[Bishan] Primary Schools

[Penza]

I’m going to be talking from a disappointed parent point of view.


I live next door (30m) to CHS for 10 years and applied for the school for my son. I asked for PV but no reply. Went for 2C and was not ‘lucky’ enough to get son selected in. Now I have to send son to school further away that requires school bus. $$$ flyaway instead of for enrichment courses.

Yes there is something really wrong with the system BUT for now we cant do anything about it.

Note that this school
1. Has a lot of old boys who send their kids back here (even if they live in Bukit Timah) so the places left in 2B/2C becomes very limited. See morning traffic jams for confirmation.
2. Theres a large PR community who will also vie for 2C for this school. See playgrounds during afternoons for confirmation.

My advice to those parents who wants to try their ‘luck’ in 2C or even 2B for CHS is to consider the odds very very carefully. You might not be the lucky 28 out of 72 (who live within 1km) that applied for 2C last week.

[Shera]

I agree with Penza. Over here I already got 2 sets of parents whom stay far away from CH yet had long decided to put their children into this school since their fathers used to be the students. To them, no need PV yet can get into a school of their choice with least effort.

[spoon72]

yes i do believe that the system needs to be adjusted so that it will be equal P1 admission chances for those staying within 1 Km , PVs and "Old Boys" from CHS .

[Namie]

I also think the system needs to be reviewed.


First of all, I am ok with the old boys & old girls having priority. We had good experience in the school, and that's why we want our children to continue to be educated there. Priority for those staying within 1km is not as fair as it seems. My cousin who wanted her daughter to be in CHIJ St. Nicholas just paid close to $2M for a condo within 1Km from the school. So for certain schools, if you are rich enough, you can afford to be within 1km.


But the PRs should come later. Why is PR being placed together with the citizen children under the same phase?

[Para removed in case it caused a national debate and I got invited to drink tea]

[qms]

Namie:

My colleague just got balloted out from a popular primary school in Jurong. She is now on waiting list and was told slim chance because the schools will have to give remaining places to foreigners first (Phase 3?), afterwhich, those citizen children will be considered.

Hi Namie!

Can you please clarify what you meant by your friend is \"now on the waiting list and was told slim chance\"? :?

If a school needs to go conduct balloting in Phase 2C, it means the school will not have any more places in Phase 2CS, let alone Phase 3. So, how to give remaining places to foreigners first?

[Namie]

qms:

Namie:

My colleague just got balloted out from a popular primary school in Jurong. She is now on waiting list and was told slim chance because the schools will have to give remaining places to foreigners first (Phase 3?), afterwhich, those citizen children will be considered.

Hi Namie!

Can you please clarify what you meant by your friend is \"now on the waiting list and was told slim chance\"? :?

If a school needs to go conduct balloting in Phase 2C, it means the school will not have any more places in Phase 2CS, let alone Phase 3. So, how to give remaining places to foreigners first?

Not sure. My colleague went for balloting at Phase 2C. She was unsuccessful (40+ parents going for 10+ seats). Following that, she filled in a form to be on wait list. She told me her school told her what was mentioned above.

[pokemon]

i also agree that the p1 reg system need to be changed esp in Phase 2c, besides giving singaporeans the priority,those who have only 1 sch within 1km from their hse should also have priority to reg 1st. There are some who have 2 or more schools to choose from eg those living within 1km from CH and KCP(Kuo Chuan). :x

[2sweethearts]

staying > 2km and is still in the midst of completing my project PV with the sch in bishan. I can see my chances is super low basing on this year's statistics even if I move within 1km. my younger daughter will be another challenge for me in a few years later.. decided of letting go my PV here and go for mixed sch. would anyone be interested to take over PV :?

[mumto3boys]

2sweethearts:

staying > 2km and is still in the midst of completing my project PV with the sch in bishan. I can see my chances is super low basing on this year's statistics even if I move within 1km. my younger daughter will be another challenge for me in a few years later.. decided of letting go my PV here and go for mixed sch. would anyone be interested to take over PV :?

Are you talking about PV in CHS? Thought they would only grant PV for those staying less than 1 km, as it doesn't make sense for those staying more than 1 km.
Think it'll be better for you to try PV at mixed school.
And i don't think PV can be transferred?

[hmkim]

Hi, I’m a new parent to this forum and trying to get a handle around this whole P1 Registration Exercise.


1) Could someone shed a light on what Parent Volunteer activities entail? 2) How to up our chances of getting selected as a PV?
3) Should one volunteer and do PV at more than one school?

I live in Sin Ming area. Considering Ai Tong, Catholic, KCP.

Thanks a million!