Nanyang Primary

[BigDevil]

mickeyhmh:

Eventually moved to Bishan area, after Bishan Park. Travel by car via Lornie Rd is around 15/20mins each morning. Leave flat around 6:30/6:40, reach NYPS around 6:50/7:00. Remember someone telling me if by school bus, have to get on bus around 6am!

Most housing estates will have their own bus. Also depends whether you want 1 way or 2 way for the school bus. DS1 walks to student care after school & we pick him up after work. So don't really need the school bus.

Hey! I live in Bishan too! Will also be sending DD to school in the morning. Glad to know someone who's been doing it, then I won't have to do a trial run myself . So traffic on Lornie at that hour is decent?

Still considering whether to let DD take school bus or to go to after school care. Which student care do you send your DS1 to? I heard NYPS also offers after school care?

[mickeyhmh]

We are neighbours! Yeah, traffic on Lornie is decent at that hour. Starts to build up around 6:50/7am. That's why we target to leave around 6:30. :lol:


NYPS itself doesn't have after school care. DS1 goes to Learning Bliss, situated in Nanyang Kindergarten (4th flr). For P1, teachers from the centre will pick up the kids at the hilltop (except for first 3 days) & lead them back through a back gate connecting the centre to NYPS. They also send/fetch the kids if they have CCA/enrichment. You might want to give them a visit to check it out. Open 7am-7pm. Kids from RGPS, CH, ACS, etc also goes there.

[BigDevil]

mickeyhmh:

We are neighbours! Yeah, traffic on Lornie is decent at that hour. Starts to build up around 6:50/7am. That's why we target to leave around 6:30. :lol:


NYPS itself doesn't have after school care. DS1 goes to Learning Bliss, situated in Nanyang Kindergarten (4th flr). For P1, teachers from the centre will pick up the kids at the hilltop (except for first 3 days) & lead them back through a back gate connecting the centre to NYPS. They also send/fetch the kids if they have CCA/enrichment. You might want to give them a visit to check it out. Open 7am-7pm. Kids from RGPS, CH, ACS, etc also goes there.

That's right, neighbour! Perhaps we can take turns bringing the kids to school!! :lol:

Will definitely check out Learning Bliss to weigh our options. Thanks a lot!

[clarabella]

I just want to say a big :thankyou: to mickeyhmh, hmsg and precious3 for your very helpful tips!


Er, sorry, just thought of another question after reading your replies on travelling time.
If you drive your kids to school, do you stop at the gate for them to hop down and walk in? Or do you park somewhere (but i can't imagine where on earth to park along that road!) and walk to the gate with them?

What do you do on rainy days? :?

[BigDevil]

clarabella:

I just want to say a big :thankyou: to mickeyhmh, hmsg and precious3 for your very helpful tips!


Er, sorry, just thought of another question after reading your replies on travelling time.
If you drive your kids to school, do you stop at the gate for them to hop down and walk in? Or do you park somewhere (but i can't imagine where on earth to park along that road!) and walk to the gate with them?

What do you do on rainy days? :?

That road is so narrow...can imagine the jam if all parents drop off the kids at the gate.

For myself, I am already prepared to park at HDB block 4 on Queens Road and walk my DD over. It's not a very far walk since it was where my tuition teacher lived, and for years, I walked there after school. Sure will bring back old memories....

Rainy day...another story then.

[hmsg]

clarabella:

I just want to say a big :thankyou: to mickeyhmh, hmsg and precious3 for your very helpful tips!


Er, sorry, just thought of another question after reading your replies on travelling time.
If you drive your kids to school, do you stop at the gate for them to hop down and walk in? Or do you park somewhere (but i can't imagine where on earth to park along that road!) and walk to the gate with them?

What do you do on rainy days? :?

usually parents will drive via gate A (main gate) into the school, drop off the kids IN school, who will go to the assembly hall...

there is also gate C, which is the other parallel road to the main gate where parents drop the kids outside the gate, where the marshalls will see them walking in (5meters)...

When rains, teachers and principal out in full force with umbrellas... no worries at all

they hv the system well run.... if u hv time, can do without the kids one of these days.... drive thru both options n u know what i mean....

[clarabella]

BigDevil:

That road is so narrow...can imagine the jam if all parents drop off the kids at the gate.
For myself, I am already prepared to park at HDB block 4 on Queens Road and walk my DD over.

Yeah that's what was bugging me... I keep imagining a massive jam along King's Road.
BigDevil, but now you don't need to park and walk! Can drive in the main gate and drop off! I am most relieved.

hmsg
THANKS! You have no idea how happy I am to hear that we can drive in. Somehow I had the impression that the kids have to walk in themselves woah. Gotta see the umbrella brigade
I guess I should not worry so much. But I'm suffering from the how-will-my-blur-child-cope-in-a-*real*-school syndrome!

[hmsg]

clarabella:

hmsg
THANKS! You have no idea how happy I am to hear that we can drive in. Somehow I had the impression that the kids have to walk in themselves woah. Gotta see the umbrella brigade
I guess I should not worry so much. But I'm suffering from the how-will-my-blur-child-cope-in-a-*real*-school syndrome!

Np, can understand the anxiety... the recess are also staggered, so that P1 \"owns\" the canteen first... without having to \"fight\" with seniors.

They are also supposed to be dismiss 15 mins earlier to grab lunch or find their way to the buses first... but sometimes, the teachers are too engrossed in the teaching to release them earlier...

[precious3]

We live in Seletar.... Daddy sends DS to school. They leave at about 645am and arrive at school about 710. They park at one of the lanes after Nanyang Kindergarten (Kingsmead Road) and take a slow stroll to the school Its about a 5 min walk. On rainy days, they still do the same thing except Daddy would park a little closer and the umbrellas would be out in full force He finds doing it this way faster than waiting to drive into the school.


Hope this helps!!

[BigDevil]

So glad to hear traffic is not going to be a headache. Thank you all for the information!


But I still might do the park-and-walk. That way I can give her a big hug before she goes into the school. Guess I have to do this before she grows too old and find it an embarassment. :lol: (don't know to laugh or cry)