Cedar Primary
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for Phase 2C Supplementary :
50% occupied : the remaining 50% vacancies will be occupied by foreigner kids from Korea, Thailand, Mymmar, China, India and other international community
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/geylang
In this school, there are also some China students, Thailand students, Hongkong students, or foreign students aged 13 or 14 (of Secondary school age), but studying P5 / P6 here.
Some of them (eg : Thai students, China students, Hongkong students, etc)
although they are of Secondary school age (aged 13, 14 or 15) : but because their English foundation is weak, so MOE ask them to study P5 / P6 first, before can move onto Secondary schools, next.
But these China students : their Chinese very powerful, and some of them are very hardworking. They have no problem with Maths, only English is their biggest obstacle
Some of the Thai students aged 13 or 14, they are top in their respective schools in Thailand. Only English is a struggle for them, they come over to do P6 PSLE, before proceed to Secondary schools -
phtthp:
when new Bidadari HDB estate open :Tzuke:
[quote=\"da_bin\"]Thanks Tzuke. Actually I am staying in Joo Seng Road. I like canossa convent because of its affiliation. But I will prefer a co-ed school for my girls. So, now trying to find which is a better school. I am having a headache now. hahaha. anyway thanks for your feedback.
If I were you, I will go with Cedar because the school has a lot more space for children to play. There are more choices in CCA compared with CCPS which is very much restricted to the art. When the new Bidadari estate is ready in the next few years, Cedar will very popular just like some other popular heartland schools.
Cedar primary school and Cedar Girls' Secondary, will be popular
and more traffic, at Woodleigh MRT station
Cedar primary Cca
http://www.cedarpri.moe.edu.sg/pupil-de ... activities
Canossa Convent primary Cca
http://www.canossaconventpri.moe.edu.sg/ccps/pupils/cca[/quote]Cedar Primary has no affiliation with Cedar Girls, otherwise it would have made my choice much easier.
Cedar Girls has always been popular, but their cut off point is also quite high, so dun tink there will be an influx juz coz of the housing that is coming up. -
m0m0k0:
Given your case, Geylang Methodist Primary being a co-ed school with affiliation would appear to be a better choice.Cedar Primary has no affiliation with Cedar Girls, otherwise it would have made my choice much easier.
Cedar Girls has always been popular, but their cut off point is also quite high, so dun tink there will be an influx juz coz of the housing that is coming up. -
Heard that Geylang Methodist Pri standard has dropped? It is no longer as good as the last time?
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da_bin:
Heard that Geylang Methodist Pri standard has dropped? It is no longer as good as the last time?
Among the three schools, GMPS is a Methodist school, CCPS is a Convent (Catholic) school and Cedar is non-religious. Standard wise, these schools are about the same. GMPS has 240 students in P1 and still operates two sessions while both CCPS and CPS have intake of only 120 students and single session. If you do not mind the value added stuff in GMPS and CCPS, I think any of the school is just as good. -
Hi hi, my daughter is in P5 this year... Put it this way, I really did see some improvement in terms of the teachers trying to get parents more involved but but in terms of results, I am still waiting la...
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da_bin:
Hi da_bin, have you decided on the school yet?I will be registering in P1 this year. I am deciding between Cedar Primary and Canossa Convent Primary.
Like to check from the parents here, are there really improvement in Cedar Primary under the new principal?
Can anyone share the good and bad of the school?
And can anyone share the PSLE result for 2014?
I am staying at our parents place @ Potong Pasir and faced the same problem as you (our own house is at AMK though)..
Our first choice then was Hong Wen School but as a result, the responses were too overwhelmed.
We attended Cedar's open house last year and has bad impression on it.
Our second choice is actually CCPS (we doesn't like Bendemeer Pri school either).
End up, we gave CCPS up too and we went for Marymount Convent (MCS) which apparently is further (not too far though) but I would say it is better than CCPS in terms of the outlook
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Hi Selene665,
Yeah. We had registered at Paya Lebar methodist girl school instead. Luckily this year there is no balloting for 1-2 km, and hence we got in! We are really overjoyed.
Actually, before that, my relatives had told me that Marymount Convent is quite good and there are quite a no. of vacanies and asked me to consider too.
We should be happy getting into the school we want. hahaha -
Coming from a boy who recently graduated from Cedar in 2014, I will say that the school’s PSLE results did fairly well. If I recall, 1 went to RI, about 6-7 went to Cedar Girls, 4-5 went to PLMGS as well as to CCHMS, 2 went to NCHS, 6-7 to Zhonghua and around 8 to SASS(mainly normal stream) and 2 to CAT high. Majority of the boys went to St Gabs (like me :p).
As for Ms De Souza, she is more academic-oriented than the previous principal, Mrs Sharon Siew. I don’t really know much about her as I was under her for only 2 years, but what I heard from the SJI junior students in my church that she is a good principal.
Many students, around 40%, are from the nearby gurkha camp. In terms of academics, they are not really the brightest but they are very friendly.(however, they are loud, so ur child maybe influenced by them)
The teachers are not very good, and from what i heard there has been a recent influx in new teachers but there are still some experienced teachers.
There are not a whole lot of CCAs to choose from, but the best cca is Soccer. The student council is very biased and people who are chosen are teacher pets. (For instance, my years president who transferred at around primary 5, was chosen to be a student councillor in primary 6 and elected as president around 2 months later :/)
My experience in cedar isn’t very memorable but I did make very good friends. But if I had a chance to choose my primary school, Cedar wouldn’t really be in the top of my choices. -
If anyone needs questions, I'll gladly help !
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