[Bukit Timah] Primary Schools

[superduperks]

While everyone is so stressed out, let’s list down some helping pointers for balloting day why not?


1) put on your luckiest colour
2) don’t bring kids, too cruel for them to face it at this young age and to soon to let them see how cruel MOE is!
3) be kind to each other as we are all on the same boat.

Any more? Any more?

[Willow]

need to chose a auspicious time to left the house & chose a lucky seat in the hall…!

i saw one dressed in black dress & with huge white watch ( ok i exaggerate a bit)…it’s that u ?? cherrie …i thot that mummy looks like Scary ( in my mind). i thot pink or sweet colors for someone called cherrie…

[Hotchix]

Willow:

ballot time is 10 am next friday....

Scary & Cherrie , r u gals coming too ? i saw a mummy dressed in pink by herself but didnt ask if she is cheerie ....too nerve wreaking ....the whole experience feels like reporting to my old school for exam results...cant imagine how i will feel next friday... :gloomy:

Ha! Thats what my hubby said too. He said the registration hall is as quiet and the atmosphere as still as the exam hall.
I'm observing SCGS too as the numbers as of yesterday seems too good to be true. >2km also in. Actually the school is our 1st choice. Too bad we stays >2km away. Do you guys think the numbers will surge last min?

[Publica]

Hotchix:

Willow:

ballot time is 10 am next friday....

Scary & Cherrie , r u gals coming too ? i saw a mummy dressed in pink by herself but didnt ask if she is cheerie ....too nerve wreaking ....the whole experience feels like reporting to my old school for exam results...cant imagine how i will feel next friday... :gloomy:

Ha! Thats what my hubby said too. He said the registration hall is as quiet and the atmosphere as still as the exam hall.
I'm observing SCGS too as the numbers as of yesterday seems too good to be true. >2km also in. Actually the school is our 1st choice. Too bad we stays >2km away. Do you guys think the numbers will surge last min?

I think many parents >2km from SCGS are all monitoring the numbers and calculating their chances. Going by past statistics, this cannot be true. The numbers will definitely surge in the afternoon.

[mummy of 3]

Hotchix:

Willow:

ballot time is 10 am next friday....

Scary & Cherrie , r u gals coming too ? i saw a mummy dressed in pink by herself but didnt ask if she is cheerie ....too nerve wreaking ....the whole experience feels like reporting to my old school for exam results...cant imagine how i will feel next friday... :gloomy:

Ha! Thats what my hubby said too. He said the registration hall is as quiet and the atmosphere as still as the exam hall.
I'm observing SCGS too as the numbers as of yesterday seems too good to be true. >2km also in. Actually the school is our 1st choice. Too bad we stays >2km away. Do you guys think the numbers will surge last min?

I had the same thinking with u for SCGS but scare last min too many app then >2km will be in big trouble so to play safe... Will be calling them after 11am.

[vksparent]

any update of registered numbers for NYPS and RGPS?

[Willow]

maybe u can call in at noon time to check the figures ?

numbers r going up & down in the morning…becos of last min withdrawals ( those not eligible ) & registration…but we should know by the afternoon…cos parents wld have make up their mind finally. i feel like monitoring the stock market except the schools are now the hot stocks.

[MumandMe]

ngsc23:

If u are within 1km of HPPS and RGPS,MGS, got chance no need ballot within 1km. If not, best with Tao nan. I gave up st Hilda for the distance. Now hoping for miracle.

Based on this year's statistics, under p2B and within 1km, there is no need to ballot at RGPS. Balloting is required at NYPS, with 31 applicants going for 28 places. Assuming the numbers remain the same, there's still a debate between RGPS and NYPS as the family has a girl and a boy. Should they register at RGPS that year, when it is the boy's turn to register for P1, parents will have to monitor the odds again.

[verykiasu2010]

ASAP:

jtoh:

[quote=\"ngsc23\"]Aiyo. So complicated. Btw, unwritten rule for HCI and NYPS. There is some \"Relationship\" between these 2 schools. So boys from NYPS get into HCI at special admission aggregate

Not true. NYPS and NYGH are affiliated and the girls can enter NYGH at COP of 250. There is no such arrangement between NYPS an HCI.

:?
So to be fair to the boys in NYPS, HCI should have it primary school side by side call HCPS solely for boy only. and NYPS should be a girl school just like RGPS to RGSS....or NYGS should be a mix school call NYSS....etc..
Parents presently staying in Bukit Timah area should hope for babies girl for advantage. What a education system we have now, it time to flush it away. :imconstipated:[/quote]RGPS and RGSS are government schools and they have no affiliation to each other. Likewise RI is government school, independent, and without a primary school.

HCI has always been a secondary school, it was not founded as a full school.

NYGH was founded as a full school before it became a government aided school and then they split the primary section of the full school to become NYPS. May be last time they saw the little boys as cute so they cater to boys intake at primary level but the boys can't join the sisters at NYGH....

it is not impossible for NYGH to become mixed school - that was how Faithfield Methodist School became what it is today, from an all-girl school to a mixed school (co-ed)

[ngsc23]

hi all,


Updates : as 11.15am. Applicants / vacancies
NYPS - 50 all within 1 km for 28
RGPS - 41 all within 1 km for 41
HPPS - 63 all within 1km for 28
SCGS - 1km - 36, 1-2km-1, 17 < 2km for total 54 for 43

Good luck to all parents.