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BigDevil:

Was dropping off DD at gate C this morning.


When the first car stopped in front of gate C, I (3rd car) also let my DD off but no action , no sound from 2nd car.

After the first car drove off, the second car slowly rolled forward 3m(!) to let his kid off! :slapshead:

What a stupid, selfish @ss!! :mad: :stupid:

totally agree. same thing happens at gate A too. in fact, i think up to 6 or 7 cars (along the school side at King's Road) could let the children get off safely at the same time. why can't the children walk a few more steps?? then the traffic will be super smooth. maybe the school should get a few students/parent volunteers etc. to open the doors for those parents during the peak 20 - 30 minutes. anyone knows the person in charge that we could talk to? for my children, they prefer getting off at Queen's Rd.

I hate those who park their cars at King's Rd and go into school to fetech their children after school or at 4 pm. one or two selfish drivers like them (usually are the same few drivers) could jam up the whole road. :mad: maybe we should start taking photo and post them here? :evil:

yes - take photo with number plate and post them here. public shaming!

Stuff I found online

Shanghai Immersion Programme
http://shanghai08-nyps.blogspot.com/
http://shanghai09-nyps.blogspot.com/
http://nypsshanghai2011.blogspot.com/

thankgod:

Following up on the Shanghai immersion programme.


I think the P4 students got their forms today and need to submit them in by 13 Jan 2012. 40 will be selected to go after an interview. This will include a home-stay as well.

My current thoughts ...

(a) P4 seems a little too young for them to venture out especially on a home-stay. Not sure if the home-stay will be a 1 NYPS student to 1 family. If so, my DS will freak out for sure.

(b) March temperature in Shanghai will be between 5-13 degrees? Too cold?

(c) Its a technology immersion programme - just what is covered, I am not too sure

Can any of the experienced mummies and daddies please advise and provide your own or your DS DD experiences?

Many thanks!

Anyone from last year's batch ... care to comment?

Following up on the Shanghai immersion programme.


I think the P4 students got their forms today and need to submit them in by 13 Jan 2012. 40 will be selected to go after an interview. This will include a home-stay as well.

My current thoughts …

(a) P4 seems a little too young for them to venture out especially on a home-stay. Not sure if the home-stay will be a 1 NYPS student to 1 family. If so, my DS will freak out for sure.

(b) March temperature in Shanghai will be between 5-13 degrees? Too cold?

Its a technology immersion programme - just what is covered, I am not too sure

Can any of the experienced mummies and daddies please advise and provide your own or your DS DD experiences?

Many thanks!

Mvm:

An appeal to parents driving to school in the morning:


If driving into the school driveway, PLEASE do not wait to get onto the left side of the driveway, esp if you are driving in from Kings road from Bt timah road. Your child can be dropped off on the right driveway as well. There are Pvs and teachers ensuring the children's safety when crossing the road at the pedestrian crossing within the school.

Part of the reason for the jam on Kings road in the mornings is that parents are all waiting to get onto the left driveway, and the wait and tailback can be as long as 15 minutes, all the way to Crown Centre. Please help to alleviate the jam into school by driving onto the right driveway.

This morning, despite the long row of cars going in, I noticed that there were very, very few cars on the right driveway, whereas on the left driveway it was bumper to bumper. Please do your part and everyone's drive into school will be much smoother.

Thank you.

I'll SECOND that call!

lizhi:

E3:

Lizhi, my dd and I are both shocked to hear what happened to your gal...

Thank you for your concern. Yes, I agee that the school bus drivers should check that the right pupils boarded the bus.

comfy:

My p5 dd also got caught in the same situation ...

This school really tests our independence?

Stinkybomb:

Glad your gal made it home safely! ...

Haha your ds is so cut, he even forgot his snack. really he like playing games that much?

Anyway, my dd is very excited about the following activities on the next few days. Though she boarded the wrong bus and lost her way to her classroom, she’s still happy and excited about the Amazing Race on Wednesday, the small class party on Thursday and the Forest Adventure on Friday. Quite a lot of activities, and not one week has passed!

I'll second that. First day of school and DS says he's enjoying it. Came back home to learn about the Amazing Race, the Forest Adventure and the \"small class party?\". Geez, if I'm still in school, I will be enjoying it too!

BigDevil:

CHC123:

[quote=\"BigDevil\"]Only one week before school reopens, yet still no call from FT.

Have any P2 kids receive call about which P3 class they will be going to?

No call from school yet. The teacher said they only call after Christmas.

Got email from the FT today.[/quote]Same here. P4 class.

verykiasu2010:

hmsg:

[quote=\"CHC123\"]Does anyone knows where can boys go to after PSLE. Any affiliation for boys. Thanks.

No affliliation for boys. If > 250 can consider HCI (I think closer to 257). ACSI is also another choice for the 240+

that is the issue.

girls have affiliation with cop at 250 because anyway they were previously one and the same school

but boys have no affiliation to HCI at all why the girls have via NYGH from year 5 onward

kind of imbalance, right?[/quote]agree on the imbalance but what can we do?
unless NYGH changes to accept boys as well and be known as NYH?

Thanks HMSG for the posts and clarifications.

Atan:

thankgod:

[quote=\"Atan\"]Any parents of current META prog P4 kids.


Would appreciate very much if you can share the experience of your kids in such classes. Do you see any difference in comparison with mainstream HA classes?

Thanks in advance.

2nd that call.

Got to decide META by Monday!

At present, I don't see the benefit. All non-core subjects and hoping that the \"magical dust\" will rub off from GEP students to these META students? That's dreaming right?

Or am I wrong to think of META like that?

Please advise ...

Hi, the man subject that next yr's META will do with GEP classes is GEP HCL and it is much more demanding n difficult than the mainstream HCL (one parent told me it is 40% compre, 20% vocab & 40% compo). At the end of the day, META kids will do the HCL and CL for PSLE, so I wonder what is the benefit of stressing kid out with GEP HCL while not being able to do SS and other core subjects.[/quote]Faint. Only HCL ...