Eurokids - A review
I had mentioned earlier about the pre-school, Eurokids, that our older one is going to in Bangalore. She started almost immediately on coming here. She just completed 3 months there. Overall, we find the school pretty good, especially since their philosophy is, Learning by doing - a child needs to ‘touch’, ‘explore’, ‘learn’ and ‘enjoy’ to understand the world around him. Our daughter seems to like her school and she has some friends as well. Typically, a class has about 12 students. Each class has a teacher and an assistant. Each class also has a bathroom+toilet. The flooring is laminated and is maintained clean. Kids leave their footwear outside in the shoe rack and are bare feet inside the classrooms. The facility includes a decent amount of play area that has some Little Tikes play structures, a few of Little Tikes cars and the like. Lots of assistants are sprinkled around, and I know that kids are watched over when they are playing outside.
Right now, each Eurokids pre-school has the following class groups:
- Playgroup for kids between 1.8 and 2.5 yrs of age
- Nursery for kids between 2.5 and 3.5
- EuroJunior for kids between 3.5 and 4.5
- EuroSenior for kids between 4.5 and 5.5
At the nursey level, she is being taught a lot of things in a fun and interesting way. She gets to do a lot of things with her hands. And best of all, they maintain a folder for all of her activites through the week and send it home on Friday. All her work sheets are for us to keep, and we need to only send the empty folder back on Monday. The teacher teaches almost everything using props. The kids get to see, touch, and eat the fruits that they are being taught about. They get to use their sense of logic in different activities. For example, there was this work sheet where they had to choose the right kind of transportation for air, water, railway tracks, roads etc. Every child gets individual attention from the teacher while doing the job in class. The sense of satisfaction and pride is evident in my daughter when she explains her work sheets to her parents or to her grand parents/relatives.
In these 3 months, they have already had a few parties like the Diwali party, the Christmas party, a children’s day, a sports day, and a few field trips. Overall, I am very happy with all these extra activities, especially the field trips. My daughetr comes home and tells me about the fruit shop they visited and the different fruits that they got to see. She also got an opportunity to go see an ambulance van, and visited another Eurokids facility on another field trip. I have met her teacher and she seems really nice. All of their teachers are trained by Eurokids and are given a Eurokids certification before being offered a job.
Some gripes:
- Our daughter goes to the nursery class and typically has classes for about 3 hours, that includes a half hour play time and some snack break. My daughter can easily stay at school for another hour. She definitely can use some more mental stimulation and challenges.
- As parents, we are not invited to involve ourselves in school activites within the school premise. We are not invited to their Diwali/X’mas celebrations. So, we don’t get to take pics of our children at such events.
I was used to being very involved at her Montessori in SF bay area and loved seeing my child being on her own outside of her home. The only Eurokids invites we got was for the sports day, which I must say, was nicely organised. - Quite a few closed days. They have about 50 closed days for various occasions and are again closed for 2 months in summer.
Typical fee structure for ‘06-’07:
- Admission fees - Rs. 5,500
- Tuition fees - Rs. 1,350 per month. You have to pay for a minimum of 6 months or 9 months or 12 months. Which means, even if your child is going to go only for 7 months, you have to pay for 9 months. (You pay for the 2 closed months of summer by default.)
- Registration kit - Rs. 1,100
- Books - Rs. 200
Please Note: There has been no additional fees for their Diwali/X’mas parties, sports day celebrations or field trips. Everything has been covered in the fees that we have paid towards tuition.
* I am not sure if the fee structure varies based on the place. I would expect all Eurokids pre-schools in Bangalore to have the same fee structure.
Big reason for this review: Eurokids is a big chain of pre-schools in India and has over 200 pre-schools all over India. The sheer number called for a review.
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Hi Friends,
I would like to share my experience with EuroKids pre-school (Brookefields area, Whitefield).
To be true, it turned out to be bad experience.
When my Daughter was 2years 2months, I prepared her for going to the school. She was very intrested and happy to go out and enjoy with other kids. Surprisingly on first few days including first day she didn’t cry, she was ready to leave me and happy to be part of school. Eventually she didn’t want to go school or play with other kids. This put me down. She infact started crying to go to school. We were very worried about this act of her. When we approched the teacher in Eurokids, she started with complaining about my kid. This irritated us. As a teacher we expected her to take care of our kid to be part of school activity and group activities in the school. When teacher complains this shows that she was not capable of doing her work. We also observed that teacher shouting with the kids which is not an healty environment.
We discontinued my daughters toddler section from midterm itself. She is at home. She took few months to be out of fear. Now she is back to normal and enjoying back with other kids in the park.
We have took the admission for Playgroup in Deans academy. This is refered to be good school system.
Chitra,
I am Gurpreet. We live at Chinnapanhalli.
I have kid who just turned two. I am looking to put him in play school in next session (June 2008). I prefer deens academy but I am little worried about commute. I feel he is two young to travel alone(without parents) in school bus for 7-8 km (from Chinnapan halli). After Deens Academy I am thinking of either EuroKids or Kidzee. Do you have any idea about Kidzee?
Any suggession will really be helpful.
Thanks & Regards,
Gurpreet Singh
hi gurpreet..
if ur interested in kidzee.. i suggest u put ur child in kidzee in whitefield…near prestige ozone (Anshu Bhan) thats better than the one in kidzee AECS Layout (Jayeta Chakraborty)..
as a preschool consultant i suggest u put ur child in a school that gives excellent inter personal activities and also interaction with parents.., too much pressure on studies is not considered the BEST always!!!
hi,
i have a son of 21/2yrs.i stay in whitefield.want to put him to a preschool near by.how is eurokids,whitefield and kidzee,whitefield.which is better among the two.please help me
I would like to share my experience with kidzone Indiranagar, bangalore.
Please Stay away from Kidzone Indiranagar. They give so many false promises. Never keep them. forget about hi-fi things.. They promise to do potty training in 3 days after kid joins there.. forget about potty training, they dont even clean kids potty properly.
When I talk to the correspondent(meenakshi) there, She says she is too busy for these small things.. and she was advising teachers to check just before the kids coming out. For whom? It is just to satisfy the parents interest? or interest is to keep kids clean?? When I heard this I just walked away and never sent my son again there..
Kids hardly eat anything there.. When I asked them, Sai’s teacher was telling we didnt feed him because he may bring out everything he had.. All I sent was only grapes/biscuits.. his fav stuff.. He used to eat them in the car once I pick him.
Teachers there are just time pass kind of ladies.. who used to sit at home.. and joined preschool as teacher.. They dont have knowledge on how to deal with kids.. not even basic knowledge.. they cant even difference between drool smell and potty smell too..
They are too greedy for money.. It is run by husband and wife.. Husband does marketing job.. rather bashing other preschools.. and praising his own.. believe it is so horrible.. I discontinued by 22 month old..
They dont do much for preschool kids and concentrate more on nursery. As nursery just before they go to school interviews..
Well If you are for preparing kid just to school.. not for learning.. you can go ahead with kidzone.. They do good job of preparing kid to school.. that too in the last minute..
We have a 2 1/2 year son whom we want to enroll in a playschool.The eurokids and kidzee in AECS layout are convenient to us.Could anyone provide us opinions on each of these?we want best choice for our child.
i am sharing with u my exp with euro kids ahmedabadh( vastrapur)
the school gives false promise .there is no single chair or table for the kid he/she has to sit on the floor n there is no mat too…..they dont wash the childs hand before or after his/her tiffin , they remove the kids shoes in the class , they take them to the toilet bear foot ………………
when the cant do the basic why have the school .
i think euro kids the head office has to take action
heard about lady faculty abusing male staffs not once several times to stay in jobs thats Mrs.Manjula M.phil Of Garden City College its one among my experience i could’nt forgive. Vulture
Hi, I was surprised to read Chaitra’s experience. My experience is exactly the same. My daughter is also going to the same branch as Chaitra has mentioned. I think this was a blunder of my life to put my daughter in this place.
She has been regularly complaining of the teacher slapping her or hitting her on the head. Its a pathetic place. Is there any way we can complain in the head office for this?