Moving to Singapore with 2 school primary children

[anhembi]

Hello

I am trying to get my head around of moving to Singapore and I am a bit worried about the waiting list of the schools over there. We live in London and we are planning to move the next academic year when my children will be in Reception and Year 3. As we want to follow the British curriculum, we contacted Dulwich college, Tanglin and Dover. All of them with waiting lists of a year time, if so. Dulwich is the only one offering me spaces for my little one and priority for my eldest.

What do you do? As the application form fees are so high I really do not want to apply and then do not have the space. Are there other International British schools am I missing? What are your thoughts about that?

I kind of like Dulwich but it seems very far from the centre and also very expensive. Where do you live if your kids got to Dulwich? My eldest suffers from car sickness so the less he travels in bus the better! DH will be working in Downtown, another consideration!

Please could you recommend any groups/ websites/forums I can join. As we are in early stages of negotiations, it is kind of secret so joining Facebook groups cannot be possible.

Thanks!

@grasset I am interested to find out how your move went?? I am moving with kids of a similar age in December 24 and struggling to decide which is the best school fit for them. We live in Ireland at the moment so we will be moving from Irish education system to British one (they did most of their primary in UK though) but we then might end up returning to Irish education system in a few years so I am panicking about the differences between IGCSE and IB and if they are interchangeable with other education systems?? Did you go with UWC in the end? I think that's my preferred choice at the moment! Thanks!