[Tampines] Primary Schools

[Staranz]

I am living within 1km from Gong Shang, East Spring and Tampines North Primary. My choice will either try my luck to register my son for Gong Shang and go for ballot, or register him into Tampines Primary School which is within 2km with much lower risk of ballot. Will be grateful if any one can give me some valuable feedback if you were in my shoe.


Also, read from website that Tampines Primary has 99.4% PSLE pass last year and 81% of students go into Express stream. This is much higher than the 97%+ and 60%+ achieved by Gong Shang. The numbers don’t look right gauging on popularity. Can anyone help to shed some light? Thanks.

[chloecube]

Staranz:

I am living within 1km from Gong Shang, East Spring and Tampines North Primary. My choice will either try my luck to register my son for Gong Shang and go for ballot, or register him into Tampines Primary School which is within 2km with much lower risk of ballot. Will be grateful if any one can give me some valuable feedback if you were in my shoe.


Also, read from website that Tampines Primary has 99.4% PSLE pass last year and 81% of students go into Express stream. This is much higher than the 97%+ and 60%+ achieved by Gong Shang. The numbers don't look right gauging on popularity. Can anyone help to shed some light? Thanks.

hi,

my neice is in Tampines Primary, P5.
what i heard from my SIL is TP is not bad, the principal used to be from some good school (i forgotten which one).

ya, i am also rather confused by the result they produce, why some schools are not as popular when their result were better.
i think its over hype by past history..

if you do not want to take the risk and play safe, Tampines North cfm can get it.
but most of the parents will want to try GS and if cant get then go to TN, what i worry now is, if i cant get into GS, will i be able to get into TN in 2C sup, bcos all those who are get a seats in GS will flock to TN..

[Happygolucky]

@staranz

There are many parents who just join the crowd, assuming that popular ones must be good. Same scenario can be seen at hawker centre。For some schools, if u take away the results of those in the gifted classes, the remaining classes may even be faring worse than neighborhood schools。 Yes, Tampines’ results have been improving for the past years but it has change of principal this year, no idea if that will have any impact.

[yap_susan]

Am faith. Maybe they know each other. My son's name is Josh.

I am a SAHM.

[jeslow]

Hi, I am Susan's friend. The one she mentioned in her post...


My girl is at Tampines North Primary Sch P1. Like all of you, I was having headache in deciding which School to enrol her last year.

I used to prefer Gongshan to Tampines North for many personal reasons. As, GS is jus two to three blocks away from my place, I assumed that there should not be any problem enrolling my girl into the School. I remembered I kept telling my girl how good the School is, hoping she would fall in love with her \"School-to-be\".

However, we were not balloted for a place at GS. The next choices available were Tampines Primary, ChongZheng, Yumin and Tampines North Primary. Since Tampines North is the next nearest to my place, to my dismay, we proceeded to Tampines North. The moment I stepped into the place, my impression of the School changed. The environment is very spacious and friendly with many attractive and most importantly non threatening corners for students.

Tampines North has got PAL program for the P1 and P2. The P1 and 2 are in the afternoon session. They have to be in School half an hour earlier 4 days a week in order to execute the program (under the syllabus). Next year, the School will be singled session.

My girl is very pleased with her School. She loves and is proud to be student of Tampines North Pri Sch. I would say that my girl has got rather strong foundation academically. I am sure she would have no problem in keeping up with the syllabus should she got in to GS. Currently in Tampines North, she is taking \"in depth\" syllabus of MT. As for those weaker students, there are few special programs for them to catch up with the syllabus.

I have learnt that getting into a suitable School with pleasant environment to keep a child's interest in learnng is so much more important than solely looking into whether the School can produce how many PSLE scholars.

Many friends of mine suggested me to put my girl in GS' waiting list. But my girl said she doesn't want to. She even made this comment,\" mummy, Tampines North is such a nice School. Why do we need to go to GS?\"

[drwho]

does anyone has recommendation for student care center near poi ching? besides sherwin? thanks.

[chloecube]

yap_susan:

Am faith. Maybe they know each other. My son's name is Josh.

I am a SAHM.

my DD's name is Chloe Choong, i'll go back and ask her if she knows him

does Josh attend the extra lesson given by Hope - Science and Speech and drama? if he does, then probably they will know each other becos the classes are combined.

ooh, u are a SAHM...wish i can be one too
maybe i have seen you before, bcos sometime i will bring DD to school when i am not in a rush to work

[chloecube]

jeslow:

Hi, I am Susan's friend. The one she mentioned in her post...


My girl is at Tampines North Primary Sch P1. Like all of you, I was having headache in deciding which School to enrol her last year.

I used to prefer Gongshan to Tampines North for many personal reasons. As, GS is jus two to three blocks away from my place, I assumed that there should not be any problem enrolling my girl into the School. I remembered I kept telling my girl how good the School is, hoping she would fall in love with her \"School-to-be\".

However, we were not balloted for a place at GS. The next choices available were Tampines Primary, ChongZheng, Yumin and Tampines North Primary. Since Tampines North is the next nearest to my place, to my dismay, we proceeded to Tampines North. The moment I stepped into the place, my impression of the School changed. The environment is very spacious and friendly with many attractive and most importantly non threatening corners for students.

Tampines North has got PAL program for the P1 and P2. The P1 and 2 are in the afternoon session. They have to be in School half an hour earlier 4 days a week in order to execute the program (under the syllabus). Next year, the School will be singled session.

My girl is very pleased with her School. She loves and is proud to be student of Tampines North Pri Sch. I would say that my girl has got rather strong foundation academically. I am sure she would have no problem in keeping up with the syllabus should she got in to GS. Currently in Tampines North, she is taking \"in depth\" syllabus of MT. As for those weaker students, there are few special programs for them to catch up with the syllabus.

I have learnt that getting into a suitable School with pleasant environment to keep a child's interest in learnng is so much more important than solely looking into whether the School can produce how many PSLE scholars.

Many friends of mine suggested me to put my girl in GS' waiting list. But my girl said she doesn't want to. She even made this comment,\" mummy, Tampines North is such a nice School. Why do we need to go to GS?\"

Hihi Jeslow,

thank you so much for the feedback on TN
now i have a clearer insight of the school.
in fact, i am hearing more positive than negative feedbacks now compared to 4 yrs ago before i enrolled my DS for P1.
many ppl were telling me not to, that is why i put him in NA which is so far away
so from next yr onwards, all P1 will be in morning session?

i will seriously consider over TN. still have 1 more week to go...

[yap_susan]

Hi chloecube,

Yes my son attends the science enrichment. I will ask him later when he gets back.
He takes school bus. I seldom appear at school.
So you intend to apply for tnps? No more trying for gs.
CZ is a hottie at my side, so decided not to try for it.

[chloecube]

yap_susan:

Hi chloecube,

Yes my son attends the science enrichment. I will ask him later when he gets back.
He takes school bus. I seldom appear at school.
So you intend to apply for tnps? No more trying for gs.
CZ is a hottie at my side, so decided not to try for it.

then they must have known each other

i just called TN to check the timing of P1 next yr, but they have yet to finalise it yet.
i have an issue here, DS is in morning session, school in NA. if i enroll DD in TN which is also in the morning session. my maid will have problem fetching both back in different school.
my maid needs 1hr to travel from tampines to NA, by the time she comes back to tampines, she may miss the timing to fetch my DD.
:faint: timing is my biggest concern..
as for GS, i understand the P1 is in the afternoon, i also need to check on the timing. let's say DD manage to get a place in GS, my maid must ahve enough time to bring her to school and then travel to NA to fetch DS back...heachache..
i was telling my DH abt this, he said to save the trouble, just put both in same school which is NA.
if DD goes to NA, then we have another 6 yrs of travelling up and down from tampines to Marine Parade..

my 2nd SIL's 2 son are in CZ..but i am not trying for CZ cos need balloting too rite?