Registration Phases and Procedures

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 school of choice

Wednesday,
29 June 2011

Thursday,
30 June 2011

Phase 2A(1)  

a) For a child whose parent is a former student of the school and who has joined the alumni association as a member not later than 30 Jun 2010

b) For a child whose parent is a member of the School Advisory / Management Committee

Announcement of Results:
Thursday 7 July 2011

Tuesday,
5 July 2011

Phase 2A(2)  

a) For a child whose parent or sibling has studied in the school of choice

b) For a child whose parent is a staff member of the school of choice

Announcement of Results:
Thursday 14 July 2011

Monday,
11 July 2011

Tuesday,
12 July 2011

Phase 2B  

a) For a child whose parent has joined the school as a parent volunteer not later than 1 Jul 2010 and has given at least 40 hours of voluntary service to the school by 30 Jun 2011

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

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

Announcement of Results:
Friday 22 July 2011

Monday,
18 July 2011

Tuesday,
19 July 2011

Phase 2C  

For a child who is ineligible for or unsuccessful in earlier phases

Announcement of Results:
Friday 5 August 2011

Wednesday,
27 July 2011

Thursday,
28 July 2011

Friday,
29 July 2011

Phase 2C Supplementary  

For a child who fails to get a place in a school of choice at Phase 2C

Announcement of Results:
Tuesday 16 August 2011

Thursday,
11 August 2011

Friday,
12 August 2011

For children who are not Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents1 Phase 3  
Announcement of Results:
Friday 26 August 2011

Thursday,
25 August 2011

Note:

  1. Children who are Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents and who have not registered at any of the earlier phases are also eligible to register at this phase.

Registration Procedures

Each child should be registered at only one school at any one time. If a child is registered at more than one school, he may lose his place in the school of choice.

Phases Registration Procedure
Phase 1

Registration at Primary School

Parents may submit the registration form and relevant documents through the older sibling who will be given the form by the school.

All children registered under this phase will be given places in the schools.

Phase 2A(1)

Phase 2A(2)

Phase 2B

Registration at Primary School

Registration is conducted at the primary school that you wish your child to be admitted into. The hours of registration are from 8.00 am to 11.00 am and from 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm on each scheduled registration day. Parents or a person authorized by the parents in writing (letter of authorization) is to submit the registration form and required documents at the school of choice.

Phase 2C

Phase 2C Supplementary

Registration at Primary School

Registration is conducted at the primary school that you wish your child to be admitted into. The hours of registration are from 8.00 am to 11.00 am and from 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm on each scheduled registration day. Parents or a person authorised by the parents in writing (letter of authorization) is to submit the registration form and required documents at the school of choice.

Online Registration for Eight Pilot Primary Schools

This year, MOE has introduced a new Primary One Internet System (P1-IS) as a pilot in eight Primary Schools. Parents registering their child for the eight pilot schools in these two phases will have an alternate channel created for their convenience to register their child. For details on online registration, please refer to the P1-IS Step-by-Step Guide (.pdf (2.2mb)).

The eight schools are:

  1. Anchor Green Primary School
  2. Beacon Primary School
  3. Canberra Primary School
  4. Edgefield Primary School
  5. Endeavour Primary School
  6. Mee Toh School
  7. Nan Chiau Primary School
  8. North Vista Primary School

Parents who register online will have to produce the originals of each required document to the school the child is successfully registered when requested by the school or upon reporting to the school.

The online registration periods are:

  • Phase 2C
    Starting from 9.00 am on 26 July 2011 to 4.30 pm on 28 July 2011.
  • Phase 2C Supplementary
    Starting from 9.00 am on 9 August 2011 to 4.30 pm on 11 August 2011.
Phase 3

Registration at Primary School

Registration is conducted at the primary school that you wish your child to be admitted into. The hours of registration are from 8.00 am to 11.00 am and from 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm on each scheduled registration day. Parents or a person authorized by the parents in writing (letter of authorization) is to submit the registration form and required documents at the school of choice.

With effect from 2011 Primary One Registration Exercise, balloting will be conducted in Phase 3 if the number of applications exceeds the number of places available at the end of the first day of Phase 3 registration. Balloting will be conducted on Friday, 26 August 2011.

After the balloting is completed, children who have not been able to obtain a place at their school of choice can go to another school with remaining vacancies to register on a first-come-first-served basis on 26 August 2011.

You may want to know:

The number of Primary One vacancies each school will offer for the 2011 Primary One Registration Exercise will be made available in June 2011 before the registration begins. Parents can refer to Primary Schools Vacancies by Phases or check the Teletext (Channel 8, page 720) for information on vacancies for each school.

Balloting will be conducted if the number of applications to a school exceed the number of vacancies during any phases from Phase 2A(1) to Phase 3. Please refer to Allocation of Places for details on balloting.

Parents can refer to Primary Schools Conducting Balloting or check the Teletext (Channel 8, page 720) to find out which schools will be conducting balloting at the end of each registration phase.

Parents can refer to the following links for more information: