Pat's Schoolhouse
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For parents whose kids keep falling sick, hang in there. My girl’s been sick since she joined PSH two months ago, and I mean continuously sick. The runny nose and cough are ongoing, and she comes down with fever every other week. She’s been out of school for more than 2 weeks in all, but thank goodness I’m currently staying at home, so I don’t have an issue with having to exhaust my leave.
What I try to do now is to really make sure she gets enough rest, and I’m giving her sambucol, probiotics, multi-vits, and umcka. Sambucol just helps with the cold/flu and Umcka is supposed to help with cold and coughs as well. Have just started the umcka, so will wait and see if it helps.
Now after the food poisoning incident, I’m thinking that I might just let dd have her dinner at home instead of at school. I’d thought that putting dd in preschool would help free up some time for me to concentrate on chores and have some rest in the day, but now I have to keep dealing with her falling sick.
And I’m so going to research on whichever catering company they use next. -
omgmum:
211 is a huge number !!breaking news from straits times:
SEVEN children from Pat's Schoolhouse have been hospitalised for food poisoning and another 211 children and seven teachers are ill with related symptoms.
They fell ill after eating food from caterer Mum's Kitchen Catering, whose licence has been temporarily suspended by the National Environmental Agency pending the outcome of the investigations.
NEA and the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a joint press release on Thursday that the catering company had been fined for lapses in a food poisoning incident in December last year (2010), when 35 people attending a company function came down with diarrhoea and started vomitting.
In this case, the children and teachers from six of the group's 14 centres have come down with symptoms such as diarrhoea, vomitting and fever.
The six centres are in Halifax Road, Lim Ah Pin Rd, Whitley Road, Claymore Road, Mount Emily and Jalan Ulu Siglap.
The food served in Pat's Schoolhouse, which has 2,000 children ranging from infants to six-year-olds across its 14 centres, is centrally prepared by Mum's Kitchen Catering. Those affected by the food poisoning were aged two to six.
link: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_667888.html
Omg! Is that why dd has been so cranky since coming back from her pm session? -
Yes, just heard this news from the radio.
Poor kids! -
this is terrible ! poor kids !
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Quite a few kids in my son’s class in Claymore were affected. They have only used this caterer for about a year. They should have stuck with their inhouse central kitchens for better control.
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i have already communicated to the principal about our wish to change caterers… Can all other parents do the same? That way, they will know our concerns.
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Hi all Pat’s Schoolhouse Parents,
My son has joined Pat’s since 2008. He is in the Jubilee Center. I sat in with my son for a week, n tasted aunty’s cooking. She was great! She even baked the cake for the national day celelbration. The teachers n programme were so great that we decided to let my girl joined early this year.
So when they ‘centralised’ the kitchen late last year, I was immediately aware of the change becoz my son complained abt the food on the 1st day of the change. Since then, I started to moniter and gave the school feedback. I observed that the quality of the food is not consistent, n that greens was not served everyday. But that seems to change after several feedback.
However my hubby n I still prefer ‘homecook’ food, so I email Pat Koh herself directly. We met early this year. I told her abt my concern n perference, while she told me abt their difficulties in managing the kitchen. She felt that the school mgt team could better use the time to manage the school programme n children, than to moniter the kitchen. To me, she seem rather firm abt ‘centralising’ the kitchen. But she did reassure me that regular checks are done to moniter the ‘centralised’ kitchen. Now that the food poisoning case, I can see how much is done to moniter the kitchen.
I understand her problems n points, but the well-being of my children should not be at the expense of adcademic programme. I am not pulling out my children yet for the lack of better choices. If anyone has chance upon any good choice, pls do let me know. Thank you. -
I don’t think they’ll be using the same caterer after this incident. But i think we should ask just in case.
Another thing is that I wasn’t even aware of this incident until i saw the article yesterday, but it seems that the food poisoning cases actually started before yesterday. Shouldn’t they have informed all of their parents about what’s happening? It’s really a rude shock to have to read of this from the news.
I’m quite suaku, how do we actually contact Pat directly? -
centralising the kitchen does not have to compromise on food safety
look at how the airlines industry cope using centralised kitchen -
I think the information provided is not timely enough. According to newspaper reports, the suspected food poisoning occurred on Tues but it was only on Thursday afternoon that the teacher messaged me about the investigations on food poisoning. By Tuesday, NEA was already inspecting the caterer according to the article. If this is the case, surely we should be informed about it by Tuesday and an alternative caterer should be found by Wed. If not, we need to know so that we can decide whether to let our kids eat the food by the same caterer on Wed.
Based on my interaction with the class teacher on Wed, I don’t think she knew about the true extent of this food poisoning incident.
As of now, I have received more information about this food poisoning from the newspaper than directly from the school and I do not know how they replaced the food service and whether this is more reliable than the previous caterer.
Most parents are just coping with the kids right now. However I think PSH owes the parents a proper explanation including why information was not provided in a more timely manner.
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