Newton Kindergarten
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meiah,
i don't stay in Toa Payoh (TPY). Not sure what time school bus come to fetch kids in the morning. Maybe can call up Auntie Ong to check, or those mommies /papie staying at TPY can tell us ?
at least, AM kids staying at TPY are lucky ... still got school bus bring them to school.
jazzychloe,
if yr husb can drive your girl to AM class Mon-Fri daily come thunderstorm, rain or shine, it's good! At least, transport to school one way direction is been solved.
the return home journey after 12 noon dismissal back to Aljunied (yr mom), usually Auntie Ong can arrange, not to worry.
i was allocated an AM seat for my child, K1 next yr 2012. However, there is no school bus in the morning to kindy. Unless my husb drives her everyday to school, reach there before 8 am lessons start. On sunshine morning ok, but if thunderstorm raining morning, very troublesome! Bad traffic jam from Paya Lebar road (1st cut), then entire Pan Island expressway, another jam (2nd cut)!
alternative solutions:-
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a) ask Auntie Ong to help you ask around - nearby Newton vicinity, got any school bus operator from other nearby kindergarten around Newton circus that happen to pass by your Senkang area in the morning to fetch kindy kids, then drop off yr child at Newton kindy admin office ? Then admin staff bring yr child up to her AM class.
b) if not, you call up those other kindergarten located nearby around Newton vicinity yourself one by one, check if they can provide this extra service ?
c) any other suggestion ? -
hi jazzychloe,
very glad that you sign up for ICL (I Creative learning) for yr girl. :dancing: it's a good enrichment course.
http://email.icreativelearner.com.sg/hbpresch.html
parents looking for home-based ICL, can consider tr Ivy Phang. She has formed some more new classes, latest vacancies updated here:-
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=10024&start=110 -
any parent send children for FastTrack kids enrichment at kindy ?
any feedback ? -
anyone got the song lyrics how to sing our Newton kindergarten song ?
wana teach my daughter … -
info ... Teaching guide for mental arithmetic
would you like to ...
- train your child from young at home how to use his RIGHT brain to improve his memory, his concentration power, his creative imaginative power ?
- teach your child learn how to use the abacus, do addition and subtraction at home ?
if Yes, read on:-
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1352&start=660 -
hi GuniBabe,
you mention before you were considering transfer yr child out of Newton kindy to Yio Chu Kang chapel kindy (yckc), due to shifting house ?
here is recent feedback by a parent whose child in yckc:-
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21917&p=426719
http://www.yckckindergarten.com/centres/?dxuid=SG010228 -
parents from other kindy feedback on JLTP (John Langrehr Thinking)enrichment programme:-
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3310&p=427338#p427338
http://www.jltp.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9 -
hi meiah,
my friend just sms me.
she stays at Toa Payoh, lorong 6. She says Newton school bus fetch her son (K1 this year) daily around 7.20 am, reach kindy by 7.45 am. AM lessons start 8 am sharp, end at 12 noon (4 hrs kindy daily). -
Hi,
Tks. My dd takes bus at 10.45am and her sch starts at 11.30am. But I see this little girl go Newton take bus at 10.15am for pm session but pm session only starts at 11.45am right? So I’m wondering why need 1 and a half hours… -
hi meiah,
Oh! That's because this little girl you happen to bump into at your same block in (Toa Payoh) TYP - happen to attend morning enrichment class that morning you saw her, from 10.15 am - 11.15 am.
after this little girl finish her enrichment, then she will attend her 4 hrs PM session, from 11.45 am - 3.45 pm.
for PM session kids, all enrichment lessons are conducted in the morning.
for AM session kids, all enrichment lessons are conducted in the afternoon.
for TPY PM session kids who do not attend enrichment lesson, school bus normally come and fetch kids - around 10.50 am, reach school latest 11.30am. That same friend of mine staying at TPY Lorong 4, whose son K1 this year - told me so.
for PM session, after picking up TPY kids - next, the school bus travels down the streets of Bishan, turning in and out of Bishan streets. Oh! there are so many Bishan kids! Although there are many pre-schools, child care centres and kindergarten in Bishan, yet Newton kindergarten however remains popular with Bishan residents.
in fact, if you look at the entire school bus load comprising Bishan-TPY grc, close to 70% to 80% are Bishan resident kids. Once they board onto school bus, the entire bus become so noisy - like a fish market instantly! Boys and girls talk at top of their voices like a parrot, raise their voies, giggling and laughing away happily. Those sitting right in front rows raise their voice, turn their heads back, trying to talk / shout to their fellow school mates seated right at the back of the school bus, to be heard. Even when school bus Auntie keep asking them to tone down their voices, the kids just ignore her. They continue chit-chatting, happy chirpy bird!
some studious K2 kids are ... oblivious to the noise inside the school bus. They take out their tiny booklet of spelling and Chinese tingxie, trying to revise for that week. These are the hardworking pupils! One fine day, maybe turn out into scholars one day :imcool: :lol:
the last school bus stop is one - landed property private house, 3 storey semi-detached. It's been recently renovated - very beautiful white house, large, huge, attracting a lot of on-lookers from inside the school bus. When the school bus turn in here as a last stop to pick up the last student, many pupils exclaim 'Wow! house so beautiful ! So lovely, so big, so nice!'
Newton parents , if you have the time one day, do take a school bus ride one day. One day is ok. Auntie Ong won't mind you take school bus. Just enjoy the ride. Be pleasantly surprised by what you see! :boogie:
the school bus finally turn into Newton kindy school compound. Check the watch ... time reveals ... 11.30 am. Kids start to queue up two by two, happily taking the lift up to level 2.
around 11.36 am, PM school / form teachers come out - take the pupils' body temperature, check both their palm (for signs of HFMD), ask them to open up their mouth, shine a torch light in, check their open mouth (any mouth sore ?).
Teachers ask pupils queue up two by two, according to their PM class name, go toilet wash hands, before entering classrooms for - makan lunch time. 11.45 am sharp, PM kids start to eat lunch hungrily, lunch time until 12.15 pm. Different day, they lunch with either English or Chinese form teacher... happy social interaction.
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