Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary

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Happy Mama:

E3:

[quote=\"markfch\"]
Huh, got income cap? But then I think that the money is secondary mah. It's the achievement & confirmation that you parents are on the right track.

Agree fully. I wonder is there a way of contributing to students who really would appreciate receiving more of the bursary to help them in their studies by giving my share, since many of us couldn't claim them. I am sure MOE has catered enough $$ to award these students. Just inform me that she's top 25% is good enough already. I find it so weird to receive it and yet we can't do anything about the so-called \"entitlement\".

Yes, totally agree with you :D[/quote]dd received too...but same, can't claim....

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periwinklejoy:

janet_lee88:

Hi Mummies,

I just went to PH to collect books for my son...for parents who have ordered and paid online, pls look out for the inner queue (near the school bookstore). The queue in front of the Science lab is for parents who didn't pre-order...but be prepared to queue.

Stock just arrived for P4 Chinese story books (Xi You Ji) and P5 Chinese story book (shui hu zhuan). Heard there is no stock for P5 Chinese textbook 5B and the workbook as well.

aiyoh die la, I haven't ordered online nor gone popular yet. Pray hard that textbooks r stil avail when I get the time to buy.

for Popular, we will get 5% storewide discount for purchase of textbook. if you purchase Popular vouchers, you get 5% discount on the voucher value. so total discount is near to 10%.

[periwinklejoy]

php:

periwinklejoy:

[quote=\"janet_lee88\"]Hi Mummies,

I just went to PH to collect books for my son...for parents who have ordered and paid online, pls look out for the inner queue (near the school bookstore). The queue in front of the Science lab is for parents who didn't pre-order...but be prepared to queue.

Stock just arrived for P4 Chinese story books (Xi You Ji) and P5 Chinese story book (shui hu zhuan). Heard there is no stock for P5 Chinese textbook 5B and the workbook as well.

aiyoh die la, I haven't ordered online nor gone popular yet. Pray hard that textbooks r stil avail when I get the time to buy.

for Popular, we will get 5% storewide discount for purchase of textbook. if you purchase Popular vouchers, you get 5% discount on the voucher value.
so total discount is near to 10%.[/quote]woohooh! Tks for yr tips! Great I wil buy fr popular then!

[janet88]

periwinklejoy:

janet_lee88:

Hi Mummies,

I just went to PH to collect books for my son...for parents who have ordered and paid online, pls look out for the inner queue (near the school bookstore). The queue in front of the Science lab is for parents who didn't pre-order...but be prepared to queue.

Stock just arrived for P4 Chinese story books (Xi You Ji) and P5 Chinese story book (shui hu zhuan). Heard there is no stock for P5 Chinese textbook 5B and the workbook as well.

aiyoh die la, I haven't ordered online nor gone popular yet. Pray hard that textbooks r stil avail when I get the time to buy.

I managed to get most of son's books from Popular...other than Listening Comprehension, Chinese story book, dark blue file (Chinese) and exercise books avail only from school vendor.

If you order online from Popular, you get to enjoy free $10 voucher with purchase of $100 and some e-learning Maths free. https://www.popular.com.sg/jsp/homepage/html/EN/promo/AO2010-promo.jsp

[markfch]

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Happy Mama:

[quote=\"E3\"]Agree fully. I wonder is there a way of contributing to students who really would appreciate receiving more of the bursary to help them in their studies by giving my share, since many of us couldn't claim them. I am sure MOE has catered enough $$ to award these students. Just inform me that she's top 25% is good enough already. I find it so weird to receive it and yet we can't do anything about the so-called \"entitlement\".

Yes, totally agree with you

dd received too...but same, can't claim....[/quote]Based on our sampling here, seems that very, very few households will be able to claim this bursary award despite qualifying for it academically. I wonder whether anyone in MOE HQ is compiling the statistics which says something like only x% (x must be a single digit number) of households can claim the award due to the ultra low $4000 income cap per household.

To personify MOE, he will look like an eccentric, grounchy old man whose loaded but refuses to part willingly with his dough :laugh:

[dyh]

markfch:

php:

[quote=\"Happy Mama\"]
Yes, totally agree with you

dd received too...but same, can't claim....

Based on our sampling here, seems that very, very few households will be able to claim this bursary award despite qualifying for it academically. I wonder whether anyone in MOE HQ is compiling the statistics which says something like only x% (x must be a single digit number) of households can claim the award due to the ultra low $4000 income cap per household.

To personify MOE, he will look like an eccentric, grounchy old man whose loaded but refuses to part willingly with his dough :laugh:[/quote]I think it is not so bad as the median household income in Singapore is less than $5K. So this bursary should qualify more than half of the population if we use the 80-20 Pareto principle?

[Jennifer]

markfch:

Jennifer:

We recd the letter for applying the MOE Edusave Merit Bursary Award. I checked the MOE website on this Edusave http://www.moe.gov.sg/initiatives/edusave/funds-grants-awards/#bursary


It is meant for pupils who are \"within the top 25% of each level and stream in his school\".

So can I think my P3 boy can get into the 2nd top class??? The P3 cohort size is around 360 pupils.

Congrats Jen. Looks like both your ds are doing well under your guidance. If next time my ds is able to get bursary of any kind of any amt, I'll be so jumping for joy that I will be able to perform cartwheel somersaults the whole day, haha :lol: .

Yes, it really was an early Christmas present :celebrate: . Am keeping the letter though cant apply.

[Jennifer]

janet_lee88:

Hi Mummies,

I just went to PH to collect books for my son...for parents who have ordered and paid online, pls look out for the inner queue (near the school bookstore). The queue in front of the Science lab is for parents who didn't pre-order...but be prepared to queue.

Stock just arrived for P4 Chinese story books (Xi You Ji) and P5 Chinese story book (shui hu zhuan). Heard there is no stock for P5 Chinese textbook 5B and the workbook as well.

Thank you for the update.

Anyone who bou the XiYouJi can take a pic n show it here? I too lazy to go down again. Next time we r going Sydney :celebrate:

[Jennifer]

markfch:

php:

[quote=\"Happy Mama\"]
Yes, totally agree with you

dd received too...but same, can't claim....

Based on our sampling here, seems that very, very few households will be able to claim this bursary award despite qualifying for it academically. I wonder whether anyone in MOE HQ is compiling the statistics which says something like only x% (x must be a single digit number) of households can claim the award due to the ultra low $4000 income cap per household.

To personify MOE, he will look like an eccentric, grounchy old man whose loaded but refuses to part willingly with his dough :laugh:[/quote]There 2 other types of Edusave award - Scholarship award (meant for top 5% and next 10%) and Good Progress Award. These no need to apply or income cap.

[qms]

Jennifer:

We recd the letter for applying the MOE Edusave Merit Bursary Award. I checked the MOE website on this Edusave http://www.moe.gov.sg/initiatives/edusave/funds-grants-awards/#bursary


It is meant for pupils who are \"within the top 25% of each level and stream in his school\".

So can I think my P3 boy can get into the 2nd top class??? The P3 cohort size is around 360 pupils.

:congrats: Jennifer!

So, now you can't complain about YX anymore, right? :evil: