[Jurong West] Primary Schools

[RRMummy]

cincin:

If my former school is still around that will have solve my problem. my hb is a boys school. My primary sch is no longer ard.


Any idea is jurong primary a porpular school?

Err.. cin, you can check with MOE if it has your primary school has merged with any other school. If yes, and you can show proof (report card/PSLE results) that you came from that old school you are still considered ex-student..

From the past statistics:

Rulang - you have to be PV, otherwise >1km under 2C - no chance
Jurong Primary - >2km Y2008 no chance but other years OK..
Juying - no problem

You may want to go thru this thread, there were some earlier postings on Jurong Primary..

[tamarind]

Anyone doing PV at West Grove ?


Any idea whether there are enough places for everyone who completed 40 hours of PV ?

I just called West Grove, the staff said they do not release the information. It is either balloting or no balloting, which is not helpful at all.

[tankee]

nobody can tell as registration has not started.


PV are not guaranteed places in school. PV just allow you to register your child in phase 2B (1 phase earlier) that’s all.

if there is higher number of applicants than places available, then allocation will be by distance & ballot, as per other phases.

[tamarind]

tonypang:

nobody can tell as registration has not started.


PV are not guaranteed places in school. PV just allow you to register your child in phase 2B (1 phase earlier) that's all.

if there is higher number of applicants than places available, then allocation will be by distance & ballot, as per other phases.

Yes I know that PV does not guarantee places in school. However, the principal should already know how many kids' parents have completed 40 hours of PV, and she should know how many places are available for in phase 2B. So she should be able to tell me whether balloting is needed right ?

[tankee]

She wont be able to tell for sure how many applicants there are in earlier phases and how many applicants whose parents are grass-root leaders contenting with the PV.

[Luanee]

tamarind:

Yes I know that PV does not guarantee places in school. However, the principal should already know how many kids' parents have completed 40 hours of PV, and she should know how many places are available for in phase 2B. So she should be able to tell me whether balloting is needed right ?

Tamarind, tankee is rite. The principal wont be able to tell u whether balloting is required or not at this point of time.

What u can do is to ask the principal how many phase 1 students are there this year. Then u gauge/estimate yourself the phase 2A1 and 2A2 numbers based on past years' statistics. After that you divide the places left by 2 to find out number of vacancies available for 2B. U can also ask the principal how many PVs has completed 40 hrs. Then estimate the number of grassroot leaders based on past years stats again too see whether u need balloting or not. Note that WG has 30 places less this year compared to last year.

[BigDevil]

tamarind:

Yes I know that PV does not guarantee places in school. However, the principal should already know how many kids' parents have completed 40 hours of PV, and she should know how many places are available for in phase 2B. So she should be able to tell me whether balloting is needed right ?

If you had read through various topics in this forum, you will notice that some parents are PV for multiple schools. So even if the principal knows how many PVs the school has, it doesn't mean all PVs will be applying for a place.

Since the number of places available for 2B is half of what's left over after 2A2, the principal, as well as yourself, wouldn't know how many places would be available for 2B any earlier. The best you can do is to guesstimate based on past statistics.

[mayfam]

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[tamarind]

BigDevil:

If you had read through various topics in this forum, you will notice that some parents are PV for multiple schools. So even if the principal knows how many PVs the school has, it doesn't mean all PVs will be applying for a place.

Since the number of places available for 2B is half of what's left over after 2A2, the principal, as well as yourself, wouldn't know how many places would be available for 2B any earlier. The best you can do is to guesstimate based on past statistics.

I also know that there are parents doing PV for multiple schools. I wrote earlier in this thread that there are parents who applied for PV at both West Grove and Rulang.

But since we are talking about West Grove, a neighbourhood school, not branded schools like Nanyang, etc, I don't expect any parent to give up after completing 40 hours of PV. Who is so free ? West Grove is not a \"die die must get in\" school like Nanyang.

Anyway I am not expecting a definite answer as to whether balloting is required. I thought they should be able to estimate since they already know how many parents completed PV.

I read in this forum that if selected by Rulang to PV, then the kid is more or less guaranteed a space. Because Rulang does not take in more PVs than they have spaces for.

[Luanee]

tamarind:

I also know that there are parents doing PV for multiple schools. I wrote earlier in this thread that there are parents who applied for PV at both West Grove and Rulang.


But since we are talking about West Grove, a neighbourhood school, not branded schools like Nanyang, etc, I don't expect any parent to give up after completing 40 hours of PV. Who is so free ? West Grove is not a \"die die must get in\" school like Nanyang.

Anyway I am not expecting a definite answer as to whether balloting is required. I thought they should be able to estimate since they already know how many parents completed PV.

I read in this forum that if selected by Rulang to PV, then the kid is more or less guaranteed a space. Because Rulang does not take in more PVs than they have spaces for.

Tamarind, WG refused to tell u how many PVs who completed 40hrs and thus eligible for 2B? Last yr, my dd's school gave us a list of all parents who completed 40 hrs so we were able to gauge our chances. Still, we were anxious as we never know how many grassroots leaders will turn up to vie with us.