You must get your girl to log into student portal and sign up..then an email will be sent to u asking for your consent. Email received as follows:


Dear Parent / Guardian,

Your daughter /  ward has entered her particulars on iNet to take the bus transport to MOELC @ Bishan/Newton in 2018. Your daughter would probably have discussed this with you and showed you a letter from me on this subject dated 25 Oct 2017 before doing so.
If, for any reason, you DO NOT CONSENT please write an email to [email protected] to indicate that you wish to cancel her online request to take the bus transport. If we do not receive an email from you by Monday 15 January 2018, it will be taken as consent for your daughter to take the bus transport to MOELC @ Bishan/Newton, and a GIRO deduction of $50 will be made on 26 February 2018. This is for the non-refundable annual bus transport fees.
As this is a system generated email, please do not reply.

If you need to contact me please forward this email to [email protected] with your enquiry or comment.

 

Thank you.


Regards,
Mrs Tan Bee Lain
Subject Head
Languages Department
Raffles Girls' School (Secondary)

DID: (+65) 68387700 Fax: (+65) 62353731 http://www.rgs.edu.sg
FILIAE MELIORIS AEVI

Anyone interested with the whole series of Grolier international books?


I have a complete set to sell with the following titles :

24 books -I Wonder Why series
24 books -Children's Enclyopedia
29 books - Help me be good
8 books - Disney -A Story a Day
8 books on Flip the Flaps

They are all in very good conditions and used by only one child. Interested parties, please send an email to [email protected].

Lilo:

SACPS focuses more on values than academic. Being a catholic school, it also focus on building catholic girls' faith, and they have masses during Days of Obiligations and once a week Praying Parents Group. With this, I don't need to rush my girls to church during Days of Obligations as I know the school would have arranged for mass.

Don't worry much about your DD in P1. They will be well taken care of as there will be prefects on duty to bring & guide them on & off school bus and direct them to assembly points. The prefects are very helpful, kind & approachable especially towards the lower primary girls.
The P1s will be assigned a buddy to help them buy and carry food during the first week of school. The buddy will look for them - don't worry. Let your girls know that the prefects are there not take opportunity to \"catch\" their wrong doings but prefects are there to help. Approach the prefects whenever they need help - even for small matter like calling mummy The public/pay phone is a bit high for the P1 and you need coins to make phone calls. If you go to the General Office to call mummy, which is free, the lady there will have a string of questions to ask and end up sometimes reasons for calling not justified, DD can't talk to mummy.
There are many CCAs offered like archery, bowling, golf, taekwando, netball, ballet (always over-subscribe), violin, chinese dance, modern dance, caligraphy, cooking etc. Many of these are outsourced to external service provider but each CCA has a teacher responsible whom you can talk to during the year. CCAs are held during Monday to Friday. The school is good in perfoming arts.
P1 & P2 have no formal exams since 2 years ago. I think since government announced teach less learn more.
The CAs (P3, P4) and Mock Exams (P5) are not added or \"counted\" into the report book.
The school will start its new academic year in the new building in 2013.
Sign up as CCE (Cannossian Co-Educators) i.e. parents volunteer and you will be asked to be involved in the school activities like children's day, teacher's day, sports day, excursions...you will get to know more about the school and the parents. I have voluntered in many school excursions and I am proud to say that SACPS girls are very well behaved in the public and they are not \"noisy\".
Most school surely have some Kiasu parents lah...join the CCE and you may find some KS parents.
My girls are very happy there
Good luck!

Hi Lilo, thanks for sharing so many things about SACPS...It is indeed going to be helpful for us who have DDs going into P1 next year

You mean there is not even year end exam for P2? Then how do they conduct streaming when the girls go to P3? TIA!

Hifive:

Hi HappyAvon


Thanks for your sharing.
BTW, which centre is your DD in ? Did she have the same teacher thru' out her k1 and K2?

Hi, she is with their Marine Parade branch.. yup I requested for the same teacher and is Teacher David..He is good and can guide the child well...A friendly teacher who will answer your concerns and provide good advise.

Hifive:

HappyAvon:

Hi vfong1, my girl was in PPS since she joined in September last yr when she was in K1. Definitely, I can see a great improvement especially in her grammar and writing skills...Recently, she even constructed a compo of >150 words based on 9 helping words....I feel that it really helps her to understand about not only writing a sentence but a better sentence...


The children are exposed to oral reading,comprehension (MCQ and writing), cloze grammar, vocab cloze, word order, spelling and comprehension test. I would say it definitely helps the child to prepare for P1...However, Im not too sure about their success programme for the primary school students..

Hi HappyAvon

Is PPS their Preparation class for Primary school?
Usually how many terms must a child be in this PPS before promoting to the next level?

Hi HighFive, yes PFS is preparation for P1. After that they will be going to their success programme for the primary school student. like success 1 for pri 1 and success 2 for pri 2 and so on.

From what I understand, PFS is meant for K1 and K2 students. Like my girl who was taking their PFS since Sept last year, we continue this year since the materials are different. From what I understand previuosly, the school had 2 different set of PFS material and they are rotated every year so that those kids doing PFS in K1 will not get the same material in K2 when they continue with PFS.

I think they do not allow K2 to take sucess one programme. You can check with the school if there are any changes.

vfong1:

Can anyone share more on PPS for P1. Did your kid improve alot on their grammar and compo skills?

Hi vfong1, my girl was in PPS since she joined in September last yr when she was in K1. Definitely, I can see a great improvement especially in her grammar and writing skills...Recently, she even constructed a compo of >150 words based on 9 helping words....I feel that it really helps her to understand about not only writing a sentence but a better sentence...

The children are exposed to oral reading,comprehension (MCQ and writing), cloze grammar, vocab cloze, word order, spelling and comprehension test. I would say it definitely helps the child to prepare for P1...However, Im not too sure about their success programme for the primary school students..

Hi, so yr girl had graduated from SACPS? I hope the new P will be as good as the old one...


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eyes2:

hi HappyAvon n swpf...


good to have u guys here... so i wont b too lost abt the process or preparation needed to go into P1 next yr... i din even noe abt the booklist, uniform thingy n also abt the assessment thing loh! thanks huh! so during orientation day, we would have noe which class they gg to loh? rite?

my Dd also gg to SACPS in yr 2012. i registered her under phase 2C supp, n we r staying 1-2km frm the sch... luckily we managed to get a place during the balloting! really happy... at least its still my 2nd choice.. rather thn have to wait for MOE to post us to the sch...
really not much parents from SACPS in tis forum yah? does it mean that they are not so KS? so we dun have to be to KS too? keke...

anyway... really hope that we can keep each other update of any happening

for their orientation, or any preparation for the P1 next yr! really excited
abt my gal gg into pri 1! how abt u guys

cheers
moon

Hi eyes2, congratulations to u n yr DD :rahrah:

Hope our DDs will enjoy n do well in SACPS

Hi Augmum…thanks thanks…I will chk with her form teacher for a better understanding…


I did chk with ppl who had kids in the school n they did not mention abt bullies…majority commented that their girls are happy n like the school very much…someone mentioned abt bullies previously n so I thot they are everywhere…

eyes2:

really not much parents from SACPS in tis forum yah? does it mean that they are not so KS? so we dun have to be to KS too? keke...

Hi, I oso hv no idea what they will be assessed cos I din ask the lady who answered my call...I heard they will be shifting to the old site in 2012 end.

As to being kiasu,maybe some mummies/daddies are not so opened abt it...I think as long as we prepared our child well for P1, we shud not be too worry ...

BTW, we are all looking forward to the orientation n starting of P1 for our DD...