Victoria School

[corneyAmber]

wonglc:

I agree with tutormum.AHS standard has dropped .This year cutoff has dropped to 240 ( 4pts down from last year ) . My son scored 247 but we did not placed VS in the ist choice during school selection . Now , very eargerly waiting for the appeal result . Understand there is a orientation tomorrow and hope by then, the appeal result will be released .

:? thought the orientation is over for every school? Why would VS still be having an orientation tomorrow? :?

[wonglc]

I believe all schools already done with their registration on 23-Dec . For VS , i think they are slightly different . Tomorrow is their Sec 1 orientation day whereby the students will know their classroom ,meet up with their classmates and form teachers.

[corneyAmber]

wonglc:

I believe all schools already done with their registration on 23-Dec . For VS , i think they are slightly different . Tomorrow is their Sec 1 orientation day whereby the students will know their classroom ,meet up with their classmates and form teachers.

OIC, that's interesting! First time heard of a school having an Orientation before the school reopens. Most schools do it in the first week of Jan. So you intend to go to the Orientation tomorrow to find out if your son is successful? Just curious, hope you don't mind.

[wonglc]

In fact , I am now waiting eagerly for the school to call up . I believe the results should be known by end of today to cater for all students to meet up tomorrow . I think if i don’t hear anything today, very likely the appeal is not sucessful . Will update u gals if my son got into VS !

[corneyAmber]

wonglc:

In fact , I am now waiting eagerly for the school to call up . I believe the results should be known by end of today to cater for all students to meet up tomorrow . I think if i don't hear anything today, very likely the appeal is not sucessful . Will update u gals if my son got into VS !

You mean tomorrow is the day whereby they would release the appeal results as well as their Orientation Day? Like that is very unfair to the appeal students that they have to miss the Orientation Day.

Did you try calling the school to see if the appeal students would be invited to the Orientation tomorrow? That would give you a better idea as to whether your son would miss the Orientation tomorrow.

[happymum8]

[quote]OIC, that's interesting! First time heard of a school having an Orientation before the school reopens. Most schools do it in the first week of Jan. [/quote]
If I am not wrong, the Orientation Camp for year 2009 is from 2~4 Jan.

So the boys went to school officially on 5 Jan for the New School Year.

[tutormum]

The Orientation tomorrow is for getting to know the school and necessary documentations etc. The 3 day camp is from next Monday for the children to get to know each other.

[dadmum123]

Yup, tomorrow's orientation is mainly administrative (joining the class and meeting the teacher for a short session) and informative (i think there's a principal's talk and camp briefing). It's good to have this orientation first, otherwise the boys will get a shock when they are put in the wild in camp with 350 other boys they've never met before! Heard that the attire for tomorrow is the yellow PE T-shirt and black PE shorts with school socks. To those who are anxiously waiting for their appeal results, all the best! And to those who are already part of the Victorian family, happy orientating tomorrow!

[wonglc]

So sad , my son appeal is not successfully . Heard there are <10 vacancy for appeal case . So he will be going to his ist choice school which is Anglican High. Really regret for not being more insisting and go against his will to place Victoria as the ist choice school during selection. With his score, he will for sure be allocated to VS as the cutoff this year is 245 .Now we understand how impt is the choices made during school selection. Probably my son is destined not to be part of the Victorian family . Will go Anglican high tomorrow to get his uniform and textbooks

[corneyAmber]

wonglc:

So sad , my son appeal is not successfully . Heard there are <10 vacancy for appeal case . So he will be going to his ist choice school which is Anglican High. Really regret for not being more insisting and go against his will to place Victoria as the ist choice school during selection. With his score, he will for sure be allocated to VS as the cutoff this year is 245 .Now we understand how impt is the choices made during school selection. Probably my son is destined not to be part of the Victorian family . Will go Anglican high tomorrow to get his uniform and textbooks

Sorry to hear the bad news. Yes, 1st and 2nd choices are very important. Don't think so much now, move on and let your son enjoy AHS since he prefers that school anyway!