Sengkang Green Primary

[Zabars]

I have been investigating the private bus option further. I called the ministry, but because it is a new school they didn’t have any bus information. The man I spoke with at the ministry said that I can ask the staff at Fernvale Primary (our registration centre) about bus information when I go to register my daughter next week. However, I have learned that even if we can arrange a private bus, my daughter’s commute will still be really long as she will hit rush hour. So, I called the ministry back to see if we could be placed at another school that is closer by and the man said they cannot switch her. Instead he suggested I accept the offer at the current school and then start visiting schools closer to my home to see if they have spaces available. I asked if he could provide me with the names of schools in my area that still had spaces available, but he said he could not provide me with this information. If I go to a school that is already filled up for P1, he said I can ask to be placed on their waiting list. That is what I am going to do. Fingers crossed. Good luck thinkingskills!

[Zabars]

I have been investigating the private bus option further. I called the ministry, but because it is a new school they didn’t have any bus information. The man I spoke with at the ministry said that I can ask the staff at Fernvale Primary (our registration centre) about bus information when I go to register my daughter next week. However, I have learned that even if we can arrange a private bus, my daughter’s commute will still be really long as she will hit rush hour. So, I called the ministry back to see if we could be placed at another school that is closer by and the man said they cannot switch her. Instead he suggested I accept the offer at the current school and then start visiting schools closer to my home to see if they have spaces available. I asked if he could provide me with the names of schools in my area that still had spaces available, but he said he could not provide me with this information. If I go to a school that is already filled up for P1, he said I can ask to be placed on their waiting list. That is what I am going to do. Fingers crossed. Good luck thinkingskills!

[Dawnie]

I am very sure there are some schools in the West area that still have vacancies. You may want to call the schools to find out. It is kind of ridiculous for MOE to place your kid in a North-East School when you are residing in the West area. Your kid will have to spend more than an hour on the school bus, so poor thing.

[sohpeng]

Maybe you can check with Westwood Primary School located at Jurong West? Is a new school, may have vacancy… at least nearer than Sengkang…

[Zabars]

Thanks for the suggestions. I did start calling schools closer to us. So far, the ones I called (which were ones that still had room at the beginning of phase 3 registration) are all full. So I am just putting my daughter’s name on a bunch of waiting lists. I know that Westwood Primary went to balloting, but I did e-mail the principal asking if we could be placed on a waiting list. Westwood Primary would be a perfect location as it is on the way to my husband’s work. I am going to see if there is a family who lives in the east who got placed there and see if we can arrange some kind of switch (not sure if the ministry would allow this, but worth trying). I also heard back from the vice principal of Sengkang Green saying that they will look into bus options for students living in the West based on interest. He said I can fill out a form when I go to register my daughter on Tuesday.

[eu-ern]

Try calling every school nearby to check. Else the poor child will be very tired having to travel to and fro school. It will then affect his/her well-being.

[david59]

It really really makes me wonder who these people r at moe that can make this kind of "execution" to put little kids to travel far far away from his/her home very early in the morning to a totally strange n frightening place to start their school life.

I have tried going from sengkang to bukit batok by bus n rail n bus to reach my destination and it took me 1 1/2 hr to reach there. Moe really … , I don’t know what to say.

[Capricon]

I think it is ridiculous for MOE to put kids staying in the west to a school in northeast. They are not doing their job in helping parents to find a school near them, this is their so called PS21 service.


My girl’s friend who stays in Ang Mo Kio has to wake up at 5am to take the school bus to Fernvale Primary.

Zabars, pls find a school in the west for yr child. Otherwise, it will be very tiring for yr child to travel to and fro from the west to northeast. It will affect her health in the long run. She will be so tired that she might lose interest in learning. If I were you, I would rather put her on waiting list in school that are in the west, than registering her in Sengkang green first.

[david59]

I find it hard to believe that there is not a single school in the west that does not have any vacancy left. As if all the neighborhood schools r so hot favorites. Something is wrong somewhere.

[eu-ern]

Sengkang green uniform out… White top n cream beige bottom, tucked out. White shoes. I look forward to register my son next yr for 2014 intake. Just hoping the student care will b in operations then. Hope parents share their experience with the school n staffs here too.