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Congratulations to the recipients. Good Job and well done ! Affirming academic excellence and character development at West Spring Primary. Our 2015 Edusave and Character (ECHA) Awards recipients with Mrs Lim and Ms Sabariah. :rahrah: :congrats:

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Congratulations to the recipients. Good Job and well done ! Affirming academic excellence and character development at West Spring Primary. 2015 Edusave and Character(ECHA) Awards recipients with Mrs Lim and Ms Sabariah. :rahrah:

geamys:

I am looking into WPS and hope that i can get my son in under Phase 2C this year...


Looking forward and cross my fingers...

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cecelia446:

Hi,

I have to resort into getting my support from parents here because currently I am very emotional and disappointed and I have nobody to seek help to address my concerns.

Mc online is still not available for parents. Handbook not received. My girl enter P1 this year.
We attended the orientation on 4th Jan, in fact I took a whole week leave.
The first day was disappointing. My girl was separated from us on arrival having to figure out herself where is her class queue at the parade square. Parents were to assemble at the back. I thought there was buddy system later on so I was still positive overall.
We parents were asked to go to the hall later on to listen for around 2 to 3 hours of presentation slides. We were not given a tour. Till present I do not know where is her canteen where is her class.
After school the fetching was scary. The main gate was choke up with parents like me. Literally I had to pull her out from the crowd.
My girl was still alright but started to complain stomach ache till whole face pale .
2nd day we parents were told during orientation. Kids were to go classroom put their bags and go to hall. I thought my girl was already orientated properly by the school. Who knows she had to figure out to the hall from the main gate. She lost her way and sense of direction. And panicky she walk back to security only to realise I was gone.
She came home and started crying. Was obviously very traumatised and concern how she is to go to the hall. That whole evening she repeatedly whine to me she is scared because she don't know how to go to the hall.
Again her stomach ache started.
3rd day I thought of helping her ask security to bring her hall. Who knows assembly was to be at parade square.
The same crying process and stomach ache when she's back from school.
4th day go classroom.
Today Friday go canteen.

Where and when is the hall?? Its already my last day of leave. And her concerns were still not addressed. I am currently tearing as I wrote this. My girl is as disorientated as me at this current point of time. Everyday she is crying and pale from stomach ache.

Talking to her teacher? Looking at the guard house after school, the gate is still crowded with parents, the noise level, the heat of burning afternoon sun, the chaotic.. talking to teacher is pointless at present.

Here was what I gathered from friends who had kids attending other schools. Their kids were given an orientation, with guided tour around school during school holiday. Parents get to play activity with kids in classrooms. Fetching process is systematic.
But why it is not happening here?

I have confidence and no doubt in the school curriculum. But what's the point when the most basic foundation of going to school process was not there. For the very 1st week of school, definitely there will be alot of anxiety. But all the channels of communication with the school were not even ready.

I wrote a feedback to school yesterday and is awaiting for their reply.
But today is already Friday. Next week I'm back to work. My maid does not speak good English. Till now I am still worried on how to assure my girl or answer her how to go to where she is suppose to go every morning.

Can any parent help me?

Hi Cecelia446,
I am sorry to hear that your girl and yourself have encountered such an unhappy experience for the first week but as a parent I can assure you that things will only get better as it proceeds. My girl is the first batch of students(pioneer) of this school and I am confidence to tell you that I have seen enough of this school things will certainly improve over times just be patience with the school as there is a saying \"Rome is not built in a day\". I was reading through some of your concerns the mc online was offline during that period and the student hand book is yet to be given actually sometimes it will be good to call the school direct to voice out your concern to the school. The school no. is 63144192 but bear in mind they only operate during office hours Mon-Fri,8am to 5pm. The other concern you have mentioned is about the orientation. The school intention to have the orientation during the first day of school bcos they knew majority of parents will be taking leave for the first day of school so actually they wanted the parents to maximize their leave as not to take another day of leave for the orientation and briefing rest assure that briefing is done only once every 2 years. Talking about dismissal time yes it is not an easy issue to tackle the school need to think about the safety of the students and the traffic around the school actually I will also like to take this chance to urge some parents not to crowd around the one and only gate because this will slow down the dismissal process parents should only proceed to the gate when their child respective class is at the gate the idea is the same as taking MRT ride if incoming commuters are to crowd at the door the going out process will be slow down maybe the school can consider having a portable speaker to announce the dismissal of respective class and once they announce respective parents can move forward to pick up their child. I believe this will expedite the process. West Spring primary is built on a limited plot of land hence they have only one gate for dismissal the other gate of the school actually link to KJE and basically can't use for dismissal for the school to open up additional new gate is not a straight forward decision as they also need approval from respective authority such as LTA . At the mean time I believe the school is trying their very best to have a smooth dismissal but parents need to play their part too. Safety and security of the students are paramount to the school. As we are entering second week of school I believe you will see substantial improvement and your child will enjoy going to school. You may pm me if you need help. Have a nice week ahead.

LFC4ever:

YH mummy:

hi


Thanks for your replied, my daughter is citizen and based on my blk to West Spring primary school is about 1- 1.1KM, still under Phase 2C?

1 more last question, do the school have student care?

Thanks

Rgds/YH Mummy

Hi YH mummy,
I am a current parent of this school. For distance wise you may use one map http://www.onemap.sg/index.html to help you determine the distance between your house and the school. MOE use this to determine the distance as well. As for registration processes and phases you may get all the information from this website http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/admissi ... on/phases/. Hope this will help you. By the way, the school do have a student care in the school and is managed by Pro-Teach http://pro-teach.com/home.php. Hoping to see you in WPS we are one big family. :rahrah:

Hi YH Mummy,
Nice to know that you are keen on WPS in fact I am one of the pioneer batch of parents to have enroll my child in this school back in 2013 and personally I think is a good decision as my child enjoy going to school and if a child enjoy school the result can be massive. I can't comment on Greenridge PS as my child don't study there. WPS uses lego set as one of their teaching medium and the school organize quite a bit of events for the students to take part at the same time they do invite parents to join in the activitites so it is very good in engaging parents. They are the only school in Singapore which have a sand pit for students to build sand castle it is also use as a teaching medium. The school makes learning interesting in other words it is learn through play parents might be concern at the end of the session children will not learn anything but I can tell you this is not the case come next year my girl will be going to P3 and overall I think she has done well. WPS might not have PSLE results to show for but recently some of their students did very well in the Singapore and Asian Mathematics Olympiad competition bagging 1 gold 10 silver and 4 bronze. Certain students who are weak in certain subjects are to stay back after school for remedial lessons once they show improvement remedial lessons is not required. The school also stress importance in discipline generally the students are quite well behaved. Every now and then the school encourage and rewards students for their good behavior. The principle also engaged the parents just this year we have two chit chat sessions(organize by the principle) with her to voice out our concern over certain issues and quarterly letters are issued to parents to keep us informed of issues happening in the school. The teachers are dedicated and caring. The school also take in parents feedback seriously. I think you can see for yourself your posting in this forum the school actually reply you pretty fast. Once in a while some parents might also advise you over here. As for outdoor activities, every year during the children day the school will organize a outdoor trip for the students to learn something. The first year my child went to East Coast for sand castle building and this year the P2 visited Garden by the Bay and the P1 visited Dairy farm nature park. I suggest you visit the school website http://www.westspringpri.moe.edu.sg/ to find out more about the school. For the past 2 years WPS had the most students register under phase 2C among all the schools in Bukit Panjang. There is a interesting video about the school at the website which will help you understand the school even better. Last but not least hope to see your child in 2017.

YH mummy:

hi


Thanks for your replied, my daughter is citizen and based on my blk to West Spring primary school is about 1- 1.1KM, still under Phase 2C?

1 more last question, do the school have student care?

Thanks

Rgds/YH Mummy

Hi YH mummy,
I am a current parent of this school. For distance wise you may use one map http://www.onemap.sg/index.html to help you determine the distance between your house and the school. MOE use this to determine the distance as well. As for registration processes and phases you may get all the information from this website http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/admissi ... on/phases/. Hope this will help you. By the way, the school do have a student care in the school and is managed by Pro-Teach http://pro-teach.com/home.php. Hoping to see you in WPS we are one big family. :rahrah:

Dear potential parents,

I know a lot of you are concern about WPS play base curriculums fearing your child will not be ready for PSLE when the times comes. Although WPS has no PSLE record to show for but here is a piece of information I wanted to share with all of you:

WPS are happy to share that our Primary 2 students have done well in the Singapore and Asian Mathematics Olympiad. As a new school, this is our first ever international competition. 2173 students from countries such as China, Hong Kong, Bulgaria and Indonesia took part in the Olympiad.One of the student was awarded Gold and ranked 11th out of 2173 participants. We also bagged 10 Silver and 4 Bronze awards. As a team, they came in second and won the Silver team award.

Hopefully this piece of news will be able to answer some of the concern regarding academic results.

Dear potential parents,

I know a lot of you are concern about WPS play base curriculums fearing your child will not be ready for PSLE when the times comes. Although WPS has no PSLE record to show for but here is a piece of information I wanted to share with all of you:

WPS are happy to share that our Primary 2 students have done well in the Singapore and Asian Mathematics Olympiad. As a new school, this is our first ever international competition. 2173 students from countries such as China, Hong Kong, Bulgaria and Indonesia took part in the Olympiad.One of the student was awarded Gold and ranked 11th out of 2173 participants. We also bagged 10 Silver and 4 Bronze awards. As a team, they came in second and won the Silver team award.

Hopefully this piece of news will be able to answer some of the concern regarding academic results.

5msss:

Thank you for your extensive feedback regarding ur experience with west spring. I was torn between greenridge and west spring right up till i read your feedback. west spring sounds like the choice for my girl. Will be going down today to apply for her.


But what are the chances that my older girl, currently in p1 but at a different sch not of our choice, can join west spring at p2? Anyone know?

Hi 5msss,
As for your older girl I think there is still a chance for her to join WPS but you may want to find out from the school if there is any vancancy. If not the school may put her in waiting list.

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