All about Transferring to Other Primary Schools

[BumGum]

Hi all, just to update my latest \"situation\"

after I've fax over my kid result... no one bother to call me up & end up I pop into the school again & ask about it.
haiz... I'm rather dishearten by the reply
what the admin manager informed me that all the records will be archived. I need to come again after the 4th term...
So there won't be any confirmation on my daughter transfer yet. :scared:

[IJJ]

BumGum:

Hi all, just to update my latest \"situation\"

after I've fax over my kid result... no one bother to call me up & end up I pop into the school again & ask about it.
haiz... I'm rather dishearten by the reply
what the admin manager informed me that all the records will be archived. I need to come again after the 4th term...
So there won't be any confirmation on my daughter transfer yet. :scared:

Is this a 'hot' school you are transfering your child into? I rem when I placed my girl on a very popular school's wait list, it is always 30+ name long/level.

Yes, indeed, some schools do archival every year. You must find out when do they open waitlist registration for the following year. Most schools will tell you they do not base on First-come-first-serve to offer placement. I guess results and proximity matter most. Most schools will only inform those kids' parents who are successful in transfer.

I have friends who move places (or from overseas) and have no issue transfering kids to neighbourhood schools. But if you are only aiming at hot and popular schools, most will only have more openings right after P3(when GEP kids are moved out).

[Luanee]

BumGum:

Hi all, just to update my latest \"situation\"

after I've fax over my kid result... no one bother to call me up & end up I pop into the school again & ask about it. haiz... I'm rather dishearten by the reply
what the admin manager informed me that all the records will be archived. I need to come again after the 4th term... So there won't be any confirmation on my daughter transfer yet. :scared:

Mmm... so u didnt make it in time for ur son's P1 registration this yr for phase1. So is ur son trying for the school under 2C?

[BumGum]

erm.. this school is not even 'hot' lei :?

For the last 3yrs.. there wasn't any balloting :stupid:

haiz.. I guess maybe they just want me to wait till the final year result is out.

Just imagine.. I've filled up the application to transfer school in Jan 09. Nobody there advise me that the application is valid for 6mths!! When I went down again recently, I was ask to come back again after term 4...
Not so happy... at least someone could called me up & advise me on the situation when they received the copy of the mid year result.

[BumGum]

Luanee:

BumGum:

Hi all, just to update my latest \"situation\"

after I've fax over my kid result... no one bother to call me up & end up I pop into the school again & ask about it. haiz... I'm rather dishearten by the reply
what the admin manager informed me that all the records will be archived. I need to come again after the 4th term... So there won't be any confirmation on my daughter transfer yet. :scared:

Mmm... so u didnt make it in time for ur son's P1 registration this yr for phase1. So is ur son trying for the school under 2C?

No lah ... my son never make it to phase1.. have to register under Phase2C.

[IJJ]

BumGum:

erm.. this school is not even 'hot' lei :?

For the last 3yrs.. there wasn't any balloting :stupid:

You mentioned your son due for enrolment this year right? Since this school's past record needs not ballot, then its a good chance to place yr son there first. It will be easier to transfer yr daughter over with a sibling as a current pupil.

Sometimes, I find it quite hard to understand. # of kids in my daughter's class in her ex school always like 27/28 (max 30), yet someone ever told me school says no vacancy. I wonder why? :?

[BumGum]

Could it be that they want to change the school into single session in a few years time?? so now they are trying to shrink the number of students? Just my guess.. :?


Btw if my son get into the school in the Phase 2C then it will be easier to get my daughter there??? :love:

[IJJ]

You could be right. Her ex-school shrink 1 class when they moved from P1 to P2. Next year, it is going to be single session school.


If you son gets a place, you have a more ‘valid’ reason lah. Of course, they will tell you no guarantee still.

[BumGum]

I just did the unthinkable last Monday :roll:

went to the Meet the People session.. pour sorrow there about the transfer of school :?:
haiz.. I must be very stressful. After this.. just have to wait..

[kelyn]

Just to share my experience.


When I could not get the school that I wanted my son to enter after balloting 2 years ago, I put him in the waiting list. I did not receive any phone call from them since then. So after getting his P1 results, I faxed it to the school around mid Nov’08. I called the school and as usually they told me no vacancy.

Surprisingly, they called me 3 days before school open (end Dec'08)and asked whether I am still interested to transfer my son to their school. I went to the school immediately and get the paper works done within a day, buying uniforms & books also. And he started P2 in his new school.

So I think you just need to wait till year end, fax your daughter latest result to them and call them again.

Hope this helps.