Agape Little Uni
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I've already registered my boy to the centre @ Mid View City. The place looks really nice, clean and new. My boy loves the indoor playground and refuse to come out the last time I went to visit. The Principal, Shanti (looks young) is really passionate about the centre and their programme when I spoke to her. She shared with me what the children will go through on a day to day basis and it sounds really interesting. My boy has all the while been attending only a 2-hour playgroup, so she suggested that I let my boy attend \"flexi-care\" programme first which is a 3-4 hour a day till my boy is used to the centre, then maybe I can transfer him to a full-day. The good thing about the school is that they have substantial learning programme in the morning as well. Not like some childcare (which I checked out) where children don't learn much if they go for only half-day. What I understand is that morning they will have \"in-house\" programmes (taught by their own teachers) and afternoon are covered by external vendors. The price includes all enrichment programmes! They have speech and drama, baking, computer lessons, kidz gym, art and craft, etc.
Can any parents share about children experiences in Agape@Little Uni? Do they really cover all those they promised in the programme? I worried they talk big only and give me empty promises...:P -
Not so sure if Cecil kids move from class to class from wat some mummies posted here. When I visited the sch I noted dat the kids are assigned classrooms n all the lessons are conducted in that room. They dun move ard.
Also the food menu dun look appealing. No healthy barley drink for tea break etc which some CC offers.
Teachers are young n soft spoken for the younger classes but not v experienced.
For parents w kids transferred there from other centers , can I ask if u visited the sch during lessons times? Coz I noted most of their kids are transferred from other centres -
Shouldnt basic gym activities or arts n craft be offered as part of standard learning curriculum, not under external enrichment? At younger levels, I would prefer that these should be facilitated by the teachers as they will know the physical and mental development of their own students best. I think speech and drama is fine using external vendors though.
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Very disappointed with the administration of Agape@Cashew
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Hi Mr Big
Are you one of the parents of agape@cashew heights?
Wat are your plans? Hv u settled yr child in another school?
I’m still scouting around … Not very pleased with the outcome of decision either… -
Yes I am.
I feel that the owners (Teo) mentioned that they would ensure a smooth transition between them and Ace@work, however all I have seen is the Teo’s selling their new childcare.
It seems to me that the Teo’s are very childish and imho they lack integrity by saying one thing and doing another.
It is very sad, because the good name of Agape is being tarnished by the Teo’s who are not going to carry on the franchise, and have been trying to SELL their 2 new premises.
Having said that I do not think that Agape is bad … infact I like Agape… it is the Teos that have tarnished Agape’s good reputation.
I see the care and reposibility of Ace@work and imho "good riddence to the Teos and Agape@Cashew" -
Oh Great (sarcastic) ~!
The cheque for the refund that the Teo’s from Agape@Cashew bounced~!!!
I’ve not met a worst operator in my life. -
Hi, it is our belief as parents that our child has a right to a respectful environment that we would like to pen down our recent encounter.
i would like to feedback our recent experience with Agape Little uni @Central (located at Midview city). Our 3 year old son was first enrolled to this new childcare center 6 months ago (from last Sept 2011 until Feb 2012). We’ve been making mthly cash payment for school fees of $580/- from Sept 11 - Feb 12 upon registration with the school but we proceed to submit GIRO application in Dec 2011.
We’ve not been informed if the GIRO application has been approved despite our repeated phonecall to the school center and my wife’s last phone call to the center is dated 31 Jan 2012 and Ms Shanti, school principal, informed us it is not approved yet. So we continue to make cash payment until Feb 2012.
However, last Sat 18/2, i checked my child’s January 2012 CDA account statement and discovered an incorrect S$2140 withdrawal transactions (namely 17 Jan- $1160 and 31st Jan- $980) from CDA account - monthly school fees deduction should be S580/nett . i was very angry and we confronted the school directors that same Sat 18/2 and they admitted to us there is apparent issue with ex-principal Ms. Shanti’s management of their school finances and the school management has already asked her to leave and her last working day with Agape little uni is dated 10 Feb 2012.
Though we’ve received refunded amount of S$2140/- from the school director after we confronted the school management but we’ve informed the school of our decision to withdraw our son, Ryan from the school.
It is with the same belief that every child has a right to a respectful environment and to undergo the tedious process of starting in another new childcare environment soon. At the same time, we’re also unsure if our child is benefiting from Agape little uni ‘s school syllabus.
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Our queries/issues with the school on 18/2 Sat meeting are as follows:
1) Why are there 2 GIRO deductions made to our child’s CDA account on Jan 2011 statement even though we’ve already made cash payment of monthly fee of $580/- until month of Feb 2012?
2) Why we as parents are not being informed about the GIRO approval by the school despite our repeated phone call check with the school principal Ms. Shanti and the last phone call made for GIRO approval checks by my wife to the school is dated 31 Jan 2012 and the ex-principal Ms. Shanti confirms this during our 18-Feb 2012 Sat discussion. Also prior to meeting in the school on 18 Feb afternoon, I called up OCBC Bank @noon time to confirm the GIRO approval will only be sent to the school only, not to the parent/child of CDA account and I was very angry about this whole thing and requested to CANCEL the GIRO application for school fees with immediate effect.
3) These 2 GIRO withdrawals made does not look like a ‘mistake’ as from below analysis these seems to be some suspected form of ‘cheating’ or plot to embezzle school fees from parents by the school principal. If this is by anyway of any mistake, then the correct amount of $580/ nett should be deducted instead. (1st GIRO withdrawal-> $1160 could be $580 x2mth= $1160 and $980 -> initial deposit)
4) Why didn’t the school management contact us earlier about the incorrect GIRO deduction and we, as parent, need to flag out the error and be proactive in confronting/reporting this GIRO deduction issue to the school to get a REFUND? Question here is: What if we did not challenge the GIRO deduction and the school’s negligence over this matter. So will this be seen by the school as ‘normal’? Does the school not have a correct procedure or book keeping for managing the center operation?
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Lastly, the assigned school principal should focus on school curriculum, teacher’s lesson delivery and child’s growth development rather than managing school fees, finance related. The school director or authorized personnel should assume this responsibility from our view.
i hope anyone reading our recent experience will draw useful lesson from it.
** Note: i may proceed to make police report or to report this case to MCYS for the accounting/withdrawal discrepancies to our child’s CDA account and seek further investigation/explanation from the related ministry.
Your sincerely, -
This is totally not acceptable! Agape at Mid view is franchised n not under the founder of Agape’s management. The directors for mid view only invested in the childcare & do not get v involved w the curriculum or monitoring of the centre’s activities.
I was actually thinking of enrolling my son to midview but now reading such comments , I am v concerned!
Can u share if the teachers are just as irresponsible & bad??
What is the direction moving forward?
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From my observation, the K1/2 teacher Mrs Teo is very good- passionate in teaching the kids, friendly n approachable…the rest I think may need to accumulate more experience…moving forward, I hope the school mgmt will be more committed to nurture the young and thus to avoid such unhappy incident again.
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