Do not choose schools for your child just because they are more popular or have “higher status” than the neighbourhood schools. Always discuss with your child first. Ultimately, you have to consider if the school selected is a good fit for your child. Think about the ethos, culture, programmes offered, commuting distance and academics aspects too.

Use the SA1 and subsequently prelim results to add up the overall AL score before shortlisting a list of possible secondary schools your child can qualify for.

The Parents Gateway app, a mobile app that enables schools to perform administrative functions as well as update parents on their programmes, was launched by Education Minister Ong Ye Kung.

A study by Fan and colleagues (2013) on 70 million ‘tweets’ on Weibo (a social site in China) found that happy tweets were shared among close relationships while angry tweets were shared by both close and distant relationships. This finding was clearly evident in the furore raised over a recent Facebook comment posted by a local educator, Ms. Lenny Rahman, who lashed out at the lack of parental responsibility of parents “from a particular race” who “do not even want to try to get involved with their kids’ education”.