A B Paterson Childcare Centre

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  Nathan Hay 5

  All of my interactions with the teachers have been very positive.They have a genuine love for the children and strive for excellence.

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  Paul Murphy 5

  We have had an excellent experience with our kids at the school. We were first attracted by the quality of the senior students when we first did our tour here 7 years ago, and the quality of the those senior students since and the current grade 12s has only confirmed our decision to send our kids here. We have been impressed with the academic focus and we have also been impressed by the extra co-curricular things kids can do a part of their schooling and have been very happy with the teachers and the quality of the people at the school. They seem to be there at all hours and their ultimate aim is to assist the kids achieve their goals whatever they may be. I have always found the teachers and staff including the principal to be very approachable to discuss whatever issues we have, and have found the discussion fair, intelligent and productive. As our daughter departs to a world challenge Fiji trip for 3 weeks and our son has his first academic award in year 4, it has been a successful year, and I could not be more proud of our kids and the people they are becoming.. The aim of the school is to partner with us to produce confident active members of our community and to provide them with opportunities to discover everything about themselves and to do whatever it is they want to do, and this school does that. It has an academic focus which we like because inevitably part of that discovery for kids is what they want to do and then find out the further study required and what is needed to get there. Again the school and staff provide the opportunities to find those things out. It has not always gone the way our kids hoped but that too is a solid learning lesson that sometimes even when you try your best, you don't get the results. On those rare occasions we have found the staff to be completely open to discussion with our kids about what they need to do to improve. Unfortunately as kids discover not everyone wins and not everyday is a great day, but the staff go out of their way to help the kids adjust to both winning and losing as this is the way life is. I have seen a review here about a parents experience when their kid did not win the grade 3 spelling bee and then pulling them out of the school and I think this says more about the parent than anything else. Talk to the recent graduates, talk to the staff, talk to a range of parents, that is my advice when weighing up your options. Don't use some disgruntled parents who have left the school over petty issues be your source of knowledge. I hope and trust that our children graduate with a solid understanding of themselves and their potential, filled with confidence to take on the world, and going to AB Paterson College has set them on their way.

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