Hi,


Let me share my true experience with all of you, my son is currently P6 and he has regular English tuition. I enrolled in JC because I wanted him to improve in his composition, thus, I enrolled for the Paper 1 in July this year. I thought this extra lesson might give him some ideas/learn new vocabulary for compo but guess what happened. For the past 4 lessons, he basically copied essays and Oral passages. My son felt that it doesn’t helped him and also the class size is more than 30 students with P5/P6 combined together. I called up the centre and told them that my son is not suitable in this type of learning, I also shared with the teacher, Mrs Choo that it may be suitable for other children but definitely not my son. To my disbelief, she argued and told me that my son has pride in him that he doesn’t like to copy and this is the way of learning and told me all the "old grandmother stories" that she has many years of proven track records. DB, thru my conversation with her, I never, ever mentioned that her approaches are no good but she kept saying that it’s the student’s problem. The class size is so big that she can’t even remembered that she didn’t even marked my son’s work as I told her that it is purely copied which she argued that the essay that were flashed on the screen has some blanks and the student has to filled it in (basically the blank are 10% of the total essay) and submit for marking but for 4 lessons, nobody has ever asked my DS to submit in the copied essays (guess the teacher herself can’t even remembered that she has a new student). Her lessons are planned back to back and basically you have no time to even talk to the teachers. She even tell me off " if your son doesn’t like than finished the 8 lessons and no need to come" why, 8 lessons? Let me explained, because the centre has no "trial lesson" you must pay one month deposit, if you don’t like you have to give one month notice period. I really can’t believe a teacher has no basic manners/EQ talking to parents. Maybe by copying essays does work but definitely no creativity and you can do it at home.

GabyEn:

KohLL:

NOT Good. A waste of $ I have tried a package. Very nice when asking u to sign up but when $ paid .....different face. Cannot book weekends must pay extra and mons also cannot. I think if you buy those books outside from United Square can do at home. Nothing really fantastic. IMHO.

Hi KohLL
Its really unfortunate that you had such an experience. My experience when I was there with my son (for another program) was a pleasant one. What I like about them is that they are not 'pushy' if you know what I mean. There are alot of centers who are like \"spas\". Very pushy. I don't like it. I like to be given time to think about it especially programs for my kids.

BTW, can you share where you can get those books you mentioned? and what are their titles? I would be really interested. A friend of mine has actually enrolled her child in their brainy program recently. She told me that they do a mix of physical & computer activities to stimulate the brain. So I really am keen to read about how the listening & memory activities on the computer or the physical activities can be replaced.

Thanks alot!

Hi GabyEn, could you let me know beside SMART Listening Program, what other program did you sign up, I send my child for a assessment, they recommend SMART, Moves, Vision, Listening and Focus. So I am really thinking very hard whether I should sign up? My child is 12+ so not too sure whether it will help him? Are they able to strenghten your child weakness?

friendship:

attended Brain Development and BrainFit when dd was at 7 years old and 10 years old respectively. Now she is 13.

At 7 (6 yrs ago), we paid $ 1900 for 6-days camp including Sentosa trip on Sat. They went to MOE campsite for 2D1N to do Flying Fox, canoeing, camping stuff and fun I guess. The rest of the days were doing indoor activities. The report was comprehensive.

At 10, (3 yrs ago), we paid $350 for 3 sessions. 2 sessions were doing some sort of exercising and 1 session is for parents preview.

This is an analysis to see the weakness of the child. They will point out some problems like 'holding the pencil is not correct, unable to catch the ball, something wrong with the hearing, the child is left or right brainer, etc.


the follow up course they quoted me was about $3800 for couldn't remember how many lessons.

Hi, care to share how you find the session you paid at Brainfit? Are they able to indentify your child weakness & strenght in the report?