Rosemarie Schools

Initially they promise A LOT. Initially it looks like you can't do better. Old reviews on the internet from 4 years ago are really good. Weird that there are no newer reviews. I have a few issues. My daughter articulates herself really well. If she says something to us, experience has again and again shown that she can tell it like it is and recount the truth pretty well. I start noticing her school art work doesn't look like her work. One art work she brought home had pieces glued together and behind each piece a child's name. One of the pieces had a different child's name. I asked her whether she did the art work and she said no the teacher assistant did it. Next day on the facebook page I see artist of the week and the art work is identical to my daughters. Angle at which glued together identical, colours identical even the zig zag pattern and colour of glitter glue exactly the same. Red flag. Learners doing their own work will rarely do things identical. My feeling is that if my child glued it all skew and blobbed the glitter everywhere it is much more preferred than her not having the opportunity to practice her own art as this won't allow her to develop and learn. The school never reads books to their children. I know this both because my daughter says they don't and because she never tells new stories like she does in every other instance when she hears new stories. One day when I fetched her from school, I immediately gave her a bath because she was so tired. When I pulled down her pants I noticed her panty was damp. I smelled both her panty and her pants and they smelled of urine. I asked her about this and she said she had an accident during nap time. Note that she never sleeps at school, she was awake the whole time as per usual. I asked her if anybody assisted her she said no. I'm assuming they turn down the lights and make quiet the kids for nap time, but if she was paid attention to like what I expect then somebody should have still noticed she wet her pants and not have left her for the 2 hours of naptime (and longer until I picked her up) until it eventually dried to her body and couldn't be seen as a wet patch on her pants anymore. This to me is neglectful. School also gives vibes that parents should not ask questions in the manner which they treat parents who rightfully request info about their kids. When I ask a question do not rudely tell me this info has already been provided. Clearly I ask since I don't know and it is the first time I ask. The effort of putting up an aggressive tone could have been spared by simply answering what I'm asking, simply answering would have been less effort and more professional. For instance we received a message that "one of our little ones was diagnosed with covid during this week". Upon asking the lady at the reception in which class so I may know whether my child was in direct contact, she said don't worry that was a week ago already as if I was confused or scatter brained. Yet the message sent the previous day said it was within the current week. I replied on the notice app on that message asking in which class to which the comment was deleted and I was contacted via whatsapp and the reply was cold, short and as if I was annoying them with asking a question that I most definitely as a parent have the right to ask. The principal's reply was that this information was already provided and it was in the baby school, not the toddler school. I read the notice again to make sure and the notice only said "one of our little ones" so I don't know if in her mind it stating "little one" informs parents that it was in the baby school, but in my mind that doesn't share information of in which class or even in which one of their schools the covid case was. My feeling is that my child will do better in a school where questions are answered openly and with a professional tone (not rudely), where I don't see signs of neglect and where there are no red flags indicating that children aren't allowed the opportunities to do their own work even if they don't do it perfectly and thus they don't get the chance to practice until they get better and to learn and develop as I believe they should. I will be transferring my child to a different school next term. I believe her current school may perhaps have been great at a time, but currently they seem inadequate to me even though some of the staff are very friendly, the overall picture is not in the best interest of my child.

I was initially happy as they promise a lot and really seem to want to help your child. I was so disappointed that through the 4 months of being there that everything was made to be going great and then in December be called for a meeting saying that I need to find another school as my child is too busy and they don't want him there. Otherwise he has to be put onto medication for hyperactivity. I was so disappointed with the baby school and the teacher that never wanted to speak to me or share any concerns she may have had. Its not right to also not want to help a child if necessary.