Singapore Primary 1 Registration

:p Please don't watch football until you forget to register your child for P1 2015 from 3rd July - 28 August. :p

Phase 1 - 3 July 2014
Phase 2A1 - 8 July 2014
Phase 2A2 - 14 July 2014
Phase 2B - 21 July 2014
Phase 2C - 30 July 2014
Phase 2CS -12 August 2014

World Cup: 13th June to 13 July

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Phase 2B

(a) For a child whose parent has joined the primary school as a parent volunteer not later than 1 July 2013 and has given at least 40 hours of voluntary service to the school by 30 June 2014

(b) For a child whose parent is a member endorsed by the church/clan directly connected with the primary school

(c) For a child whose parent is endorsed as an active community leader



What is active community leader ah?
How to impress/convince active community leader to endorse child?

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$$$ and Volunteering Trends

In the past, most parents could secure a place for their child in an elite school, for a low five-digit donation. Now, these schools firmly reject these donations now. suddenly, everyone is so rich wor. In the past, most parents are willing to fork out a $20-50K for a place in one of the top-10 primary schools. COE alone costs 70K right?

hahaa, now the schools realized that they don't have enough enrollment slots for these willing (to-donate) parents. These school went on to focus on screening parent-volunteers; eg. expat wives are coming up with the most attractive proposals, such as making use of their hubbies' secretaries to do proposals for community outreach programmes in honour of the school or making press releases for schools, etc.

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Wait a minute. Are we saying that Singapore (schools) don't need $$$?

Nope. I understand these schools are handing donation cards to students annually.
In banking context, every teacher is like a bank RM with revenue points to meet.

The ongoing market rate is min. $1000 per card. Some parents give $2000 each time. Just imagine a teacher's mood for not meeting the target if a few kids come back with only $50 donation in a card.

So, for 1000 students x $1000 per card, each donation drive brings in nearly a million dola. Cool! Why would they be interested in your $20k donation for P1 enrolment? This is like a company rights-issue man. LOL, just that the company issues right annually.

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MOE Initiatives: Every School A Good School
http://www.moe.gov.sg/initiatives/every-school-good-school

- There are tier-1 schools; the most popular local primary schools.

- The good neighbourhood schools are considered Tier-2. Really, if your child is good, please be assured that they will still be groomed into potential future scholars in elite classes within the school. If your child is weak, the school has also a good system in place to help them too.

- In every zone/region, there is a always a school that is like a retirement village. The principal is either slack, condemned or spending more time in grassroots activities and >50% of the teachers are busy giving tuitions outside their school time or near-retirement. Very often not 100% of students homeworks are marked. Everyday, teachers spend 30% of the time scolding students who don't turn in homework and the good teachers in such environments ended up being distracted with involvement of the students' family problems.

By RUN's age, some of his friends are HODs, level-heads, subject-heads in various schools. They told RUN firmly that it is not true that every school is a good school; try to enroll into the Tier-1 and Tier-2 schools, at least.

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Market whisper
Trending: Gifts-in-kind

Well, as explained earlier, schools don't really want your donation for P1 enrolment now.

If the school is related to a clan or religious group, consider donating some relevant or impressive heirloom or treasure to the clan or religious organization for a P1 Phase 2B Priority-queue endorsement.

PS: Some principals also like education/history/cultural-related glamour gifts for their school's display showcases. Ok let's not spoilt market and list the suitable gifts-in-kind here, but I think Picasso's painting will be absolutely irresistible. :p

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This shit has been going for so many years. Active community leader and the clan is already 100% PAP. Everyone of the clan endorsed Tong Tan 100% and he only got 35% of the votes.

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Thanks for the reminder. Need to register my son.

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Runifyouhaveto said:

... The ongoing market rate is min. $1000 per card. Some parents give $2000 each time. Just imagine a teacher's mood for not meeting the target if a few kids come back with only $50 donation in a card ...

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y teacher gotta worry? ... juz tel their students 2 tel their parens minimum is $1000 la ... c got parens dare 2 donate a chipskate $50 anot ...

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GoldenDragon said:

Thanks for the reminder. Need to register my son.

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Thanks for reading too. Use http://www.onemap.sg for your map-planning ops.

RUN has always been impressed with your posts.

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fucked up country.

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GoldenDragon said:

Thanks for the reminder. Need to register my son.

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Which university?

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Runifyouhaveto said:

$$$ and Volunteering Trends

In the past, most parents could secure a place for their child in an elite school, for a low five-digit donation. Now, these schools firmly reject these donations now. suddenly, everyone is so rich wor. In the past, most parents are willing to fork out a $20-50K for a place in one of the top-10 primary schools. COE alone costs 70K right?

hahaa, now the schools realized that they don't have enough enrollment slots for these willing (to-donate) parents. These school went on to focus on screening parent-volunteers; eg. expat wives are coming up with the most attractive proposals, such as making use of their hubbies' secretaries to do proposals for community outreach programmes in honour of the school or making press releases for schools, etc.

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Soon, it will be like international schools in HK ...provide debenture of $1,000,000 at zero interest to be repaid only when kid leaves school or 10 years, whichever is later.

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tonychat said:

fucked up country.

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- For the donation cards, i was refering to the tier-1 schools. Parents don't dare to offend these teachers.

- Many staff also got personnal kick-backs from their vendors n companies that organize enrichment talk/courses for the school.

- A secondary school MOE fatass Maths overseas scholar told me that he became a Maths teacher because he don't wanna waste time marking essays. On top of his $6K salary, he commands another $4-5K per month from private tuitions (don't need to pay income tax).

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winnipegjets said:

Soon, it will be like international schools in HK ...provide debenture of $1,000,000 at zero interest to be repaid only when kid leaves school or 10 years, whichever is later.

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listed company?

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Primary 1 registration: 5 things to know about the popular parent volunteer scheme
PUBLISHED ON JUN 10
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/si...-things-know-about-the-popular-parent-volunte

- Ministry of Education's guidelines require parents to put in at least 40 hours of service. Nanyang Primary requires parents to volunteer at least 80 hours.

- Parents also have to submit their curriculum vitae to show the areas they can volunteer in. Short-listed parents will still have to go for an interview before they are selected.......some schools have set a more stringent criteria when choosing their volunteers

- Volunteering does not guarantee parents a spot in the primary schools

- Unusual Interview Questions: At Rosyth School, parents who were selected for the parent volunteer interview were asked how the school should handle a fight between two pupils, which resulted in one pupil's glasses being damaged.

- Ai Tong School, Tao Nan School, Kong Hwa School, Nan Chiau Primary, and St. Anthony's Canossian Primary have scrapped the scheme

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A good reminder to the PAP call to reproduce ourselves. Life in Singapore is a breeze.

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Debonerman said:

A good reminder to the PAP call to reproduce ourselves. Life in Singapore is a breeze.

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Latest:
Parents who become grassroots volunteers in the hope of getting priority for their children in the Primary 1 registration exercise will have to serve twice as long as before. They will have to do at least two years of grassroots work, not one, to qualify for the benefit.
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/si...-1-priority-rules-grassroots-workers-20140612


we are held hostage if we wanna enrol our kids into good schools

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But long-time grassroots leaders say it is not uncommon to see a surge in the number of people who apply to be community leaders a year before their child is due to register for Primary 1................ "When you have a popular school within the constituency, volunteers will come to you. You don't have to look for them."
http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/stricter-primary-1-priority-rules-grassroots-workers

That is a humiliating remark to the parents involved. They are forced to do so because of the system.
Very shiok to see parents begging you to let them be volunteers right?
WHY NOT SCRAP ALL THE SPECIAL CONCESSIONS for Phase 2B community volunteers?

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Runifyouhaveto said:

Phase 2B
(c) For a child whose parent is endorsed as an active community leader



What is active community leader ah?
How to impress/convince active community leader to endorse child?

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active community leader is crasslooter lah aka PA aka RC member.

i remember it 1.5 years before registration. so realistically, the parent must join RC before their kid start K1 as registration start at mid of K2. a colleague join his neighbourhood rc, kept quiet a meeting, help out at ndp decoration which is rather dangerous as need to climb out onto the ledge to tie the triangle flags, buy block parties tickets. he suffer in silence for 1.5year but once his kid got into the school, he MIA from rc activities.