My 21mth old daughter, Charlotte, goes to Pat's schoolhouse at Arena Country Club. She has been there since start of Jul 07. She attends the full day session.
Before we committed, we went on a Sat to look at the Premises, and trialed for two full days to get a feel of their teachers and whether Charlotte likes the environment. I was there the whole 2 full days, with Daddy joining us on the last half day. So, yes, they do allows trials.
We liked Pat's as the learning environment was clean, spacious, and well-lit. The teacher-children ratio was small, there is always two teachers, English and Chinese teacher around. Hence, Charlotte is more bilingual now.
Plus they are very creative with their crafts work, finger-painting, making collages with materials of different textures, face painting, mask painting etc. They also offers water play, sand play etc. There are daily music lessons as well.
One big plus is that there is no TV! We looked at other childcare centres and most allow the children to watch TV programs before and after classes. Over in Pat's, the children are occupied with play/music without TV!
Charlotte really likes going to school. She is also more vocal after attending school. Plus, she is defintely learning more at home than staying home with the maid!