GEP 2011 - Screening & Selection

[kitkit]

Hi everyone I am new here. Just to share my DS got into Nan Hua. Please add me to the list.


We are not very near the school and will need to board school bus by 6am. With the move to a different school, DS will need to spend ~ additional 1.5 hours per day on school bus to and fro. Still thinking if there are other alternative to cut down his travelling time… We are near bt pnj area.

We are now waiting to buy textbooks and uniform etc next week when they are available for sale in school.

[kitkit]

Also just wondering - are there assessments books that are more for preparing the child for GEP tests etc?

[shalomger]

lizhi:

thmejlfm:

Here's the compiled list so far ...

pl add my dd to NY.

Have you bought the uniform and school books for your child? :roll:

Yup. Have u?
I couldn't get the PE uniform though as we have not been told DS's house.

[ezmummy]

kitkit:

Hi everyone I am new here. Just to share my DS got into Nan Hua. Please add me to the list.


We are not very near the school and will need to board school bus by 6am. With the move to a different school, DS will need to spend ~ additional 1.5 hours per day on school bus to and fro. Still thinking if there are other alternative to cut down his travelling time.. We are near bt pnj area.

We are now waiting to buy textbooks and uniform etc next week when they are available for sale in school.

Hi kitkit, we have similar problem
Son's school bus picking him up at 6.05am. I'm not so willing for him to get up so early too.

[strawvery28]

Hi, another mummy whose boy would be joining GEP in NH next yr. I am at CCK, hv the same concern with regards to travelling to NH. We r expected to wait for the sch bus @~6:10am. Heard there's a pte bus that wouldn't come so early. Any parent @CCK/Bt Panjang knows? Thanks.

[ezmummy]

Looks like many of us have similar problem.


May I ask, any of you going to let your child take the public transport to school? Or will you do that?

[kitkit]

strawvery28:

Hi, another mummy whose boy would be joining GEP in NH next yr. I am at CCK, hv the same concern with regards to travelling to NH. We r expected to wait for the sch bus @~6:10am. Heard there's a pte bus that wouldn't come so early. Any parent @CCK/Bt Panjang knows? Thanks.

When I called up NH last wee, I was told the pte bus goes to areas which the main bus operator does not operate. I'm not sure how accurate this info is cos I have not verified it. You can call the school to ask for the contact no. of the pet bus operator and verify with them directly.

Just wondering is it feasible to do car pooling within cck/bt pnj area to NH?

[dagong99]

kitkit:

strawvery28:

Hi, another mummy whose boy would be joining GEP in NH next yr. I am at CCK, hv the same concern with regards to travelling to NH. We r expected to wait for the sch bus @~6:10am. Heard there's a pte bus that wouldn't come so early. Any parent @CCK/Bt Panjang knows? Thanks.

When I called up NH last wee, I was told the pte bus goes to areas which the main bus operator does not operate. I'm not sure how accurate this info is cos I have not verified it. You can call the school to ask for the contact no. of the pet bus operator and verify with them directly.

Just wondering is it feasible to do car pooling within cck/bt pnj area to NH?

Seems like quite a no of GEP kids from CCK/Bt Panjang going to NH next year. Distance is really is problem, I was told on some days they have to attend classes in the afternoon, e.g. PSLE, PSLE Oral, Listening Compre, etc, so have to send kids to school in the afternoon..... :sad:

[strawvery28]

There's another bigger problem. Coming home timing. I hv a neighbour who has had 3 boys in NH (though 2 already graduated, left with #3 in TAG class) shared that they never take the return home trip as their CCA end at 5+pm. She has been fetching them home from sch.


However from next yr onwards, she would let this #3 boy take the direct bus 188 home. My boy could not join him everyday unless they hv same CCA and enrichment activities, etc. (impossible!)

So shall we (CCK/Bt Panjang parents) here whose children in NH GEP next yr form an informal gp? On those days when our kids stay back for GEP and would go home directly they could go back together. (by bus or cab) or arrange for car pool to take turn fetching them?

Pls pte email me at [email protected] if you r keen. Of course we would only get more details like GEP stay-back days, aft the orientation.

Thanks.

[strawvery28]

kitkit:

strawvery28:

Hi, another mummy whose boy would be joining GEP in NH next yr. I am at CCK, hv the same concern with regards to travelling to NH. We r expected to wait for the sch bus @~6:10am. Heard there's a pte bus that wouldn't come so early. Any parent @CCK/Bt Panjang knows? Thanks.

When I called up NH last wee, I was told the pte bus goes to areas which the main bus operator does not operate. I'm not sure how accurate this info is cos I have not verified it. You can call the school to ask for the contact no. of the pet bus operator and verify with them directly.

Just wondering is it feasible to do car pooling within cck/bt pnj area to NH?

I quite like the idea. But aft discussing with hubby there is a bigger problem, i.e. coming home trip. Pls see my post.

However I'm open to the idea of car pool to a sch. But in Jan 2012 I would let my boy take the sch bus until things are more settled.