On the ball:

Hi Sweet Cherry


Thank you for your very detailed answers. Will get more info from you if my DS is successful in his application...

The Suday Times article(5/12) on the school was timely. Before submitting the selection, I spoke to many more experienced parents and seek their views as I was contemplationg choosing XMS as first choice as well since his marks qualifies. Finally, decided on NCHS as I felt the school could achieve evenmore in the years to come and I want my DS to know more of the Chinese roots and culture.

Cheers!

NCHS definitely has very strong 'Chinese roots' and culture, esp. it is the only secondary school which is affiliated to Singapore Hokikien Huay Kuan. The association has been well-known to promote and preserve Chinese language and culture. In fact, a lot of parents whom I know actually chosen NCHS partly becos of this reason

All the best to yr son's secondary sch posting, hope he'll get into his choice of sch.

When I think back of the struggles which I had with my DS for the choice of schs after the released of the PSLE results, I felt so shameful of myself. It was lucky that I eventually gave in and let him made his own choice. If not, I would have regretted now. So far, we are glad that he has made the right choice and we are definitely very happy with NCHS

:celebrate: Cheers!

On the ball:

Hi Sweet Cherry


Great to know that your DS is in NCHS and in Sec 2 next year.
Would like to know the following:
1) are the teachers always pushing the students to the limits like giving lots of homework, projects...etc?
2) Discipline and character building
3) Chinese standard very high? so call a school with Chinese roots
3) shortest journey to school from hougang ave 1. Have service 87, ends at the interchange. Need to walk about 10 mins to reach school. What other alternative service available? Someone told me to change bus at hougang central and take 161 and another one told me to alight just before the interchange and cross over to take 372.

Hi On the ball,

I shall answer yr queries based on my personal knowledge & opinions :

(1). Based on their sch's standard and their journey to become a Band 1 sch, we can't deny the efforts that everyone, i.e. teachers & students, have put in to achieve this. It's definitely 'no pain, no gain' in order to have good results. esp. if the majority of the students who were admitted to Sec 1 were based on the PSLE T-score of 230+ range, which is ordinary results, but came out extraordinary 'O' Level results. They are able to achieve the average of 11 pts (Band 1) for their 'O' Level. Hence, it's no miracles for them to do this without much pushing and hardwork.

Pls bear in mind that homework in secondary will definitely be much more compared to primary, when we are comparing 4 vs 8 subjects. And also, there is no projects compared to primary level. So far, my DS is able to manage without complaints.

(2). The school has in the past years achieved the Character Development Award and they have a HOD for Character Development & Welfare, hence, character development is one area which the sch did not miss out.

Yes, the sch has very strict discipline in terms of students' behaviour and appearance, i.e. uniform & hair.

(3). Standard of Chinese depends on the capability of the child. Students may choose either to take Normal Chinese or Higher Chinese based on their preference, there is no 'forcing'. Personally, I am very grateful to the school to let my son try out Higher Chinese when he was being admitted to the sch this yr though he did not study Higher Chinese when he was in pri sch.

(4). Sorry, I do not know exactly where is Hougang Ave 1, though I'm staying in Hougang Ave 8 which my son takes Bus No. 161 & alights in front of Blk 301D, Sengkang East Road, then walk abt 200m to sch. You may checkout the translink website to find out http://www.transitlink.com.sg/ptjp2.html

I hope the above helps. Do feel free to let me know if you wants to know more, will be glad of any help

Cheers

On the ball:

Any parents of NCHS would like to share about their childrens' school life? I selected this school as 1st choice for my DS with a PSLE score of 241 mainly because of the school's ever improving grades and designated as SAP from Jan 2012. I believe that my DS can benefit from the school's strong Chinese culture and good character building programme that is in place.

Hi On the ball,

My son is in NCHS. Will be in Sec 2 next yr. Not too sure in which area you would like to find out more, hopefully I can help to answer some of yr queries if you can specifically tell me know

Sweet Cherry:

Dear all,


Newbies reporting here I'm a SAHM with 2 boys. 1 in Sec. 1 & another in P5 this yr.

Hope to be able to contribute & share with all the parents in this forum. Really like the way this forum is able to share with one another anything & everything under the sun :love:

:celebrate:

Ooops, forgot to inform that I'm staying in Hougang

Dear all,


Newbies reporting here I'm a SAHM with 2 boys. 1 in Sec. 1 & another in P5 this yr.

Hope to be able to contribute & share with all the parents in this forum. Really like the way this forum ia able to share with one another anything & everything under the sun :love:

:celebrate: