Hi, I plan to choose West Spring Sec for my daughter taking PSLE this year. I got feedback that they changed principal last year and it seems the incumbent is less passionate than the former principal. I know it’s subjective but I’d like to hear different perspectives.

Hi there, I wanted to ask if any of you had transferred your kids from a montessori kindy to PCF? I am considering that as the current montesorri kindy fees are quite high and I recently left the workforce so now single income of my hubby. We looking at various ways to save on our expenses. I wonder if there is great difference in standards.

Cost is a major setback at Bridge Learning. I sent my son there for assessment. Hourly rates are $150/hr for weekdays and $180/hr (I think) for weekends. My assessment was 3h35mins long and there were no written reports just a discussion with the founder who was the person who did the assessment. You can do the maths and know how much my assessment fee ended up as. Parents are not allowed in the room while assessment takes place so essentially we don’t know if the 3h35mins was indeed well spent.


The founder told me my autistic son had some sensory integration issue that’s why it affecting his ability to read. She recommended an IEI (individual intervention program) and their signature Auditory Pro program to go hand in hand and best to do 2 sessions of total 2 hrs a week. A package price of 20 sessions came up to $2700. There is also a one time enrollment fee of $200 per student, another $200 learning material fee PER PROGRAM to pay on top of the $2000+ course fees. And mind you these are all VIP rates. VIP card is $100 perpetual membership entitling you to "discounted rates" of courses and material. I asked what material do they use that costs that much and do we eventually keep them? Answer is no we don’t get to own them and these material will be used to conduct the lessons for the child. To me, not packaging the material fee as part of the course fee is silly. It’s quite a turn off to know I am paying that much for material that I don’t get to own (such as software for the auditory pro program). I send my kids for other classes such as art and all, the material is really used for each child’s lesson that day and the project they create is brought home by us. So paying $200 for material which we can’t own didn’t make much sense.

By the way I ended up paying for that VIP card because after assessment they said VIP rate for assessment is $120/hr but now I am hesitant due to the exorbitant costs and the fact that I don’t know for sure the program will be effective for my child. so unless you can afford the costs, please think twice to even send you kids there for assessment. They claim to be a social enterprise but based on the conversation so far, I wonder if they should just call themselves a for-profit commercial business.