TRANSPORT
A door to door service is available for students, except for Toute Petite Section (TPS) students and the 5:15pm shuttle bus.
School Buses
Every day hundreds of buses carry students from all over Singapore to the International French School (Singapore).
It is not the role of IFS to ensure transport for its students.
- However the school facilitates access to transport through a framework agreement with an external provider, currently Woodlands Transport Solutions Pte Ltd (WT).
- The transport service provider has been appointed following a tender procedure.
- The school publishes a School Bus Handbook every year, which contains useful information including the rules regarding the transport of students.
- You can find the Transport fees for 2024-2025 here.
Registration for bus service for 2024/2025
- For all new registrations with Woodlands Transport, please click here to proceed to the online registration of your child/children.
- Seat allocation may take up to 2 weeks to process.
- For any questions about the online registration, please contact WT Transport Office at (65) 6805 0053 or 6805 0057.
Changes or cancellations of bus service
To change or cancel the service, kindly contact Woodlands Transport office +65 6805 0053 or 6805 0057.
Shuttle bus of 5:15pm
For 5e, 4e and 3e students and High School students
- For 5e fill out the “Shuttle Request Form” directly by clicking here.
- For 4e and 3e fill out the “Shuttle Request Form” directly by clicking here.
The bus service of 5:15pm covers about a hundred predetermined stops all over Singapore. You can download the list of the stops at the bottom of the page.
“Cross Transfer”
For Middle and High school students
Middle and High School students who regularly finish (every week) before the official end of classes can have a seat in the buses that leave earlier provided they obtain prior authorisation from the Transport office. This additional service is organised a few weeks after the start of the school year, and is subject to the availability of seats. A notification is sent to the parents before the start of the service.
- The cancellation of a class is not a ground for early release
- The “cross transfer” is not guaranteed all year long. Even after it is granted, it can be modified during the school year depending on new arrivals or relocation of younger students who have priority in the buses
Bus after the ECAs and for the Holiday Camps
Only for the Kindergarten and Elementary School (price not included in the ECA fees, the Camps fees or in the school bus fees).
Woodlands Transport proposes a bus service for the bus after ECAs and for the Holiday Camps with centralised pick-up and drop-off points, better adapted to the rhythm of the activities (with different children present each day of the week for the ECA and each week for the Camps). This bus service operates from Monday to Friday (for the 2 Friday sessions of ECA). There is no bus service on Saturday morning.
Attention: Please note, this is not a door-to-door bus service. To see the list of pick-up and drop-off points and the rates for the school year 2024-2025, click on the documents below:
Please note: No requests from parents to change any of the pick-up or drop-off points from the list (or any additions) will be allowed.
Registration is done directly with Woodlands Transport, at the rate corresponding to the pick-up/drop-off point selected. If some points have too few students enrolled, they are likely to be closed, and the parents concerned are informed before the ECAs or the Camps start.
The link for online bus registration for ECA will be shared by the ECA team and for camps by ProActiv.
Note:
The presence of an adult at the drop-off point in the afternoon is mandatory for children up to CE1. The choice is proposed for children in CE2, CM1 and CM2, however we recommend the same arrangement for them (attention: children will not be dropped off in front of the house).
Please plan to be at the pick-up/drop-off point 5 minutes earlier as buses cannot wait at the locations. Children not met in the afternoon (and not authorized to leave alone) are returned to school and a flat fee of $40 is charged. Parent/Guardian is then required to fetch their child from school as soon as possible.
Safety on board the buses
IFS, in coordination with WT, takes the necessary measures to ensure that both the rules of good behaviour and safety rules are respected.
All these rules and instructions are detailed in the School Transport Booklet.
To ensure better safety control and make sure that safety rules are complied with, WT installed CCTV cameras on board the buses. The use of the footage is strictly for security and disciplinary purposes. Their storage cannot exceed 2 weeks, except for specific cases (pending disciplinary proceeding for example), in accordance with the PDP Act.
Contact
Transport office
Email : [email protected]
Tel : +65 6805 0053 or +65 6805 0057
IFS Transport Manager
Email : [email protected]
Tel: +65 6805 0110
Public transport
The city buses and the MRT are convenient and offer the advantage of being very affordable.
The International French School (Singapore) can be accessed with the following buses: 25, 55, 73, 74, 76, 132, 165.
The closest MRT station from the school is Ang Mo Kio, which is about 10 to 15 min by bus (buses 25, 73, 74, 76, 132 or 165).
