shook - from what I understand from Annie, there are new teachers coming in in Aug, Sep and Oct... they are hunting for new teachers, but can't get. That's why the ratio become very high. It used to be very good. They've been very active in getting more teachers in.
My gal is in full day... I send her around 7.50am before sending my older girl to kindergarten in katong. Usually will pick her around 5 or 5.30, but sometimes if something on, will pick as early as 4 or 4.30pm.
She only goes 4 days a week becos on friday got violin in the middle of the day 12.30, very inconvenient to send then fetch again 2 hours later. so just keep her at home, then can put in more practice also... heh.
The previous operator very cheap - only 300 after 150 subsidy for full time working mother. So now, since I stop work, have to increase by 75, then they got monthly dunno wat fee, so total is about 390 or something like that lah. Good thing we were already there... how much are they charging now? 500?
I saw a mother taking home a small boy in a blue t-shirt today (no uniform) - about 5.40pm like that... was that you? I was there picking up my girl at that time too.
I think 1/2 day at childcare not worth lah... so ex. better to put in kindergarten / nursery if want half day only. some more many 1/2 day kids, supposed to have b'fast, lunch there, but in the end didn't, so waste all that money for nothing. in the end the hours like nursery school.
but i taking my girl out at the end of the year... cos the kindergarten i want to enrol her in say if I wait until k1 to enrol her, chances very slim of getting space... but next year n2 still got 2 vacancies (at the time i went to register lah - now most likely gone liao) so if want must faster... so i no choice but to take her out next year.
also good lah i guess, then got more time to teach her all the things that I want to do with her, and easier to attend enrichment too. now she friday don't go, thursday go home early because of berries, then sometimes i will take her swimming with her siblings so also go home early... quite loo-gi ah, like that.