We engaged Party Fiesta for basic package party entertainment but they failed to provide happy birthday bunting and made a last minute letters balloon sculpting in replacement and pasted hastily on the backdrop. It looked terrible! Games was badly done with ear blasting music. Totally embraased us with such service provided! Worst party entertainment ever! Really Regret engaging them!

Party Fiesta failed to provide happy birthday bunting in the basic package that we paid and made a last min letters balloon sculpting in replacement for the Happy birthday boy and pasted hastily on the backdrop. It looked terrible. Games was badly done with ear blasting music. Party Fiesta is a total let down with such service provided! Worst party entertainment ever! Regret engaging this company.

waiyean:

Did you leave your email address with the school? My daughter is with this school, and we registered our exams with them both for the March and September sessions. The admin sends an email out to all parents to inform about registering for exams, and ask us to go to the front desk personally to register, probably due to making of payment and confirming personal particulars. I received these emails.

However, it's true that the teacher should have reminded you as well.

Yes I saw the email. It had said to discuss and confirm with the teacher about it before the payment. Which I did. But nothing came out of it twice.

Anyway, I'm going to pull my child out of Aureus after this episode.

Dreamaurora:

I am not sure how Aureus is ran, but is there a principal/manager who is usually a senior teacher who coordinates exam preparation among teachers? This person should provide all the necessary infos to students and their parents. He/she should also set general guidelines on how to ascertain a student is ready. From the way you describe this, it seems like there is a general lack of communication between the teachers, students, and the school managements. But I will reserve my judgement until we hear Aureus' side.
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Hi Dreamaurora, thank you for your unbias and meaningful reply.
We never knew there is such a person who can help.

Dreamaurora:

Not ready can be a valid excuse for not registering student for an exam, and in fact I myself have advised exams to be delayed because of this reason. But these are not arbitrary decisions, for any of my students who plan to take exams, there are specific goals they need to meet by registration before they are allowed to register. All these expectations and deadlines are conveyed very clearly months before the registration. So, if the students do not meet the pre-registration goals, then the parents can see for themselves the students are not ready.

We would be very Glad to accept the facts if they had inform us that he is not ready before the closing date. And not after. It seems they are finding an excuse as they have forgotten about it. No goals/expectations/datelines have been drawn out before. Why then did the teacher promise to register for us? :sad:

Our child was with another music school for 2 years plus prior to Aureus. He is a fast learner and can master a song within a short time frame. Every lesson the teacher will give New pieces to play for fun. From Dec till April, he had learned 10 new songs on top of the 3 exam pieces.


What we are upset is the school didn’t bother to inform us anything until the registration has closed.

Yes, the 3 pieces are from grade 1 exam piece and we practiced with him intensively for an hour Everyday.

We registered our child with Aureus Academy last Dec trusting that we could find a good teacher. We had told the teacher at the start that we wanted to register our child for Grade 1 in 2016. The teacher said then that she will register for our child for the June exam. However, after the registration has closed, she told us that our child is not ready so its better to go for the one in September. We recently changed to another teacher in the same school as we wanted a Saturday slot. And upon checking with the new teacher about the exam for September, she told us that the registration has already closed and the previous teacher had not registered for our child as she felt that our child is not ready.


1. If the teacher knows our intentions of letting our child take the examination, shouldn’t the teacher start to practice the orals, and sight readings instead of just practicing the exam pieces every lesson? DS could already play 3 pieces from practice book in early March.

2. The school should inform parents what are the registration dates and exam dates so that parents are aware and can make informed decisions. We had trusted the teacher to register and this is what happened.

3. The school had failed to register our child twice for the year and gave excuse saying that our child is not ready.

4. We were told to buy a sight reading book and theory book. But after a few lessons, the teacher said that there is no time for theory and asked me to do it with my child at home. The sight reading book was only used once.

We were utterly disappointed in the way the school runs!

Any kind parents can share if learning bliss is good? I have just got a confirmation letter for a place in learning bliss. Not sure if it’s the right choice.

Very disappointed with Kidstop party host. I had an 11 inch cake for my child’s classmates. Right after cutting cake, the host immediately open the doors and said bye-bye and all the children ran out of the party room to play without eating the cake. I have more than 70% of the cake left uneaten. This is so un-called for. What a lousy party host!


Additionally, we had our own party banner and when asked for help for the banner to be put up, they said you can do it on your own. We had a double sided tape that was provided by the cake shop and we put it up with what we have. To our dismal, after the party, when we remove the banner, there was an obvious mark left on the wall. We spent the last half an hour of the party trying our best rubbing off the stains while the staffs stood looking on. Finally almost all the marks came off but there was some paint that came off. Now Kidstop wants to charge us for damaging the wall and asked a vendor to quote the price to repaint the wall.

This is the last place I will recommend anyone for a birthday party!

Since you have already registered your child in Brmck, why do you need to source for other schools again? A school has vacancy doesn’t mean that it is not popular as before. If this is your mentality in searching for schools, you will forever be searching for the "poplular" school.

Totally upset with the receptionist of Wharton Preschool at Broadway Plaza. And you’ll never get to see or talk to the principal of the school. I wonder if there is even one at all. Is it safe to put a child in a school where there is no one to talk to? The receptionist shut down all level of communication from parents to principal.


When I said I wanted to speak to the principal. The recep ask, why do you need to see her??

I’m like:??? Why? What kind of question is that. You are operating a childcare. Hello??