Hwa Chong Institution (High School)
-
Paddy Field,
:congrats: to your DS for having 3 COs! It is good that you do some comparison before making this important decision together with your ds.
I can understand your concern about school hours. However, my advice is not to worry too much about that in your decision making. These are top tier schools which take in high ability students and all three schools provide lots of opportunities to develop and stretch the students in academic, CCA, leadership. Hence, how busy one is will depend less on which of the three he chooses to go, and depend more on how active he is in Secondary school.
My boys are in HCI and the elder one is in Sec 3 now. He has friends in RI and ACSI and had many opportunities to interact with students from other top schools during inter-school activities. I asked him about his impression on students from RI and ACSI, he finds most of them friendly and helpful besides being very smart and motivated. Most importantly, just like himself, these people also love their schools and are having a great time.
I am sure your ds will enjoy his Secondary school life no matter which of the three he eventually chooses to go. -
Dear wonderm,
Thank you for the advice. The most important factor for me is how my DS enjoys himself and loves the school. -
Anyone know whether there are any local sec 1 & 2 students stay in boarding school? Any special requirement needed ?
-
Thought boarding school only start in sec 3 ?
-
Otah:
Anyone know whether there are any local sec 1 & 2 students stay in boarding school? Any special requirement needed ?
I suppose it's possible. You just need to pay the full fees. For the actual boarding program that starts from sec 3, the students pay a subsidized fees for 1 term.
Call up the boarding school to check. -
lizawa:
Thanks Lizawa for the advice.Otah:
Anyone know whether there are any local sec 1 & 2 students stay in boarding school? Any special requirement needed ?
I suppose it's possible. You just need to pay the full fees. For the actual boarding program that starts from sec 3, the students pay a subsidized fees for 1 term.
Call up the boarding school to check.
This idea came about when he requested that he wants to be like some of his friends to stay in boarding school. I am not sure if he is too young for that but I told him to work for good result and by end of sec two he will be eligible at a subsidised rate of $90/mth boarding for full year like in the past of local good result students. Not sure if this scheme is still available with the current sec 3 1-term boarding programme on going and I heard some of the local boarding pupils were asked to go home to clear space for the sec 3 boarding programme. -
Sec 1 exemption list for LSS eoy exam is out at EMB.
-
ds has been exempted from Math and Sci so far.
Any sec 1 been informed of exemption from other subjects ? -
Just wondering whether need to go to school for those exam days which are exempted?
-
Otah:
Just wondering whether need to go to school for those exam days which are exempted?
No need if you don't have a to sit for the paper. Other pupils also go home after paper, there will be no lessons.
Hello! It looks like you're interested in this conversation, but you don't have an account yet.
Getting fed up of having to scroll through the same posts each visit? When you register for an account, you'll always come back to exactly where you were before, and choose to be notified of new replies (either via email, or push notification). You'll also be able to save bookmarks and upvote posts to show your appreciation to other community members.
With your input, this post could be even better š
Register Login