Kiasucy:

May I know if RI allows students to wear just white school or any specific colour kind of track school and socks?

ignore what firefly38 said. you can only wear white socks, be it ankle socks or normal socks. as for shoes, your shoe must be at least 70% white with white shoe laces.

The chances of successful appealing is almost near 100%, though the school will always tell you the opposite. My suggestion? Appeal now before its too late

you’ve never seen the ORA day donation card? lolol verykiasu2010 got super funny ‘information’ horh.


sorry, but the class size is not 30 anymore with effect from this year.superkiasu2010 where you get your this ‘information’ from one? class size is capped at 28 now for this year’s sec1s and sec3s. the other two batches still have 30per class.

by talent class you mean sports DSA class? if so there are two classes starting from this year’s batch of sec1s. the class size is capped at 15-16 per class.

transformer2020:

thanks diudiu for your prompt and clear answers. i have some other doubts needs to clear as far as we talked about NUS High. any parents can share the expericence?


a. Raise Funds.
As most of RI students come from rich or prestigious family, i learned when the school asks for 'donation', those families will 'donate' full amount to replace 'student's running for charity compaign'. and that amount is significant. Is that true? i think tudents from working class may feel psychological side-effects, hence affecting their character development.
while in NUS High, they do have charity activity, but even the students donate '1 cent' on their own nobody will laugh or talk about that; and the teach carries on this anonymously.

b. Costs model - what's the cost model and average cost for each year studying in RI?
RI will carry on a lot of CCA or project, and may have outsourcing training or enrichment. does all this cost will be incurred and beared by students? how big amount generally at each level?
for attending National or Int'l competition on behalf of school, does all travel fee will bear by student himself?
I understand NUS High will bear nearly all the cost, to raise the students as they can. and they have incentives to discount school fee based on family income.

c. accelerated study path
as we know NUS high has accelerated study path for the students based on his merits, say kid has reach Sec 4 math, so the student does not need to just sit and waste time with sec 1, can frogleap to matching level. in RI, is there same mechanism there? or how they deal with accelerated students?

d. If the student unlikely put in to Mainstream class in RI, is there any possibility that he jump in GEP or talent class with improved performance later on? or all talent class fixed at the entrance.

my kid has distinctive performance nationwide/int'l wide, but he is not GEP, and face really difficulty in sharing resource focused on only GEP (such as study material, practise paper). i really want to know if this system barrier exist in this prestigious middle school.
a little more touch on NUS High school and it looks more open and eager for talent, supported by NUS university spirit - Excel, and Freedom.

a. Nah, like all the other parents have said, RI does not ask students for donations. Though an exception is the yearly ORA Day where students will be given a card to ask for donations from their family/friends. ORA Day was cancelled last year but should be back this year.

b. Its the most expensive secondary school in Singapore, not taking into account the international schools.

c. Euler program is catered for lower sec students who are more able in Maths. Galileo program is catered for lower sec students who are more able in science. In upper sec, there is the Raffles Academy aka RA program for students who excel in certain subjects like Math, Lit, Geog, Hist.

d. No chance at all. Until he gets to Sec 3 where he will change class again and is streamed again. So basically, your son will have 2 classes in his Year1-4 life in RI. (Sec1-2 and Sec3-4)

transformer2020:

any parents can share some RI life in response to my concerns:


1. I heard RI focus on GEP students only, and focus on the talent class, in terms of educational resources, and teachers? is this true?

2. For attending National or International competition, are they just focused on GEP students, or they select candidates based on preliminary open contest within the school?

3. If RI focuses more on comprehensive ability, such as presentation, CCA, managing events, how they are compete with NUS High school in respective Int'l competition on Math/Chemitry/Physics/Biology.

transformer2020:

4. when RI will open DSA application,

5. what qualification the kid is needed to get RI DSA at quite high possibility?

6. in RI, students from original GEP stream and MainStream can get along well? or they often form their own fraction?

my kids is now P6, and want to learn more about this. thanks for any feedback.

1. No, that is entirely false. There is a mix of GEP and 'high achievers' in the so called 'GEP' classes. A teacher who teaches the 'GEP' class can and will also teach a 'normal' class.

2. No, whether you are GEP or you get 300 for PSLE doesn't matter at all in RI. You start afresh and everyone is given an equal chance to excel and represent the school in competitions.

3. RI wins countless of olympiads yearly so you do not have to worry about not being able to compete with NUS High. The labs in school are on par with those in NUS High.

4. Usually around July. Check the school website for details.

5. Sports/music talent or impressive academic results, otherwise, i suggest you let your kid get in RI base on his own merit aka his PSLE score.

6. They get along very well. Batch bonding activities are organised at least once a term and pupils from mainstream and GEP get to mingle with each other in their CCAs and during recess time.

You don't have to worry so much about the GEP issue, as no student is given extra benefits in RI. Everyone is equal.

Yes, there will be transport back to the school. They will arrive back at arounf 6.30pm. Alternatively, you can pick up your son/daughter at StAndrews at 6.15pm.