All About Church/Clan/Society Membership

[hquek]

quesara:

Hi ,


Anybody know for Kong Hwa school, how long does parents have to be member ?
We have joined for about 1.5 years and have joined some volunteer activity .registering in 2012.

tks.

you seem to be safe but this is dependent on the demand in that year - if demand suddenly shoot up, you may have to worry.

[quesara]

Thanks for your advice.

[larkspur]

quesara:

Hi ,


Anybody know for Kong Hwa school, how long does parents have to be member ?
We have joined for about 1.5 years and have joined some volunteer activity .registering in 2012.

tks.

my fren registering for Kong Hwa this year have joined for 4 years and she clocked 100 hours in the volunteer activities. i really admire her as imagine she did the activities for events for 4 straight days 10 hours each day plus taking leave, average out each year about 20+ hours.So i am not sure how many mummies and daddies are like her since Kong Hwa getting very hot in demand as most of them realised tao nan is too competitive and they have no chances at all.

My advice is join more volunteer activities and talked to the volunteer daddies/ mummies to see and estimated your chances

[retroray]

larkspur:

retroray:

Thank you all for your advice. Guess my son's chance for Tao Nan is really slim. Nevertheless, our Plan B will be Ngee Ann Pri coz our PV volunteering for Red Swastika has been rejected.

it is good that you have plan B. I have done my volunteering in huay kuan and i know many mummies and daddies doing volunteer work of almost 80 to 100 hours just to get recommendation letters from huay kuan for tao nan and ai tong. It is now an unpublished rule that to get recommendation letters for these 2 schools, have to clock at least 80 hours of volunteer works and every year the balloting at phrase 2b is within 1km. All these parents who clock 80 hours or more move to within 1km.

OMG!! It feels like I just thrown $500+ into the sea. I'm not aware of such unpublished rule & don think I have the time for such volunteering work as well. Guess I'm left with Ngee Ann Pri for my son. Thanks for the advice.

[hquek]

hi retroray,


Don’t think of it this way, you never know how it will turn out. Anyway, SHHK has pretty interesting activities going on, and their arts & cultural troupe offers excellent classes.

[larkspur]

retroray:

larkspur:

[quote=\"retroray\"]Thank you all for your advice. Guess my son's chance for Tao Nan is really slim. Nevertheless, our Plan B will be Ngee Ann Pri coz our PV volunteering for Red Swastika has been rejected.

it is good that you have plan B. I have done my volunteering in huay kuan and i know many mummies and daddies doing volunteer work of almost 80 to 100 hours just to get recommendation letters from huay kuan for tao nan and ai tong. It is now an unpublished rule that to get recommendation letters for these 2 schools, have to clock at least 80 hours of volunteer works and every year the balloting at phrase 2b is within 1km. All these parents who clock 80 hours or more move to within 1km.

OMG!! It feels like I just thrown $500+ into the sea. I'm not aware of such unpublished rule & don think I have the time for such volunteering work as well. Guess I'm left with Ngee Ann Pri for my son. Thanks for the advice.[/quote]
Not wasted if you considered joining acitivites and their cultural troop activities. They also have lessons which has discounted rate for members. Anyway you can still try your luck to see can get the recommendation letter. Actually i did not know these 2 schools so hot until i talked to these parents and realised almost 80% of the volunteer parents are aiming these 2 schools. Sometime there is email out to request for volunteers for events based on first come first serve reply, if you did not reply within half an hour the email is out, dun bother to reply cos there will be hundreds of them replying and some parents actually set their iphone such that once there is email from huay kuan they can reply within a minute. you can see how competitive it is now even to volunteer. Actually if you did the volunteer, you will know all these.

[yen73]

Hi all,


Need some advise. I have joined SHHK since 2008 and will be registering for my son in 2012. So based on # of years, I would have joined the clan for 4 years. I am not able to get any volunteer opportunity as is always gone in less than 30 mins… sigh… Does anyone here knows if there is anything else we could do to increase the chance e.g. donation to the clan, participate in their monthly activities ? I tried calling up a few times to check with the admin but she always very bluntly told me dont know…

Please assist.

[larkspur]

Yen73


you cannot do donation cos i talked to the admin before and she mentioned they dun accept donation. donation to school no no too cos if they found out, your child will have to transfer out and look for another school.
you will have to just cross your finger and prayed that you can get the recommendation letter if you dun have the volunteer opportunity.

or like those parents who used iphone to get immediate email from huay kuan or like me have to go purposely buy ipad and do setting so that once email from huay kuan is out, i can reply immediately

[hquek]

hi yen73,


in the application form, there are 3 things that will be of use.

1. number of years as member (the more the merrier),
2. number of hours volunteered (again, the more the merrier),
3. endorsement by council member. If you can find someone who’s council member to endorse your application, you will gain more ‘marks’.

What’s impt is which school you are looking at, if you are talking about CF and KH, based on past understanding, I think you may be able to get the letter. If AT/TN, then start praying that demand won’t be that high.

But what’s finally MOST impt is how far you are away from the school. If you are more than 1km, good luck becos your chances already are slim. More than 2km, nonid to think, better start plan B.

My kid didn’t manage to get into a shhk affiliated school (distance issue). But we’re very happy where he is and was pretty glad things turn out that way.

[hquek]

hi yen73,


btw, donation to the clan won’t help any bit. and if you’ve read their financial statements, the clan is extremely loaded.