Zoophonics

[Fatty Mum]

Please check out the branch you are interested carefully. My sister was interested in sending her kid there but was so turned off by the attitude of a teacher. She was loud and constantly telling a little girl off in front of my sister. In the end, my sister decided to go elsewhere.

[Rea]

Hi, Fattymum. May I know which branch you are referring to?

[Rea]

Any feedback on the Thomson branch? I tried calling up and the lady who answered was rather "cold" and unprofessional in answering my queries.

[nettie]

Thomson branch is well known to have some customer service problem… if thats the case, i rather put my kids at serangoon central.

[Rea]

In that case, I shall not consider ZooPhonics Thomson!

[sk_star]

hi all, any comments on Tampines, Serangoon or Siglap branch ? Any good teachers for nursery & K1 class ? Please advise, thank you.

[Tian]

Agreed, i personally dun like Zoo Phonics in Serangoon, the admin is kind of rude.

When I say i will consider wan to cont or not, she straight away give me the termination letter to ask us to sign (sound forcing & unfriendly) & said will immediate affect & only explain the further course after we signed. Damn stupid procedure, they should explain to us before we make the decision right? & their down payment method is not flexible at all.

What i can say is Zoo phonic is good, my boy English improve when he attend 2 yrs course,its difinitely not the school problem, the school should consider to change the admin, if not their business will getting worse.

[mrswongtuition]

sk_star:

hi all, any comments on Tampines, Serangoon or Siglap branch ? Any good teachers for nursery & K1 class ? Please advise, thank you.

Tampines:
I'm not sure about now but when my boy was there in 2010, it was rather horrid. The teacher was an 'auntie' who couldn't even speak properly (much less teach phonics).

The system is wonderful and the materials are great.
It's the teachers that turn me off.

Try GUG. If I recall correctly, they use Zoophonics too. And their teachers are very fun & friendly.

[PhoBIA]

mambobb:

Any comments on the teachers at Tampines branch?

My elder boy goes to the weekly enrichment under teacher Billy( not sure how to spell her name.)
Has been under her for about 2 years. She's from phillipines, gentle and encouraging. Many a times, in the morning my boy would say he don't want to class... After class, when you ask him how was class, the answer is FUN :?

Was getting worried that my K2 boy still could not read in the beginning of the year. Suddenly, after the cny holiday, he just decided that he could do it, and shown tremendous improvement. All thanks to the encouragement from the teacher.

Now my younger boy also joins her in the weekly enrichment class.
You may not see immediate results. My elder boy met my expectation of being to read before he primary 1.

[PhoBIA]

mrswongtuition:

sk_star:

hi all, any comments on Tampines, Serangoon or Siglap branch ? Any good teachers for nursery & K1 class ? Please advise, thank you.

Tampines:
I'm not sure about now but when my boy was there in 2010, it was rather horrid. The teacher was an 'auntie' who couldn't even speak properly (much less teach phonics).

The system is wonderful and the materials are great.
It's the teachers that turn me off.

Try GUG. If I recall correctly, they use Zoophonics too. And their teachers are very fun & friendly.

It's unfortunate that you have such a bad experience. My experience with them has so far been very good. My boy's teachers happens to be all from phillipines. Teacher Noreen, May, Billy. Maybe due to their influences, he speaks proper English and sounds a little slang....