Want headstart in Sci, you can try Science Alive’s holiday camps. They emphasis on both practical and theory. There are lots of experiments. What I like is they let the kids do the experiments and learn from their mistakes.

My DD and nephews all enjoyed and benefited from it.

CHIJ (Katong) Primary is having their 85th Anniversary Carnival this Sat 30 May 2015 from 9am to 4pm.

Come and join us for a day of fun games and yummy food!
Teachers, students and PV organise the event. Great team work!
A good chance to visit the school and see our students in action, esp. for parents with daughters going primary 1 next year.

SydneyBB:

Is this camp like school's excursion? Do the kids learn much or more for fun?

Is it helpful to their science?
How is it compare to other holiday camps?

My girl joined previously. I prefer Science Alive holiday camp as it is more focus on syllabus related experiments according to the themes they learn in school. Makes them understand higher order questions better.

SAP schools -

Anglican High Sch
Chung Cheng High (main)
are good schools too!

Thanks.

Concerned as his travelling time back home is more than 1hr.
Will let him decides as he must enjoy the CCA.

Thanks RafflesianSnr and Pirated.


So the audition for Rugby and Hockey will be based on running? He can run but no experience in either sport. Will he be tested on the rules of the games, etc?
Do they end the CCA in school or some other training field? If they end so late, do they have time to rest and do homework at night?
What about uniform CCA like NCC? Not so hectic?

Anyone in Rugby CCA? Is it very violent? My nephew is interested but he is quite skinny, does he have a chance to get selected? What about Hockey?

How many days training per week? timing?

I feel to score in Science, the kid must understand the concepts very well by knowing how to apply it, how the change in variables affect the outcome and be able to to know which concepts the teacher is testing them on for each question. Cannot memorize. Hence by doing the hands on experiments to know your hypothesis, variables, constants, outcome and explanation to even \"failed experiments\" are important.

I believe kids learn best if they enjoy the subject, hence my girl was under this teacher during her primary school days. It keeps her interest in Science till now in Sec 3 taking Triple Sciences.
My nephews are in this centre too. Elder one got A* for recent PSLE and younger one band 1 (P3).
Learning is a continuous process, hope all our children can enjoy learning for life.

SydneyBB:

netserver:

Hi SydneyBB

At Science Alive are they into experiments as well? My child is rather weak in Section B, does Science Alive tackle that area?

how much is the fees, class size btw?

thanks

They tackle on open ended questions every week (I see some questions are related to the experiment they do that day and more questions on that topic).
Every week there is experiment except 1-2 weeks before exams where they focus on revisions and exam techniques.
I see that their experiments are quite interesting and relevant to my son's sch syllabus. My son gets to do the experiments himself, no need to share. Some of my friends told me that some centres only the teachers do the experiments and students look.
Class size quite small, my son's class has only 4 students. Ha! He can get full attention of the teacher as he is very talkative!

:xedfingers:

shyb:

Science Alive is interesting with experiments. Though it is fun but sometimes the lesson not relevant to the school syllabus. It has not much drilling for answering question.

My DD actually benefited from their way of teaching. She understood the concepts and theory from the experiments better than just memorising them. It helps a lot in answering processing skills questions in exams. They reinforce the school topics. Maybe not the usual tuition centre that do tons of worksheets.
My colleague's kids are attending it too. So far no complain. :xedfingers:

Also, she loves her CCA too much to ask her to quit.

She seems to put in more effort and time on the sport than her studies.