Primary English Tuition
Middle Years
English Program - Primary 3 / 4
Our Middle Years Program for Primary 3 and 4 students serve as a step-up to smoothen the transition into the PSLE years. We use this period to refine answer techniques and equip your child with critical exam skills required for PSLE English.
Middle Years Programme - Primary 3 and Primary 4 English Headstart
Primary 3 Headstart Classes
Bridge the gap to Primary 3 by familiarizing your child with the new question styles. Your child will challenged with deeper passages and more complex questions, designed to hone their answering techniques and fortify a habit in utilizing them.
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Through interactive activities, we break down the requirements of each segment, to help your child discover the joy in tackling questions with confidence.
Primary 4 Headstart Classes
Accelerate your child's language mastery to step into 2025 with confidence. Designed to stretch your child, our headstart classes are suitable for students of all proficiencies.
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You can expect interactive and novel activities that go beyond just "doing questions". These activities will sharpen critical skills such as writing, inference, critical thinking and language fundamentals, that will naturally stretch your child to do better in paper 1 and paper 2.
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You can expect an explosive improvement in your child's WA1 in 2025!
Ahead of Time:
Preemptively Addressing Transitionary Gaps
Primary 3 & 4 English
Curriculum That Bridge The Gap To Upper Primary
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To combat the infamous "P5 Dip", we have scaled up our curriculum with a strategic focus on incorporating materials and questions of higher difficulty.
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This approach is designed to gradually build the students' competency and confidence, thereby reducing the significant jump in difficulty often experienced when promoting to Primary 5.
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By challenging our students with advanced content and encouraging them to apply techniques diligently, we aim to foster a deeper understanding and mastery of the PSLE English requirements.
Contextualized Learning - Integration with Real World Themes
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At Hess Academy, we embrace contextualized learning based on real-world themes to enhance the educational experience.
By creating linkages to events, people, places, and cultures, we make learning more relevant and engaging for our students. This approach not only brings lessons to life but also integrates seamlessly with themes commonly tested in the PSLE exam, ensuring that our curriculum is both practical and exam-focused.
By grounding education in real-world contexts, we add significant value to our students' learning, helping them understand the material deeply and apply their knowledge effectively in both academic and real-life situations.
Pushing for Precision and Excellence​
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Through stricter marking requirements, we encourage students to incorporating precision in their answers - a trait that is commonly overlooked.
Our approach emphasizes not only deriving the correct answer but also mastering the use of effective answering techniques. By honing these skills, students learn to articulate their thoughts methodically, leading to a deeper understanding and superior performance.
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Pushing students to pay attention to detail and accuracy also generates more consistent performance that carries through to the upper years.
An Overview of Our Middle Years Program
Worksheets that Challenge and Excite
Our worksheets offers guidance in creative ways (eg. providing the first alphabet instead of entire words to select), that challenge your child, while not allowing them to "guess the answer". Ask us for a sneak peek into our in-house materials!
Forward Looking Curriculum, that is in line with MOE Syllabus
The mind is a powerful tool that can be stretched. Our curriculum requires students to think critically and move beyond their comfort zones, while keeping in tune with the MOE Primary English syllabus.
Small Class size for High Engagement and Attention (Maximum of 8 to a Class)
"Middle Years" classes at Hess Academy as capped at a maximum of 8 students. Taught by highly experienced MOE teachers, we deliver a classroom experience of active interactions and high engagement.