River Valley Primary

[lilytan]

Hello,


My name is Lily and i’m new in this forum. I have a son in RVPS now he is in P5 and next year P6. My 2nd son joining him next year and he will be in P1. I hope to know more mothers up there so in future we can discuss any topic.


Thanks
Lily

[minnie2004]

Hi Lily,


Welcome to KSP!

My DD is also going to P1 there next year, wondering if she’ll be in the same class as your DS2.

How does your DS1 like the school? Is it true that the school pushes its students very hard?

[raynreg]

Hi lilytan and minine2004


Nice to see both of you here. My DD will be moving to P2 next year.

lilytan…since your DS1 had just finished his P5, how would you rate the school in terms of academic demands (ie. do you think that the school had high expectations of the students)

[morningstar]

Any parents enrolling their children in student care? I am looking at alphabet playhouse and Cherie hearts river valley. will appreciate any feedback or comments? tia.

[minnie2004]

Hi, i’m wondering if it’s cheaper to order the books from the school or buy from other bookshops like popular? Thanks!

[raynreg]

What I’ve done last year is to buy from Popular. Cant remember if there is discount with the Popular card but prices are slightly cheaper. In addition, you can choose whatever stationeries you want to buy rather than the "fixed" brands that the bookshop uses. The advantage is you can get your books earlier as I remembered we will told to order from the school bookshop first and get the books only later. However, Popular may not have all the books under the same stall. So you may end up running up and down hunting for them.

[minnie2004]

Thx raynreg! I guess I’ll buy from popular then

[raynreg]

You need to get the book list from the school admin if possible. The bookshop was not willing to give out the book list last year (probably commerical reasons i guess).

[minnie2004]

The school already sent us the booklist, together with the other info regarding orientation. But we can only submit the order to the school on the orientation day and collect the books later.

[Puffer]

To new parents out there: there is no need to get every item of the stationery, the art/craft materials in particular. If you have a set of painting/art materials deemed usable - just go ahead without having to spend extra.


Important is to let your child use good reliable ones especially 2B pencils and colour pencils. Do not use those fanciful (cartoon-ated) pencils or ‘China’ brand types which are either not dark enough or breaks easily when sharpened.