Comparing English Enrichment Programmes

[Pearly123]

Thinking of sending my P1 gal to CH eastgate. Anyone care to share the experience?

[worrisome_dad]

I formally sent my girl to Tiong Bahru Plaza for Creative Writing & English and I was upset with the tuition centre for marking her homework inaccurately on a few occasions. (My wife is an editor, feedback to me after she had checked her assignments). I realized her tutors are graduate part-timers who prepared their own teaching materials and are not MOE trained. After this episode, I hired a 3 personal tutors from the tuition agencies for her but it doesn’t work out because I caught one speaking Singlish to my daughter, found out the other lied about her qualifications and the third doesn’t measure up to my wife’s standard. After 5 painful months, a parent who is staying in the same condo recommended me to a small tuition centre. The parent shared with me that it was run by an English HOD & two teachers who resigned recently from a top MOE school to set up this tuition centre and best of all, they are all MOE trained and they understand the MOE syllabus very well. Anyway, I have no complaints. My daughter performed well above 75 for her English and I had also signed her up with this Math Teacher known as Miss Mok who used to teach in Catholic High & Raffles. Ever since my girl started last year, she has been scoring band 1 from band 3, consistently in the 90 marks range for her math. I attributed my girl’s achievement to the fact that her school is a neighbourhood school, hence the curriculum and CA test may not be as demanding as other very good school. But Miss Mok has always keep her on her toes by getting her to try out the very hard questions which I sometimes gave up trying. The other most important factor is that my girl likes her new tuition centre and she enjoyed working with her tuition teachers and classmates. It is situated behind the PSB academy infront of the Beo Crescent Food market where we have our breakfast . Maybe some parents out there in Tiong Bahru wants to explore this tuition centre as one of the many enrichment centre options. Just sharing to some desperate parents out there, it may not work for you but it does work for me. You need to make an appointment with them first before heading down. Their contact is 83885232

[netserver]

Hi


My DS is very weak in compo. which centre is more effective in creative writing? we are staying at the eastern. Thanks

[ebong]

I plan to register my gal to TAS bukit timah branch,any referral pls?.TIA

[Star2003]

ebong:

I plan to register my gal to TAS bukit timah branch,any referral pls?.TIA

Hi Ebong

I've pm you.

[ebong]

Thanks,…Star2003,have a great day!

[bellyhoney]

worrisome dad, can you tell me what is their class size ? Tried calling but no one pick. Can you share what do they do for the English? Do

I need to sign up for writing and paper 2 class? Thks.

[hquek]

netserver:

Hi


My DS is very weak in compo. which centre is more effective in creative writing? we are staying at the eastern. Thanks

Hi netserver,

Weakness in compo can mean many things, child will need to have on hand understanding of grammar, adequate vocab and finally some ideas to be able to come up with good compos.

Let us know if you have more specific questions about the centers and I'm sure kspers will be glad to help.

Cheers

[bigmama]

Hi Ebong..


My child is with BUKIT TIMAH branch too. Pls pm me for referral details

[happyandhealthy]

Hi can I just ask mommies here if you buy assessments books for your kids even though you have already sent them to tuition/enrichment centres? Or you don’t buy them since they’ve already got tuition?