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Updated 27 June 2010.  Parents are often concerned about the competition for places or vacancies available for Primary One Registration in the year for which their loved ones are due.  Traditionally, the birth rate peaks during the Year of the Dragon.

For the convenience of parents, we have mapped Singapore's birth rate data for the years 2000-2007, against the available vacancies for Primary One Registration in the years 2006-2013 (of course, we only have the data up to 2009).

Note that the Birth Sign refers to children who are due for Primary One Registration for that year, ie. they will be attending Primary One in the following year.

Here's sharing what I understand about CIP...

CIP is actually part of a CCA grading system called LEAPS. It awards points in 5 categories, namely Leadership, Enrichment, Achievement, Participation and Service.

CIP comes under Service, where each student is required to perform minimum 6 hours of community service per year.

I have gone through the PSLE twice and am done with it for the rest of my life. Thought it would be good to share my experience of choosing a Secondary School for my boys with first time PSLE parents, hopefully to help to relieve some headache when the time comes for choosing a Secondary School for your child. 

This is a follow-up of the PSLE COPs thread that I started in the forum.  I have compiled the official COPs from the MOE for both 2009 and 2010 Secondary 1 intake.

Please note that all figures are for the Express Steam only and for Non-Affiliation Intake.   All COPs include  HMT bonus points.  Those schools with an * behind the COPs means that they only took in their own afflilated pupils from the Primary School for the Seconday 1 intake.

Not sure if the figure for ACS Independent is the IB COP or the O level route.  I simply copied from the MOE's website.   I am not very familiar with ACS Independent's system, so regret to say that I won't be able to answer anything relating to the COP for ACS Independent.  I am just doing my bit to compile a list to make it easier for parents to compare the COP for 2009 and 2010.  I seek your understanding in this matter.

Phew, it has come to the end of the first day of school.

Smarty returned home telling me who his subject teachers are. He said I am spot on on guessing that his former FT for P1 and P2, Teacher F, will teach him this year...hahaha

I really love this teacher to teach him as she is very strict on him. She scrutinizes even on his handwriting. She always tell Smarty, it is of no use if you are good in academic only, you need to have the correct values. I appreciate her teaching style and I know Smarty will be in for a difficult time this year ..kekeke

Although it is the first day, Smarty is already assigned with homework. He is a wonderful boy today by taking initiative to finish up his work. I am definitely impressed. I bet he must be motivated by Teacher F. She said, " Those of you in P1 and P2 must have changed now as you are in P4 now." Guess those words really went into him.

I just wished that he will be consistent everyday.

DD just returned home from school 10 mins ago. Smarty is a nice brother by waiting at the gate for her and welcome his sister home. :-)

Too often on KSP forum, we read about students who do exceedingly well in school and get excellent results for all their exams, be it GEP streaming or PSLE. Most likely, we read with envy and wish our kids have the study smarts too!

It's the time of the year to do our Kiasu Analysis of PSLE results once again!

Finding #1 - Top Honors

2009 is the Year of the Underdogs.  It is Episode 4 - A*Star Wars - A New Hope.  While 9 of the Top 17 National students are from top tier GEP schools, a staggering 7 out of 17 students are from schools that used to be classified as Unworthy-of-PV-Effort.  This is unprecedented in recent PSLE history.