“Which After School Programme Is Suitable for My Primary School Child?”
As our student care enrolment is in full swing, this is one common question that we often get about their children’s after school arrangement.
We get that having to enrol your child for primary 1 can be very challenging. To help make your decision making easier, we’ve put together a list of things to consider when choosing an after school programme.
1. Cost
School-based student care fees hover between $220 to $350 per month. This is to ensure that student care is affordable for families that need additional support. If you are looking for assistance at a student care centre near you, you may proceed to MSF’s website to learn more about the support available.
PlayFACTO School after school care programmes provide greater value for money with our focus on,
- Positive Education Approach that fosters life skills to help children flourish
- our warm happy meals provided by our central kitchen
- multi-award-winning engaging STEAM enrichment programmes
- clean, warm, inviting home-away-from-home learning environment
2. Meal options
In school-based student care centres, meals come from two sources – the canteen operators or catering companies. This means that by the time your child has their meal, it could be cold or the food has gone stale.
We take pride in our meal offerings for PlayFACTO School’s premium student care. Beyond the usual healthy platter institutionalised by the Health Promotion Board, we too take pride in mealtimes – valuing each meal as an authentic learning experience.
We too also have our own central kitchen to ensure the quality of our meals. With less salt, oil and no MSG, parents can rest assured that warm meals are planned with their child’s nutritional needs in mind.
3. Lower Teacher-Student Ratio
With a lower teacher-student ratio, magical things happen.
For every 15 students at PlayFACTO School, we assign ONE teacher.
Compared to 25 children at school-based student care centres, our children benefit from greater attention and academic support.
With a lower teacher to student ratio, we too enjoy the benefit of engaging lessons and holiday programmes.
Do you know that our holiday programme is painstakingly planned by our very own teachers?
4. Curriculum
School-based student care operators take guidance from the Ministry of Education and the school’s leadership team. They focus mainly on homework supervision, spelling and 听写 and fundamental care services.
Community-based centres have more flexibility in their curriculum. For PlayFACTO School students, we impart values through our positive education stories, encourage creativity through weekly crafts, challenge problem solving through our daily revision and, foster relationships through games and activities and much more.
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5. Environment
School-based student care centres pretty leverage the school compound to run their programmes. As such, elements such as adequate lighting, and soft touches like pillows and rugs are missing out in their after-school care experience.
In fact, one reason why we founded PlayFACTO School Premium Student Care was really to highlight the importance of a home-away-from-home environment. When children are placed in natural environments with good lighting, they study better, feel better and even perform better in the long run.
