Finally, hubby's persuaded to put Renee back to school. He's seen the progress she's made via the enrichment learning and is doubtful what any school could deliver to help her further. I agree with him on the learning part but since her meimei's born, I no longer have the time to coach her and seeing her slacking away and being bored at home everyday, it pains me. Subsequently, hubby saw my point and decided to give the kindy another try - more to let her spend some time outside home with some friends as well(my only worry now is 'germs'... no good for her nor her meimei should she catch any virus from school).
However, it's not easy to get a slot at this time for K2s and we don't want to put her with a childcare - although hubby had thought it might free up more of my time but that's not what I'd want, even though it'd really give me and even the maid more 'free time'. I just want her to be more occupied rather than lazing away at home...
Based on what a friend's told me and after speaking to the teachers personally, I felt that perhaps GUG would be better to 'match' her current 'level' but as they could only offer us an afternoon slot, hubby's not keen. School bus service's not available for their afternoon classes and thus, sending and picking her up daily might be too costly - calculated, almost S$1k on transport, to and fro(even though it only takes less than 10mins to get there), half the amount if I'm to wait 3 1/2hrs for her everyday which is not feasible(of cos hubby wld take the opportunity to suggest getting another car, but I don't want to drive liao, at least not for the time being esp. when I'm so new to this area).
Luckily, I've not discarded the information I've gathered during my search for a kindy earlier this year when we 1st moved here and so, after discussing and narrowing down the list, we went over to a school named Sunshine Kindergarten(@ Namly Place) earlier this week, to have a look. The place looks clean and they have a very good teacher/child ratio - 2 :10. The students seem very well-behaved and every child would greet the teachers/principal upon their arrival at the school(why some of them arrived so late I duno..). This is a Montessori school and with that, they go by individual child's learning pace(good and bad but since Renee's already learning via the enrichment route, this would be better). I've not liked Montessori's method before, because of their phonics(just like I don't like zoophonics and the likes that teaches purely only on sounds or associate the alphabets with animals' names, etc...) but since Renee's already known her ABCs and had gone through some phonics lessons, I reckon it should not pose too much of a problem, plus this school's curriculum's approved by the MOE(most montessori's are not I've heard), so I guess it's ok.
The school follows the formal school calendar(same like Kinderland) and they'd normally have a 2 weeks holiday programme in June which I thought might be a good idea if Renee could join to see how she and the school can work together but this year, they'd be sending their teachers to some MOE's programmes, so there would only be a 1 week holiday programme(cost : S$250/wk) available. Anyhow, Renee's seen the school herself and is agreeable, we decided and had confirmed with the Principal that we would let her join their holiday programme starting from tomorrow. Let's hope things work out well, so she could continue with the school when the June school holiday is over.
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