Pat's Schoolhouse

[Koolmama]

Hi Footix,


YES Pat's not only asks you for advance payment, they ask for it all the way before in AUGUST!!! If you don't pay by Sept, your child loses a slot for the following year...

footix:

Hi all PSH parents,

I would like to check if PSH asks for advance school fees payment for January 2012 in order to secure your child's place in PSH for 2012?

(My child's current school is doing so. I'm pulling her out and put her in PSH next year.)

[smurfy]

i’ve never considered whether pat’s will prepare the kids for P1 in future. To me, Pat’s is a place where the kids have tonnes of funz in their pre-schooling years. Kids learnt to speak up more and confident due to the exposure and reassurance from their teachers. And that’s more important to me.


I’ve sent him for enrichment classes and that’s because i am super dilly dally mummy, enrichment classes forces me to reinforce some of the things tat was taught in the class w the boy. Otherwise, i oso dunno where/how to start.

[jetsetter]

Hi footix


yes, u need to pay the deposit and first month’s school fees to secure a place at most childcare centres including PSH.

[pancake77]

kabalevsky:

Hi freesia,

In Pats, he is in extended half day so he has all the afternoon enrichments. I don't enrol him for any other enrichment at all. From what I see, the weekly reports, the PTMs and the portfolio he brings home, he should be well-prepared for P1 and beyond.

From my understanding only full day has all the afternoon enrichment. Extended half day (7.30am till 3pm) doesn't include the afternoon enrichment. Nursery has nap time till 3pm and enrichment classes start only after 3pm. It's the same for K1 and K2, but with shorter nap time.

[Kabby]

For extended half day for K1 and K2, there is enrichment from 1pm - 2.30pm, thereabouts, after lunch.


K1 nap time is after this enrichment. K2 usually don’t nap anymore.

For full day K1 and K2, after a short rest time (some kids don’t nap at all), they have another enrichment slot from 5pm -6pm. This is where swimming and so on comes in.

[Kabby]

By the way, half day is till 12pm, thereabouts. Extended half day is till 3pm.

[smurfy]

tomorow is read for the record day..

http://www.readfortherecord.com/

was sms-ed to dress my child in pjyamas by his teacher

[Kabby]

yes, i think it sounds really fun! I love these type of events!

[motherQUEEN]

Hi, parents, which centres for pat’s other than Halifax is good? No slot in for Halifax. Damn sad.

[jetsetter]

This extended programme, I was told by PSH, will eventually be phased out, i.e. those already in the existing 7.30am-3pm will continue to move up to higher levels, but the newly enrolled kids will no longer have the choice of this particular timing. It’ll either be 7.00 am to 7.00 pm/5.30pm or 7.00 am to 12.00pm thereabts. It’s because it’s easier for the centre to coordinate the logistics.


Note that starting time is 7.00am not 7.30am moving forward, because MCYS has informed PSH that it is operating under a cc license (what do u call that?) so it has to comply with the stipulated operating hours of a childcare centre whose primary mission/biz function is really to cater to working mothers who need to be on time at their workplace, usually at 8.30am.