[Jurong West] Primary Schools

[Kabby]

Thanks RRmummy on the link for the COP.


I just went for the Xingnan Pr Open House this morning. Provide some info here for those who can’t make it but would like to consider her.

Some of the stuff would be found in most Pr schools, so I won’t go into detail.

Stuff like the the performing arts modules in the PAL prog and the studio where the dance is learnt is similar to CPS, and I believe other schools as well, so won’t go into that. (They call it a different name, FLAIR.)

They also showed us the library, the hall, the eco-garden, all of which should be standard too. The hall looks exactly the same as CPS one, lol. I thought CPS’ hall is very nice and I admired the "new" feature of having steps all around the stage (instead of our time, where the steps are only going up and down one end of the stage, you all remember?) last year when I went to ds1’s school, but then now I see that Xingnan has the exact same hall, err, I believe, maybe MOE built all school halls in a similar way?

I will highlight the parts which I think should be unique to Xingnan and not offered in many other schools in the area, which should be what draw parents to her.

1. Chinese programme
They are the W3 Cluster Centre for Chinese learning. They have very nice specialised room for Chinese learning. The teachers we met who presented the Chinese programme are really impressive (Chinese standard and all).
They presented the 千句文 programme which the kids learn on top of the normal MOE texts.
This is a kind of word recognition programme where they have 4 volumes of 4 words, usually in a meaningful phrase in rows on each page. Maybe about 5-6 rows per page. The kids learn through flashcards, stories and CDs on the phrases and then practise reading the words together, while pointing to them.
We were shown videos of them doing this.
The teachers explained that they adapted the China version to local context by having HDB flat, local terms like government, the political leaders etc in the books. They also have traditional China children’s songs and poetry too.
I think it was very impressive.

2. Some special CCAs.
We were shown Indian dance (won some awards), Malay dance, International Dance and Chinese Dance in the hall. The performances were entertaining. The diabolo (扯铃) and brass band CCAs were showcased in the canteen.

Xingnan is the only Primary school in Singapore to offer diabolo. My boys were very interested and intrigued by it cos it is similar to the yo-yo stunts and tricks. The spinning of the diabolo also reminds them of Beyblade, I think. haha.

The brass band is also award-winning. Think they got Gold with Honours in Hong Kong International Music comp, mentioned by the teacher.

3. Orchid Hybridisation Programme.
The school is part of this programme whereby the kids get to learn how to grow orchids from seeds and also clone them.

Yup, these are the special strengths of the school that I observed. How I wish more Pr schools will have Open Houses cos I enjoy attending such events!

[RRMummy]

Yes, :thankyou: for your detailed sharing kabby


:celebrate:

[Kabby]

LKVM:

kabalevsky:

I just went for the Xingnan Pr Open House this morning. Provide some info here for those who can't make it but would like to consider her.

:thankyou: kabby for being so nice :rahrah:

wish CPS had one too... I also don't mind visiting all other schools' open house too, actually. quite fun, and informative.

[Kabby]

RRMummy:

Yes, :thankyou: for your detailed sharing kabby


:celebrate:

:snuggles:
my pleasure to give back...

[lakesidemum]

hi, just to share… I went to register my boy at Shuqun earlier today for P2A2. At close to 4pm, there were 20 registered.


Still convincing my boy to accept Shuqun, as he is apparently prefer Rulang… headache.

Will monitor Rulang’s vacancies after this phase.

[phtthp]

end of P2A2 Day 1 registration (11 July 2011):-


school, Total, Phase1, P2A1, P2A2 Day 1, Phase(1 + 2A1 + 2A2 Day 1), %Taken


1\tRulang \t 270\t138\t8\t79\t225\t83%


2\tShuqun \t270\t127\t0\t22\t149\t55%



3\tXingnan \t270\t102\t0\t28\t130\t48%


4\tLakeside \t270\t107\t0\t19\t126\t47%



5\tWest Grove \t270\t111\t0\t9\t120\t44%


6\tPioneer \t270\t109\t0\t5\t114\t42%



7\tJurong West \t270\t96\t0\t10\t106\t39%


8\tJuying \t 240\t81\t1\t2\t84\t35%



9\tBoon Lay Garden 270\t78\t0\t5\t83\t31%


10\tCorporation \t240\t34\t27\t5\t66\t28%


11\tFrontier 240\t0\t0\t0\t0\t0%


Remaining vacancies left:-
==============================

1\tRulang \t 45 vacancies left.

2\tShuqun \t121 vacancies left.


3\tXingnan \t140

4\tLakeside \t144


5\tWest Grove \t150

6\tPioneer 156


7\tJurong West \t164

8\tJuying \t 156


9\tBoon Lay Garden 187

10\tCorporation \t174


11\tFrontier \t240

[Kabby]

lakesidemum:

hi, just to share... I went to register my boy at Shuqun earlier today for P2A2. At close to 4pm, there were 20 registered.


Still convincing my boy to accept Shuqun, as he is apparently prefer Rulang... headache.

Will monitor Rulang's vacancies after this phase.

hi lakesidemum! Shuqun is your alma mater or your Dh's?
Can you share more about Shuqun cos I don't have much info on Shuqun and I've noticed she is very popular in JW too!

Why does your boy prefer Rulang? Has he been there or are his friends going there?
My ds1 at 6 had no idea about primary schools at all, he didn't have an opinion so we chose for him. I think at P6 he probably will not let us choose for him anymore :lol:
My ds2 otoh, like your son, wants to go CPS but we convinced him to try Frontier. Quite amusing.

[Kabby]

phtthp:

end of P2A2 Day 1 registration (11 July 2011):-


school, Total, Phase1, P2A1, P2A2 Day 1, Phase(1 + 2A1 + 2A2 Day 1), %Taken


1\tRulang \t 270\t138\t8\t79\t225\t83%


2\tShuqun \t270\t127\t0\t22\t149\t55%



3\tXingnan \t270\t102\t0\t28\t130\t48%


4\tLakeside \t270\t107\t0\t19\t126\t47%



5\tWest Grove \t270\t111\t0\t9\t120\t44%


6\tPioneer \t270\t109\t0\t5\t114\t42%



7\tJurong West \t270\t96\t0\t10\t106\t39%


8\tJuying \t 240\t81\t1\t2\t84\t35%



9\tBoon Lay Garden 270\t78\t0\t5\t83\t31%


10\tCorporation \t240\t34\t27\t5\t66\t28%


11\tFrontier 240\t0\t0\t0\t0\t0%


Remaining vacancies left:-
==============================

1\tRulang \t 45 vacancies left.

2\tShuqun \t121 vacancies left.


3\tXingnan \t140

4\tLakeside \t144


5\tWest Grove \t150

6\tPioneer 156


7\tJurong West \t164

8\tJuying \t 156


9\tBoon Lay Garden 187

10\tCorporation \t174


11\tFrontier \t240

:thankyou:

Xingnan's Open House was very well-timed I think. Looks like it is getting more and more hot!

Lakeside also up and coming huh? I've a neighbor's son there. Think they are strong in calligraphy and band, if I remember correctly.

[lakesidemum]

kabalevsky:

hi lakesidemum! Shuqun is your alma mater or your Dh's?

Can you share more about Shuqun cos I don't have much info on Shuqun and I've noticed she is very popular in JW too!

Why does your boy prefer Rulang? Has he been there or are his friends
My ds1 at 6 had no idea about primary schools at all, he didn't have an opinion so we chose for him. I think at P6 he probably will not let us choose for him anymore :lol:
My ds2 otoh, like your son, wants to go CPS but we convinced him to try
Frontier. Quite amusing.

Hi, my hubby was an old boy at shuqun years back, hence he was not at this current campus. Well, we have very limited info about the school, that why we were not able to make an informed decision. But we made two trips to the school and talked to a couple of teachers and kids there. Apparently, that few kids we talked to commented that the teachers there are very kind, pretty standard answer thou. Spoken to a teacher there yesterday when she was also at the office to register her son for p1 next year too. She seems rather happy at shuqun and wanted her son to be there too thou they stayed >2pm away. She told me that on average about a class of 40 graduating kids will score at least 250. Seems good to me.

My boy prefers rulang cos he claims that his friends are going there. He wants to join the robotics club there. Well, I was told by the shuqun teacher that they do have a robotics club too.

Looking at the vacancies at rulang, very tough.... Hence I am trying to convince my boy to go for shuqun...

[venus77]

yes…totally agree w LKVM