Starkidz:

Welcome to KSP

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Mommy of 3 checking in. 12, 10 & 6. Always lotsa noise in the house... more so during the hols...like now! :rahrah: :boogie: :stompfeet: :frustrated: :spank:

We heard similar when we were taken on a tour by a sweet Sec 3 boy in Yishun Town. He is from NA stream. We told him he should consider marketing as a career!

KSP:

KSP :welcome: you to KSP

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Is there somewhere we can find tutors on kiasuparents.com? Somewhere where the tutors are rated (like on ebay...sellers have % positive feedback...that kind).

Am looking for suitable Math tutor for my girl starting Sec 1 nx year. Had bad experience with past tutors...

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chenks:

Recommend CHung Cheng Yishun as facilities are better.

Both have same CoP but Chung Cheng Yishun stands out more as they seem more approachable and friendly.
Chung Cheng Yishun had Open House on 24 Nov and it was full of parents and students. The school had many teachers and students showing guests around.

Turned up at Yishun Town & was surprised they don't seem to have Open House. Staff was trying to explain they had similar smaller scale events throughout the year - thought staff was condescending and implying the school doesn't need an Open House as it seemed that theirs was an obvious choice. Thought it was a bit arrogant. Disappointed at the attitude.

Yishun Town had its open house with principal talk last Friday 22 Nov and Saturday 23 Nov, and only school tour on 25 Nov.

For some reason, at least 2 teachers around Yishun area recommend Yishun Town over CCH Yishun. And generally, parents prefer Yishun Town as well. They have not-so-good impression of CCH Yishun students outside school. So I am surprised that parents in the forum prefer CCH Yishun to Yishun Town.

I don't interact with either school's students but I have more opportunities to observe YTSS students behaviour outside school. I haven't seen a misbehaved student from YTSS after at least 5 years of daily observation. I only hear them discussing school work. Quite impressed.

Yes, was a bit surprised when we called up Yishun Town last week, and they said no Open House. But looks like last minute they decided to do so. We managed to catch the walkabout on Monday 25 Nov. They 'tour guide' was a very impressive young man in Sec 3. Not a councillor but a student leader in NPCC.

We caught the Open House for CCYS too last weekend. Am also impressed. Walking around the compound reminds us of West lake in Hangzhou.
Students bow when walking past.

These 2 schools are definitely in our shortlist. Still deciding which comes above which. :?

For those who missed Yishun Town open house, there's a write up by a forumer here:
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=55778&start=20

janet_lee88:

1) 1-1 tuition

2) 2 years
3) $50 for 2 hours every sat
4) end result...F.

i must have been either 1) stressed 2) blind not to realize something is wrong.

my daughter dislikes chinese...so i plan to coach her myself for the next 3 months. P-U-S-H.

Hi Janet_lee88,

I completely understand your situation. We too, fell into this. We hired this ex-tuition centre (a famous math center) tutor. She quit the center and struck out on her own shortly after we put DD in the centre. Tutor seem pleasant enough, bubbly and able to click with DD. So since DD has been with her in the centre, we continued with her when she went solo.

Continuing into P6... it was $60 per hr 1-to-1. Each week 2 hrs. Results? Only marginal improvement for our DD for her SA1, tests and Prelims. We thought it's DD's fault. She isn't the easiest girl to teach. Understand today, everything forgotten tomorrow...those type. I know, coz previously I tried teaching her myself, but all I got was :stupid: :slapshead: . Sigh.

But we persevered with the tutor despite the warning signs... closer to PSLE..around middle of this year, all we hear was the tutor's lecturing and scolding during every lesson. Half of me wanted to sack her...but the other half wanted to carry on. Yeah... looking back I'm :siao: But at that time, I was at a lost. I don't have time to look for another tutor.

To cut long story short.... my DD Math PSLE got 'D'. The tutor didn't even bother to sms me to ask how did DD do. (In contrast, DD's other tutors for Chinese and Eng sms'd me... incidentally DD had A's for the languages. Cynical me wonder if tutors already have insight how their tuitees will perform in the national exam?).

On hindsight (which is always perfect), we should have sack this Math tutor earlier.... :mad:

Like you, my DD hate the subject she's being tutored. In her case, it's Math. One main reason why we put our dear children through tuition is to overcome the hate/fear of the subject.

Am currently on the lookout for recommendations for tutors for Math who can teach Sec 1 Normal Acad, preferably female, in the North... anyone who knows such tutors, who can take up the challenge of removing Math fear in my girl...pls pls pm me?

Sorry for the long-winded post...just need to get this out of my system.

Thx

Wow… read through all 29 pages… and learned a lot. Will share my experience after finish cooking.

Hi, glad to finally post. I have occassionally read the forum, but hardly have time to post. Hope to learn from everyone and contribute here.