feifei,
personally, I think most schools in singapore are reasonably good already,
the teacher are educated to a certain level,
the place is clean to certain acceptance.
For Playgroup, I'll choose a place with lots of fun & play,
acadamic comes 2nd at this point of time,
for a typical Singaporean kid, they only have childhood for about 3-6 years,
after that, it's going to be studies for the next 20 or so...
You don't want to scare a kid of schooling now...
Our #1 is getting the stress now,
she's 5.5 yr old...
There's English Spelling & Chinese "ting xie" weekly...