Primary 1 Programmes
Confident Beginnings with Our Primary 1 Programmes
Confident Beginnings with Our Primary 1 Programmes
A strong foundation in Primary 1 will help your child to manage the pace of learning in primary school. Without formal assessments until Primary 3, your child will build confidence in learning new concepts and skills through custom-designed lesson materials.
English
Lesson Duration: 1 hr 45 mins
Class size: 10 students
A focus on helping your child to build confidence in reading, writing and speaking helps your child enjoy all aspects of learning with a safe space to ask questions and explore interests.
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Content and Language Mastery
Students will learn basic grammar rules and thematic vocabulary that will help them to build a strong foundation in the language. These include:
- Parts of speech (such as pronouns, superlative adjectives, etc.)
- Tenses
- Idioms and synonyms
Skills and Techniques
Students refine their skills in the following key areas:
Speaking
- Develop their own personal opinions and gain confidence in public speaking
Reading and writing
- Identify main ideas and key details of texts, as well as learn answering techniques
- Write a story with a logical sequence of events based on a series of pictures
- Learn basic writing techniques such as five-senses description and dialogue to make their stories more vivid and interesting
For more on TLL’s approach to honing writing skills, click here.
Contextualised Learning
Students will be introduced to a wide variety of themes that will help them to contextualise their learning in the real world and raise their social awareness. Key themes include:
- Technology and science
- Captivating cities
- Sport and entertainment
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Mathematics
Lesson Duration: 1 hr 45 mins
Class size: 10 students
Learn essential mathematical concepts and arithmetic skills with fun activities, worksheets and in-class projects and games. Every lesson is filled with math skills that enrich day-to-day life as well, including examples such as telling time and counting money.
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Content Mastery
- Students will master foundational concepts in Number Sense, Four operations, Ordinal Numbers, Money, Length, Time, 2D Shapes, Patterns and Picture Graphs
- Students will apply heuristics such as Make A List, Draw a Diagram and Restate the Problem to solve word problems
Skills and Techniques
- Students will present word problems pictorially by drawing part-whole and comparison models
- Students will apply heuristics including Make A List, Find A Pattern and Restate the Problem in problem solving
- Students will use different measuring tools such as measuring tape and ruler to measure lengths and use a ruler to draw line segments
- Students will develop critical thinking skills through topical challenging problems and Math Olympiad handouts
Applied Learning
- Students will use manipulatives and in-class activities to carry out performance tasks in class, such as collecting data from classmates to apply to graph plotting and data analysis exercises
- Students will revisit concepts using our in-house concept cards kit, termly story-based revision booklets and takeaways
- Students will appreciate the real-life application of Math through arts, crafts and presentations such as presenting the designed architecture based on the concept of shapes and patterns
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