River Valley Primary

[morningstar]

Any parents enrolling their children in student care? I am looking at alphabet playhouse and Cherie hearts river valley. will appreciate any feedback or comments? tia.

[minnie2004]

Hi, i’m wondering if it’s cheaper to order the books from the school or buy from other bookshops like popular? Thanks!

[raynreg]

What I’ve done last year is to buy from Popular. Cant remember if there is discount with the Popular card but prices are slightly cheaper. In addition, you can choose whatever stationeries you want to buy rather than the "fixed" brands that the bookshop uses. The advantage is you can get your books earlier as I remembered we will told to order from the school bookshop first and get the books only later. However, Popular may not have all the books under the same stall. So you may end up running up and down hunting for them.

[minnie2004]

Thx raynreg! I guess I’ll buy from popular then

[raynreg]

You need to get the book list from the school admin if possible. The bookshop was not willing to give out the book list last year (probably commerical reasons i guess).

[minnie2004]

The school already sent us the booklist, together with the other info regarding orientation. But we can only submit the order to the school on the orientation day and collect the books later.

[Puffer]

To new parents out there: there is no need to get every item of the stationery, the art/craft materials in particular. If you have a set of painting/art materials deemed usable - just go ahead without having to spend extra.


Important is to let your child use good reliable ones especially 2B pencils and colour pencils. Do not use those fanciful (cartoon-ated) pencils or ‘China’ brand types which are either not dark enough or breaks easily when sharpened.

[minnie2004]

Thanks for ur timely advise puffer! I was just wondering if we can just use the art & craft set we bought for dd's art classes in kindergarten which was hardly used. Now I can save some $$.


Also agree w u about those fancy pencils. They just keep breaking :stupid:

[TwaTau]

But then again, that is the only type the kids want, Eraser is another one, they only want those fanciful one that cannot erase even the slightess pencil mark!

[Puffer]

minnie2004:

Thanks for ur timely advise puffer! I was just wondering if we can just use the art & craft set we bought for dd's art classes in kindergarten which was hardly used. Now I can save some $$.


Also agree w u about those fancy pencils. They just keep breaking :stupid:

You are welcome. I could understand the excitement new parents are and in the quest of getting our child a new headstart, we just purchase and purchase. This happened to my wife and me.

I have noticed (and as shared by other parents), that in this school, the kids hardly touch on the 'high-order' type of art and craft. In the first 2 years of my 2 boys' Art and Craft lessons, they use mainly colour pencils, colour papers and drawing papers, that's all! But I'm not trying to implying anything - you should get your kids prepared with the necessary art/craft items - need not purchase new set if you already have what you got at home.

Cheers!