Singapore Chinese Girls' Primary
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Am fretting over which specific skill sets the school require for it PV. Would be godsend if someone here could shed some light 
Everyone I know is tight lipped about the PV process!
Should I make a trip down to the school to see for myself? -
pebblez:
Not surprising everyone is tight lipped as more people know the secret, the less chance they will be. That's why so many people are here... Kiasu Parents
Everyone I know is tight lipped about the PV process!
Should I make a trip down to the school to see for myself?
The school will not tell you much. They will just ask you to send in the application form when the registration is open -
Hi, this is my experience with the school regarding PV last year:
We went down to enquire about PV, the staff who attended to us told us to fill in the PV form and submit it the school. Not surprisingly, she was not able to say what sort of services would be preferred or needed by the school.
We filled up the PV form and went down to the school again to submit it another day. We also enquired on the chances of being invited to do PV. The staff was not surprisingly not able to say much again, but she was helpful enough to simply suggest that we volunteer to be active community leaders. To us, that was an indication that the school does not take in PVs easily.
There is an MOE deadline to become a PV, which is 30 June of the year before the year your daughter is to register for P1 (ie 2 years before she enters P1). Months later, on 1 July, we received a letter from the school saying that our application to be PV was not successful. So we were informed only on the deadline or right after the deadline is over that we could not be a PV at SCGS. In other words, the school does not notify you earlier that your services are not required. So if you have more than one school you are interested in, it is crucial that you do not wait till SCGS reverts negatively before trying to volunteer for PV in another school. This is because by the time SCGS does revert, it will be too late for you to either volunteer at another school or to be a community leader (the same deadline applies for the community leader route).
If you are interested in SCGS, I would advise that you also explore the community leader option. Both PVs and community leaders fall under phase 2B. As the school does not take in PVs (or does not take in many PVs), community leaders have a pretty good chance (as there are no or fewer PVs to take up places) based on past years’ statistics for the school.
I guess it is a good policy for the school to only take in a PV if they really need the services that a PV can offer, in the sense that there should not be a situation where PVs find that they do not have a place even after volunteering 40 hours. This situation has happened in some other very popular schools.
If you are going to try the community leader route, be sure to volunteer at the right constituency, ie the constituency that SCGS is in!
And all the best! -
Caynelle:
In the end does your girl managed to go into SCGS?Hi, this is my experience with the school regarding PV last year
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Hi daddy2007, my daughter will be registering this year (i.e. she will be in P1 next year) and we are not going to try for SCGS anymore since we could not do PV there, even though SCGS would be convenient for us. We are fortunate that we have other options, though further away.
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Caynelle:
We are fortunate that we have other options, though further away.
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My gal is now in SGGPS. We were lucky that there was no balloting required for < 1km for Phase 2C when we enrolled.
Over the past few years, I have been interacting with the parents and being "kapo", I also asked those who have done PV in order to get their gal qualified in Phase 2B on how they got selected and what are the tips.
They shared with me on what are the skills they offered to the school and what are the questions asked during the interview. I will try to compile the list and post them here for sharing… -
Hi,
1) I noticed that SCGS intake for P1 is 200 students. May I know how many students in a class? From what I see, there are normally 30 students in a class right, so it means there are 6 classes with 30 students, and 1 class with 20 students?
2) Is it true that SCGS do not accept PV? -
They accept PV now... U may go to their website and check...
Correct me if im wrong. :roll: -
i3mum:
it would be more like 40 students in 5 classes.Hi,
1) I noticed that SCGS intake for P1 is 200 students. May I know how many students in a class? From what I see, there are normally 30 students in a class right, so it means there are 6 classes with 30 students, and 1 class with 20 students?
2) Is it true that SCGS do not accept PV?
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