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    Maris Stella Vs ACS Barker

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Secondary Schools - Selection
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    • phtthpP Offline
      phtthp
      last edited by

      for year 1 to 4 Secondary education -

      is there a difference in standard between ACS Barker Secondary (where affliated ACS Barker primary boys go to ) and ACS Junior Secondary (where affliated ACS Junior primary boys go to) ?

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        LOLMum
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        phtthp:
        for year 1 to 4 Secondary education -

        is there a difference in standard between ACS Barker Secondary (where affliated ACS Barker primary boys go to ) and ACS Junior Secondary (where affliated ACS Junior primary boys go to) ?

        nope, there aint a acs junior secondary school.

        unless it is new secondary school :?

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        • phtthpP Offline
          phtthp
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          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.

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          • DesertWindD Offline
            DesertWind
            last edited by

            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?!

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            • phtthpP Offline
              phtthp
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              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.

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              • phtthpP Offline
                phtthp
                last edited by

                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

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                • M Offline
                  Melonrange
                  last edited by

                  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.

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                    handsomeparent
                    last edited by

                    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.

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                    • Z Offline
                      zeemimi
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                      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.

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                      • S Offline
                        Skyed
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                        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.

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