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KRTC Jurong CNY AngPao Lucky Draw

KRTC Jurong would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family a Happy Chinese New Year.

Hope the new year brings the greatest share of happiness, good fortune, prosperity, productivity and success!

We also have our CNY Angpao Lucky draw, with the following attractive prize:
1st Prize: 3 MONTHS of FREE LESSONS for 2 subjects worth ~$1070
2nd Prize: 3 MONTHS of FREE LESSONS for 1 subject worth ~ $535
3rd Prize: 1 MONTH of FREE LESSONS 1 subject worth ~ $180

How to Participate?
1. Log-in facebook and go to www.facebook.com/krtcjurong
1. Share the post to stand a chance in the lucky angpao draw
2. Comment “PM” to find out more

Each entry will entitle you to the latest 2017 Top Schools Mathematics Examination Papers for FREE!
Or a FREE TRIAL LESSON of any subject and level of your choice.

For more information, please contact us via
Jurong West Branch (KRTC@JW)
Email : jurongwest(at)krtc.com.sg
Hotline : (+65) 6397 0444

KRTC reserve the rights to amend the terms & conditions without any prior notification.

Education stress

Everyone would have experienced education stress at some point in their academic life. The positives and negatives of education stress has been a widely debated topic. Differing cultures have differing views about how impactable should education stress be on students today; how healthy it is for students and to what extend should education stress be manageable before others should intervene to help the student cope with the stress.

Singapore’s education system may be topping the charts all over the world, but it is putting a lot of academic and education stress on its students. Education stress has been a huge debate as to its impact on a student’s academic performance. Education stress has been proved to be one of the motivational forces that drives Singapore’s students to academic excellence. Research has shown that stress at appropriate levels can be a motivating force that energises us for the challenges we face. However, having overly high achievement motivation is also correlated with anxiety levels. Students should be highly motivated to learn and achieve, however, it must not come at the expense of their mental, emotional and physical wellbeing.

Research have shown that high levels of stress can lead students to doing unfavourable and illegal activities such as glue sniffing, drugs, and even cause bodily harm to themselves as a form of distraction from their school work. In 2016, the suicide rate among 10- to 19-year-olds doubled from 2014, reaching a 15-year high. In 2015, 50 teens reported self-harming, an increase from 44 in 2014.

Stress may affect a student’s health and their academic performance. Hence, coping strategies are specific efforts designed to help individuals better cope with stress and the anxiety that comes with it. Examples of coping strategies are slow breathing, mental vacations and doing a relaxing hobby such as reading a book or painting. Different individuals have their own subjective way to cope with stress. Thus, finding the suitable mode of relaxation for yourself would come in handy in stressful situations.

Stress and anxiety is a personal response that comes from one’s expectations, the expectations of the people around them and their ability to manage challenges. Hence, having a wider perspective of the education system, managing one’s expectations and looking beyond one’s, achievement can help students manage and cope with stress. Developing an understanding of one’s strength and weaknesses. Having bite size goals and short-term milestones can help in coping with anxiety. These bite size goals also help students keep track of their path to success. Such that if they miss their final target, they can still take pride in the overall achievement and journey that had embarked on.

All in all, education stress has its positives and its negatives. While its positives can pose as a motivation for students, its negatives can affect students’ mental, emotional and physical health. Having a knowledge of some coping strategies will help in time of stress and anxiety.

Here are some good examples of coping strategies for children to engage in:
• Achievable milestones towards the final goal
• Sharing their anxieties & frustration with their parents
• Good family support achieve balance
• Taking a walk in the park
• Self-directed journaling
• Solving puzzles or having a hobby
• Listening to relaxing music
• Deep abdominal breathing

Top PSLE Students for KRTC Jurong

The Primary School Leaving Examinations, PSLE results has released.

Our students have maintained 100% success rate to promote to secondary, and our 12 students score above T-Score of 235. Congratulations.

Kudos to you for passing this important exam. I hope your result motivates you to pass every challenge that life throws at you. This exam may not be the biggest test of your life. But by passing with good grades, you have proved that you are ready to take on life’s bigger tests. Do note that exams and grades are temporary, but education is permanent.

All the best!

Best Regards,
KRTC@Jurong Team (Contact Us)

How is the media beneficial in educating a child?

With the advancement in technology, individuals tend to use search engines in the hope to gain more knowledge as well as to get rid of the lingering unknown issue. In the 21st century, media literacy has become one of the essential skills. Parents are often highly concern when it comes to the usage of the media in education, most parents think negatively against the combination of education and the media but, how exactly does the use of media in education benefit a child? In this article, I would be mentioning about the benefits and downsides.

Media

Most educators face the issue of students not paying full attention, fidgeting and even going to the toilet as an excuse to leave the class. The use of media enhances teaching and learning that complements the traditional way of teaching. With the usage of the media, students are highly motivated and engaged leading to a better retention of knowledge. Active learning strategies like case studies and group discussions could be a component of the media. The media could be a song that’s being played on the radio, a film clip, a podcast or even a newspaper article. The media appeals to a variety of different learning styles be it visual, auditory and kinesthetic therefore making it a beneficial learning experience for each and every student. Critical thinking skills could be developed as educators could use the media to probe students with questions that facilitate discussions that exceeds beyond fundamental questions. The media also influence students more than anyone else.

Active learning using media, the benefits

With the usage of favored customary mediums, students, as well as educators, benefit from it such that the media capture the attention of students enabling them to maintain their interest in the concepts and theories being discussed during lessons. Media sources offer the experiences of both cognitive and affective and could evoke students to discuss on the evaluation on oneself likewise their values. Media sources tend to have high production quality and are able to showcase complex ideas within a short period of time, this helps in the development of quantitative reasoning.

Students are enabled to view concepts and examples while they watch television or are at the movies with their peers. Through the media, students are able to experience a world beyond their very own as the media might portray a different environment. An increase in the ability and proficiency of students in communication through expressing and disseminating of their thoughts and ideas within a massive range of traditional and new media forms. Students would focus on process skills rather than content knowledge and would benefit from it to be empowered to live in a media-saturated culture. Real-life happenings on media interconnect with students through an authentic experience in learning such that students are able to visualize the connection between what they learn in school and how such knowledge could be used as a member in the society. It enhances the engagement of students. Younger children benefit from it by the adoption of different skills sets namely – literacy skills, numeracy skills and social skills. While adolescent could gain developmental benefits of the media that are intellectual, educational, social and creative.

Active learning using media, the downside

Adolescents spend a whole lot of time on new media causing the increasing concern in regards with this issue. The mass media influences the behaviors of an individual… most concerns revolve around the effects of the media where violence, crimes, sexual relationships, drugs, smoking, alcohol abuse, body image, diet, obesity and preference in food are being protrayed. Adoleescents are unable to know the right from the wrong and might pick up the wrong behaviors. As answers are often found on search engines, students rely on the internet in the accessibility of information causing the reduction on the focus on learning as well as retaining information. Students may also spend lesser time in socialising due to the lack of nonverbal cues – tone and inflection and body languages causing the effectiveness of an individual in communication to arise. The media has yet to be able to be an adequate replacement for face-to-face social interaction.

Conclusions

All in all, an individual who is media literate is able to have access, be able to analyze and evaluate information received from the media and in turn be able to think critically and be a confident speaker.

2017 Year-End Intensive Holiday Phonics Programme

Our intensive holiday phonics programme is back!!

Start from 27 Nov, the details of Intensive Crash course is listed below:

Jurong West Branch Class Schedule Duration
Elementary Phonics (5-8 years old) (Mon-Fri, Except Tuesday)6.30pm-8.00pm 1.5 hours
Higher Phonics (P1-P5) (Mon-Fri, Except Tuesday)7.00pm-8.30pm 1.5 hours

‘Read in a Week’ Phonics programme has been around Singapore for the past 17 years, and many children have benefited from it.

If you like to know more of course information, please refer to the Phonics page

For more information, please contact us via
Jurong West Branch (KRTC@JW)
Email : jurongwest@krtc.com.sg
Hotline : (+65) 6397 0444

KRTC/ Power Phonics & Literacy reserve the rights to amend the terms & conditions without any prior notification.

2017 June Intensive Holiday Phonics Programme

The Jun intensive holiday phonics programme is back!!

Start from 29 May, the details of Intensive Crash course is listed below:

Jurong West Branch Class Schedule Duration
Elementary Phonics (5-8 years old) (Mon-Thur) 6.30pm-8.00pm 1.5 hours
Higher Phonics (P1-P5) (Mon-Thur)7.00pm-8.30pm 1.5 hours

‘Read in a Week’ Phonics programme has been around for the past 16 years, and thousands of children have benefited from it.

for more course information, please refer to the Phonics page

For more information, please contact us via
Jurong West Branch (KRTC@JW)
Email : jurongwest@krtc.com.sg
Hotline : (+65) 6397 0444

KRTC/ Power Phonics & Literacy reserve the rights to amend the terms & conditions without any prior notification.

KRTC School of Life: The Curiosity Boot Camp

Do you know the principle of flying a paper airplane? How to fold a perfect paper airplane?

How does invisible ink work?

How does magic work?

Pump up the fun for your kids (5 to 12 years old) this school holiday! Sign them up for an adventure that will spark their curiosity every step of the way at KRTC School of Life Boot Camp in Downtown East.

Get to discover why things fly, how invisible ink works and also learn about the science behind magic tricks! Double up the fun with a family staycation at D’Resort and splash about in Wild Wild Wet before feasting your heart out in one of the many food places in Downtown East!

Date: 27 May 2017 To 29 May 2017
Venue: Downtown East

Camp Programme

Time Day One Events (27 May’17) Venue
12.30pm Registration D’ Marquee
1.00pm ‘How do we make things fly?’ D’ Marquee
3.00pm Presentation of Merit badges D’ Marquee
3.30pm End of workshop D’ Marquee
Time Day Two Events (28 May’17) Venue
9.00am Participants to meet facilitators Rainforest Terrace. D’Resort Level 1
9.15am ‘How does invisible ink work?’ Pasir Ris Park
11.15am End of workshop Pasir Ris Park
1.30pm ‘How does magic work?’ Vanda Room,D’Resort
3.30pm Presentation of Merit badges Vanda Room,D’Resort
4.00pm End of camp Vanda Room,D’Resort

Fee is shown below:

Please click here for more information, or contact us via

Jurong West Branch (KRTC@JW)
Email : jurongwest@krtc.com.sg
Hotline : (+65) 6397 0444

Closure of Center for 2017 Chinese New Year

Dear Parents/Students,

In celebration of the festive seasons, our center will temporarily be closed on the following days:

Chinese New Years’ Break: 27 January 2017 (Fri) – 2nd February 2017 (Thu)

There will be no lessons on these days. All lessons will carry on as usual from 3rd February 2017 (Fri) onward.

Lastly, we wish you and your family a Happy Chinese New Year! 🙂

For any enquiry or course registration, please contact us via
Jurong West Branch (KRTC@JW)
Email : jurongwest@krtc.com.sg
Hotline : (+65) 6397 0444

Closure of Center for 2017 New Year

Dear Parents/Students,

In celebration of the festive seasons, our centre will temporarily be closed on the following days:

New Years’ Break: 31 December 2016 (Sat) – 1st January 2017 (Sun)

There will be no lessons on these days. All lessons will carry on as usual from 2 January 2017 (Mon) onwards.

Lastly, we wish you and your family Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🙂

For any enquiry or course registration, please contact us via
Jurong West Branch (KRTC@JW)
Email : jurongwest@krtc.com.sg
Hotline : (+65) 6397 0444

2016 June Intensive Holiday Phonics Programme

The popular-demand holiday phonics programme is back!!

2016 Mid Holiday Phonics

The details of Intensive Crash course is listed below:

Jurong West Branch Tutor Class Schedule Duration
Elementary Phonics (5-8 years old) Ms. Siew (Mon-Thur) 6.30pm-8.00pm 1.5 hours
Higher Phonics (P1-P5) (Mon-Thur)7.00pm-8.30pm 1.5 hours

‘Read in a Week’ Phonics programme has been around for the past 15 years, and thousands of children have benefited from it.

for more course information, please refer to the Phonics page

For more information, please contact us via
Jurong West Branch (KRTC@JW)
Email : jurongwest@krtc.com.sg
Hotline : (+65) 6397 0444

Power Phonics & Literacy
Hotline : (+65) 6726 0300 / 90615789

KRTC/ Power Phonics & Literacy reserve the rights to amend the terms & conditions without any prior notification.