Hi all.


Not sure whether this is the right section to be putting this. However, this seems like the most appropriate.

Next year, I might be going to Hong Kong to take up a new post at work, so I was thinking of moving the entire family to Hong Kong.

Wondering if anyone here is familiar with the Hong Hong secondary school system? I understand that the students are banded into Band 1, 2, and 3, and they can only go to a school within their own respective bands, or the bands lower, but not a school with a better band rating. Ie, a student posted to Band 1 can choose to go to a Band 2 or 3 school, but a student in Band 2 cannot go to a Band 1 school.

Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to the Express, NA, NT system in Singapore? My daughters are in the Express stream, does it mean that they can try for the Band 1 schools?

Also, one of them is completing Sec 1 this year, (going Sec 2 next year), while the other is going to Sec 3 next year. The school year in Hong Kong starts in September, so this means that they will have to wait until September 2014 to be admitted. However since by then they would have done Sec 2 and Sec 3 respectively for 9 months in Singapore, will they be allowed to begin school in Sec 3 and Sec 4 respectively? Or will they have to repeat Secondary 2 and 3 because they haven’t done their End of Year examinations in Singapore?

Lastly, can anyone recommend any schools in Hong Kong? I prefer government, not private because the fees are to high.

I hope that some of the forummers here can help.

TKGS, NYGH… Both under Lim Ai Hooi. very excellent choirs. I’m not sure if it is still miss lim now.


RGS Choir is also very good, and so is Cedar, and yes of course Crescent…

I thought Crescent used to be with Jennifer Tham? When did it become Toh Ban Sheng?

SNGS Choir is also very good.

Sorry this is late.


The ABRSM Diploma is more general. Its just a gauge of your playing standard, generally. On the other hand the MEP Programme at A level will cover more ground, more theoretical stuffs, the elements of which will better prepare you for a music BMus programme.

If you are looking to pursue your BMus, definitely do the A LEvel MEP. Of course, the DipABRSM is a bonus. And I heard that one particular college in the united kingdom will allow you to skip yr 1 of its 4 year BMus(Hons) programme if you have the DipABRSM.

I cannot remember which one, but PM me if you want to know, and i’ll find out for you.

Hope this helps, roughly?

MummySTay:

thehungergames:

Sorry if i touched on a sensitive topic..


If anyone interpreted it as me wanting to bring an old topic up, that was not my intention at all.

Rather, I was merely just trying to get an idea of the retention rates at Raffles..

Why the curiosity then?
Do you have a DD in RGS or a younger child intending to study in RGS?

its the latter.

But why the hostility? Even if i didn't, i didn't think it would be wrong to just ask.

in any case, i wasn't trying to bring that particular issue up..

Sorry if i touched on a sensitive topic…


If anyone interpreted it as me wanting to bring an old topic up, that was not my intention at all.

Rather, I was merely just trying to get an idea of the retention rates at Raffles…

Having their students skip their O levels and enter straight into RJC, i assume that the school’s internal assessments are pretty stringent.


Can anyone tell me the retention rates every year? Or does the school try its best to promote everyone? I heard something about them stubbornly refusing to promote an academically capable student, but who missed a lot of school last year, deciding to retain her instead?

I spoke to her form teacher and she’s not in any difficulty in all. In fact, despite her discipline issues, she’s consistently in the top-3 in her class.


Her reason for skipping school is because she sees absolutely no point in going to school when she’s always ahead of the class and she loathes having to see her teacher going at a slow pace for the academically weaker students.

She had a PSLE T-score of 248, which wouldn’t be out of place in crescent or Cedar, but she want that additional pressure, and insisted on going into an neighbourhood school with a CoP of less than 205, which i should not have allowed.

She knows her mistakes very well, and there was absolutely no need for me to go through that with her. I’m not very sure how to put my problem across, but I hope some parents will get my meaning…

Hello. I have been a frequent reader of the threads in this forum but i have not been giving any feedback, but rather just reading the posts.


However, just yesterday something came up and I’m at wits end about how to deal with it, so i was hoping other parents could advise me on how to deal with the matter.

Basically, yesterday evening i received a backdated letter from my 14 year old daughter’s school in the mailbox, telling me that before the one week school holidays, my daughter was caught in MacDonalds with two of her classmates in the morning instead of being in school for the second time this year, and because of that, she was required to do school service in school from 9am-12pm everyday because of truancy.

My daughter had initially told me that she had remedial and extra lessons everyday during that time frame, which was why she had to go to school everyday.

So naturally, i questioned her about the letter and she admitted to me that she was truant from school at the end of last month.

The first time she did that in March, I had warned her that I will be grounding her for two months if she did it again, so she dared not tell me that she had committed the same offence again.

Another shocking fact which transpired when i questioned her yesterday was that after she was caught by a member of the General Office and led back to school, she had, earlier in the year, "updated" my handphone number to her best friend’s sister’s handphone number, so that any calls from school will be answered by her best friend’s sister, rather than me.

Thus, when her school called me to tell me about her truancy, they were actually speaking to her friend’s sister that night, and this was not the first time they had made a phone call to complain about her to me.

The previous times I had never received any letter from school because she had intercepted the letters in the post and forged my signature on them as they contained the school’s letterhead. This time, however, her form teacher told me that the general office had run of envelopes with the school’s letterhead, and had used an ordinary white envelope. If they hadn’t done so, my daughter would have kept on deceiving me, and I will have never found out about this.

Naturally, I have grounded her, as I had promised her, but instead of just taking away the usual priviledges, I also confiscated her iphone and made her go to the office to sign a sheet of paper each time she reached and left school.

However, I think that this is not enough, and I warned her that there was more to come when I have more time. I stopped caning her when she started primary 3, but I was wondering whether this will be an appropriate time to re-introduce it just to remind her that she is still under my control and has rules and obligations to obey.

Do other parents on the forum have any advice on how they might possibly deal with such a matter?