Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary

[Happy Mama]

dyh:

E3:

[quote=\"Happy Mama\"]
You are right! :lol: :lol: Anyway, there wasn't any queue at all, so different from last year. Maybe because most parents have bought them from Popular (got 5% disc). Hahaha!!!

Good to know that there was no queue! I also bought most books from Popular, but ordered the rest from Pacific. Any special queue for online order collection? Thanks.

I ordered online last week n collected last Friday. Nobody there at all because not walk in day. So I recommend don't go during walk in day. Got one mummy there wanted to buy on the spot but was asked to order online instead.[/quote]Really? That was bad. Mine was ok today; walk-in for P3.

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dyh:

I ordered online last week n collected last Friday. Nobody there at all because not walk in day. So I recommend don't go during walk in day. Got one mummy there wanted to buy on the spot but was asked to order online instead.

Thanks for your advice. I had intended to collect last week but was away. I set the date to collect this Fri. Hopefully, the queue will be better after most of the levels walk-in sales are over from this Monday onwards. I guess that mummy had gone on a non-walk-in sale day last week so was advised to order online? I think this new bookshop handled the textbook sales quite well. Instead of allowing that mummy to buy on a non-walk-in day, they played fair by requesting her to order online.

[Jennifer]

E3:

by requesting her to order online.

Most pple assume everyone has an internet access :roll: What if that mum really really dun hv?

Anyway, I am not ordering online becos I need to see the CL reading book Xi You Ji. We hv a copy at home from my elder boy's P4 days. Need to verify if it is the same as the booklist did not specify the publisher (\"LingZi\" is a distributor only).

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Jennifer:

E3:

by requesting her to order online.

Most pple assume everyone has an internet access :roll: What if that mum really really dun hv?

Anyway, I am not ordering online becos I need to see the CL reading book Xi You Ji. We hv a copy at home from my elder boy's P4 days. Need to verify if it is the same as the booklist did not specify the publisher (\"LingZi\" is a distributor only).

You've got a point. If that mummy doesn't have access to internet, then there are many walk-in days for her to buy the books. I think last week was meant for those who ordered online and opted to collect from the bookshop. If she was allowed to buy books last week, the bookshop would have flouted the rules, and many parents might just start swarming in if they knew about it.

I checked with P3 parents in this forum re the BFG storybook in the P3 booklist. I also happened to meet a PH parent at Popular whose eldest boy in P5 also has the BFG in an older version cover but content is still the same, therefore she's not getting for her P3 girl. It's not necessary to buy another one since my dd already has one. I think you most likely don't have to buy the P4 Xi You Ji too, can save $$.

I shouldn't have ordered the school handbook, cos at the end of the year, it was always like salted vege no matter how we tried to salvage it. My dd used it excessively. :roll: Maybe I'll check whether I could cancel the order since it's out of stock, when I go to school to collect the remaining stuff.

[ruaqt2]

With regards to the school handbook, can don’t buy meh? that means we provide her with our own note book or diary? Unless they change the binding, I agree that it will eventually becomes salted veg (mine became that state by term 3).


Thanks

[Happy Mama]

E3:

Happy Mama:

You are right! :lol: :lol: Anyway, there wasn't any queue at all, so different from last year. Maybe because most parents have bought them from Popular (got 5% disc). Hahaha!!!

Good to know that there was no queue! I also bought most books from Popular, but ordered the rest from Pacific. Any special queue for online order collection? Thanks.

Hi E3, I didn't notice any special queue for online orders. Maybe because we few mummies were so engrossed in our conversations. Haha!! But it was indeed very systematic yesterday.

[kohhweelin.010441gmail.010441com]

ruaqt2:

With regards to the school handbook, can don't buy meh? that means we provide her with our own note book or diary? Unless they change the binding, I agree that it will eventually becomes salted veg (mine became that state by term 3).


Thanks

Ermm...actually I don't remember it being a compulsory item. As long as the child has a way to jot down the \"important\" stuff, then it's good enough. In my dd's case, she wrote down everything that is important, urgent, important but not so urgent and urgent but not so important so I think a notepad is better for her cos sometimes she ran out of space to write in the handbook! :roll: :roll:

[kohhweelin.010441gmail.010441com]

Happy Mama:

Hi E3, I didn't notice any special queue for online orders. Maybe because we few mummies were so engrossed in our conversations. Haha!! But it was indeed very systematic yesterday.

I see. Thanks, Happy Mama, for the info.

[janet88]

For my younger child in another school, hubby ordered & paid online for her books. Same vendor - Pacific. When I went to pick up her books, they were nicely packed in a nice compact box…like pizza. HaHaHa. Also bought the textbook covers which can be used for all textbooks and even activity books…used the covers for son’s textbooks instead.


School handbook quality is rather lousy…mine here became salted veg in Term 2 as the paper is of poor quality…covers dropped out in Term 3.

Just wondering why the school has not considered changing the files to those with quality…parents can save on buying that every year. Tomorrow’s trip is to buy subject files and some of the books not avail from Popular.

[janet88]

E3:

Happy Mama:

You are right! :lol: :lol: Anyway, there wasn't any queue at all, so different from last year. Maybe because most parents have bought them from Popular (got 5% disc). Hahaha!!!

Good to know that there was no queue! I also bought most books from Popular, but ordered the rest from Pacific. Any special queue for online order collection? Thanks.

Buying textbooks/workbooks from Popular is fuss-free. There are friendly and helpful chaps there in charge of helping parents...just have to cancel out what you don't want from the booklist and they will prepare all the rest of the books which are avail. I just have to double-check. Furthermore got 5% discount.