Growing Up Gifted - Kindergarten

[tamtam]

It was the MD's speech during the K2 graduation event last month. Oh, sorry to hear the VP left a cold impression.. actually, my own experience all these years has been that they're all very warm and helpful, from teachers to principal and directors. Maybe you can schedule to meet the principal Vidier instead and she can show you some samples? Anyway, just my 2 cents worth: My colleagues and I did quite a lot of research going around other reputable kindergartens and compared notes with friends before signing up our kids at GUG, haha So far we def feel we made the right decision and very impressed with the school's quality and standard (including their worksheets and workbooks). Hope this helps

[work4astar]

tamtam:

It was the MD's speech during the K2 graduation event last month. Oh, sorry to hear the VP left a cold impression.. actually, my own experience all these years has been that they're all very warm and helpful, from teachers to principal and directors. Maybe you can schedule to meet the principal Vidier instead and she can show you some samples? Anyway, just my 2 cents worth: My colleagues and I did quite a lot of research going around other reputable kindergartens and compared notes with friends before signing up our kids at GUG, haha So far we def feel we made the right decision and very impressed with the school's quality and standard (including their worksheets and workbooks). Hope this helps

I am skeptical. It hard to see a link between GEP and kindergarten education. I have 3 kids, two of them already in primary school. My P6 is GEP but PSLE results \"so so\".

Getting prepared for P1 is not a difficult task and I would say average childcare and kindergarten will be able to achieve that easily. (e.g. Cambridge). The reason is simple, P1 work is easy. For the first term of P1, children only learn 1 to 10. However, my two kids starts to face challenges as they progress higher up as learning in Singapore school syllabus is accelerated exponentially every year.

The only link I can see between GUG and GEP is the letter G :rotflmao:

[tamtam]

Hahaha! Work4astar, did your kid graduate from GUG too?

Aside from GEP, the MD also said that over the past years, more than 94% of their students rank in the top 10 of their P1 class.
Well personally, GEP or not, I think just having seen my 2 kids improve so much during their time in GUG’s kindergarten have made me very thankful to the school. Especially in their reading, writing, maths, and self-confidence. I areally like their curriculum. My kids have learned a lot about inspiring leaders, natural calamities, environmental issues, anger management, science experiments, and even topics like genetics and sex education!! So I think aside from just academic skills, the general knowledge that the school has imparted to my kids have definitely given them a love for learning and very good foundation beyond P1.

[Supermum33]

Hi mummies,

How is GUG’s programme for infants? Like for one yr old? Worth attending?

[Rea]

Hi, anyone tried GUG’s parent toddler class thats held once a week? Would appreciate any comments. thank you

[sooptroop]

My 2 younger kids attend GUG since 13 mths and 10 mths old. Both enjoy the programme tremendously and have benefit a lot. My youngest took a few weeks to adjust but now settled down very nicely and very active to participate

[mongz]

My younger girl attended GUG enrichment classes when she was 18 months till 2 weeks ago before she turned 4 years old. We decided to stop her enrichment class because she is also going through similar classes in her childcare. She enjoyed the classes because the lessons are interactive and I would say that the teachers are very good. However, she complained a bit after we put her into the Early Reading and Writing class where they don’t sing much and a lot more writing.


For their kindergarten classes, my understanding from my colleague who sent her girl there is that there is a lot of emphasis on English and less on Maths and hence she didn’t enrol her for K1/K2 classes but only attended nursery classes. Her girl is an excellent reader who can read those wordy books at the age of 5 and was reading instruction manuals by 6 to play the board games. But I think she is also very bright to begin with.

[pleasurie]

LittleLambie:

Wow...finally someone replied after almost a month of waiting!


I am still on the fence about this school cos there was no worksheets or any teaching materials available to show me, so I have no sense of their standards at all. Plus when I went down to visit, the vice P was like just going through the motion of explaining the basics, timing & fees etc, then left hurriedly. I get to meet no teachers at all too. So my initial impression of them was kinda cold...& very commercialised?? :roll:

tamtam, where did you saw the report on the GEP students?

Before today, I would strongly recommend this school, but after today..nah... my kid is in N2 this year (she had her N1 & weekend enrichment at GUG last year) and there were more than 14 kids in the class, a big difference in last year's class of 8 kids to 2 teachers for the N2.
a last minute decision from the school. Honestly the teachers were not capable of handling such a big class at all. and with a few crying kids, seriously my kid was simply wasting the time there today. The scenerio is just like any PCF class. with such changes, they can forget about any GEP students or watsoever in future. And where can I source for another school with AM slots at such last min. Totally disappointed.

[tamtam]

Before today, I would strongly recommend this school, but after today..nah... my kid is in N2 this year (she had her N1 & weekend enrichment at GUG last year) and there were more than 14 kids in the class, a big difference in last year's class of 8 kids to 2 teachers for the N2.

a last minute decision from the school. Honestly the teachers were not capable of handling such a big class at all. and with a few crying kids, seriously my kid was simply wasting the time there today. The scenerio is just like any PCF class. with such changes, they can forget about any GEP students or watsoever in future. And where can I source for another school with AM slots at such last min. Totally disappointed.[/quote]

Hi hi, i think don't worry too much as this happens everywhere even the best of schools The 1st week esp 1st day always more unsettling since the students hv just returned from hols plus new students, and teachers need to get the class familiar with new routine etc. All usually settles down in a few days. Btw my kids had the max 15 or 16 in their classes. That's the problem with AM sessions, too popular! :roll:

[pleasurie]

[quote]Hi hi, i think don't worry too much as this happens everywhere even the best of schools The 1st week esp 1st day always more unsettling since the students hv just returned from hols plus new students, and teachers need to get the class familiar with new routine etc. All usually settles down in a few days. Btw my kids had the max 15 or 16 in their classes. That's the problem with AM sessions, too popular! :roll:[/quote]
yeah I guess I got too carried away LOL..well they really met my expectations (last year) & class size has hit 16 now, seriously I had secretly wished that they charge a higher fee to maintain a good ratio. (At least it will justify the distance that I'll have to travel end of this year, where I'll be moving to mt sinai area, damn far!) But like what u mention even the more expensive schools are using 2:16. From Biz point of view I understand, so now i'm still pondering if I should continue or not. :scratchhead: So yr elder kid is in P1 this year, how exciting!