2009 P1 Registration Exercise for 2010 In-Take

[ryes]

HI Shizta


thank you for your information.
Are you also living more than 2km away?

Hi Tri mum, are you also living more than 2km away?

I wonder if I sld risk and give it a try when it is my girls turn…

[centraljava]

Tri-mum:

Hi, my gal got into St Margaret too. Er, anyone knows when is the orientation? I sort of missed out the annoucement by the principal because was busy sms

No worries, a letter will be sent to home address with the orientation date.
It's actually another copy of the same registration form that was filled out, but with the bottom part signed by principal and some info added in.

[pong3738]

Tri-mum:

Hi, my gal got into St Margaret too. Er, anyone knows when is the orientation? I sort of missed out the annoucement by the principal because was busy sms

St Margaret's Orientation on 13th Nov 2009, 4.00pm - bring your girl along.

[shizta]

ryes:

HI Shizta


thank you for your information.
Are you also living more than 2km away?

Hi Tri mum, are you also living more than 2km away?

I wonder if I sld risk and give it a try when it is my girls turn...

yes, i'm more than 2km away. but can't afford to risk balloting

my understanding it's that there's not much residental within 2km. majority comes from phase 1 & church, hence great chance of getting into the school. the last round i ask has 50% for those living less than 2km for phase 2c alone.

moreover, there's in house student care , hence u just need to worry abt the transport (school bus or car although there's a long staircase which leads to plaza singapura)

[ryes]

So meaning to say


out of the 132 people who applied, say 50% live less than 2km?

Sorry< I’m still very new, so trying hard to understand how the balloting works.

[Tri-mum]

ryes:

HI Shizta


thank you for your information.
Are you also living more than 2km away?

Hi Tri mum, are you also living more than 2km away?

I wonder if I sld risk and give it a try when it is my girls turn...

Yes, I'm >2km. When is your child's registration? If time permit, you can actually do PV (not sure whether St Marg accept PV ornot) in order tol know better about school culture. I'm a lazy mum so didn't do PV at any school

Because of the location and not many houses around so usually there is vacancy for >2km base on history statistics.


Thanks for the information abt the orientation, I've received the return COPY application form with indication of the orientation day on Friday.

[shizta]

Ryes

yes, that’s a estimated figure given by the office. think it’s due to the location

ballot will only occur if the applicant no. exceed the vacancy no.
priority will goes to those <1km. if there’s not enough places, ballot will occur at this stage. if there’s enough, all the <1km will get a place.

the remaining places will be given to those 1-2km. same here, if enough places, all will get in. if not, ballot will occur at this stage.

for st marg, those <2km adds up to abt 66, so there’s ballot for those >2km, which 5 will be balloted out.

another scenario : for radin mas, there’s 128 applicants fighting for 65 places. there’s abt 80 less than 1km, hence balloting occurs for those less than 1km. so abt 15 will be balloted out. those >1km doesn’t even stand chance.

hope that helps

[qms]

shizta:

another scenario : for radin mas, there's 128 applicants fighting for 65 places. there's abt 80 less than 1km, hence balloting occurs for those less than 1km. so abt 15 will be balloted out. those >1km doesn't even stand chance.

Correction. There were 94 applicants within 1 km, including two pairs of twins. vying for 65 places in Radin Mas.

[JGMum]

After reading this thread and the very stressful experiences of parents during P1 registration, I am thinking maybe it is easier for us to just buy a new place and move closer to our "old" schools (so children don’t have to travel far) and register under Phase 2A rather than to try our chances at balloting. The nearby schools we were hoping to enrol our children in are Nan Hua and Fairfield Methodist Primary, and we live >2 km for both schools, so it seems chances of getting in are really slim.


Do other parents in this forum do that? Or is that too kiasu?

[aaadaddy]

JGMum:

After reading this thread and the very stressful experiences of parents during P1 registration, I am thinking maybe it is easier for us to just buy a new place and move closer to our \"old\" schools (so children don't have to travel far) and register under Phase 2A rather than to try our chances at balloting. The nearby schools we were hoping to enrol our children in are Nan Hua and Fairfield Methodist Primary, and we live >2 km for both schools, so it seems chances of getting in are really slim.


Do other parents in this forum do that? Or is that too kiasu?

I nearly did that but my former Pri school in CCK and both my parents and in-laws stay in North-East. As I still need my parents to look after my two younger children, the daily traveling between CCK & Sengkang may be too much for both myself and my children to take. So had to give up the idea...