Yangzheng Primary

[beautifulday]

I believe many apply for the school mainly because it is the only mixed school around the housing estate.

[dragonflow]

There are 5 primary schools zoned under Serangoon (according to MOE).


CHIJ Our Lady of Good Counsel
Rosyth School
St. Gabriel’s Primary School
Yangzheng Primary School
Zhonghua Primary School

Rosyth, Yangzheng and Zhonghua are all mixed schools. Of course Rosyth is a SAP school and the most popular in this area.

So far for phase 2b as at 14 Jul 2011:
Rosyth has 25 vacancies
Yangzheng has 39 vacancies
CHIJ OLGC has 45 vacancies
St. Gabriel has 50 vacancies
Zhonghua has 80 vancancies

The rest of the school, except Rosyth (phase 2b will most likely to be fully enrolled), will have more vacancies if the seats are not fully taken up at phase 2b.

[dragonflow]

Anyone knows when the school is going single session. Are they shifting to a temp site first?

[slepland]

dragonflow:

Anyone knows when the school is going single session. Are they shifting to a temp site first?

they are reducing enrolment size to go single session.

[dragonflow]

Thanks.


The school has been reducing the classes in recent years. This year is at 7 classes and next year will start at 6 classes.

I heard the school hours is still the same next year. P1 and P2 for afternoon session and the rest for morning session. However, there is a morning session on Wed for P1 and P2. So 4 afternoon session and 1 morning session in a week for them.

There is a high possibility of going to all morning session in the year 2013 (this I heard from one parent I talked to at school). Any parents out there to verify this?

[magiccastle]

Now Yangzheng have only 67 vacancies left for 2C phrase. Can any one share from the past history what is the ratio of applicants within 1 km, 1-2 km and beyond 2 km ?

[dragonflow]

For the previous 2 years (2010 and 2009), there are more than 100 applicants for phase 2c.


Looking at this year’s number for phase 2c, I think there will be no phase 2c supp for the school.

So far, the school did not officially release any information regarding the distance categories for phase 2c applicants. Some schools do post these past information on their websites.

My guess is that for those applicants within 1 km will definitely get a place, those applicants within 1 to 2 km will have a high chance to get a place too. As for those who stay beyond 2km may have to ballot if the application number for phase 2c is similar to the past 2 years.

If the school reduce the number further to 5 classes in year 2013 (I hope not), then it will be even be tougher. I see some schools offering only 120/150 seats for primary one.

[dragonflow]

By the way, there is a good website to check regarding past years enrolment data.


http://www.elite.com.sg

But you need to use a facebook account to validate and look at the statistics.

[dragonflow]

This forum has not been very active for these parents. Any ideas to engage more of them here to exchange views and school’s happenings?


Cheers

[atrecord]

LiLing:

Hi atrecord,


My DD is also going to P1 next year...Do you put your children in the student care?

Sorry, didn't get chance to check this thread recently, as was juggling work and family in june/july (both me and DW had to travel for work...).

Hi LiLing,
Nope, my kids are not in the student care, as we're fortunate to have my mum help to look after our DD before/after school (depending on which day). Guess we'll have to continue to count on her to do the same next yr, when DD goes to P3 and DS starts P1.

But i know the hairdresser nearby sends her kids (P1 and P2) to the one in the church...