CHIJ St Nicholas Girls'

[ChiefKiasu]

karlhh85\" post_id=\"2055820\" time=\"1642228992\" user_id=\"178540:

Hmm it does not talk about the distance though.. Please guide me?

Thank you, @Liew Nga Wing.

Yes, the stages where it is oversubscribed every year is for those >2km. But don't forget they are reducing the Phase 2A cohort by 20 places. So I don't know if the subscription will remain the same. But for now, those staying <1km should be safe :xedfingers:

[karlhh85]

Thank you! Last question is there any info on the balloting history?

[mscappa]

Any thoughts on the odds for 2A >2km? Completely 0 chance, ie don’t bother or very poor odds (what % though)? Headache!

[phtthp]

SC more than 2 km (phase 2A1), need to ballot. Whether can get in or not, depend on your own luck.


Meanwhile, just get another Phase 2B or 2C school on standby.

Eg.

CHIJ Nativity, CHIJ OLGC, CHIJ Katong, CHIJ Kellock, St Margaret primary, Haig Girls, Marymount Convent primary, you can consider all these schools. No headache

[MerlionInGermany]

mscappa\" post_id=\"2056282\" time=\"1642573082\" user_id=\"138828:

Any thoughts on the odds for 2A >2km? Completely 0 chance, ie don’t bother or very poor odds (what % though)? Headache!

If you do not have another school at 2A, then might as well just apply here.

[Eneres82]

Hi parents, can I please check if the results for Parent Volunteer 2022 (for primary school admission in 2024) is out yet? It’s supposed to be out on the 15th February but until now no news. I live within 1KM. I will be grateful to anyone with information or if you already received acceptance. Thanks!

[RockstarMommy]

mscappa\" post_id=\"2056282\" time=\"1642573082\" user_id=\"138828:

Any thoughts on the odds for 2A >2km? Completely 0 chance, ie don’t bother or very poor odds (what % though)? Headache!

The hype about 2A need to ballot is overhyped and not true at all. Don’t believe the fearmongers and start doing ridiculous drastic actions like moving house when we are eligible for 2A..

It’s only the bumper years of SG50 (born in 2015) those kids turned 6 in 2021. In the year before 2020, the babies born in 2014.. was also a bumper fertility year, but nobody knows why for 2014 there was a spike in births. The 2015 spike was due to SG50. I googled and true enough, 2014
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/2014-bumper-year-marriages-births

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/sheep-year-2015-saw-highest-number-babies-13-years?amp

So those parents who were so delighted to receive those free packages from the government in 2015, well you now know those things did not come for free.

By 2017, fertility rate fell to a 6 year low liao! And Born in 2017 babies will be applying for primary 1 in 2023. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/number-of-births-in-singapore-fell-to-eight-year-low-in-2017

There’s no need to move house. And by 2020 which is my girl’s birth year it fell to “historic low”.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/singapore-total-fertility-rate-tfr-falls-historic-low-2020-baby-376711

[RockstarMommy]

ricedoll\" post_id=\"1974025\" time=\"1588653724\" user_id=\"165813:

Look at Jim Rogers daughters, then you will know how important it is to learn and master Chinese!

The ratio of ang mo who learn Chinese vs Chinese who learn English is 1:99999999999999 infinity. Maybe you like to go and ask Singaporeans who lived in China before, how desperate the Chinese are in learning English and getting out of China. That’s why the job of the “English teacher” is a hot one there. They are so desperate they even hire Filipinos to teach English.

[RockstarMommy]

ricedoll\" post_id=\"1974050\" time=\"1588664893\" user_id=\"165813:

True, but also many strong schools without affiliation like Tao Nan, Henry Park etc also hard to get in.
I think SNGS is good as in its not super religious like MGS so non catholics can also feel very much a part of the community, and good Chinese is also a bonus. Lastly, the housing options around SNGS is not as expensive as Bukit Timah so worth a try for people aiming 2C.

I am an old girl of SN. Spent 11 years there from K2 to Sec 4.
I believe your assessment is inaccurate.

SN is just as religious as MGS. The extent to which the religion is manifested and practiced in the school is the same. Perhaps Catholics are more reserved than Protestants so it gives off an impression to the public of lower religiosity. This is not due to the school exercising lower religiosity but more because of the nature of Catholicism. However in my experience a sizable number of SN graduates come from Protestant families, not Catholic, and a high number of the SN old girls convert to Christianity after they graduate, probably due to the religious molding they received from having the SN school background. This is more pronounced if they are old girls from primary school to O levels.

Secondly, though SN is a top SAP school, the students talk to each other in English. This is the case with all the top SAP schools in Singapore. You will find that the only rare ones who don’t talk in English to be foreigners (from China). Even in a school like Hwa Chong JC, which outsiders think is very “Chinese”, yet the truth is this is the JC that has produced some of the most “Ang Mo Pai” people in Singapore. You can ask around. Ask about the famous Hwa Chong humanities program that’s super duper “Ang Mo pai” producing many of our PSC scholars to the US and to American liberal arts colleges, and how Hwa Chong produced many Angus Ross prize winners.

In fact, it’s the neighborhood schools in Singapore that still have the remaining young people still talking in Chinese, though I’ve heard from teacher friends even then very few students nowadays in neighborhood schools talk to each other in Chinese.

I am born in the 1980s, and know Moms in Singapore from an array of different backgrounds. It is the Moms from neighborhood school background that speak in Chinese, while the Moms from SAP secondary schools especially the SAP schools like SNGS, RV, Dunman High and NYGH speak in English. Not Chinese. The whole SAP thing did not foster anything deeper in the students. It was a thing that you joined because your PSLE scores qualified and it shaved off 2 points in your L1R5 O level score. It didn’t change or impact the students culturally, and I don’t expect that it is any different now.

If increasing the chances of your children to turn out to speak Mandarin or feel culturally close to the Chinese is important to you, my advice is to enroll them in neighborhood schools rather than SAP schools.

[ChiefKiasu]

RockstarMommy\" post_id=\"2065052\" time=\"1650606796\" user_id=\"197911:

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I am born in the 1980s, and know Moms in Singapore from an array of different backgrounds. It is the Moms from neighborhood school background that speak in Chinese, while the Moms from SAP secondary schools especially the SAP schools like SNGS, RV, Dunman High and NYGH speak in English. Not Chinese. The whole SAP thing did not foster anything deeper in the students. It was a thing that you joined because your PSLE scores qualified and it shaved off 2 points in your L1R5 O level score. It didn’t change or impact the students culturally, and I don’t expect that it is any different now.

If increasing the chances of your children to turn out to speak Mandarin or feel culturally close to the Chinese is important to you, my advice is to enroll them in neighborhood schools rather than SAP schools.

I thought SNGS practices alternate \"speak Chinese\" days every week such that the kids can only speak in Chinese. That was like about 10 years ago. Dunno if they continued, or maybe it was only for the primary school side.