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2020 Secondary School Posting Booklet Choosing your Secondary Schools for admission to Secondary to admission 1 in 2021 Secondary for Schools your Choosing www.moe.gov.sg/s1-­‐pos.ng Customer Service Centre Tel No. : 6872 2220 CHOOSING YOUR SECONDARY SCHOOLS FOR ADMISSION TO SECONDARY 1 IN 2021 This booklet provides information to help parents and students make more informed secondary school choices in the annual Secondary 1 (S1) Posting. Parents and students can refer to the “Secondary School Education” booklet for more information on secondary education. The information published in this booklet is correct as at time of preparation. This booklet contains proprietary intellectual property of the Government of Singapore (represented by the Ministry of Education) and the Singapore Land Authority. You may not, in whole or in part, in any media or medium (including all digital formats), copy, communicate, broadcast, transmit, photocopy, reproduce, translate, modify, create any derivative work from, or publish over the Internet, the contents of this Booklet without the prior written consent of the Ministry of Education or the Singapore Land Authority, as the case may be. The contents of this booklet is also available at www.moe.gov.sg/s1-posting. Produced by: Ministry of Education Singapore Published September 2020 HOW DOES SECONDARY 1 POSTING WORK? Students are posted to secondary schools based on merit. This means that students with a higher PSLE score will be posted to their school of choice before another Amanda’s School Choices student with a lower score. Vacancies are filled up by students with higher scores first. 1 : School A 4 : School D 2 : School B 5 : School E 3 : School C 6 : School F Let’s look at the posting process by following Amanda, who hadhas submittedsubmitted herher schoolschool choices.choices. STEPSTEP 11 AmandaStudents is with considered higher PSLE for her scores first than choice Amanda (A). Ifare there posted are beforeother students her. Now, with her higher posting PSLE process scoresbegins. than If there Amanda, are vacancies they will in be Amanda’s posted before first her.choice, If there she willare stillbe posted vacancies to School in School A. A, she SCHOOL A will be posted to the school. STEPSTEP 22 IfIf therethere areare nono moremore vacanciesvacancies inin herher firstfirst choicechoice (A),(A), shethe willposting be considered process will for continue the nextbased school, on the based order on of theher orderschool of choices her school choices(B, C, D, (B, E and C, D, F) E until and F)she until is posted she is toposted a SCHOOL B tosecondary a secondary school school with with vacancies. vacancies. SCHOOL A STEPSTEP 33 IfIf allall vacanciesvacancies inin Amanda’sAmanda’s schoolschool choiceschoices (Aare to filled F) are with filled students with students who have who better have betterPSLE scores, PSLE scores,she will she be postedwill be toposted a school to a schoolnear her near home, her home,which stillwhich has has vacancies. vacancies. SCHOOL G SCHOOL F Content Section I: General Information ............................................................. 1 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................... 1 S1 POSTING – IMPORTANT DATES ..................................................................................... 1 MORE PATHWAYS FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ................................................................ 2 COURSES ............................................................................................................. 3 DSA-SEC - SCHOOL ALLOCATION OUTCOME ......................................................................... 3 Section II: Submit School Choices .......................................................... 5 CONSIDERATIONS WHEN CHOOSING SCHOOLS AND MAKING S1 OPTIONS .............................................. 5 RECEIVE S1 OPTION FORM AND ELIGIBILITY LETTER .................................................................. 9 SUBMIT SCHOOL CHOICES AND S1 OPTIONS ......................................................................... 10 Section III: School Posting and Receive School Posting Results ..................... 12 SCHOOL POSTING .................................................................................................. 12 RECEIVE SCHOOL POSTING RESULTS ............................................................................... 12 APPEAL FOR TRANSFER AFTER S1 POSTING ........................................................................ 13 Reference A > Sample of S1 Option Form ........................................... A - 1 Reference B > Schools and Centres Offering Higher Mother Tongue ........... B - 1 Reference C > Schools and Centres Offering Language, Art and Music Programmes and Applied Subjects .................................................................... C - 1 Reference D > Key Information on Schools ......................................... D - 1 Reference E > Schools and Centres Offering Tamil ............................... E - 1 Reference F > Schools with Specialised Facilities/Resources to Support Special Educational Needs ......................................................................... F - 1 Reference G > Guide to S1 Internet System ......................................... G – 1 Reference H > Guide to OneMap – SchoolQuery .................................... H – 1 Reference I > Guide to SchoolFinder .................................................. I – 1 Reference J > Information on Specialised Schools for Normal (Technical) Students ................................................................................................ J – 1 Reference K > Information on Schools Participating in S1 Posting (2020) ..... K – 1 Reference L > Proxy Form .............................................................. L – 1 SECTION I: GENERAL INFORMATION 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Primary 6 (P6) students from mainstream primary schools who sat for the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) and are eligible for secondary school can participate in S1 Posting to submit their school choices. This booklet provides information on how to participate in S1 Posting. 1.2 Students are posted to secondary schools based on merit using their PSLE results, and according to their school choices and available vacancies in the schools. 1.3 S1 Posting comprises the following stages: a. School Choice & Option Submission – Submit your child’s secondary school choices, and other options (i.e. course option and Third Language option) if applicable. See Section II for details. b. School Posting – MOE posts your child to a secondary school taking into consideration their PSLE results, school options and available vacancies. See Section III for details. c. Receive School Posting Results – MOE releases school posting results. Your child is to report to their posted secondary schools on the next working day after the release of the posting results. See Section III for details. 2 S1 POSTING - IMPORTANT DATES 2.1 Below are the important dates (tentative) for your information. Please refer to the Press Release in November for the exact dates. Key Event Date Receive PSLE results Between 25 and 27 November 2020 (Tentative) Submit school choices and 7 calendar days starting from the day of PSLE results options release (e.g. if PSLE results are released on 25 November, the submission period will be from 25 November to 1 December). a. Via S1 Internet System S1-IS is accessible 24-hour starting from 11am on the first (S1-IS) day until 3pm on the last day of the School Choice Submission Period. b. Via Primary School 5 working days starting from the day of PSLE results release. Submission of S1 options starts from 11am to 3pm on the first day; and subsequently from 9am to 3pm daily until the last day of the School Choice Submission Period. Primary schools are not open on weekends. If your child misses the School Choice Submission Period, you can contact the primary school for assistance the next day after the submission closes, from 9am to 12pm. This is only for new submission of S1 school choices and options, and not for amendments to earlier submissions. 1 Key Event Date Receive school posting Between 22 and 24 December 2020 (Tentative) results Students to report to After receiving the posting results, your child will report secondary schools for to their secondary school on the next working day registration (excluding eve of public holiday and public holiday). Please refer to school website for details. 2.2 What if you are not in Singapore during S1 Posting? - You can authorise a proxy to act on your behalf to (i) collect your child’s PSLE results and S1 Option Form from your child’s primary school; (ii) submit the S1 Options to your child’s primary school; (iii) report to the posted secondary school for registration. The proxy is required to produce the following documents for verification at the school: a. Completed Proxy Form (in Reference L) b. Photocopy of the NRIC of both parents c. Photocopy of your child’s Birth Certificate d. Original NRIC of the appointed proxy 3 MORE PATHWAYS FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS 3.1 Most secondary schools offer both the General Cambridge Examination (GCE) Ordinary (‘O’) Level and Normal (’N’) Level Programme. However, there are a few schools which provide students a slightly different education pathway. SCHOOLS OFFERING BOTH INTEGRATED PROGRAMME AND ‘O’ LEVEL PROGRAMME 3.2 The following schools offer both the Integrated Programme (IP) and General Cambridge Examination (GCE)
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