Hmmm… They are not solely doing IT for their programmes and there is definitely more to what you see (which is prolly just IT). They do MI in this school so with that, I believe motor skills etc would definitely be in. They also have learning groups n individual presentations that encourages interactions. Maybe we have to be more careful with our comments so that other parents don’t get mislead into thinking otherwise.

Also, I dun feel "soulless" during my time there… In fact the kids were all happy and bubbly compared to one other preschool I went into just before this visit.
Just my observations…

Hmmm… They are not solely doing IT for their programmes and there is definitely more to what you see (which is prolly just IT). They do MI in this school so with that, I believe motor skills etc would definitely be in. They also have learning groups n individual presentations that encourages interactions. Maybe we have to be more careful with our comments so that other parents don’t get mislead into thinking otherwise.

Also, I dun feel "soulless" during my time there… In fact the kids were all happy and bubbly compared to one other preschool I went into just before this visit.
Just my observations…

Hi Parents~


Just to share my opinion of the school after I visited them last morning.
It was actually a pop-in kinda visit when I visited LSH which was situated just above ChildFirst.
Do pardon my lengthy story of how I got to know of the school and also my take of the school visit.

Some 9 months ago, when I came back to Singapore from US for a short visit, my MIL gave me a brochure of ChildFirst which she received and I was totally attracted by the pictures of this big and colourful room the school had. Tried calling a few times but prolly because it was weekend, I couldn’t reach someone to talk to on enrolment stuff and visits whatsoever. So I returned to US with the brochure but just somehow I didn’t manage to be able to get to talk to someone from ChildFirst despite trying to call a few times. Erm… my bad for not attempting to email them though. should have emailed! =P

In the end, I gave up and called LSH @ mountbatten, which was also another recommendation from a relative, to fix a school visit. We arrived in Singapore two days ago and went down to LSH yesterday as scheduled. When we walked into Mountbatten Square, passed by ChildFirst and the colourful wall laminations they had reminded me of the brochure that i had! Well but since we did make an appointment with LSH, we went ahead with it first.

After the visit, we came back down and decided to just try our luck to see if the school is ok with us doing a pop-in visit. Just to mention that being a very inexperienced Singapore mum, I rely alot on kiasuparents.com and I have read cases of some schools rejecting pop-ins and are very strict on appointments… (for some reasons?) So but what really surprised us was that we were greeted by a very nice lady, who introduced herself as Lilian, and confidently took us off on a walk around the school.

School has a bilingual approach so the kids do half a day of Chinese and half a day of English. was told that they are left with two spots in the N1 and it’s gonna be the afternoon Chinese session. I’m ok with that coz i’m more for DS doing Chinese and get motivated early in that language at school since English is kinda like what we do with him for the past two years in US. And as his teachers told us back in the US, they will do English naturally in a normal classroom (which i agree… look at all our sg kids nowadays.) so, i’ll be happy to let him kick off Chinese for now…

Of course, the big, spacious and colourful room was the first thing that totally impressed me. It looked exactly like the photos on the brochure that my MIL showed me and my DS literally left me to explore the room on his own. Got to know that the room is actually their classroom for Speech and drama teaching. Awesome room! Had to literally drag DS out of the room to move on with the tour.
DS doesn’t reject the environment - checked.
Fun place to be in - checked.

She then showed us to the N1 classroom in which my DS would be in if he gets enrolled. The kids were in the midst of preparing for their nap and they were totally independent enough to be like getting the beddings out and laying on them. Being independent is something I want DS to possess and the American education system trained him well for the pass one year to be so. So this is definitely what I want. Furthermore, I was told that every kid will sleep on a individual "trampoline-like" bed (didn’t quite catch the term that was used) which was supposedly a better kinda bed compared to mats when it comes to hygiene. it’s like a mini rectangular trampoline where the kids lay in the netted area. Well, I’m not sure about that since i havent come across something like that. but it does make sense though. Coz you can tell that it can be cleaned and dried very easily so bacteria don’t have time to attach and multiply. =D Another thing would be the drinking of milk before nap. Since DS has been off bottle and he’s on cow’s milk since the age of 1, I wanted to know if there would be any issues on that and Lilian told us that we could just bring in the cow’s milk which they will store in their fridge and would pour it for DS in his cup so he could do his usual routine. NICE! btw, the we do not have to pay extra for the "trampoline-like" beds.
Learning to be independent - checked.
Clean, hygiene and organised environment - checked.

Computer room is impressive too. Apparently they started off designing softwares and that other schools actually buy their softwares from them. so the educational softwares are like their own productions. nice room, nice flatscreen computers. very neat and tidy. and it’s really cute to know that passwords to login for the kids are made up of shapes/pictures. LOL! password: Triangle, duck, star
Fun place to be in - checked.
Clean, hygiene and organised environment - checked.

Tour continues and the next WOW came in. the big indoor playground. Was told that it’s a totally new room with new equipment. Prior to writing this, I read in this thread that there were no playground but guess what? They have it now and it’s big and nice! totally. it’s like a "mini-mini Fun Dazzle". If ya all remember fun dazzle which we had when we were young. =P but well, new playground that would be ready in September. So they are in the midst of some final touchups. DS was ready to run right into the room. LOL!
Fun place to be in - checked.

Kitchen was like the ultimate WOW already! Lillian said that they prepare everything from their own kitchen and when she say everything, it really meant EVERYTHING! The cake mixer was at work and the oven was in the midst of baking a cake as she was talking about everything being made from their kitchen. So, no joke. everything comes out from their own kitchen - barley drink to lunch to cakes! well, maybe other schools does that too but because this was the second school i ever visited, THIS IS TOTALLY IMPRESSIVE. My DH was like WOW! NICE. I mean, we totally dun care if DS eats catered food coz we feel that we don’t want catered food to be a push factor and let us not take up a school which has a program that we want. so but if he gets to eat healthy, clean and great food plus he gets a good program. WHY NOT?
Clean, hygiene and organised environment - checked.
**Additional lookouts: Food? - checked! checked! checked!

So the tour ended with my DS refusing to leave the school. i mean, he loves school… ever since our time in US, he never rejects school so but I can tell that he genuinely wants to be in this school and that the place is definitely not intimidating.

Final verdict: we are making our payments tomorrow to get him enrolled. =D

Finally manage to get some hopeful answers from LSH@thomson but I’m still keeping my fingers crossed coz they have yet to contact me on whether there will be a space for my DS.


Made a few calls from US to Singapore but i didn’t manage to get to speak to their principal like two days consecutive in a week coz she was away for a meeting and then was on MC. But there was a really helpful teacher who spoke to me and said that there may be a chance that they can take my DS in but she’s not sure coz principal handles enrolment stuff and all.

Still waiting for their call and praying everyday i get a place… coz im going back soon and my DS is still school-less. LOL! I totally dunno how this school is like at thomson but I know they are good at OCC (my cousin used to be there). hopefully can get some comments from you guys here too~

Hi All! Newbie reporting! hehe..


I'm currently a SAHM in the United States.. will be returning to Singapore soon.. so I joined this forum to seek opinions/comments on CC stuff for my DS... Heard that this is the best place to do so~ :rahrah:

:thankyou:

Hi there!


Anybody has any comments for agape Little Uni @ Kallang?
How exactly is the "multi-storey carpark" environment?
Thanks in advance!

argh. Just called LSH @ Tampines and they are like full…

Gotta start looking for vacancies!
Trying my luck at Fidelio! Please gimme your feedback on fidelio yah~

Hi Mommies,


I'm looking at enrolling my DS in the LSH @ tampines junction and I wanna know some really recent comments about the school and all.
He's gonna be 31months when I enroll him sometime in sept (if they have a space though! )if any mommies or daddies out there who has children in the same program, please gimme your feedbacks about the school!

Thank you! :please: