:congrats:

For your info, the P1 Orientation Day is on 16 Nov 2012, 3pm.

Hi vinlene, so did your child manage to get into CVPS? Noted all SC got in while balloting required for PR within 1 km.

How many actually fighting for the 58 vacancy in today’s balloting? Moe said 83 registered but all 83 within 1km?

vinlene:

sksp,

u registered under which phase?
i am going to register next week under 2C... hope i will be successful.. :xedfingers:

Got my ds in under phase 2B after doing PV. Was considering NCPS as well but just outside 1km so don't want to risk. Lucky as NCPS has to ballot within 1km for SC. Glad that I dun have to go through balloting. Good Luck vinlene for phase 2C :rahrah: Historically balloting is needed even within 1km.

coralie:

So school will start at 7:45am next year? Confirm?

That means still have to reach school by 7:30am.

Correction, I mean school starts at 8.00am next year so have to reach school by 7.45am. That is what the staff told me when I register my son for P1.

How many applicants balloting for the 58 places?

coralie:

The new Principal, Mr Chua, took over in 2010. So far, I found the teaching staff to be very warm. There have been parent workshops for maths/modelling and hanyu pinyin. Also, in every term, there will be parent-child talks conducted by 3rd-party groups on Saturdays.


There are ~30 students per class. For my girl's class, there are 2 monitors, 2 English group leaders and 2 Maths group leaders. They are divided up and allocated to different classes for Mother Tongue.

For English, there are no textbooks as they follow the Stellar program. The kids will be given worksheets in class and they can bring home to do as homework. However, I noticed one thing. The school doesn't have supplementary books for English like other schools. I have trolled the Popular textbook ordering website and the branded schools will require their students to purchase books like Word Bank, Grammar, readers etc. I have since bought 1 or 2 of these books for extra revision with my girl. Her FT said that she is well-prepared so I'm not that worried for her English and Maths. She was assigned to sit with a weaker student but he seems to get on her nerves with his incorrect answers, lol. I told her to learn to live with others. So far, she has made friends with students in each of the P1 classes. So I'm not that worried about her.

The students will be streamed to Higher Chinese (1 class) in Term 3 based on Term 2 results. For Chinese, my girl was streamed into an average class. We are ok with that since we don't speak Chinese at home. They started the year with hanyu pinyin and almost all of the students were able to score full marks for the 1st test. I sent her for Saturday classes at Beijing Language in SKCC for more exposure to the language.

Before my girl started the school year, my neighbours often said that CVPS gives a lot of homework to the students and remedial lessons for the weaker students. So far, I don't see her bringing back a lot of homework as she will usually complete them in school.

There are also online learning portals like MConline and Xuele. The teachers will give out extra assignments via the MConline portal. So it is required to have a PC at home.

Thanks Coralie. That is very informative. My son is weak in english language so I will probably go and get supp books for him. Hope that workload is not heavy in lower primary as I still want my son to enjoy his childhood. So early already start learning Hanyu Pinyin! I must be still living in dinosaur age, thinking that they learn HYPY only in upper Primary hahaa

coralie:

My girl is in P1 this year

Coralie, can share how is the school, the teaching staff and the curriculum? Thanks.

Hi all, I just got my ds into cvps. Notice this thread for cvps is quiet. How about spicing it up by sharing info about the school? Any parents can share? How r the school curriculum, teaching staff? I understand cvps will have single session next year. School expected to start 7.45am but they have yet to decide what time to end classes. Heard noth vista have classes till 3.30pm!

Ikid67:

example for nan chiau primary case, for P2b there is 83 applicant against 58 vacancy. Will the balance 25 unsuccesful applicant be automatically takes up the 25 of the 58 lots from P2C?

No. My understanding is that unsuccessful applicants will have to register for phase 2C with the rest. Tpically Nan Chiau will ballot within 1km for phase 2C.