Eve,
Oh, I think it is a good idea to pay a visit to the CH my boy is in! No harm checking it out and who knows, if it works out, they can be classmates, hee. Of course I also have hidden agenda lah, if u do go visit, want to ask u how my boy is doing in class. Let me know if u want their details.
I have visited these few (other than the CH my boy is enrolled in) but I am not sure if their location is ok for you: Below is my personal views:
1.
Global Kids => liked this place as well, principal was very personable but one of the teachers looked a bit fierce, I thought.
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Non air-con and they have Gymboree enrichment class. Fees was around $500+ for full day after subsidy (if I rem correctly). Location not so ideal for me.
2.
Nurture Cottage = > Could tell principal was experienced, offered me lots of advice. But they had a lot of kids and very few teachers. When we were there, they were having outdoor play and the teachers had difficulty looking after all of them. The P even had to tell the teacher to look out for one of the kids. Maybe it was an isolated incident. Once again, location not too ideal.
3.
Oydessey => very nice and huge compound. P was quite aloof, more business-like. Teacher-student ratio was good, like 1:3. Fees was crazy, $1.2K after subsidy.
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Shaws @ Mountbatten => Bad impression. Only an administrator spoke to us and we were not even allowed to view the compound. When we were there, there was an excursion going on, and the teachers were bz. One of the teachers just brushed us off, saying she’s busy, when we wanted to see the administrator. Noticed some of the teachers were also rather impatient with the kids.
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Cherie Hearts @ Bournemouth => P was good, very friendly. But place was warm with no aircon and rather messy.
Feifei,
CH also got not so good ones just like there are many non-CH which are good so dun worry.
for my case, the 1st day the school recommended half-day. So I brought lucas in at 10am and picked him up at around 12 noon (if I rem correctly). Then the next day I picked him up around 1 plus..this happened for about a week and the following week, I extend to 3 plus and then to 5 plus which is the current time.
Oh, so qiao, Char started screaming yest? Coincidentally, the teacher told my hubby yest while he went to pick up lucas that she observed that lucas is trying to mimic sounds and speak. I really hope she’s right.
Haha, yah, if it sounds close, then just tell yourself she’s calling you, hehe.
Felicia,
Hope your throat’s better now? I can so relate to the crying at night and pointing to the door cos my boy did that too!! There were a few times he woke up at night and suddenly cry very loudly and keep pointing to the door. Then once I brought him out he immediately wants me to go to our maid’s room and when she opened the door and carried him, he immediately stopped crying. *heart broken* hehe. I’m only glad those times are not often and we have discovered it happens when the maid spent long period of time alone with him in the day. So for those days, we will just ask the maid to take care of him at night.
Ellysia,
Wah, ur boy is so guai, taking school bus by himself liao.
Re giving food
Personally, I think sometimes it’s when the grandparents or other relatives give that may make it difficult cos we may not be around when it happens. Like the other day my boy approached my ILs while they were eating dinner and my FIL was going to give my boy some fried vegetables when I saw and stopped him. Not unhealthy in this case but he sure will choke cos the veg is quite hard and long. Maybe I’m paranoid but I told my maid to keep a lookout when I’m not around…