Raffles Girls' Primary

[greenbean2011]

Yes, most RGS Secondary girls tend to come from the 9 primary school GEP centres all over Singapore. And they tend to form individual clique / group.


that’s why you hear girls from … RGPS GEP clique, from Nanyang GEP clique, from Rosyth GEP clique, from St Hilda’s GEP clique, from Henry Park clique.

at RGS Sec 1, initially they separate out the GEP students from the normal mainstream, non GEP students.

Mainstream students at Sec 1 have to catch up, but usually no problem, because they are already very bright girls … by Sec 3, they are more or less on par with GEP girls.

[Luanee]

greenbean2011:

Yes, most RGS Secondary girls tend to come from the 9 primary school GEP centres all over Singapore. And they tend to form individual clique / group.


that's why you hear girls from ... RGPS GEP clique, from Nanyang GEP clique, from Rosyth GEP clique, from St Hilda's GEP clique, from Henry Park clique.

at RGS Sec 1, initially they separate out the GEP students from the normal mainstream, non GEP students.

Mainstream students at Sec 1 have to catch up, but usually no problem, because they are already very bright girls ... by Sec 3, they are more or less on par with GEP girls.

OK i was from a neighbourhood primary school and I went to RGSS (many years ago of course). A lot of girls there during my time were from RGPS and HPPS. But becoz of the non affliliation, there were a lot of odd students like me from all over other pri schools too. So parents need not have to worry about sec 1 girls there forming cliques or what. if RGPS can form RGPS clique and HPPS can form HPPS clique, all the neighbourhood school girls can form a neighbourhood clique as well

That saying, I made some of my best friends there (now still in contact) and many were from RGPS. Dont have to worry about cliques or anything.

[ctct61t]

Luanee:

Dont have to worry about cliques or anything.

I'm not worry about cliques, I'm worry no chance to go RGS.

[Luanee]

Bowie:

Hi greenbean2011,


Actually, we have not been confirm a place in RGPS. :oops:
We just been called for PV interview for 2013 enrollment.

So now trying to do more ground work to know the school and also to find out any tips to get selected in the interview. Not sure what kind of service they need for the school? :?

This is the first time we \"participate\"in this \"NATIONAL Primary School Registration Excerise\" so very blur here.

We stay quite far from RGPS so if don't do PV then sure no chance to get in. Also concern on logistic cos we are both working so if relocate very far then we will have a problem to bring her there.

Ya, we are secretly very proud of our gal Chinese. :oops: Somehow our hours of story telling and learning together paid off and she is quite a independent reader now for Chinese story books. Can see that she is very interested in Chinese Language thus thinking if possible we should start her in school that provide higher chinese so that her interest can grow from there. :love:

Hi Bowie I have replied ur pm. If u have any further questions u can ask in this thread as my pc takes a long time to load pms.

Btw I admire ur dd's flair for Chinese. I have a younger daughter in N2 now and her Chinese absolutely sucks! She can understand but speaking is horrible. I am quite worried..

[Luanee]

ctct61t:

Luanee:

Dont have to worry about cliques or anything.

I'm not worry about cliques, I'm worry no chance to go RGS.

Haha from what I read here, u do have very high aspirations for ur dd hee.. Anyway I just felt the need to defend RGS as I really had a great time there, despite me not from any top-notch pri schools and not from well-to-do family.

[ctct61t]

Luanee:

ctct61t:

[quote=\"Luanee\"] Dont have to worry about cliques or anything.

I'm not worry about cliques, I'm worry no chance to go RGS.

Haha from what I read here, u do have very high aspirations for ur dd hee.. Anyway I just felt the need to defend RGS as I really had a great time there, despite me not from any top-notch pri schools and not from well-to-do family.[/quote]hehe, I always think more, but did less. I believe good schools can benifit children more, especially for late maturity kids. I really thank my parents spent a lot of efforts to give me a good study environment. I was once in a normal school, i know the difference of good and normal school. I just want my DD to be in a good enviroment for her health growing up, not too much higher expectation.

[moonee]

Not all RGPS girls are thinking of RGSS after PSLE. There are so many other options now like NUS high, NJC ,SOTA etc… unlike before where theres only RGSS and Nanyang to be considered.

Last years top PSLE scorer is neither in RGSS or Nanyang today.

[greenbean2011]

dear Luanee,


you may consider enrolling yr girl for kumon Chinese. My friend whose son from Barker road church kindergarten enrol him for kumon Chinese at age 3.6. When he entered NYPS, his chinese was very good. He was able to read chinese novels independently - eg: Sui Gu Zhuan, San Guo Yan Yi, in beginning Pri 1.

usually people tend to send kids to kumon for Maths. But kumon Chinese also very good.

(sorry if i OT)

[greenbean2011]

yes, moonee!


NUSI is an excellent school. One thing i curious about is … if want to pursue medicine, does NUSI teach Human Biology, Physiology, Plant Biology, etc ? can a student pursue medical course, after going through NUSI ?

(my last OT)

[moonee]

greenbean2011:

yes, moonee!


NUSI is an excellent school. One thing i curious about is .... if want to pursue medicine, does NUSI teach Human Biology, Physiology, Plant Biology, etc ? can a student pursue medical course, after going through NUSI ?

(my last OT)

Hmm, I'm not too sure, dnt know much about their syllabus, actually I have been wondering the same too.