Creative O

[dadelina]

Yi@cloud:

Hi, can anyone provide any good suggestion about toilet train? After I read through e forum here, I also getting interest in this school. But what I worried was my 19 mths boy was not toilet trained. Anyone has any idea how come e school only accept those toilet trained kids, coz other school mostly dun have this problem. And the website was outdated, I couldn't get e latest info of e school. How much school fees for e 18 mths above and N1? Anyone can reply, sincerely appreciate. :please:

Dear YiCloud,

The school fees for PG is $695.10 for full day and $560/70+ for Nursery and $536.40 for K1 & K2 after $300 subsidy for working mothers. Haha! I know exactly the fees for PG and K1/K2 cos I was intending to enrol my youngest this year for PG but decided to postpone it till next year, Nursery, instead. My eldest juz graduated last year from CreativeO and my DD2 is currently in K2.

Your child is still young, 19mths - still have to time toilet train:) But not to worry, during nap times the PG children are still allowed to put on diapers till they're ready to let go.

[Yi.03882cloud]

Hi Dadelina,

Thank you very much. You must be very lucky that all your kids can get into e same and good school. Can I have some any good comments from This school? I just sent them e waiting list form…and need to wait until Aug then can get reply…

[Bear Ho]

Hi Yi@cloud,


Do visit the school and find out 1st hand what they do there. The school even have holiday programs for its alumni. My boy (P2 now) is going to attend an overnight experiential camp this week.

[munchkukie]

Hi Bear Ho, my girl P3 is attending the camp too. A bit worried and excited for her.

[dadelina]

Ah no wonder my dd2 was telling me that there’s ‘old k2s’ sleeping in school. So, it’s an overnight thingy?

[munchkukie]

Hi dadelina,


Yes. It's a 24 hr camp. I think my girl will have to plan how to go from place to place in Singapore at night. Heard that they will not be sleeping :roll:

[Bear Ho]

Hello,


My daughter also wants to follow…think it is a very good experience for them. Remember to pack a raincoat for her just in case.

[sgwave]

Hi,


It seems that kids are always playing in school. Are the children adequately prepared for P1? Would appreciate comments from any parents who have children from the school and is attending primary school. Many thanks!

[dpdavidpeng.015549yahoo.015549com.015549sg]

Hi Sgwave,


Yes, I feel that the children from Creative O are adequately prepared for P1.

My older son is now primary 3 and he has no major problems coping in primary 1. Actually, a lot depends your definition of ‘adequate’. For me, it means that he is able to take care of himself in school, make friends and participate in class.

The textbook learning part is a lifelong process, and for me, that begins at primary 1. No need to start earlier and also cannot start later. We do keep an eye when my son was in P1 to make sure he knows what he needs to know but there’s nothing so difficult that one needs to learn in kindergarten prior to going primary 1.

My wife and I jokingly defines one benchmark of how my son is doing in school as whether he gets any invitations. Say if one classmate is organzing a birthday party, he/she normally invites 8-10 classmates (out of 30). This could be due to different cliques in the class (which i think is normal). My son’s class was unchanged for P1-P2. We attended the first party at end of P1, which gives us assurance that he found himself good friends. We subsequently attended 4-5 gatherings in P2 and find that its always the same 8 to 10 kids. So for us, these parties allows us to know who are his friends in school which in turns gives us a gauge if he is ok in school.

My younger son is now K2 in Creative O and in fact, I hope he has lots of playtime because it’s going to be a lot less playtime once he goes to primary school. I have no worries whether he can cope with Pri 1 next year.

Cheers,
DP

[Bear Ho]

I agree with dp, whose youngest son is in the same class as my daughter. My son is in P3 this year and Creative O had instilled independence, teamwork, sociablity among others in him.


If you read from the previous posts, you will realised that Creative O emphasized more on hands on skills (motor skills) activities and projects. These actitivties and projects will provide for the necessary skills for P1 and beyond.

For example, they will start a project like setting up a food stall. The children would then sit down, plan and discussed (teamwork) how to go about doing it. From there they will write down the things they need (writing skills), things to buy, the price (maths) and location etc. Teachers provide only little supervision (independance) till the final day the stall is setup.

My boy was well prepared for P1, he socialised very well and paticipated actively in the school and class activites.

The only setback was his Chinese as we speak English most of the time. So now, my daughter is fairly well versed in her mother tongue.

Anyway, being a Kaisu parent both of children have attended phonics and chinese classes. They enjoyed the lessons as it is also play and learn (same as Creative O)…

Hope this help a bit…