Thanks alot, I’ll try looking for them.

Just in case some parents need to know… it takes only about 15min to reach school from Bt Merah using lornie rd, but school bus will take about 45min (formerly 1 hr) to bring him home.


Something to ask other parents. Have any of you found any suitable maths assessments that match the school’s Accelerated Thinking Maths? Popular bookshop’s assessments are not as advanced. The boys are taught something close to equations now, but using symbols.

that explains… wow, didn’t expect them to start this early… CHS really takes these things seriously… time for us to figure out what my son is good/interested in so he can participate in some of these… more active that way

Saw the swimming heats announcement for P1 and P2 at the CHS website… not sure how some students are involved but not others… the other thing is… can P1 really swim competitively?!.. my son can hardly swim yet…

wat a day! charming sight to see so many baby faced P1s in their serious-looking uniforms… and the P5 buddies did such a wonderful job… everyone was so well behaved… some funny moments such as seeing a maid go after a P1 tucking in his shirt for him while he walked on oblivious… and the dad with this super long zoom lens professional camera… and a big P1 kid buddied with a small P5 boy…

Thanks for the insightful advice catmum… they make sense… I too think parent paparazzis in school is a bit much… good idea to check out the nearby coffeeshops too

ah… just realised lots of details for first week of school are in the orientation booklet… the school has thought of everything!

Btw, me and wife intend to be at school first 2 days… after we tuck him into class at 7.10am … then what do the rest of you do?.. what time is their recess?

Lam:

Hi, I am a new user to this forum. My boy is going to P1 next year. We are facing some transportation issue as we are staying in tiong bahru. We have checked with the school bus n were told that the pick up time is 6 a.m. That's really too early. We are thinking of making taxi arrangement but no cabbie seems to be keen. I have read from this forum that there is someone staying at bukit merah area n will like to find out if you have resolved your transport issue.... Thank you

Hello, we stay in bukit merah. I'll be fetching my son to school and one-way school bus to my dad's place at tiong bahru after school.. can't be helped best we can do now. Prob leave around 6.30am.. over time may push it to 6.40am so we get another 10min of zzzzzz...