Comparing Chinese Enrichment (Primary/Preschool)

[jedamum]

chuayy:

I will recommend Tien Hsia. My niece and nephew have went to Berries but there is no improvement. They change to Tien Hisa and have show great improvement. I aslo send my boy to Tien Hsia he is very happy with the classes and he is looking forward to the lesson. Berries use alot of part time teacher and some of them may not qualified to be a teacher.

can you share the level your niece and nephew is in?
personally, i tend to agree that Berries for Primary level may not have the same effectiveness as their Preschool's level (or maybe my expectations is higher :oops:)

[tankee]

chuayy:

....Berries use alot of part time teacher and some of them may not qualified to be a teacher.

how do you know this ?

[chuayy]

Yes! I agreed! For Pre-school level it may be better. But for Primary School and above i will recommend Tien Hsia. My niece is in P2 and my nephew is in P3. Tien Hsia they have spelling but Berries dosen’t. My niece only finished Term 1 in Berries. After that my brother send her to Tien Hsia. She has more concentration on her work. There is great improvement. As for my nephew, my sister send him to Tien Hsia since P1. Their teaching system is different also. Every parent’s expectation is high. Even myself.



I heard form my colleague. How true is it i don’t know. As what i know, for Pre-School Level, Tien Hsia teacher is qualified teachers with certificates or diplomas in Early Childhood Education and for Pri/Sec teacher is qualified teachers with degree from teachers’ college or universities. Tien Hsia have teachers for Pre-School and Pri/Sec. As for Berries their Pre-School teacher can teach Pri/Sec level. They should have fixed teachers for each level.

[jedamum]

chuayy:

As for Berries their Pre-School teacher can teach Pri/Sec level. They should have fixed teachers for each level.

Yes. My P2's berries form teacher was his K1 teacher. but i am ok with it cos she is a very good teacher and my boy likes her very much.

[aceve]

:?: My P2 gal has been with berries since 4years old.They have done a very good job and my gal has been doing very well in her Chinese. Recently, we realised that she's having trouble with creative writing in Chinese. As a non chinese, I'm not able to help her.


Please advice if I should continue her in Berries or move her to another place? What about Han Language, which is better? Or is there a better school? I put up in Pasir Ris....kindly advice!!!

THANK YOU!!!!

[Happybirdks]

Hi


For Primary level, Tien Hsia is quite reputable. You may want to try it.

[cafelatte]

That’s the general feedback I get from my friends as quite a few of them send their children to Berries preschool classes for the more interesting programme. However, I can’t comment first-hand as I haven’t seen Berries primary school worksheets.


Mine attend Tien Hsia since K2. I think that all programmes have their merits and it depends on your ‘luck’ what kind of teacher and classmates you get.

For Tien Hsia, I just want to point out that : P1-P4 they do not have seperate classes for CL and HCL (unlike Berries). The enrichment classes are taught at HCL level. Therefore, expect more "cheem" words that what they will be learning at CL classes in school. The TH spelling list will also consquently, be more "cheem". There are some children who struggled or feel discouraged so again, you need to evaluate.

[foreverj]

hi, my dd in N2 currently attends a one hour per week home-based chinese playgroup. the teacher is free-lance, from china. she is pretty good and teaches recognition of chinese characters. spoke to her a few weeks back about when the kids will learn to practise writing. her comment was that only start in p1. from now until k2, is to do lots of tracing, cutting and colouring exercises using the booklets she bring in from china. my question is - should i be concerned that my dd wil only start writing in p1 for this class? or i just rely on her cc to teach her the writing and trust that the word recognition is sufficient for now?


thanks in advance for any suggestions/comments!

[Busymom]

cafelatte:

Mine attend Tien Hsia since K2. I think that all programmes have their merits and it depends on your 'luck' what kind of teacher and classmates you get.

For Tien Hsia, I just want to point out that : P1-P4 they do not have seperate classes for CL and HCL (unlike Berries). The enrichment classes are taught at HCL level. Therefore, expect more \"cheem\" words that what they will be learning at CL classes in school. The TH spelling list will also consquently, be more \"cheem\". There are some children who struggled or feel discouraged so again, you need to evaluate.

Maybe because of the way the primary school level is being taught, recently I had a surprise when I saw my K2 spelling list. It was a rather long list, a big jump from what she did in T4 at K1. There were 3 words (computer, morning exercise and wake up) and a sentence (we go to the garden to jog)... as we started almost like just the night before, ended up spending the whole night working on the list... After this experience, vowed never to wait till the last minute again :oops:

[Busymom]

foreverj:

hi, my dd in N2 currently attends a one hour per week home-based chinese playgroup. the teacher is free-lance, from china. she is pretty good and teaches recognition of chinese characters. spoke to her a few weeks back about when the kids will learn to practise writing. her comment was that only start in p1. from now until k2, is to do lots of tracing, cutting and colouring exercises using the booklets she bring in from china. my question is - should i be concerned that my dd wil only start writing in p1 for this class? or i just rely on her cc to teach her the writing and trust that the word recognition is sufficient for now?


thanks in advance for any suggestions/comments!

Just my two cents, but I think to start writing in P1 is a bit too late, isn't it? I am told that P1 kids are already expected to do simple composition these days?

At the very least, should start some simple writing in K1 already.