[Choa Chu Kang] Primary Schools

[Anna Ng]

Dear Tri Mum:


Don even try if you stay more than 1KM fr DLS, as the balloting history shown the balloting is needed for those stay within 1 KM, to be honest, i dare not try, unless u also stay more than 1KM fr Yee Tew. (This is my own opinion). Yes, seem like DLS got high chances but i think the number won change so drastically.

Yes, for sure DLS will shifted to Teck Whye, already annoced and posted in MOE website

[baby2momma]

i sort of agree with anna… coz really past years history all phase 2c kena ballot for even within 1km…even if there is a spillover from 2b balance to 2c, like wat anna & i were analysing, ppl fm other ‘reject’ schools will come to contest at 2c.

[Anna Ng]

Dear Baby2Momma:


If both of our kids manage to get in DLS, must make sure they become good friend, play together, study together and "analyse numbers" together. Ha Ha Ha

[Tri-mum]

Anna Ng:

Dear Tri Mum:


Don even try if you stay more than 1KM fr DLS, as the balloting history shown the balloting is needed for those stay within 1 KM, to be honest, i dare not try, unless u also stay more than 1KM fr Yee Tew. (This is my own opinion). Yes, seem like DLS got high chances but i think the number won change so drastically.

Yes, for sure DLS will shifted to Teck Whye, already annoced and posted in MOE website

Dear Anna,
For me, YT is within 1km but also require balloting based on past 2 years statistic. I'm so worry if never kenna then will fall into Phase 2c supplementary then maybe there isn't any choice for around CCK area. Isn't it stressful

You will still take chance if DLS require to ballot within 1km?

[Tri-mum]

baby2momma:

yes, it is confirmed by dls relocating jan 2011 - dec 2012 to teck whye.


like i said, i called earlier like 330pm to check 2b registration status & they
told me 39 as of that time; so my guess with only an hour left till 430pm they shld be done & over with maybe at max 40. tat lady i talked to fm dls seem quite free entertaining my questions so i reckon not many parents over the counter bothering her ............

You're lucky that the lady who answered your call is helpful. Of all the schools I've called, DLS's recep is the most unfriendly. :x

Good luck to you and Anna next week. Getting excited now.

[Anna Ng]

Dear Tri Mum:


If u stay within 1Km fr YT and 1-2KM fr DLS, u will definately got higher chance in YT.

I will stick with DLS even though need to go for balloting, as i got no other choice. DLS and SV are the only school within 1 KM fr my house. No need to think so much.

Distance rule apply - the most important factor.

oklah! need to go off soon.

Dear Baby2Momma: Got call DLS and get the latest update or not? don tell me the numbers change fr 39 to 93 har. "Choi Choi Choi" - bad mounth

[Mummyof3gals]

Just called DLS, Bal for P2C is 102. Good luck to all including myself. :roll:

[reginaisadog]

caroline3sg:

[Moderator's Note: For Balloting History of Choa Chu Kang schools, click http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/choa-chu-kang.]


Hi
I stay at CCK. In terms of distance to schs, they are

1) kranji (walk 5 min)
2) de la salle (walk 10 min)
3) yew tee / unity / south view (feeder bus, about 5 bus stops)
4) choa chu kang (need to change feeder to feeder bus)
5) concord (need to change feeder to feeder bus

my first choice would definitely be de la salle. But there is balloting within 1 km for phase 2C. Recently I heard that even within 1km, there is preference given to Catholics. And someone who isn't Catholic but within 1km was told to withdraw. The good thing it is affialiated to St. Joseph. But I prefer not to have CA. This sch has CA for P2 Math, the rest of subjects has CA from P3.

South view is the 2nd popular sch in CCK, also has ballot in phase 2C. The rest of the sch in CCK has no balloting.

My 2nd choice is choa chu kang pri. But need to take 2 feeders. P1&2 pm session while de la salle is P1,3,4 pm session. CCKPS has CA for all subjects from P3. If morning session has more yrs, then afternoon can nap, which I prefer.

Does anybody has any comments of the schs or advise?

Thank you

South View is now rising and is even better than De La Salle. Look at the PSLE Results and the recent acheivements that South View has been getting over De La Salle. Although De La Salle is considered a good school, but South View is taking over De La Salle. It is also more popular, and accepts more people than De La Salle. CCK is not bad, but cannot be compared to the two premier schools.

[jedamum]

reginaisadog:

South View is now rising and is even better than De La Salle. Look at the PSLE Results and the recent acheivements that South View has been getting over De La Salle. Although De La Salle is considered a good school, but South View is taking over De La Salle. It is also more popular, and accepts more people than De La Salle. CCK is not bad, but cannot be compared to the two premier schools.

reginaisadog,

thanks for your vote of confidence on Southview.
my 2-cents like what the rest of the parents had highlighted too is to also look beyond academics. while i have no inking of how SVPS' seems to surpass DLS academically (based on the above quote), my obvious guess is that the raise in Southview's popularity in CCK is that it offers an alternative to DLS which predominantly is favoured by related religious groups, a circle that proved quite challenging to break into.

in any case, caroline3sg had registered his boy last year, giving DLS her first vote.

[buds]

It's HER boy, jedamum. Hehee...

But isn't her boy in Choa Chu Kang Primary?
Her girl is in RGPS. caroline3sg..... if you're
reading this, do clarify aye?

I've had students coming in from De La Salle.
Parents who sent their kiddies to PCF around
the area claimed they're kiddies aren't prepared
for Primary 1. And with the school's new policy,
of learning via hands-on project work aka TEACH
LESS, LEARN MORE!... these parents are musing
aloud that they're kiddies are learning less instead.
According to them, children who came in prepared
and armed with pre-school enrichment background
of all kinds MAY be those who will benefit from this
new policy... but not heartlanders who can only go
for PCF. And it seems not all PCF does Phonics or
a reading programme of some sort... this i cannot
vouch for sure, but mine who came from DLS sure
couldn't write even if their life depended on it. So,
after SA1 exams at P1... parents come in throngs
to send their kiddies somewhere for help.. But if
after 6mths through P1 (ie. after SA1) the parents
tell us they're children can't read or write coherently,
then how are we teachers to help them enrich the
process and yet still catch up with past topics that
they cannot grasp?

One parent actually came up to me and said, \"Cher,
i reali didn't know P1 children must oredi know how
to read? I thought they will teach the children to read
at P1..... like us last time?\" :faint:

ps jedamum..... DLS is hot also due to affiliation if i
got that right...