Methodist Girls' School (Secondary)
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Good morning!
Thank you autolycus for your sharing.
Also welcome other parents with daughters studying in mgs (past and present) or planning to enrol in mgs next year to share your anecdotes both good or not so good about the school eg. School programmes, IB experience, O level experience, dealing with teachers, coping with school life and things to look out for.
Cheers and have a good week ahead! -
Kid got PSLE score AL4.
Is it safe to put
MGS IP
NYGH IP
RGS IP
MGS IP only got 120 slots per cohort. Less DSA kids. Perhaps only 100 slots. I wonder if there are alot of AL4s kids registering for MGS IP this year too given the easy PSLE.
Also. NYGH got their affiliation intakes.
RGS seems safer bet with no affiliation. Should put it as 1st choice?
My only worry is MGS full take up. Then my second and third choices may not materialise as probably RGS AND NYGH slots are filled up by other kids in the round of first choice.
Can share some advice? Thanks -
Flabber\" post_id=\"2123735\" time=\"1701048435\" user_id=\"203404:
We chose the school when taking into account of our child's inclination and we want a more holistic education for her, not only academic focus and definitely not through drilling/assessments.
Good morning!
Thank you autolycus for your sharing.
Also welcome other parents with daughters studying in mgs (past and present) or planning to enrol in mgs next year to share your anecdotes both good or not so good about the school eg. School programmes, IB experience, O level experience, dealing with teachers, coping with school life and things to look out for.
Cheers and have a good week ahead!
We like the school for it's stance on some basic discipline such as punctuality and mobile uses are prohibited in school to be kept in lockers. The girls in school are not dull, always lively (some are so full of energy) and enjoying life, I always see. So cute to see the little girls in oversized attire in school now and then, those in pri school are in same sch compound. So far my girl enjoys school so much she said she likes the school better than the 6 years in pri school (she was in sec 1 then only) which surprises us as she had a great time in pri school too. She has no complain about the teachers. Of course there are less preferences for those teachers who are stricter and more naggy...lol.. in general this mummy has no complain. Thankfully she is doing well in studies too. School has after school remedial classes for main subjects for those who need. I like that the support is available from term 2 (earlier on instead of year end) instead of telling parents to seek tuition though mine has no need so far. One adv of smaller class size (30-32) I guess. I like that the teachers take PE, music and Art lessons seriously. My girl is not the sporty type but now she is more active in ball games and enjoys the different sports including yearly one term of swimming. her experience in pri school PE lessons often were the class will skip PE and stay in class to do health education. Now she gets gold in NAPFA, while she failed in pri school. Music lessons are really producing music/ perform in small group which she is benefiting where private indiv music lessons cannot provide. Art is her most fav subj even though she has zero art related enrichment before. Taking non-academic aspects as seriously and not doing for sake of doing only. I also like that, the parents are v chill from what I see in parents group. All sec 1s and 2s will get to learn robotics and coding which I know my girl enjoys as she is quite proud of her achievement in her assignments. Her seniors are so helpful and always ready to provide advice, esp evident in the subj combi selection. Sch gets seniors to talk to the cohort abt their experiences and teachers teaching sec 3s and 4s to get them some glimpses of the different subjects. They are candid and gave genuine feedback in their sharing, not all roses and sunshine type. I like that career guidance is carefully curated from sec 1 to 4. from what I learn from parents from other schools, ours provided the most, from sec 1. Maybe other schools only focus on seniors or sec 4s. There was a session in small groups of 5 where the counsellor asked each girl abt their aspirations in university and career choices. Recently they had a NASA scientist came to school with her collegue to talk to them about their job. She was an old girl. We also attended a uni seminar recently by 3 local uni so career counselling starts early for us which I am thankful as my girl is still figuring out. Our school motto is to seek purpose in life and our P always begin with this phrase. Seeking purpose in life is not about working hard for exam only...... I can go on and on....LOL...feel free to PM me if you need after sec 1 posting. But the school is well organised and has good comm with parents so you should not need to.
Will let other parents jump in on IB.... :please: -
If I stay in Clementi, I will also choose MGS (IB), won’t go for A level track. Prefer IB.
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00skyblue00\" post_id=\"2123822\" time=\"1701081967\" user_id=\"143605:
Hi 00skyblue00,
We chose the school when taking into account of our child's inclination and we want a more holistic education for her, not only academic focus and definitely not through drilling/assessments.
We like the school for it's stance on some basic discipline such as punctuality and mobile uses are prohibited in school to be kept in lockers. The girls in school are not dull, always lively (some are so full of energy) and enjoying life, I always see. So cute to see the little girls in oversized attire in school now and then, those in pri school are in same sch compound. So far my girl enjoys school so much she said she likes the school better than the 6 years in pri school (she was in sec 1 then only) which surprises us as she had a great time in pri school too. She has no complain about the teachers. Of course there are less preferences for those teachers who are stricter and more naggy...lol.. in general this mummy has no complain. Thankfully she is doing well in studies too. School has after school remedial classes for main subjects for those who need. I like that the support is available from term 2 (earlier on instead of year end) instead of telling parents to seek tuition though mine has no need so far. One adv of smaller class size (30-32) I guess. I like that the teachers take PE, music and Art lessons seriously. My girl is not the sporty type but now she is more active in ball games and enjoys the different sports including yearly one term of swimming. her experience in pri school PE lessons often were the class will skip PE and stay in class to do health education. Now she gets gold in NAPFA, while she failed in pri school. Music lessons are really producing music/ perform in small group which she is benefiting where private indiv music lessons cannot provide. Art is her most fav subj even though she has zero art related enrichment before. Taking non-academic aspects as seriously and not doing for sake of doing only. I also like that, the parents are v chill from what I see in parents group. All sec 1s and 2s will get to learn robotics and coding which I know my girl enjoys as she is quite proud of her achievement in her assignments. Her seniors are so helpful and always ready to provide advice, esp evident in the subj combi selection. Sch gets seniors to talk to the cohort abt their experiences and teachers teaching sec 3s and 4s to get them some glimpses of the different subjects. They are candid and gave genuine feedback in their sharing, not all roses and sunshine type. I like that career guidance is carefully curated from sec 1 to 4. from what I learn from parents from other schools, ours provided the most, from sec 1. Maybe other schools only focus on seniors or sec 4s. There was a session in small groups of 5 where the counsellor asked each girl abt their aspirations in university and career choices. Recently they had a NASA scientist came to school with her collegue to talk to them about their job. She was an old girl. We also attended a uni seminar recently by 3 local uni so career counselling starts early for us which I am thankful as my girl is still figuring out. Our school motto is to seek purpose in life and our P always begin with this phrase. Seeking purpose in life is not about working hard for exam only...... I can go on and on....LOL...feel free to PM me if you need after sec 1 posting. But the school is well organised and has good comm with parents so you should not need to.
Will let other parents jump in on IB.... :please:
Really appreciate your sharing and happy that your daughter is enjoying the school.
Would definitely take up your offer to PM you after the posting exercise if my dd get posted to MGS. -
Flabber\" post_id=\"2123841\" time=\"1701094472\" user_id=\"203404:
Wishing you all the best of luck!
Hi 00skyblue00,
Really appreciate your sharing and happy that your daughter is enjoying the school.
Would definitely take up your offer to PM you after the posting exercise if my dd get posted to MGS. -
su27\" post_id=\"2123807\" time=\"1701078150\" user_id=\"80180:
Once u score AL 4,
Kid got PSLE score AL4.
Is it safe to put
MGS IP
NYGH IP
RGS IP
MGS IP only got 120 slots per cohort. Less DSA kids. Perhaps only 100 slots. I wonder if there are alot of AL4s kids registering for MGS IP this year too given the easy PSLE.
Also. NYGH got their affiliation intakes.
RGS seems safer bet with no affiliation. Should put it as 1st choice?
My only worry is MGS full take up. Then my second and third choices may not materialise as probably RGS AND NYGH slots are filled up by other kids in the round of first choice.
Can share some advice? Thanks
you can attend any Secondary school in Singapore that you wish (desire), regardless of SG citizenship or PR. Thus, your daughter will be admitted into IB (MGS), her first choice school, based on your list (above). Congratulations ! -
Hi,
anyone knows what is the level expected for Strings CCA. My girl is in G6 ABRSM and intends to play G5 pieces for audition. She is in G5 theory.
Thank you. -
phtthp\" post_id=\"2123855\" time=\"1701104264\" user_id=\"35251:
I better don't count the chicks until they are hatched.
Once u score AL 4,
you can attend any Secondary school in Singapore that you wish (desire), regardless of SG citizenship or PR. Thus, your daughter will be admitted into IB (MGS), her first choice school, based on your list (above). Congratulations !
My biggest worry is that they have only 120 slots for IP. Less slots taken up by DSAs, maybe left with 100 slots. PSLE was easy this year. I will not be surprised that there will be more than 100 AL4s vying for the slots. May boil down to balloting. -
su27\" post_id=\"2124061\" time=\"1701266243\" user_id=\"80180:
You over think, you over worry yourself un-necessarily ! Please get rid of all these wrong, anxiety thoughts, out of your mind !
I better don't count the chicks until they are hatched.
My biggest worry is that they have only 120 slots for IP. Less slots taken up by DSAs, maybe left with 100 slots. PSLE was easy this year. I will not be surprised that there will be more than 100 AL4s vying for the slots. May boil down to balloting.
All of you out here, in this public forum, tell me :-
If students with AL 4 cannot even get into their desired school,
Then,
Who else, can get in ?
Won't you (those students), those with AL 5 or AL 6, worry & panic even much more ?
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