Nanyang Primary School vs Rosyth School

At a glance

Differences to explore

P1 Phase 2C

Nanyang Primary School: 2026 · Vacancies: 40 · Applications: 68; Rosyth School: 2026 · Vacancies: 46 · Applications: 120. Read the exercise years separately; these are not individual admission probabilities.

CCA

The records share 10 CCA listings. Nanyang Primary School also lists Art and Crafts (Girls and Boys), Artistic Gymnastics (Girls), Boys' Brigade (Boys), Chinese Calligraphy and Brush Painting (Girls and Boys) and more, which do not appear in the other school's records. Rosyth School also lists Choir (Girls and Boys), Comics and Illustration (Girls and Boys), Concert Band (Girls and Boys), Debating and Public Speaking (Girls and Boys) and more, which do not appear in the other school's records. Listings may be incomplete; confirm availability with each school.

Programme tags

Nanyang Primary School: SAP; Rosyth School: no IP or SAP tag listed. Check the specific programme your child would enter.

The daily journey

Nearby MRT stations listed for Nanyang Primary School: Farrer Rd; for Rosyth School: Ang Mo Kio, Serangoon. Compare the full journey from home, including transfers and the walk to school.

P1 registration records

How to choose between them

Both schools run GEP centres and are genuinely hard to get into at P1. The real fork in the road is language heritage and secondary planning — Nanyang locks in a bilingual Chinese environment plus an affiliation pathway to Nanyang Girls' High, while Rosyth gives you a strong GEP community without the SAP commitment.

Consider Nanyang Primary School if…

• Affiliation to Nanyang Girls' High secures a top IP secondary option
• SAP environment builds deep bilingual fluency from day one

Consider Rosyth School if…

• No SAP obligation — suits families not prioritising Chinese immersion
• Strong GEP centre in AMK without restricting secondary school choices

If you want the bilingual heritage track and a safety net into a top IP school, Nanyang is hard to beat — but if you want to keep all secondary doors open, Rosyth gives your child that freedom.

Get to know each school

Nanyang Primary School

Nanyang Primary began as the primary section of Nanyang Girls’ School in 1917. MOE records a separate primary building in 1975 and separation from the girls’ school in 1978. It introduced an English stream in 1983, became a SAP school in 1984 and joined the Gifted Education Programme in 1990. The school’s current bilingual programme builds on that history, but a primary-school place does not by itself establish eligibility for any later secondary-school programme. Published programme descriptions should be matched to the child’s actual cohort and selection conditions.

The SAP page describes a P3 Di Zi Gui camp, local food and multicultural learning, P4 Peranakan experiences and P5 redesigning traditional games. Upper-primary activities include xinyao lyrics. The selected P4–6 Bi²Fins programme runs over three years, using English and Chinese for cultural inquiry, project design and student-ambassador work. Local immersion, overseas learning and exchanges also appear in the published programme. These activities have different participation arrangements: a selected three-year programme or an overseas opportunity should not be assumed to cover every pupil.

• Nanyang Primary School
• 特别辅助计划 Special Assistance Plan (SAP)

Rosyth School

Rosyth School began in 1956 at Rosyth Road, serving many pupils from nearby kampungs. Both its own history and MOE’s account record selection to host gifted education in 1983, although their descriptions differ on the original number of host schools and the timing of the Parry Avenue move. It relocated to Serangoon North Avenue 4 in 2001, with the new building opened in 2002. Its gifted-education history is a historical feature, not an admission entitlement or a description of every pupil’s curriculum.

Period PHI runs fortnightly for one to one-and-a-half hours. It links pupils’ interests with the school’s 7E innovation protocol and ideas about purpose from Ikigai. Three modules give it practical form: teachers introduce personal interests through Passion T-Time, RosZania uses occupational role-play, and innovation projects develop solutions intended to help others. The programme page describes discussion, collaboration and presenting ideas. Families can ask what their child’s year-level project involves and how teachers assess the learning process as well as the final product.

• School History
• Rosyth School
• Innovation

CCAs and programmes

Nanyang Primary School

• Art and Crafts (Girls and Boys)
• Artistic Gymnastics (Girls)
• Badminton (Girls and Boys)
• Basketball (Girls and Boys)
• Boys' Brigade (Boys)
• Chinese Calligraphy and Brush Painting (Girls and Boys)
• Chinese Dance (Girls)
• Chinese Orchestra (Girls and Boys)
• Choir (Boys)
• Football (Boys)
• Girl Guides (Brownies) (Girls)
• Girls' Brigade (Girls)
• International Chess (Girls and Boys)
• Robotics (Girls and Boys)
• Scouts (Girls and Boys)
• String Ensemble (Girls and Boys)
• Table Tennis (Girls and Boys)
• Tennis (Girls and Boys)
• Track and Field (Girls and Boys)
• Wushu (Girls and Boys)

Rosyth School

• Badminton (Girls and Boys)
• Basketball (Girls and Boys)
• Chinese Dance (Girls)
• Chinese Orchestra (Girls and Boys)
• Choir (Girls and Boys)
• Comics and Illustration (Girls and Boys)
• Concert Band (Girls and Boys)
• Debating and Public Speaking (Girls and Boys)
• Environmental Science (Girls and Boys)
• Football (Girls and Boys)
• Girl Guides (Brownies) (Girls)
• Infocomm Technology (Computing) (Girls and Boys)
• Infocomm Technology (Media Production) (Girls and Boys)
• International Chess (Girls and Boys)
• Mathematics (Girls and Boys)
• Robotics (Girls and Boys)
• Scouts (Boys)
• Tennis (Girls and Boys)
• Track and Field (Girls and Boys)
• Wushu (Girls and Boys)

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