Cambridge @ MacPherson - 50 MacPherson Rd

Just had a very pleasant school tour at the infant care and childcare about 2 weeks ago. The infant bay looks nice and spacious and feels quite inviting. The Principal shared about the transition procedure for infants to childcare and their success stories and I felt quite assured. My friend's child is also in the Toddler class and she said her child settled really fast and is now very happy going to school. My friend speaks fondly of the class teachers as well. I will be placing my baby next year when she is much older and hope she will transit to preschool smoothly! XOXO excited mum

I do not recommend this preschool at all. There was a change in management 1-2 months after my child started infant care and things only got worse. My child's items were frequently misplaced even after I have labelled them and other children's items also got placed into my child's bag (e.g LABELLED soiled clothes and milk bottles, breast milk bottles, socks). I continued to put up with this because I felt that the teachers were quite ok and my child seemed to enjoy school. However, when my child turned 12 months, she suffered 4 bruises to her head within a span of less than 1 calendar month. One of the incidents was not even reported to me until I approached the school to ask about the bruise. The school claimed that this was a miscommunication and there was ZERO apologies made for this incident. I had to ask to speak to management about the frequent injuries and the school pushed the blame to my child for being fussy/difficult instead. Some pointers for potential parents to consider: 1. The most serious of the bruises was caused by a half door banging into my child's forehead. Apparently the teachers frequently close the door behind them without looking out for infants behind. Management said they have tried to ask the teachers to correct this action to no avail. You may interpret this however you like. 2. My child was in the centre from 3m to 12m. How is it possible that during this whole time, she could not be accustomed to more than 1 or 2 teachers? Did the teachers try enough to engage her? FYI she does not have this problem in her new school and her new teachers mentioned that this could be due to being insecure. 3. 2 of the bruises were caused by her head hitting furniture/doors. It is basic for an infant care centre to be childproof right? There are clearly lapses in childproof in the centre but the management maintains that my child (and one other child at most) are the only child that injured themselves instead of admitting that they need to look into further childproofing. 4. My child was supposed to transition to older infant group for 12 - 18m (which has a lower teacher:child ratio if 1:4 instead of 1:3 in case you also did not know) but this transition was delayed due to shortage of manpower at the older infant side. My personal belief is that this also contributed to my child's injury because she was not being engaged sufficiently at the younger infant group and hence wanted to stick to her preferred teacher. 5. My child has eczema and had to wear socks (with grip sole) to protect the wound. The centre said this caused my child to fall as being barefooted has better grip. In comparison, the new school said socks are a requirement for all children. Please interpret this as you wish. This centre has caused a lot of grief for me as I had to transfer my child out with less than 6 months to go in infant care. I regret not transferring my child out earlier. If you are unhappy with the care your child is receiving, I suggest you consider a transfer ASAP.