Parents can find out the schools that will be conducting balloting via Teletext (Channel 8, page 720) or through the Internet ( http://www.moe.gov.sg/esp/schadm/p1/ ) at the end of each registration phase. Parents are welcome to witness the balloting at the schools. The number of applicants for each school is updated daily, at the end of each day, on the Internet and Teletext.

Children under the care of foster parents may be registered for admission using the address of the foster parents provided:

     1 both parents are working full-time. A statutory declaration by the parents would be required to state that the child is being looked after by foster parents; and

     2 the foster parent is a grandparent of the child or a sibling of either of the child's parents and the foster parent is not employed.

For the purpose of registration, the foster parent and one of the child's parents are required to make a statutory declaration at MOE's Customer Service Centre. The statutory declaration can be made any time between 0800 hours and 1600 hours, Mondays to Fridays, and from 0800 hours to 1200 hours on Saturdays, from 5 July 2005 to 19 August 2005. They should bring with them the following documents:

     1 identity cards of both parents;

     2 identity card of the foster parent;

   4 documents to prove the relationship between the parent and the foster parent.

Children who are registered using a foster parent's address and residing within 1 km of the school of choice will not be balloted together with other children residing within 1km of their school of choice. Instead, they will be balloted together with children residing within 2 km of the school of choice.

Any false information given by parents during the Primary One Registration Exercise will be referred to the Police for investigation. A child whose parent is found to have given false information will be transferred out of the school.

Children who are neither Singapore Citizens nor Singapore Permanent Residents may be registered directly under Phase 3 on 30 August 2005. Registration in this phase will be done on a first-come-first-served basis.

Singaporeans who are overseas and who wish to register their children for Primary One can obtain the application form and a copy of the notes on the registration procedure from the Overseas Missions, Embassies, Singapore Clubs and Associations. The information can also be found on the Internet at http://www.moe.gov.sg/corporate/students_returning.htm  .

Information booklets on the 2005 Primary One Registration Exercise have been distributed to kindergartens and childcare centres. The booklets are also available at the MOE Customer Service Centre.