Maris Stella Vs ACS Barker

[phtthp]

Thanks very much for clarification, LOLMum.


from outside, because i see this ACS Junior primary school very huge, grand, impressive looking, so i thought maybe also got Secondary school inside. I din know it’s only primary school.

now i understand clearer…

after P6 PSLE, boys from combined schools (ACS Junior primary + ACS Barker primary) have a choice - go either affliated ACSI or affliated ACS Barker Secondary.

[DesertWind]

Thanks, Poots, for your wealth of information!


Just thinking around the crowded Bishan, Thomson, AMK area, where got space for a JC…??? Unless it is further up in Sembawang or Yishun…or like someone mention, the police academy?!

[phtthp]

i find parents affliated to schools very fortunate ...


it's like buying an insurance policy for the next 10 years having peace, so much lesser amount of reduced stress at PSLE. The child can have a choice - to go affliated Secondary schools awaiting them, or choose other schools.

lucky ACS parents, lucky Maris Stella parents, lucky Catholic High parents, lucky SCGS, MGS, CHIJ, St Andrew, St Hilda parents & parents from all other affliated schools .... all are very lucky

btw, any school occupying the Police Academy now ?
the new JC must be very large - in order to accomdate not 2, but 3 big combined schools of A level boys and girls.

[phtthp]

ACSI IP to IB programme:-


http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=16949

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=25182

[Melonrange]

Its best to let your child choose the school he wants over the two schools. If you force them into the school they dislike, they will turn astray and you will see a big change in them turning bad. There are always black sheeps in a school. If you do not want to see your boyturn astray, listen to his opinion before choosing a school for him.

[handsomeparent]

Hi all.

1) Don’t insult NA kids. Don’t assume that naughty boys come from there. (You shouldnt have even typed "NA" in your comment)
Lets just face it Boys are Boys, its normal to be naughty. (stop being so demanding)
2) Yup, being in ACS Secondary Schools DOESNT allow his kid to enter ACS.
3) ACSBR is a special school, very different from many other schools. Not because it has rich kids or whatsoever. It is the kind of students they have, the good school programmes the school has installed. and yes, a school spirit.
4) Don’t worry about the schools banding or whatsoever. Who cares if they are not academically inclined for now? In time to come, they will succeed. You just don’t know how many graduates from this school have gotten scholarships, started business and going into respected professions such as Medicine and Law.
5) Merry Christmas.

[zeemimi]

jtoh:

MOE should announce the site of the new JC soon, considering that the first IP intake of S1s will be in 2013. And students would want to know if they're keen to travel the distance to their new school in Years 5/6.

it was mentioned somewhere in this forum it is going to be at the existing Bishan ITE. But then .... no official announcement from MOE yet.

[Skyed]

IMO Maris Stella is better. ACS the guys damn rowdy everytime get on the bus talk like gangsters, use f*** in every other sentence. But have tried their school papers, quite tough.

[kamom]

handsomeparent:

Hi all.

1) Don't insult NA kids. Don't assume that naughty boys come from there. (You shouldnt have even typed \"NA\" in your comment)
Lets just face it Boys are Boys, its normal to be naughty. (stop being so demanding)
2) Yup, being in ACS Secondary Schools DOESNT allow his kid to enter ACS.
3) ACSBR is a special school, very different from many other schools. Not because it has rich kids or whatsoever. It is the kind of students they have, the good school programmes the school has installed. and yes, a school spirit.
4) Don't worry about the schools banding or whatsoever. Who cares if they are not academically inclined for now? In time to come, they will succeed. You just don't know how many graduates from this school have gotten scholarships, started business and going into respected professions such as Medicine and Law.
5) Merry Christmas.

Well said

[julialai]

handsomeparent:

Hi all.

1) Don't insult NA kids. Don't assume that naughty boys come from there. (You shouldnt have even typed \"NA\" in your comment)
Lets just face it Boys are Boys, its normal to be naughty. (stop being so demanding)
2) Yup, being in ACS Secondary Schools DOESNT allow his kid to enter ACS.
3) ACSBR is a special school, very different from many other schools. Not because it has rich kids or whatsoever. It is the kind of students they have, the good school programmes the school has installed. and yes, a school spirit.
4) Don't worry about the schools banding or whatsoever. Who cares if they are not academically inclined for now? In time to come, they will succeed. You just don't know how many graduates from this school have gotten scholarships, started business and going into respected professions such as Medicine and Law.
5) Merry Christmas.

Haha, I like your no-nonsense approach!

My church has a fair number of youths from ACSBR. I find them unassuming, helpful, with their own unique brand of quirky humour.

I've heard some wonderful things about Mr Peter Tan, the principal. One of the boys told me that he and his wife have moved into the school campus and they live there now. Amazing! Such commitment to his charges. I am sure ACSBR will flourish under his watch.