Nan Chiau High School

[JieTing]

Vanilla Cake:

On the ball:

Any parents of NCHS would like to share about their childrens' school life? I selected this school as 1st choice for my DS with a PSLE score of 241 mainly because of the school's ever improving grades and designated as SAP from Jan 2012. I believe that my DS can benefit from the school's strong Chinese culture and good character building programme that is in place.

Yes, this thread seems to be too quiet. Now, NCHS is offering http://www.nanchiauhigh.moe.edu.sg/cos/o.x?c=/wbn/pagetree&func=view&rid=1081275 sponsored by SHHK to high flying P6 students admitted in 2011. Encouraging news indeed.

My friend's DD is in NCHS. She like the school cos teacher very caring and responsible. The teacher is willing to help if you have problems.

This is the reason I put NCHS as 1st choice eventhough my DS only score 230. Short of 1 point. Hope they will accept my appeal.

[Vanilla Cake]

JieTing:

My friend's DD is in NCHS. She like the school cos teacher very caring and responsible. The teacher is willing to help if you have problems.


This is the reason I put NCHS as 1st choice eventhough my DS only score 230. Short of 1 point. Hope they will accept my appeal.

Previous COP for NCHS
2009\t- 231
2008\t- 232
2007\t- 230
2006\t- 231
2005\t- 231
2004\t- 230

Wish your DS can gain entry into NCHS. It's a great school.
:celebrate:

[Sweet Cherry]

On the ball:

Any parents of NCHS would like to share about their childrens' school life? I selected this school as 1st choice for my DS with a PSLE score of 241 mainly because of the school's ever improving grades and designated as SAP from Jan 2012. I believe that my DS can benefit from the school's strong Chinese culture and good character building programme that is in place.

Hi On the ball,

My son is in NCHS. Will be in Sec 2 next yr. Not too sure in which area you would like to find out more, hopefully I can help to answer some of yr queries if you can specifically tell me know

[On the ball]

Hi Sweet Cherry


Great to know that your DS is in NCHS and in Sec 2 next year.
Would like to know the following:
1) are the teachers always pushing the students to the limits like giving lots of homework, projects…etc?
2) Discipline and character building
3) Chinese standard very high? so call a school with Chinese roots
3) shortest journey to school from hougang ave 1. Have service 87, ends at the interchange. Need to walk about 10 mins to reach school. What other alternative service available? Someone told me to change bus at hougang central and take 161 and another one told me to alight just before the interchange and cross over to take 372.

[Sweet Cherry]

On the ball:

Hi Sweet Cherry


Great to know that your DS is in NCHS and in Sec 2 next year.
Would like to know the following:
1) are the teachers always pushing the students to the limits like giving lots of homework, projects...etc?
2) Discipline and character building
3) Chinese standard very high? so call a school with Chinese roots
3) shortest journey to school from hougang ave 1. Have service 87, ends at the interchange. Need to walk about 10 mins to reach school. What other alternative service available? Someone told me to change bus at hougang central and take 161 and another one told me to alight just before the interchange and cross over to take 372.

Hi On the ball,

I shall answer yr queries based on my personal knowledge & opinions :

(1). Based on their sch's standard and their journey to become a Band 1 sch, we can't deny the efforts that everyone, i.e. teachers & students, have put in to achieve this. It's definitely 'no pain, no gain' in order to have good results. esp. if the majority of the students who were admitted to Sec 1 were based on the PSLE T-score of 230+ range, which is ordinary results, but came out extraordinary 'O' Level results. They are able to achieve the average of 11 pts (Band 1) for their 'O' Level. Hence, it's no miracles for them to do this without much pushing and hardwork.

Pls bear in mind that homework in secondary will definitely be much more compared to primary, when we are comparing 4 vs 8 subjects. And also, there is no projects compared to primary level. So far, my DS is able to manage without complaints.

(2). The school has in the past years achieved the Character Development Award and they have a HOD for Character Development & Welfare, hence, character development is one area which the sch did not miss out.

Yes, the sch has very strict discipline in terms of students' behaviour and appearance, i.e. uniform & hair.

(3). Standard of Chinese depends on the capability of the child. Students may choose either to take Normal Chinese or Higher Chinese based on their preference, there is no 'forcing'. Personally, I am very grateful to the school to let my son try out Higher Chinese when he was being admitted to the sch this yr though he did not study Higher Chinese when he was in pri sch.

(4). Sorry, I do not know exactly where is Hougang Ave 1, though I'm staying in Hougang Ave 8 which my son takes Bus No. 161 & alights in front of Blk 301D, Sengkang East Road, then walk abt 200m to sch. You may checkout the translink website to find out http://www.transitlink.com.sg/ptjp2.html

I hope the above helps. Do feel free to let me know if you wants to know more, will be glad of any help

Cheers

[On the ball]

Hi Sweet Cherry


Thank you for your very detailed answers. Will get more info from you if my DS is successful in his application…

The Suday Times article(5/12) on the school was timely. Before submitting the selection, I spoke to many more experienced parents and seek their views as I was contemplationg choosing XMS as first choice as well since his marks qualifies. Finally, decided on NCHS as I felt the school could achieve evenmore in the years to come and I want my DS to know more of the Chinese roots and culture.

Cheers!

[Sweet Cherry]

On the ball:

Hi Sweet Cherry


Thank you for your very detailed answers. Will get more info from you if my DS is successful in his application...

The Suday Times article(5/12) on the school was timely. Before submitting the selection, I spoke to many more experienced parents and seek their views as I was contemplationg choosing XMS as first choice as well since his marks qualifies. Finally, decided on NCHS as I felt the school could achieve evenmore in the years to come and I want my DS to know more of the Chinese roots and culture.

Cheers!

NCHS definitely has very strong 'Chinese roots' and culture, esp. it is the only secondary school which is affiliated to Singapore Hokikien Huay Kuan. The association has been well-known to promote and preserve Chinese language and culture. In fact, a lot of parents whom I know actually chosen NCHS partly becos of this reason

All the best to yr son's secondary sch posting, hope he'll get into his choice of sch.

When I think back of the struggles which I had with my DS for the choice of schs after the released of the PSLE results, I felt so shameful of myself. It was lucky that I eventually gave in and let him made his own choice. If not, I would have regretted now. So far, we are glad that he has made the right choice and we are definitely very happy with NCHS

:celebrate: Cheers!

[tansm2010]

right choice, the teachers really go extra miles to help student on academy and self confident. DD is one of the good sample, she just finished her O level, prior to O level the teachers had identified the weak subjects and coahing one by one after school or even during weekend. Furthermore she had again confident and never had stomach ache during examination that she had it since P1.

[sarahteddy]

Dear all,


the Chinese Standard in NCH is pretty high. For students who are not taking HCL, they will sit for GCE "O" Level Chinese Language Paper in June holiday and mid July, and result will be out in Aug. For those who do not successfully obtaining A1, they have to re-take the Year End O level CL Paper.

The reason being is that many students have successfully got their A1 in their 2nd attempt. So the school wants students to get as many A1 as possible.

Also, be prepared that graduating students will need to "burn" their holiday break for endless remedials and extra lessons. Can be pretty stressful. However, if the student is able to pull through it, the result should not be too bad.

As for the COP, it will definitely more than 231+. It won’t be a surprise that the COP for 2011 will be 240+. Currently, in North-East area, NCHS is the only band 1 sch, and SAP school. Parents whose child got COP of 230+, please be mentally prepared. I know many parents have gone to the school and asked to be on the waiting list. The school’s niche in CCA are performing Arts. P6 students who took up performing arts as CCA in pri sch may have an added advantage, however, COP still comes 1st.

[JieTing]

sarahteddy:

Dear all,


the Chinese Standard in NCH is pretty high. For students who are not taking HCL, they will sit for GCE \"O\" Level Chinese Language Paper in June holiday and mid July, and result will be out in Aug. For those who do not successfully obtaining A1, they have to re-take the Year End O level CL Paper.

The reason being is that many students have successfully got their A1 in their 2nd attempt. So the school wants students to get as many A1 as possible.

Also, be prepared that graduating students will need to \"burn\" their holiday break for endless remedials and extra lessons. Can be pretty stressful. However, if the student is able to pull through it, the result should not be too bad.

As for the COP, it will definitely more than 231+. It won't be a surprise that the COP for 2011 will be 240+. Currently, in North-East area, NCHS is the only band 1 sch, and SAP school. Parents whose child got COP of 230+, please be mentally prepared. I know many parents have gone to the school and asked to be on the waiting list. The school's niche in CCA are performing Arts. P6 students who took up performing arts as CCA in pri sch may have an added advantage, however, COP still comes 1st.

I dont think COP will go up (from 231 to 240+) by so much!