School text books

[buds]

Duh.. me neither.

[janet88]

SAHM_TAN:

I don't get the thing about school names on socks. Why does the school want to brand everything?

Maybe the school wants students to have more sense of belonging by wearing the 'brand name' all the way to socks. For my son, I find that his socks (with school name) is nothing special. For my daughter, I bought 3 pairs because the socks at the ankle is thicker and has more 'protection' as they have gym. Only bought 2 pairs...other than those days w/out PE, she wears plain white ones.

[kiasu mummy]

Hi parents,


Can share how many sets of school uniforms and PE T-shirt to get?

I am heeding your adv to get textbooks from popular so only exercise books and pupil dairy to purchase from the school book shop right? do you buy all the no of recommended exercise books or just buy some 5 x single lines and 5 x square ones?

Hi KiasuGrandMaster VI,

I think ds school also selling socks with school name. Can I confirm it is not imperative to get? or do students gotta wear on certain days?

Thanks in adv for sharing.

[jedamum]

kiasu mummy:

Hi parents,


Can share how many sets of school uniforms and PE T-shirt to get?

I am heeding your adv to get textbooks from popular so only exercise books and pupil dairy to purchase from the school book shop right? do you buy all the no of recommended exercise books or just buy some 5 x single lines and 5 x square ones?

Hi KiasuGrandMaster VI,

I think ds school also selling socks with school name. Can I confirm it is not imperative to get? or do students gotta wear on certain days?

Thanks in adv for sharing.

kiasu mummy,
have you gotten the timetable?
for us, we got 2 sets of Uniform and 2 sets of PE attire as we had to buy 1 set of house T-shirt. kids grow pretty fast. my boy could not fit into his P1 shorts by end of P2 (consider fast or slow? ).
for exercise books, just do a gauge; 2 book for each subject. can always get your kid to go bookshop to buy; good exposure for them to go bookshop to buy necessities and not just novelty items
for school socks, it may be better if you can check out with parents in the relevant Parents Networking Thread. maybe you can get parents with kids going to your kids' school to clarify your doubts.
Happy orientating!

[kiasu mummy]

KiasuGrandMaster V,


Yeah, no timetable and also haven't even attend the orientation!:p

Thanks for your adv.:)

[care07]

2 set ea of sch uniform as well as PE attire shd be enough for P1 n 2 kids. Unless your kids sweat very easily u might consider 3 set of uniform.

Some sch for boys, they actual dun require PE short during PE lesson, parent, pls check with sch.

[SAHM_TAN]

kiasu mummy:

KiasuGrandMaster V,


Yeah, no timetable and also haven't even attend the orientation!:p

Thanks for your adv.:)

Hi

\"KiasuGrandMaster V\" is just the \"rank\", the nickname is above that

As for school textbooks, some primary school's bookshop are operated by Popular, so there might be no difference between purchasing the textbooks from Popular or the school's bookshop.

Here's a link to the list of schools' bookshops operated by Popular, you have to scroll down...... https://www.popular.com.sg/jsp/main_page/store_location.jsp

You could also visit your kid's school website to check out last yr's booklist. This will give you a gauge of how much the bookshop is charging for the textbook. You can then decide if it's worth it to purchase from Popular.

[kiasu mummy]

SAHM_TAN - Oh yeah. Thanks for pointing out to me.

[buds]

kiasu mummy:

Can share how many sets of school uniforms and PE T-shirt to get?

As a general guide, most parents usually purchase two pinafore sets and two PE sets. At times there will be a need for more PE attires cos some schools have 4 periods of PE spread out thru the week, like in my daughters' case. We had no choice but to get two more. They had 1 period of PE every day except for Wednesday. The fourth set, we only purchased after first semester when they somehow grew quite abit. It took 6mths of canteen food to beef my girls up, uh? :scratchhead:

kiasu mummy:

I think ds school also selling socks with school name. Can I confirm it is not imperative to get? or do students gotta wear on certain days?

For schools that have the logos on their socks, it is normally compulsory to get. One school i know; during orientation... parents/children were told that if the students didn't wear the school's official socks, the stuents may need to go to the office to clarify. They must wear socks with school's name and logo by the next spotcheck.

You may need to double check with your DS's school to see if they're anal about wearing only those with school initials or would they also allow a plain one bought from external vendors.

Other items with school initials to ONLY get from school bookshops are the worksheet files/folders, report book, exercise books & pupil diary.

[Vevey]

DS’ sch bookshop is operated by Pacific. From last nov, we can buy online then self-collect at a later date in sch. No Q, no hassle as it’s just 10 steps back to the car & everything is packed properly in a sturdy box that I can reuse to keep used books.


I explored Popular (don’t know y, but it didn’t hv DS’ sch booklist so I would hv to fax it to them) so i decided against it bcos the savings (Maybank credit card extra 5% off) will b wiped out by delivery fee or carpark charges (if self-collect), & i will still need to buy specific items (e.g. English worksheets already 1/3 of total cost) from school separately.