anyone has found a montessori playgroup that follows in the true montessori spirit?


I’ll need to go down to the schools when i’m back in singapore to check it out, but so far a few big names that i’ve checked online seem to be montessori in name but "singaporean" in curriculum. my son is in an informal playgroup now and it is not montessori but uses the montessori principles - which suits my son well. My son will certainly not be used to needing to conform and i do not want that for him anyway.

if anyone has any ideas, do share. even if not "montessori" in name, i’m open to checking it out and giving it a try.

emily3021373p:

I just signed up to this forum since I saw a few questions about LV Gentle Rd Novena and Grassroots, and thought I would share. My gal started inantcare at LV Gentle Rd and went up to N1 there (nearly 2 years with the centre). It is a delightful little place with incredibly caring teachers, although of course I only directly had experience with the lower years. I would have no qualms recommending it to others. The infantcare has just been renovated at Easter 2015, and I understand from Principal Jennifer (who is great) that the waitlist for infrantcare is now massive!! Max capacity for infants is something like 15 only I think, so I'm not surprised.


As for Grassroots, the Principal there is Ms Amanda. She was previously Principal at Gentle Road, so I have experience with her before. She is friendly with students and parents alike, and runs the school well. The vice principal is also previously from Gentle Road Novena. The Grassroots school is a much much bigger centre, so it really depends what you are looking for.

Thanks for sharing! My cousin also gave me good reviews for LV even though they didn't put my niece there due to logistics. I will certainly check LV out!

Perhaps it is the better students that i happen to know as the people i knew were all in pretty competitive courses at melbourne uni. the few jc people that i hung out with, we were all struggling with first year science even though we were science students. but could be we were lousy students in jc too

havok_ex:

ajcy:

Just sharing my own experiences years ago. I was in a top 5 JC and good science class but wasn't doing well (Ended up with B, B, C) - in JC 2 i had good private tuition for all subjects . If i could go back and choose again, i wouldn't want to be pressured by my parents to 1st go to JC, then 2nd stay in JC to finish what i started. When i went to a good overseas uni to a science course of my choice, i felt that my two years in JC were a complete waste of my time since i did not particularly learn anything useful for university in terms of academics nor skills.

Friends at my uni who came from Singapore polys seemed a lot more prepared for university. They are all now graduates with good jobs.

So, can't say what anyone should do, whether to go to poly or stay on, but just ask yourself, why are you staying on? what will happen if results don't turn out the way you want in the end and you're left with limited choices?

Really? From what I observe in local uni, everyone, both poly and JC are equally unprepared for university. Except for some of the better engineering students from poly who continue in their specific field of engineering.

In fact, when you compare between JC and poly students in humanities courses, I think JC students seem more prepared since most poly students do not have a humanities background (geography, history, lit, philosophy) etc.

Just sharing my own experiences years ago. I was in a top 5 JC and good science class but wasn’t doing well (Ended up with B, B, C) - in JC 2 i had good private tuition for all subjects . If i could go back and choose again, i wouldn’t want to be pressured by my parents to 1st go to JC, then 2nd stay in JC to finish what i started. When i went to a good overseas uni to a science course of my choice, i felt that my two years in JC were a complete waste of my time since i did not particularly learn anything useful for university in terms of academics nor skills.


Friends at my uni who came from Singapore polys seemed a lot more prepared for university. They are all now graduates with good jobs.

So, can’t say what anyone should do, whether to go to poly or stay on, but just ask yourself, why are you staying on? what will happen if results don’t turn out the way you want in the end and you’re left with limited choices?

thanks, by nearby music center do you mean yahama/christofori? sorry i’ve been out of the country so don’t know the newer ones.


i totally agree that the child must enjoy and as i mentioned, my son loves his music groups, it’s not really classes. so i’m looking for something similar.

are the teachers all montessori trained? how is the program like?

Hi, may i know what are the requirements for enrolling a child in an international school?


My son is a dual-citizen and we’re returning to singapore but we’d like to keep his options open so i’d like to plan ahead (i’m singaporean so i’m the kiasu one). my choice of local school for my son seems like a difficult one to get into as i don’t think he’ll get priority based on his grandfather or male relatives, and unfortunately his father is not a local and i was from an all girls school.

swsparent:

I am interested in enrolling my child in the learning vision at paya lebar for infant care. As it is fairly new (opened since last year only), I cannot find many reviews on this particular centre. Any parents out there with an opinion (good/ bad) about this place?


Many Thanks!

any reviews?

any feedback recently?

anyone found a place for preschoolers?

we’re moving back to singapore and i’d like for my son to continue with music - we’ve been going for a local version of kindermusik and he loves it even though he started at 15 months. now at 17, he’s able to participate more.