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Went to register for P1 in Boon Lay Garden under Phase 2C Supplementary on the last day of registration,15th Aug. It's not fun going through the need to appeal (Phase 2B) and balloting (Phase2C). Took a number of day of annual leave to get all these done.

We also sought help from MP during 'Meet the people' session, he asked us to write in to him privately. So we wrote an email to request for an aid to grant a place in a primary sch (which is only Shuqun and Rulang) within 1km radius of our house. 


I know everyone will do that and so the appeal may not be easy but we can support with good reasons; the need to take care my MIL's daily routines as she's basically bedridden and the rush to send my younger daughter to and fro the childcare which is already very far (got his reply that as ours is special case, he will try his best to help us, hopefully ours went through). We also put my girl's name under waiting list for both schools right after we failed in getting a place in Phase 2C.

We're trying all means and channels, hoping can get a place in either one. Really feeling stupid for my girl to take schoolbus to school when there are actually 2 schools that are within a 5 mins walking distance. Is like 看的到, 吃不到. WTF right!! This MOE's allocation scheme is really unfair especially to those who staying within 1km.

We're trying our best to do what we can now. The rest will leave it to the god's hand and my girl when entering P1.

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Grumpy face looking at the final update for Phase 2B's vacancy, ended up 85 registered for Phase 2A2 and all went through. Congrats to them but is mad sad for others like us :,( Only 10 vacancies left for Phase 2B applicants to fight, so balloting is confirm needed. And bad bad bad that, now still no news on whether our appeal success (chances is low too as they are now pretty strict). Even so, the chances on winning the Phase 2B balloting is gonna be extreme low. :(

Jurong West

School	Mother Tongue			Total Vacancy	Places Taken Up at			Vacancy for Phase 2B
	Chinese	Malay	Tamil		Phase 1	Phase 2A1	Phase 2A2
Boon Lay Garden Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	240	89	0	4	74
Corporation Primary School	Yes	Yes	No	210	74	0	4	66
Frontier Primary School	Yes	Yes	No	240	20	0	1	110
Jurong West Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	240	109	1	12	59
Juying Primary School	Yes	Yes	No	240	63	0	2	88
Lakeside Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	240	98	2	12	64
Pioneer Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	240	87	0	9	72
Rulang Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	270	142	24	85	10
Shuqun Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	270	123	0	33	57
West Grove Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	270	138	0	10	61
Westwood Primary School	Yes	Yes	No	240	0	0	0	120
Xingnan Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	240	113	1	16	55

Well, have to start thinking on the alternative nearby school for Phase 2C: - Shuqun Primary which again could be very slim too :,,,,,( Why like that?! Why do we need to suffer all this stress. Last time where got parent fighting over school vacancy. Terrible!!!

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Latest update I got from MOE website for Rulang Primary School's vacancies

Jurong West

School	Mother Tongue			Total Vacancy	Places Taken Up at		Vacancy for Phase 2A2	No. of children registered
	Chinese	Malay	Tamil		Phase 1	Phase 2A1
Boon Lay Garden Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	240	89	0	151	3
Corporation Primary School	Yes	Yes	No	210	74	0	136	2
Frontier Primary School	Yes	Yes	No	240	20	0	220	1
Jurong West Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	240	109	1	130	11
Juying Primary School	Yes	Yes	No	240	63	0	177	1
Lakeside Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	240	98	2	140	9
Pioneer Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	240	87	0	153	7
Rulang Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	270	142	24	104	79
Shuqun Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	270	123	0	147	28
West Grove Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	270	138	0	132	10
Westwood Primary School	Yes	Yes	No	240	0	0	240	0
Xingnan Primary	Yes	Yes	Yes	240	113	1	126	13

Source: http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/admissions/primary-one-registration/vacancies/

Vacancy for Phase 2A2 changed from 102 to 104, apparently 2 of the applicants must be disqualified. So now out of 104 vacancies, 79 applicants; if all qualify, which mean will left 25 vacancies to be equally distributed between Phase 2B and Phase 2C. This system really terrible and seems quite unfair to those who stay near within 1km to the school!!  Imagine about 13 vacancies to be fight among 20 PVs and unknown number of applicants from church/clan or community members.

Argh..... the chances seem so low now. Got to really pray hard that the vacancies left wasn't this low!

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Time flies, and Amabel was going 6 this year in August, which mean she has to go Primary 1 coming year.  The annual Singapore Primary One Registration Exercise to register for Primary One in the following year had started early this month. We have been pretty stress over the phase that we can fall in month back. Not sure whether I have update here before, that we didn't get into parent volunteer work in Rulang Primary School after filling up the long entry in their contribution template. Due to the available number of vacancies for Phase 2B last year was only 19. Using this as an estimate, the school has decided to select only 20 Parent Volunteers. Out of about 300 applicants, they only choose 20, hence, we are well prepared for it though I feel that the work that I can contribute to the school is pretty helpful. Well, nevermind! Months (May 2011) before we registered for the parent volunteer, Hus had already applied to be a community member. He has been very active in those community activities partly because to get Big A enrolled in Rulang Primary School Phase 2B. Table below shown the Phases and how they allocate the vacancies

Phases
The Registration Exercise is divided into 7 distinct phases: Phase 1, Phase 2A(1), Phase 2A(2), Phase 2B, Phase 2C, Phase 2C(Supplementary), Phase 3.




Allocation of vacancies


There are no reserved limits for Phases up to 2A.  Theoretically, all the available places for the entire exercise could be taken up in Phase 1, 2A1, or 2A2 should there be enough qualifying students. In the very popular schools, however, the take up rate by Phase 2A2 could exceed 75%, leaving less than a quarter of the places for non-affiliated children, including those whose parents who have gone through the rigours of parent volunteering programmes. The places remaining after the end of Phase 2A2 are equally distributed between Phase 2B and Phase 2C.  No places are explicitly reserved for any Phase subsequent to Phase 2C.  This means that for most popular schools, there are unlikely to be any vacancies left for either Phase 2C(Supplementary) or Phase 3. This is as stated in the MOE site
 
As we were talking about  the new update on 'Singapore Primary Schools Ranked By Academic Excellence' for last year performance and happened to saw the new update on the GMClub website. They updated 'Singapore Primary Schools Ranked By Academic Excellence', which was originated from kiasuparents.com (the old article source http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/singapore-primary-schools-ranked-academic-excellence). But kiasu did not update for this year. And gosh... Rulang Primary School is ranking the Sixth now.

New Update :

Legend (Top National Student)				Male			Female
Weight		1	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.1	0
School	Index	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Raffles Girls’ Primary	6.51	1.3	1.1	1.4	1	1	1.2	1.1	1.4	1	1.4	1.3
St Hilda’s Primary	6.12	1.3	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.1	1	1.1	1.2
Nan Hua Primary	5.99	1.1	1	1.2	1.1	1.1	1	1	1.1	1.2	1.3	1
Tao Nan	5.96	1.1	1.1	1	1.1	1.3	1	1	1	1.1	1	1.1
Nanyang Primary	5.44		1.2	1.1	1.4	1.4	1	1.2	1.1	1.2	1.1	1.1
Rulang Primary	5.43	1.1	1	1.1	1	1	1.1	1	1
Henry Park Primary	5.35	1.1	1	1	1	1	1.1	1	1			1.1
Rosyth	5.04		1.3	1.1	1.1	1	1.1	1.1	1	1.1	1.1	1.1
Anglo-Chinese School (Primary)	4.97	1.1	1.1	1.1	1	1		1	1
Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary	4.54		1.2	1	1	1	1.1	1	1		1.1	1.1
Ai Tong	4.44	1.1		1	1.1	1	1.1		1	1	1.2
Kong Hwa	3.72	1.2		1	1	1.2			1
Catholic High	3.58			1	1.1	1	1.2	1	1		1.1	1.2
Greenridge Primary	3.38	1.1		1.1		1	1		1
Bukit Panjang Primary	3.27			1	1	1	1.1	1		1.1
Methodist Girls’ School (Primary)	3.26			1	1	1.1	1		1	1	1	1
Red Swastika	3.24		1.1	1		1	1.1		1			1
Nan Chiau Primary	3.06		1	1	1	1.1
Maha Bodhi	3.01		1		1.1	1		1.1	1			1.1
CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’	2.9	1.1		1	1					1	1	1
Pei Chun Public	2.79		1.1		1	1	1					1
Chongfu Primary	2.61				1	1	1	1	1		1.1
Radin Mas Primary	2.4	1.1			1	1
South View Primary	2.26			1.2	1	1
Chua Chu Kang Primary	2.2		1		1	1
Yangzheng Primary	2.2			1	1			1	1
Anglo-Chinese School (Junior)	2.17			1	1.1	1
Northland Primary	2.15				1	1	1.1		1
Haig Girls’	2.1			1	1	1
Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’	2.1			1	1	1
Maris Stella High	2.1				1	1	1		1			1
White Sands Primary	2.05			1	1		1.1
Si Ling Primary	2		1			1	1
River Valley Primary	1.95			1		1	1.1
Unity Primary	1.84			1		1		1.1
Pasir Ris Primary	1.78			1.1		1			1
Qifa Primary	1.78			1.1		1			1
Yu Neng Primary	1.71				1	1			1		1.1
Keming Primary	1.69		1.1		1
St Joseph’s Institution Junior	1.69		1.1		1
Poi Ching	1.67				1.1	1			1
Casuarina Primary	1.6		1		1
CHIJ Primary (Toa Payoh)	1.6				1	1			1
Compassvale Primary	1.6				1	1			1
Gongshang Primary	1.56			1.2		1
CHIJ Our Lady Queen of Peace	1.5		1			1
Hougang Primary	1.5			1	1
Marymount Convent	1.5			1	1
Woodlands Ring Primary	1.5			1	1
St Anthony’s Primary	1.41				1	1					1.1
CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity	1.4			1		1
Concord Primary	1.4			1		1
Shuqun Primary	1.4			1		1
Yew Tee Primary	1.37				1.1	1
West Grove Primary	1.36				1	1.1
Meridien Primary	1.3			1			1
Singapore Chinese Girls’ Primary	1.3				1				1	1	1
East Spring Primary	1.3				1	1
Fairfield Methodist Primary	1.3				1	1
Ngee Ann Primary	1.3				1	1
Woodgrove Primary	1.3				1	1
Hong Wen	1.2				1		1
Princess Elizabeth Primary	1.1				1			1
Sembawang Primary	1.1					1	1
Yishun Primary	1.1			1					1
Admiralty Primary	1					1		1
De La Salle	1					1		1
Xingnan Primary	1					1		1
CHIJ (Katong) Primary	0.99		1.1
Coral Primary	0.99		1.1
Geylang Methodist School	0.96					1.1			1
Peiying Primary	0.93					1			1.1
Bedok Green Primary	0.9					1			1
Evergreen Primary	0.9					1			1
Jurong Primary	0.9					1			1
New Town Primary	0.9					1			1
Boon Lay Garden Primary	0.8			1
CHIJ Our Lady of Good Counsel	0.8			1
Fengshan Primary	0.8			1
Gan Eng Seng Primary	0.8			1
Qihua Primary	0.8			1
Yio Chu Kang Primary	0.8			1
Elias Park Primary	0.77				1.1
St Andrew’s Junior	0.71					1					1.1
CHIJ (Kellock)	0.7					1					1
Edgefield Primary	0.7				1
Fuchun Primary	0.7				1
Greenwood Primary	0.7				1
Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Primary	0.7				1
Rivervale Primary	0.7				1
St Stephen’s	0.7				1							1.1
Temasek Primary	0.7				1
Townsville Primary	0.7				1
Yumin Primary	0.7				1
Canossa Convent Primary	0.66					1.1
Bukit View Primary	0.6					1
Clementi Primary	0.6					1
Corporation Primary	0.6					1
Holy Innocents’ Primary	0.6					1
Juying Primary	0.6					1
Lianhua Primary	0.6					1
Queenstown Primary	0.6					1
Tampines North Primary	0.6					1
Tanjong Katong Primary	0.6					1
Woodlands Primary	0.6					1
Xinghua Primary	0.6					1
Xinmin Primary	0.6					1
Zhenghua Primary	0.6					1
Tampines Primary	0.55						1.1
Anderson Primary	0.5						1
Jing Shan Primary	0.5						1
Telok Kurau Primary	0.5						1
Chongzheng Primary	0.4							1
St Anthony’s Canossian Primary	0.4							1
West View Primary	0.4							1
Seng Kang Primary	0.33								1.1
Ang Mo Kio Primary	0.3								1
Dazhong Primary	0.3								1
Farrer Park Primary	0.3								1
Jurong West Primary	0.3								1
Mayflower Primary	0.3								1
Montfort Junior	0.3								1
Opera Estate Primary	0.3								1
Teck Whye Primary	0.3								1
Yuhua Primary	0.3								1
Guangyang Primary	0.22									1.1
Jiemin Primary	0											1.1

The school has climbing up again and getting even more popular now. 
But not a good news came; one of the criteria to be in Phase 2B is to serve actively in community work for at least a year. It sound like we met the condition (from May 2011 to July 12 = more than 1 year?!?!), but the thunder strikes knowing that 'a year' is from the date you get confirmed as a community member (Member only get confirmed after 3 months probation). Hence, he is only considered serving for 11 month+; just about 2 weeks late. :(

Well, as Hus has been serving pretty well and actively, hence, the advisory, chairman and leaders have all trying their best to help out by writing an appeal letters to Mr Yam Ah Mee (CED-designate of the People's Association). What so nervous and stress is that whether the appeal is successful will only be known, few days before Phase 2B registration date start on 19 July (shown in the table below). Yes, we are still waiting now :(

Registration Phases

Details of the different phases are shown below.

Eligibility	Primary One Registration Phase	Registration Dates
For children who are Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents	Phase 1 For a child who has a sibling studying in the primary school of choice	Tuesday, 3 July 2012 Wednesday, 4 July 2012
	Phase 2A(1) (a) For a child whose parent is a former student of the primary school and who has joined the alumni association as a member not later than 30 June 2011. (b) For a child whose parent is a member of the School Advisory / Management Committee Announcement of Results: Tuesday, 10 July 2012	Friday, 6 July 2012
	Phase 2A(2) (a) For a child whose parent or sibling has studied in the primary school of choice (b) For a child whose parent is a staff member of the primary school of choice Announcement of Results: Tuesday, 17 July 2012	Thursday, 12 July 2012 Friday, 13 July 2012
	Phase 2B (a) For a child whose parent has joined the primary school as a parent volunteer not later than 1 Jul 2011 and has given at least 40 hours of voluntary service to the school by 30 Jun 2012 (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 Announcement of Results: Wednesday, 25 July 2012	Thursday, 19 July 2012 Friday, 20 July 2012
	Phase 2C For all children who are eligible for Primary One in the following year and are not yet registered in a primary school Announcement of Results: Tuesday, 7 August 2012	Monday, 30 July 2012 Tuesday, 31 July 2012 Wednesday, 1 August 2012
	Phase 2C Supplementary For a child who is not yet registered in a school after Phase 2C Announcement of Results: Tuesday, 21 August 2012	Tuesday, 14 August 2012 Wednesday, 15 August 2012
For children who are not Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents1	Phase 3 For a child who is neither a Singapore Citizen nor a Singapore Permanent Resident Announcement of Results: Friday, 31 August 2012	Thursday, 30 August 2012

Note:

1. Children who are Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents and who are still not registered in a school after the earlier phases are also eligible to register at this phase.

Were checking on the update on the vacancies; so far only left 102 vacancies for Phase 2A2. Were so nervous, how many vacancies is gonna left for Phase 2B (if our appeal successful) and Phase 2C, shall see the update again after Phase 2A(2) registration ended on 13 July.

Jurong West

School	Mother Tongue			Total Vacancy	Places Taken Up at		Vacancy for Phase 2A2
	Chinese	Malay	Tamil		Phase 1	Phase 2A1
Boon Lay Garden Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	240	89	0	151
Corporation Primary School	Yes	Yes	No	210	74	0	136
Frontier Primary School	Yes	Yes	No	240	20	0	220
Jurong West Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	240	109	1	130
Juying Primary School	Yes	Yes	No	240	63	0	177
Lakeside Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	240	98	2	140
Pioneer Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	240	87	0	153
Rulang Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	270	142	26	102
Shuqun Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	270	123	0	147
West Grove Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	270	138	0	132
Westwood Primary School	Yes	Yes	No	240	0	0	240
Xingnan Primary School	Yes	Yes	Yes	240	113	1	126

Source: http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/admissions/primary-one-registration/vacancies/

Stress stress stress laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.....................................

We're staying very near to the school, within 1km and definitely we deserve to get a seat in this school that is near to our home. We really hope we can go register on 19 July (Phase 2B) for higher chance ...............*Praying hard*

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