janet_lee88:

My wish for my kids - grow up happy, have moral values, healthy and pursue their dreams and working hard to achieve them.

Same here!

On my kids' aspirations, at one point, my little girl wanted to be an elephant when she grows up... now my 3 yr old wants to be a tiger!

vicki:

Hi jellybelly,

Do you have alternative plans then? For me, i definitely need the school bus to fetch my son home --- so now also abit worried in terms of timing!!

Hopefully there would be more 'town' parents so that there might be a chance of a small bus catered to this group of students!! :xedfingers:

Yeah, it would be good if we can get a small bus down to town. Any other town folks out there? Not sure though whether the bus will make a second trip to school and then back to town if say a kid has e.g. remedial class?

Worse comes to worst, I will have to pick him myself...

The other option I considered/am considering is putting him in the after school care opposite the school... I have been down to have a look at the place and have some info sheets but I don't know how to make it available on the forum... :oops: anyone can shed some light?

The teachers there will fetch the boys after their after school activities and bring them over to the center... and they have an arrangement with the school bus operator to pick up the kids from the center at 5.30 pm for the trip home...

vicki:

Hellos Namie, you stay in Tampiness? I stay in Tiong Bahru -- haha -- i think i am very far from the school also -- will need to think of transport now that balloting is over!!


There was someone who said that he/ she is thinking of sending ds to town BASC -- wonder who this person is?? Maybe my boy may end up in the same school bus since town is quite near Tiong Bahru!

Hi vicki, it was me. When I spoke to the bus operator, she said currently they haven't any kids headed to town so cannot tell how long the bus journey will take. When I asked how much later the last kid gets dropped off, she told me about 1hr to 1hr 10 min. If you add say another half an hour to get to town assuming the kids in/near town are dropped off last, would take I think 1 hr 30 min to 1 hr 40 min?

Hi, how does one earn kiasu points?

I found three phone numbers from an earlier post. Tried the first, no one picked up. Second’s not in use. Managed to get through to Mr Tan Say Beng at 9366 3882. If anyone else is also considering this option, can call to inquire. Will go down one afternoon to have a look.


We’re deciding between putting him in after school care near my workplace or with this centre so would be grateful for any comments/feedback from any parent with kid(s) with them…

Hi, can anyone provide feedback/info on the afterschool care service offered near the school? MTIA!

janet_lee88:

tankee:

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There's an all-girls school down the road.... :evil: He can stand at the bus stop and :drool:

:rotflmao:

Must have got used to having all the girls pampering him in kindy that he wants to see girls in primary school as well. :rotflmao:
My daughter talks about one boy all the time...then one day she came back telling me she's tired of him...he likes another girl and holding her hand.[/quote]janet_lee88, how old was your girl when she made that comment?

Honey:

jellybelly:

We live in Marine Parade, but work in/around town so our alternatives are either putting him in after school care near MS or our workplace... so if there's no school bus from MS to town, then it'll be a mad dash to pick him up after work... not looking forward to it...

You can consider the Circle Line MRT. The MRT is just next to the school.

To help with your planning, what you can do is to call the school & ask for the bus operator's tel no. & check out the transportation first. That was what I did beginning of last year. I even asked them to tell me an estimated time of morning arrival & afternoon arrival so that I can decide if we want to send our son there on our own in the mornings & him taking the school bus home in the afternoons.

Thanks! Just called up school and then bus operator... Operator told me it can be arranged if I don't mind my boy being the last to be dropped off... unfortunately, she can't estimate the arrival time as they have no boys that are dropped off in town at present... sigh, wondering if this makes any sense...

in reply to the earlier post, we did try looking for schools in and around Marine Parade and tried the shhk route... unfortunately, our application was rejected and given the stats this year and our luck in general, are not too keen on trying under phase 2c... we did try to find out about the other boy/coed schools in the area we qualify for but did not hear too favourable comments... MS was/would've been my first choice but for the distance and the fact that I also have a younger girl... i have this idea that keeping them together in the same school would help to keep them closer...

vicki:

jellybelly:

Thanks very much, toffeev. That was very helpful and assuring.


Hope there's a school bus that goes to town else it'll be another mad dash to the childcare near the school in the evenings...

U stay near town?

We live in Marine Parade, but work in/around town so our alternatives are either putting him in after school care near MS or our workplace... so if there's no school bus from MS to town, then it'll be a mad dash to pick him up after work... not looking forward to it...

me three…


but teddythe, i must say you are more deserving than I am and wow are still so optimistic… I really hope you get your kid in…

i think balloting for phase 2c this year will be insane… i’m seriously reconsidering…

would you mind sharing your backup plan? i was thinking ngee ann until i read about bullying incidents… to be fair, heard about bullying in other schools as well… is this common in schools these days? my boy is rather small sized… i’m a little concerned he’ll be bullied…