Newton Kindergarten

[kerbaya]

Thanks Em and greenbean for your sharing.


We have been trying to fix a date to visit newton kindy on 2 occasions but didn’t materialise due to bad timing. Hope to do it real soon…very excited.

Hi Jazzchloe, how’s your visit to newton?

[MummyThreeStreams]

Em:

My daughter is a Dec kid. She attended N1 last year, and NO toilet training was given to her. She was fully trained by my MIL (bless her!) during the June hols. For so many months my MIL kept complaining it was the teacher's job to toilet train the kids, to collect their utensils after makan. In the teachers' defense I'd be telling her that it was impossible for two teachers to toilet train 15 or 16 kids and still keep order and conduct lessons etc. Also, wasn't it good for children to learn how to keep their utensils? But after reading greenbean's comment that children get toilet trained at Newton, I wonder if my MIL's assessment that my daughter's teachers were lazy is correct.

My son is a Nov baby, so less developed than his classmates when they started school. On the issue of toilet training, the teachers will bring all the kids to the toilet and ask them if they need to go. It is quite hard for the teachers to toilet train all the kids if nothing is being done at home. However, the teachers told me to let them know when we were ready to start toilet training my son, so that they could reinforce the message at home. So we worked together and toilet training was a breeze.

[MummyThreeStreams]

greenbean2011:

dear N2 Newton parent,


We are now into Term 2. For N2 term 2, the topic is on Plants.

on this Plant topic, you can supplement at home by letting your child watch an excellent, meaningful Science DVD documentary on Plants, entitted the Private Life of Plants, by David Attenborough, by BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).

green bean, thanks for sharing! My son came home from school talking about plants - how they grow from seeds, develop flowers and fruit etc. etc. I thought it was adorable!

[octbride]

Good to hear that..


I ask my daughter what did she learn.. She told me \"I dun now. Nothing..\"
:?

[greenbean2011]

besides go National library borrow books on plants, think maybe we can help our kids gain some hands on real life practice with their hands, grow some simple greenery plants at home ?


perhaps we can go and buy some seeds, ask our kids to water the plants, add nutrients to the soil everyday, chart to monitor the plant growth everyday, measure height of the plant ? hmmm …… perhaps, let them start to explore growing simple money plant, an underground stem plant, a flowering plant ?

hey, besides octbride, Jazz, MummyThreeStreams, who else out here have kids in N2 this year ?

I think kids of Jazz and MummyThreeStreams might be classmates from the same class heheheheh… ie. those who attended Pre-Nursery (N1) last year.

octbride – you transfer your child in from St James kindy this year, is it ? if yes, kekekekeke … maybe our kids are classmates from same class, because my N2 PM class are 100% transfer cases from other external kindergarten, childcare centres, SG Montessori pre-school, all join wef this year, Term 1 & Term 2.

[greenbean2011]

yes, i miss out one more N2 parent … Em

[octbride]

Hi greenbean


Actually is a long story. First year N1, she was enrolled in newton kindy. Then 2 months later, St James called me and said there was vacancy so i pulled her out fr newton kindy and let her joined St James.
But but N1 term 2, I transferred her back to newton kindy again. haa.

She is now N2 afternoon session Mercy class, also taking enrichment Helen Drama.

[DesertWind]

octbride:

Actually is a long story. First year N1, she was enrolled in newton kindy. Then 2 months later, St James called me and said there was vacancy so i pulled her out fr newton kindy and let her joined St James. But but N1 term 2, I transferred her back to newton kindy again. haa.

Hi octbride,

Why the transferring here & there? St. James no good meh?
:celebrate:

[octbride]

Hi DesertWind


Just my personal opinion.

1) Newton Kindy is more organised as compared to St James.
2) In Newton, each kid has their own bag compartment and the classroom is more neat and clean.
3) St James has alot of "play" activities which is good, eg, need to remember to wear T-shirt attire for Mon, Tues and Friday. Need to bring swimming costume and extra towel on Friday cos there will be water play. Unfortunately my mum is taking care of 4 grandchildren who studied different schools hence its difficult for her to remember
4) Newton focuses Chinese more, which i advocate to that idea as well since i find Chinese pretty hard to learn
5) I find that the students at Newton are more disciplined

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[DesertWind]

octbride:

Hi DesertWind,

Just my personal opinion.
1) Newton Kindy is more organised as compared to St James.
2) In Newton, each kid has their own bag compartment and the classroom is more neat and clean.
3) St James has alot of \"play\" activities which is good, eg, need to remember to wear T-shirt attire for Mon, Tues and Friday. Need to bring swimming costume and extra towel on Friday cos there will be water play. Unfortunately my mum is taking care of 4 grandchildren who studied different schools hence its difficult for her to remember
4) Newton focuses Chinese more, which i advocate to that idea as well since i find Chinese pretty hard to learn
5) I find that the students at Newton are more disciplined
...

OIC.....thanks for explaining!