English Tuition and Enrichment Programmes for Primary and Secondary Students
The Adventure Begins Here
English can be a challenging subject for many students in Singapore. The process of mastering the English language can be so difficult that students dread it. The learning experience can be worsened if the English tutors you picked do not know how to kindle your child’s interest in the language. This is why finding the best English tuition centre in Singapore matters.
At Augustine’s English Tuition Classes, we strive to make every single lesson a learning adventure. At our English tuition centre for primary and secondary school students we believe that learning English should always be a meaningful and enjoyable process, and never by rote.
For this reason, we created a unique teaching formula based on a decade of qualitative research in teaching methodologies and active learning strategies. This teaching pedagogy is practiced during both our Primary and Secondary English tuition classes, motivating students to participate actively and making us one of the best English tuition centres islandwide. More importantly, this scientific-based approach to learning empowers every single student in the tuition class and creates a positive attitude in them towards learning. By helping your child to develop a passion for the English language, the learning experience will become a lot more enjoyable, and their results will see significant improvement.
To further ensure that students at our Primary and Secondary School English tuition classes are given the edge to excel in school exams, our curriculum systematically covers all the components in school exams such as grammar and vocabulary, writing methods and comprehension techniques, all based on the latest MOE syllabus. As one of the best English tuition centres in Singapore, our comprehensive programmes for English tuition helped our students to gain significant improvements in their grades.
Our English tuition will not only impart to your child the skills to tackle the challenging examinations, but will also motivate them to master the language.
The team at Augustine’s English Classes is committed to help your child overcome all challenges and excel in English. With more than a decade of teaching experience, we are confident that our English tuition can help your child to stand out.
Join one of the best English Tuition Centres for Primary and Secondary School English tuition in Singapore today! Let’s get your child ready for success.
The Adventure Begins Here
At our English tuition centre, we have created a unique teaching formula based on a decade of qualitative research in teaching methodologies and active learning strategies.
Not just does our nonstandard way of teaching help to motivate students to participate actively, it empowers every single student in the tuition class and creates a positive attitude in them towards learning.
To further ensure that our students are given the edge to excel in the school exams, our curriculum systematically covers all the components in the school exams such as grammar and vocabulary, writing methods and comprehension techniques, all based on the latest MOE syllabus.
Join one of the best English tuition centres in Singapore and let’s get your child ready for success.
Some Of Our Parents’ Testimonials
“Augustine makes learning English interesting for the children. He often organises fun activities/games which motivate the kids to attend primary school English tuition and learn at the same time. My son likes his tuition class!”
“My boys, Thaddaeus and Thierry, love Augustine’s classes. This is one tuition class they hate to miss. Augustine makes English fun to learn and it’s no mean feat with my boys. He is generous with his time and spares no effort to share his knowledge and joy of the English language with his students.
Augustine has taken care of my boys for their primary and secondary school English tuition and I have total faith in his abilities and methods to further my boys’ development in the language.”
“Teacher Augustine, I really appreciate all the hard work and efforts that you had put into preparing my son for his school exams since he joined your English tuition class in Primary 4. He always sings praises of you and now that he has achieved A1 for O Level English, I believe the credit largely goes to you. Thank you so much!”
PRIMARY
Our Primary Programme for English tuition focuses on learning excellence. The structured curriculum systematically covers all the components in the school exams Paper 1 and Paper 2, from the fundamentals such as grammar and vocabulary, writing methodologies, and comprehension techniques, as well as oral practice.
SECONDARY
Our Secondary Programme for English tuition enables the secondary students to manage their diverse curriculum needs. They will be exposed to the four main compositional writing styles as well as adapting the necessary writing structures, and the correct techniques neccessary to handle the eight main comprehension question types.
JUNIOR COLLEGE / IP Yr 5 and 6
Our Junior College Programme for English tuition focuses on strategic preparation for the ‘A’ Level examinations through an emphasis on structure, content and precise application of skills. Through thematic content and systematic practices, students learn how to apply and refine essential exam techniques.
ADVANCED WRITING
Our Advanced Writing Programme for English tuition is designed for both primary and secondary students who need some extra practices in writing. The exercises in the writing class are desgined to help students discover their strengths and weaknesses in writing and to enable them to translate their thoughts into a coherent piece of writing.
What Happy Parents Say About Our English Tuition
A* FOR ENGLISH for PSLE!
C6 to A2 IN SIX MONTHS after joining our classes!
Achieved A1 FOR THE FIRST TIME since Secondary 1!
Our Teaching Philosophy
Our English tuition centre’s teaching philosophy is guided by one simple belief:
If students believe that they can succeed at something, they are more likely to persist until they achieve their goals. Conversely, if students don’t believe that they can succeed, even if they are actually capable of achieving success, their lack of motivation will cause them to fall short of their goals. Therefore, our primary job is to equip our students with the confidence that success is possible, which will then to help them succeed in their school.
It took us a while to learn how to convey this belief effectively to our students. However, once we were able to do so, we found immense success in convincing our students that they are all capable of succeeding in school and beyond. Soon, emboldened by this newfound belief in themselves, all our students started to enjoy our English tuitions. This makes teaching so much simpler and more importantly, learning has become infinitely more enjoyable for our students.
Over the years, through ongoing research, reflections, and observing our students’ behaviour and school achievements, we have a refined understanding of discipline, grades, examinations, motivation, classroom management, and positive discipline. With the help of cognitive science and simple psychology, we know how to effectively get students to practice self-discipline. All these helped us to develop a toolkit of successful strategies and practices to implement in class.
Over a decade ago, when Augustine’s English Classes just started taking in students, one parent asked us this question, “What do you want your students to know when they leave your English tuition class?”
Despite this being more than a decade ago, our answer to this question still remains the same: While we want our students to achieve better results, we also want to play a part in their formative years and help them excel beyond the confinement of the classroom. We want to evoke an unquenchable thirst for knowledge in them, and for them to pursue successes defined on their own terms.
While Augustine’s English Classes is set up as an English tuition centre, we aspire to be more than a tuition centre. We view it as our mission to ensure that the students excel in their examinations and in beyond.
How Our Students Are Taught
“Learning is not a spectator sport. Students do not learn much just by sitting in class listening to teachers, memorizing prepackaged assignments, and spitting out answers. They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences, apply it to their daily lives. They must make what they learn part of themselves.”
-Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F. Gamson
At our English tuition centre, we focus on an education technique called active learning. As suggested by the name, this involves the students to be actively engaged in the learning process. Rather than being passive listeners, which is how most lectures and classroom lessons are conducted, students will instead actively participate in our classes. In short, students will do more than just listen in our English tuitions.
This education approach is the opposite of passive learning, which is teacher-centered rather than student-centered. The active participation of each and every student is a necessary aspect in learning at our English tuition centre. We do not merely provide information to our students; we will also facilitate the learning process by getting students to engage their higher order thinking. In this manner, students can better internalise the knowledge gained in class.
Through active learning, our students have transformed from passive listeners to active participants. Our past batches of students have a more in-depth appreciation of the English language after a series of inquiry, gathering and analysing information. Armed with a stronger understanding of English, it is no wonder that our students excelled in their school and national examinations.
With a dedicated team of exceptional tutors and an environment conducive for active learning at our English tuition centre, your child will soon be on their way to excel in their PSLE, A/O-level examinations.
Learning Retention Pyramid, based on Bloom’s taxonomy. Active learning is above, passive learning below
Some Examples of Active Learning Activities in our English Tuition Centre
- Think Pair Share: our students will share and discuss their own answers with their neighbours
- Peer Review: students will evaluate the work of other classmates.
- Role Playing: students will “act out” a part. This allows the students to look at the topic from the perspective of a character, thus allowing them to have a better understanding of the ideas discussed.
- Problem solving using real data: students use a variety of data to explore real-world problems.
- Just in Time Teaching: students prepare for class by completing assignments, then participate in collaborative exercises the following class period.
- Game-Based Learning: learning activities that are intrinsically game-like, such as by pitting students against each other in a “competition”.