878677\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=2028346 time=1624878677 user_id=53606]I remember one forummer a few years back. Balloted out at 2C but living next to Farrer Road MRT. I guess they’d bought. For 2CS school they explored schools along the Circle Line. They chose Guangyang Pri in the end. But GYPS is no longer a backup plan right, as they’re shutting down.
New Town Primary remains as a backup via direct bus.[/quote] -
BTPS has balloting for >2km (green colour) in phase 2CS:
https://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=91621&start=40
If u have the strong heart for it, I suppose you can go thru the 2CS ballot. If fail again, there are still vacancies at New Town Primary waiting for you, MOE will most likely allocate your child there anyway, before Phase 3 (for foreigners) begins.
(I still remember DS kindergarten teacher joking with me casually in April/May of K2 year: “Moved house yet?” Almost all the firstborn boys in the K2 classes of BRMCK had moved house to Newton!) -
mummyvolk\" post_id=\"2028348\" time=\"1624880561\" user_id=\"192657:
Don’t fret over it.
Frankly speaking, i can’t get her to tell me why she dislike the primary school. But since Jun holiday she having having misfits of going to the daycare since the MK kindergarten was closed during school holiday. And we starting to had a hard time persuading her to go school these days. This was not seen ever before. We can’t place our bet that we insist she go to the primary school since we observe so much adverse reactions from her recently. The most valid reason we heard so far is it is boring to go there. She wants to stay at home. It could be spin off from covid-19 stay at home effect.
My number 1 and 2 hated Kcare but loved MK. My number 3 hates MK and loves KCare. -
mummyvolk\" post_id=\"2028348\" time=\"1624880561\" user_id=\"192657:
I don't have direct experience of these, but have had experience getting my kids to do things they objected to. For young kids, try to get in her shoes - home is more comfortable, and she probably gets to do what she likes to do when she likes to. No matter how \"good\", student care will be somewhat more regimented with less freedom. Possibly she doesn't get along with some of the other kids, or doesn't find the carers as nice as her MK teachers? And yes, it's probably more boring than the full curriculum kindergarten - probably more \"time-filling\" activities than interesting lessons and activities. So maybe you need to talk up P1 - the no. of students, the lessons and activities, etc. Also remind her that any school she goes to will probably be similar, so why not go to a place she is a little more familiar with, and a good chance that she will already know some of the other kids? And make it clear to her that staying home once the school year starts is not an option!
Frankly speaking, i can’t get her to tell me why she dislike the primary school. But since Jun holiday she having having misfits of going to the daycare since the MK kindergarten was closed during school holiday. And we starting to had a hard time persuading her to go school these days. This was not seen ever before. We can’t place our bet that we insist she go to the primary school since we observe so much adverse reactions from her recently. The most valid reason we heard so far is it is boring to go there. She wants to stay at home. It could be spin off from covid-19 stay at home effect. -
My kid’s in MK/KCare too, and my impression was that there were much fewer kids in KCare this June. There always are fewer kids in the school holidays, but more parents than usual kept their kids at home this holiday. And the KCare teachers might have been stricter about letting kids mingle. So KCare probably was less fun this June.
It might just be my kid, but I find that kids are good at knowing what they feel, but less good at figuring out why they feel that way? Mine has said that she likes MK and not KCare, and it turned out that she liked play time ("learning centres") at MK but not the lunch they served at KCare. She might have a good experience in school because the teachers are engaging and the lessons well-crafted, but she wouldn’t be able to identify those as reasons for her feelings; if you asked her, she’d probably say something like she liked school because she got to use the tricycles that day, or didn’t like school because the teacher stopped her from talking to her BFF during class. Not to discount your daughter’s feelings about MK/KCare, but mine can’t anticipate the future very well (understandably!), and I don’t think not liking MK/KCare right now says anything about whether or not she’d like the primary school. (Unless you think the issue is with her classmates, and that issue is likely to continue to primary school.)
There may be good reasons to move and try for a different primary school anyway of course. -
Touch_me_not\" post_id=\"2028279\" time=\"1624856182\" user_id=\"187786:
:xedfingers: For all the kids who are going to primary school this year or in future years!
Completely agree with you. While some kids thrive in the environment of these 2 schools, not all will. Am hoping that when our turn comes, my kid will have the fortune of meeting and studying under great teachers, whichever school he goes to in the future!
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