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SCHOOLS
The Winstedt School
Rebecca and Colin Albert, Australian;
Hugo (8), Isaac (7) and Cooper (3)
Isaac says: “The school is fun
because of my friends, the gym
and the trampoline, and I enjoy
going to the art and music studio
and also the library.”
Hugo loves starting every
morning with fitness in the gym.
“Because the school is really small,
it’s so easy to find my friends! And
all the teachers are very kind.”
The Winstedt School
10 Winstedt Road, Block C #01-16
6836 1128 | winstedt.edu.sg
One World International School
696 Upper Changi Road
6542 2285 | owis.org
Hugo and Isaac have been attending
The Winstedt School since April 2013. We
decided to move the boys out of a large
international school and give The Winstedt
School a go. Cooper is already enrolled and
will start in August 2015. Winstedt offers a
mainstream international curriculum (IPC)
and keeps class sizes at a 6:1 ratio.
After spending just 10 minutes with
founder and CEO, Sharon Solomon,
you can see that this isn’t just a job or
a business for her, but a passion. We
can honestly say the school has been
a positive experience since our initial
phone call.
The children had a three-day trial, and
their reaction to it made the decision easy.
After the second trial day, Hugo said,
‘Mum, if The Winstedt School doesn’t take
me, I don’t know what’s going to happen
because I’m not going back to the other
school!’ He made it very clear where he
wanted to be. We went fromhaving two little
boys dragging their feet into school each
day to having two little boys upset when it
was time to go home!
Since moving, both boys have
blossomed into keen learners and are now
showing good academic results. Each day
we are thrilled to hear their stories and
touch base with their teachers. The warm,
welcoming feeling I get when I enter the
front door tells me that my boys are in the
best nurturing learning environment we
could possibly have found for them.
One World International
School (OWIS)
Colin and Simrin Gregory, Indian;
Liam (11) and Kian (6)
Our boys were following the IB
curriculum at their school in Hong Kong,
so moving to OWIS, which has the same
curriculum, was a smooth transition for
them. Also, the school is small and has a
family feel, a factor that really helped the
children settle in easily, as all the teachers
know all of the students. The principal
and the teachers are very communicative,
and every little concern is dealt with
immediately and pro-actively.
Before moving here, we searched online
and found good reviews of OWIS. When
we came to Singapore to visit the schools
we had shortlisted, OWIS instantly made
a good impression. The staff friendliness,
the excellent teacher-to-student ratio and
knowing that both our boys could go to the
same school and that there was no waiting
list sealed the decision.
We love the fact that the school is very
close to both work and home, and that
the teachers all seem enthusiastic, warm,
friendly and supportive. We feel happy
sending our kids to a school we can trust
to do a great job. We could not have made
a better decision.