All About SAP Schools

[karmeleon]

Vanilla Cake:

Pls take note of the academic performance of top PSLE students in SAP schools (highlighted in blue colour) based on PSLE 2008 results.

Wee Yen Jean / F 黄彦静 Nanyang Primary School 287
Wong Hong Zhe Gabriel / M 黄宏哲 Catholic High School 285
Yang Yixuan / F 杨艺璇 Nanyang Primary School 284
Tee Yan Chyuan / M 郑晏铨 St. Hilda's Primary School 284
Foo Jie Min, Jamie / F 符杰敏 Yew Tee Primary School 284
Dee Pei Fang / F 吕培芳 Nanyang Primary School 284
Tan Ming He / M 陈明鹤 Anglo-Chinese School (Junior) 284
Ho Jin Yang / M 何槿阳 Nan Hua Primary School 283
Douglas Tan Chang Yang / M 陈长阳 Tao Nan School 283
Heng Yi Xin / F 王翊馨 Maha Bodhi School 283
Ching Hui Qi / F 庄惠棋 Poi Ching School 282
Nicole Tan Su Yee / F 陈思翊 Rosyth School 282
Huang Yu Wei, Chery / F 黄昱玮 Nanyang Primary School 282
Qu Xinyi / F 曲心怡 Elias Park Primary School 282
Oen Qi Xuan, Kellynn / F 温奇璇 Ai Tong School 282

Well, quite a few of these are also GEP students

[Fairy]

karmeleon:

Vanilla Cake:

Pls take note of the academic performance of top PSLE students in SAP schools (highlighted in blue colour) based on PSLE 2008 results.

Wee Yen Jean / F 黄彦静 Nanyang Primary School 287
Wong Hong Zhe Gabriel / M 黄宏哲 Catholic High School 285
Yang Yixuan / F 杨艺璇 Nanyang Primary School 284
Tee Yan Chyuan / M 郑晏铨 St. Hilda's Primary School 284
Foo Jie Min, Jamie / F 符杰敏 Yew Tee Primary School 284
Dee Pei Fang / F 吕培芳 Nanyang Primary School 284
Tan Ming He / M 陈明鹤 Anglo-Chinese School (Junior) 284
Ho Jin Yang / M 何槿阳 Nan Hua Primary School 283
Douglas Tan Chang Yang / M 陈长阳 Tao Nan School 283
Heng Yi Xin / F 王翊馨 Maha Bodhi School 283
Ching Hui Qi / F 庄惠棋 Poi Ching School 282
Nicole Tan Su Yee / F 陈思翊 Rosyth School 282
Huang Yu Wei, Chery / F 黄昱玮 Nanyang Primary School 282
Qu Xinyi / F 曲心怡 Elias Park Primary School 282
Oen Qi Xuan, Kellynn / F 温奇璇 Ai Tong School 282

Well, quite a few of these are also GEP students

Tee Yan Chyuan, the RI boy who had just passed away on Sunday was also a GEP student.

[MMM]

I think the focus of SAP is really the focus on both languages. Eg. in my kids’ school, the principal will also speak in mixture of english and mandarin during talks.

[sgKiasu]

Being a non chinese i would like some feed back on SAP school.


1) Since mandarin is compulsory, does my child needs to take her MT as a 3rd language?
2) Any feedback of sending a non chinese to SAP school? Will they face any descrimination from teachers?

Pls share your experience.

[MMM]

You might need to check but my impression is that SAP schools only offer chinese. They do not offer malay or tamil language.


In my kids school, I heard that they do study malay at some stage. But I think it’s more a conversational thingy rather than exam focus.

Also, we do see Indians or eurasians in my kids’ school. I think so long as the child is able to speak chinese and cope, the teacher will treat them fairly. It should be based on one’s ability rather than race. Singapore is after all a multiracial society.

[phankao]

sgKiasu:

Being a non chinese i would like some feed back on SAP school.


1) Since mandarin is compulsory, does my child needs to take her MT as a 3rd language?
2) Any feedback of sending a non chinese to SAP school? Will they face any descrimination from teachers?

Pls share your experience.

You can be exempted fr Chinese, but have to apply for it, and then study for your own MT for Psle on your own - either yr own tutor or external classes.

[mummypumpkin]

[Moderator's note: Topics merged.]


Could someone refresh memory for me. SAP schools come with higher Chinese language subjects? Most GEP prog. come from SAP schools?

[ChiefKiasu]

mummypumpkin:

...Could someone refresh memory for me. SAP schools come with higher Chinese language subjects? Most GEP prog. come from SAP schools?

The only real difference is that SAP schools start all children with Higher Chinese (HMT) from P1, while other schools offer HMT only to suitable children at later levels.

GEP is offered by both SAP and non-SAP schools.

[mummyoftwo]

karmeleon:

wiimum:

As a parent with a P6 last year going to Sec one this year, I realised that if we had been in an affiliated school, perhaps I would not have been so stressed because with affiliation, you get better chance to get into the sec school. So I guess the parent in question must have gotten \"wiser\" because of some \"sound\" advice from P6 parents?

Our kids are in SAP schools that are affiliated. But ds1 wants to work on getting to another sec school. So still need to work v hard this year!!!! All his extra school classes hv started this week already, and 1st prelims start in May(?!)

I did hear from parents of P6 students that students in an affiliated school needs lesser marks to get into the secondary school compare to students outside. last year, students in MGS needs only 220 to get into MGS Secondary but outside students needs 250 to get in....It really depends on where you kids like to go. I know it's tough as my son is in an affiliated but my daughter is not.....

[mommyNg]

I agree, mommyoftwo, that whether going to an affiliated or SAP school should ideally depend on where your kids like to go. However my 'frustration' is I don't know if my kid would like to go to the affiliated school when she is P6 or not.... Like what karmeleon said, the son is in an affiliated SAP school but now wants to go to another sec school, so still no easier entry then. I wish I know which sec school my dd1 would like to go to next time so that I can help her plan for it now, but I don't. I suppose as a parent, we all hope to provide the best for our children and our decision for which primary school to enroll them in would be based on many different factors and also the current circumstances. We just have to make our 'best bet'! ':D'


For us, we had a choice of enrolling our dd1 to an affiliated pri school (pretty low cut-off point to the sec school) or a SAP school. In the end, we decided we would like to provide her with an effective bilingual environment with the values that we identify with. I hope I wouldn't regret next time.... ''