Raffles Girls Primary School

[Stam Forrd]

Does anyone have children studying in Raffles Girls Primary School?
Looking for feedback on their teachers, are the girls happy to be there, etc.

[Palmer]

AFAIK even many Singaporean citizens can't get their daughters into this apparently prestigious school....I should think that most expats (unless they are PR's) have little to no chance of enrolling their daughter(s) into this school.

[give it a try]

call the principal and who knows...you have one or two who might not be able to cope with the fast pace.

general comments from friends who have kids there -

"girls are very competitive in everything. very good academic results and in sports too. teachers push the girls real hard.

if you can cope with the work, you are fine but if you can't life there is miserable."


guess it is the same for all schools.

[NMS1]

As someone else said you are unlikely to get a place.

I know someone with a daughter who moved there as part of the gifted programme. The girls in her class are extremely competitive to the extent that they will deliberately sabotage other people in order to top the class. For many of them anything less than perfect marks is a disaster and the pressure on them from the teachers & the parents is very high. If your children can handle that kind of environment they will do well and get a good education, if not they will hate every minute of it.

[same in nanyang pri]

girlfriend's son has his notes from learning lab taken from his school bag in school once. another time his own reading notes were found in the toilet. what's wrong with these kids? 

[rgps grad]

I know someone with a daughter who moved there as part of the gifted programme. The girls in her class are extremely competitive to the extent that they will deliberately sabotage other people in order to top the class. For many of them anything less than perfect marks is a disaster and the pressure on them from the teachers & the parents is very high. If your children can handle that kind of environment they will do well and get a good education, if not they will hate every minute of it.

I studied at raffles from 1992-1997. I didn't encounter anything like you had described, but I wasn't in the gifted programme.