Nanyang Primary

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verykiasu2010:

welcome to the NYPS family!

so your Pri 1 kid will start school in Toh Tuck and move back to King's/Coronation for Pri 2.

not to be a dampener, but PV is still no guarantee hor !

may I ask, what PV duty are you doing ?

Thanks! Yes we live within 1km, otherwise if last year is a guide no chance in 2B. I'm doing traffic. After 80 hours of that and still not guaranteed... don't know what to say! We'll see what this year's ballots bring in 3 weeks, right?

Yes, we know it will be Toh Tuck. I assume/hope/would think there will be bus transfers laid on from Kings Road site? (Sure it is discussed already.)

[8228]

I don’t quite understand why some parents insist to drop their children (not talking about those very young ones) within the school even when Mrs Lee opens the car door for the children to alight along King’s Road. The traffic jam in the morning is sometimes bad as many cars are waiting to turn into the school. The traffic will be smoother if more parents let their children alight at King’s Road. It will be super smooth if 5 or more cars let the children alight at the same time instead of waiting to alight the children right in front of the gate. Maybe the school should get some students or parent vonlunteers to open the car doors for the first five car for a period of time until more parents see/understand the benefits of doing this.

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mummy of 3:

:congrats:

XXXX:

Hi everyone.

I recently got selected as a Parent Volunteer for NYPS (2013 P1 registration, 2014 starter). I hope you don't think it presumptuous of me to post in this thread, but I figure all other PVs will also check in here.

The PV selection and allocation process was a bit unsettling: I suppose the uncertainty is good prep for next year's P1 selection.

:congrats:
R u staying within 1km from NYPS? Which tasks are u taking?
Can share ur experience when interview with the principle?

The interview itself was no issue - a friendly panel of 6 or so, only 2 or 3 people asking direct questions. They kept it very simple and said they needed people for traffic duties at King's (and Toh Tuck) and I said yes. I say it was unsettling because we were told we had \"passed\" and were \"in\" a couple of weeks later, but we then heard nothing until this week when I forced the issue. Otherwise we would have been overlooked as far as I can tell. So don't assume anything until you've signed up to the PV-2B form - they are very busy and under pressure from MOE etc and so will not be looking out for you! Hope that helps.

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8228:

The traffic will be smoother if more parents let their children alight at King's Road. It will be super smooth if 5 or more cars let the children alight at the same time instead of waiting to alight the children right in front of the gate. Maybe the school should get some students or parent vonlunteers to open the car doors for the first five car for a period of time until more parents see/understand the benefits of doing this.

Sorry last post while I'm logged in:

This seems like a sensible idea as the cars are crawling along and may as well drop off without needing to turn in. They could even stop after the turn in, how about that?!

The other thing I noticed is that once inside the school compound most cars insist on dropping off before the zebra crossing rather than after even when there is space to do so, which causes cars to bunch up behind rather than offloading in batches of 4 or 5 cars. So I'd suggest that parents please pull forward as far as possible before offloading.

[verykiasu2010]

8228:

I don't quite understand why some parents insist to drop their children (not talking about those very young ones) within the school even when Mrs Lee opens the car door for the children to alight along King's Road. The traffic jam in the morning is sometimes bad as many cars are waiting to turn into the school. The traffic will be smoother if more parents let their children alight at King's Road. It will be super smooth if 5 or more cars let the children alight at the same time instead of waiting to alight the children right in front of the gate. Maybe the school should get some students or parent vonlunteers to open the car doors for the first five car for a period of time until more parents see/understand the benefits of doing this.

those are kiasu kiasi parents

that issue has been discussed many times.

don't know about current practice -- what you suggested has been told to parents every year during the opening of the new academic year briefing for Pri 1 parents in the past, plus one more instruction : do your hugging of your kids at home, not at the road side in school compound choking up traffic

[dimsum]

Hi everyone, I just registered my boy today. Bought 4D with his registration number.

[verykiasu2010]

dimsum:

Hi everyone, I just registered my boy today. Bought 4D with his registration number.

hope you strike it

and let us know hor :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[Cars2]

Hi dimsum,


I registered my child in NYPS yesterday too. Hope to see you on orientation day.

[Betty Boop]

Hi Dimsum and Cars2,


See u in P1 orientation on 17 Nov. My Ds2 is registered under phase1.

[dimsum]

verykiasu2010:

dimsum:

Hi everyone, I just registered my boy today. Bought 4D with his registration number.

hope you strike it

and let us know hor :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

Too bad, i didn't strike. haha! Actually, it's my very first time filling in the betting slip and went to the betting outlet to buy.