Pat's Schoolhouse Preschool - Katong

School Building before restoration

Terrible pre school. Teachers with no passion and love for kids.

Great school. Good balance between playing and learning. They are moving to a different location in March 2016.

This school is awesome! This is a daycare + school. Your child can learn Gymnastics and be a bilingual student by learning Chinese

I took my kids out from a very dirty Pre-school where they hired teachers with no qualification. I am very glad we found Pat's schoolhouse. the campus is very clean and the communication between teachers, school management and the parents is very transparent. I can follow up with the development of my children easily. My kids are very happy here and the teachers here are so lovely, sweet and professional. They care about the happiness of the kids and also the developmental milestones of kids by ages and stages.

I just moved my child out of Pats Katong branch to another new childcare in 2022. Massive disappointment of our experiences at Katong branch. My child had been with pats schoolhouse from start, past experiences with Pats Shaer (now defunct) and Pats Sembawang was fantastic with great teachers, principals, and environment where they really care for your kids. In Pats Katong branch, experiences was drastically different. -Messy hair of child when return from school -No dry of child’s hair after water play till end of the day. -Child say food given not enough, still hungry. (Apparently quantity is limited as food delivered from Katong 1 to Katong 2) -Rashes due to not cleaning up well after toilet use and teacher just looking at her outside the toilet, even when child asked for help. -Child progress updates on app by K1 teacher was just for the sake of doing, posting general pictures, no additional comments of child progress. -Whole classroom looking at video from a small monitor??? (see pic) Even smaller than my home monitor screen. Some of the above points, I still can brush it away, as might be 5 year old saying wrong things, lack of preschool teachers, lockdown, branch too big etc … But the final straw is really the poor communication of confirmed covid cases in same class. Thou they mentioned it was as per MOH protocol of 2 days after report then school will announce (I dun understand rational of this). As school did not communicate promptly, eventually is parents communicating between each other then we are aware of the situation. Worse still, entire class gotten HRN from MOH, even thou most kids DID NOT attend school most of that week. By just simply looking at check-in records, school will know exactly whom attended school but I guess admin dun even bother to check and just submit entire list to MOH. Anyway, child is happy in new childcare and instantly we can see the drastic differences in the new childcare, communication, enrolment procedures, hygiene taken when entering school etc.. Things i do not see in Pats Katong. I still believe in Pats schoolhouse programs (other branches), just that the experience at Katong branch really leave much to be desired. Probably this branch is too big to be managed, lets this branch will improve and be better managed for the future!