Most welcome, dohdoh. Yes, travelling is a hassle. I travel from Thomson to Katong! & I am sending 3! Ha…ha…

Hi Julie, glad that you have also find XL worthwhile sending. I share the same sentiments. My kids enjoy their classes too. Always looking forward to going. :boogie:

I agree; our library has good selection of books, both English and Chinese. Make full use of it! My kids also like 张君伟一年级 but I have to read to them. They are not reading on their own. Anyway, I don't mind.

Hi dohdoh, try Xuelin Learning Hub. I was apprehensive initially due to long travelling distance required. However, now, NO regrets! They are really fanastic! See their thread.

Jinglee: I believe that we can't really stop our children from speaking Singlish. My sister's sec sch's kids speaks to her friends(they are in top IP sch!) and it freak us out. Later, my sis realised that so long as the kids are able to speak proper English when required and also they don't use Singlish at home, she is fine. :nailbite:


I have also instilled English and Singlish to my 3 children. Once in blue moon, my P1 will come back with a word or two! I will coreect her; NO Singlish allowed at home! :nunchuk:

VooVoo: I am "pestering" them to open for P1. Read Xuelin’s tread for details.

Amomm: Thank you! I was still "头痛" about my P1 and K1 till your input! Look like I am fated to be driver and send them to XL after all. After reading your tread about booking 5 seats for the holiday program, at least I know I am on the right track. I will continue to "pester" them to open the P1’s.

tonpat: Yes, they do have P2's program; in fact from P1-5, it's all about reading a book and follow by writing. I have not had the details of the program. They are still crafting the program, no final details yet. I booked a place after a chat with the lady boss who brought in the books but not retailing them instead they intend to teach the kids how to make good use of these books. I thought that is remarkable , on top of the small class size! Personally, I have seen/read few pages of the books; they are very interesting.I am requesting her to consider to take in P1 as I would love to \"immerse\" my P1. :xedfingers:


Call them if you are keen.

Pixy: No, they have only 1 type of class. It's just that they rotate the class. We started with lesson 11 which has compre component. The following week, lesson 12 is compo writing. I worried that my gal can't cope with the 1st lesson being writing class thus I slotted in last min to prepare her for XL's class.


Yes, agreed! They do have a \"formula\" to help students. My P2 really likes them very much, still talking about it all day long today!I only hope that they can sustain! FYI,They are very creative; I believe you will like their holiday program. I \"chopped \" 4 seats for my gals and my sister's.

VooVoo:

lim_ks:

I will be sending mine to Xuelin, already \"chopped\" a place as they are limited placements. She will be doing a 5 days reading program with compo fundamental writing for a duration of 3 hr & 45 mins. I have seen the selected books; something like Diary of the Wimpy's Kid but in Chinese. After speaking to them, I agree with their rationale of doing this program. Many kids dun read Chinese books thus having very limited vocab, good content and good sentence structure. They will have interesting curriculum to engage kids and later translate into writing. I thot this is very necessary for my children. Very Ks but no choice.

So this holiday program is on reading and compo?

lim_ks:

VooVoo: Yes, the program is about reading certain good extracts of selected books/ certain newspaper articles depending on level. The 2nd half is about writing, objective is to refine the writing using the vocab, contents and sentence structure learnt earlier. I thought it's very interesting to engage the kids and they are taking in only 20 kids per level (I heard it's 10 in the morning and 10 in the afternoon!) What I like about them is that their class size is very small! That is why I have to \"chopped\" a place for my gals and my sister's.

VooVoo: Yes, the program is about reading certain good extracts of selected books/ certain newspaper articles depending on level. The 2nd half is about writing, objective is to refine the writing using the vocab, contents and sentence structure learnt earlier. I thought it's very interesting to engage the kids and they are taking in only 20 kids per level (I heard it's 10 in the morning and 10 in the afternoon!) What I like about them is that their class size is very small! That is why I have to \"chopped\" a place for my gals and my sister's.