T101:

Nesame, in DD's case - it does not matter as she is now in IP school with subsequent Year 5/6's school fixed already. If DD continues in Express stream - then it will certainly matter. However, she loses her previous CCA seniority and need to start all over. In her case, her current CCA is not available in the new school. She needs to try out new CCA ...

Hello, may i ask what school did ur DD transfer to?

Parmesean:

Hi,


I am new to the forums and I'm hoping that people will bear with me. My daughter is also new to SCGS, having just transferred after the march holidays.

I was just wondering, does anyone know where to get the SCGS hoodie? The green one with the SCGS wordings in yellow?

Hi,
May I ask how did your daughter transfer to SCGS? Did she do any tests?

newage_pama:

Hi

Its that time of the year again. Finally is my turn.
I'm planning to have CGS as one of the top choice for my DD.
But I live in Woodlands.
Is it too far?

Thanks in advance ...

hi i live around woodlands too. May I ask how your DD goes to school if she went to CGS

christineanne:

Hi all, I am currently a secondary 1 student from CHIJ Toa Payoh and I have my stories to share. As a student in the top classes 1/1 - 1/3, I must say that we have good teachers. However, there is the first class teacher for Chinese who does not teach well and the other classes have surpassed the first class in the topics that they have learnt.

I must say that if you/your daughter is from the primary school and end up in 1/4 - 1/5, you will learn D&T and home economics that we do not learn. It is a disadvantage for us in the long run. For students in 1/3 - 1/5, as majority are from the primary school side, they actually have form teachers that teach English, Math, the main subjects etc. and therefore meet the students more and can contact the students more often. (The school treats those from the primary side well. Kind of.) I find myself unable to see my teacher for a few days when I need to contact her about something urgent.

If I were to talk about the school system, they make students \"know their place\". If they are in the bottom classes, academics are not focused on, rather, hands on classes.
Also, the school changes the timetable every term so students that have extra curricular activities outside the school have a hard time managing their time and sometimes have to leave school early, missing out on important things.
The school, also, has a \"Student Forum\" that addresses student issues. Though that might sound amazing, you might think that the school cares for their students, but in fact it is a facade. They tell us that \"changes take time\" which is a code language for \"we don't really care\".
The school does not allow phone use during recess, which might be good. It might be the school's only good point.

I do understand that mothers from the school want to send their students to their alma mater but you must consider that times have changed, including the school's system.
So please bear this in mind.

A plus point about this school is that there is a really good lower secondary Science teacher. She strives to teach us more and even prints out extra worksheets to go in depth about that topic. She's good.

You might wonder why I chose this school if I have complaints about it. No one I knew went to this school. So judging solely based om the CCA choices and the PSLE cut off point, I chose it.

And yeah, this school was my third choice. :sad: I have thought about transferring to my first choice school in secondary 2.



Thanks you for reading till here. :congrats:
I hope this helps.

hi may i ask what is your first choice

kailing1145:

hi parents, im a sec 1 student from tanglin with a score of 206 for psle. i would like to transfer to smss for sec 2. what is the transfer criteria ?

hi may i ask what smss said when you called them do they allow for transfers?

hi does anyone knows how to get to cedar girls by the shortest route from admiralty thankyou!!

kaitlynangelica:

Hi,


Am glad to have found this....

My gal is in sec1 this year. Suddenly, she has a keen interest in gym.

I am very sad because I feel that it will be hard for her to catch up....if she even can at all.

Feel sad because she only registered this interest very recently .......I wish I had sent her for lessons earlier.

All the other kids her age are way way more advance because they have been taking listens since they were toddlers.

The only exposure my daughter has had is during PE lessons in school.

hi im in lower sec this year im a Dancer since P1-p6 now i am interested in rgym can you share your daughter's experience and where did she attend her classes thank you !!

thank you for the replies !! thank you for helping me and im not a dsa student

hi I’m currently a year 1 student in an ip school. I don’t really like my school thus i don’t enjoy much. I want to transfer to sngs olevel i got 253+2 for psle may i know the chances if i can get in and do u think it’s possible for me to transfer now