The transition from primary to secondary school may be daunting for many. As subjects become more content-intensive and concepts become more abstract, our Secondary 1 programmes use structured, skill-based lessons to ensure a smooth transition for your child, reinforcing their fundamental skills and developing their higher-order thinking.
Lesson Duration: 2 hrs
Class Size: 13 students
Setting a firm foundation at Secondary 1 is critical for your child's future academic success. Our Secondary 1 English programme introduces a wide range of reading and writing tasks with a higher level of complexity to take your child to the next level beyond primary school.
Students will learn about new requirements for the same exam components in primary school: Essay Writing, Situational Writing, Comprehension, Editing and Orals. For example, they will encounter new text types and question requirements such as summary writing and literary analysis of unseen poetry and prose. Our curriculum will also introduce broad topics that cover current affairs and general knowledge, such as Education and the Environment, Global Issues and Social Trends, and Arts and the Humanities, to help students gain a global perspective and improve their competence in tackling comprehension, summary and critical thinking passages.
Through our weekly lessons, students will:
Lesson Duration: 2 hrs
Class Size: 13 students
Through investigative activities and lesson plans, our Secondary 1 Mathematics programme will focus on building your child's interest and understanding of increasingly abstract mathematical concepts.
Students will learn to classify numbers based on number properties, finding the highest common factor and lowest common multiple of numbers using prime factorisation. They will also explore the concept of variables and discover how they can be represented in algebraic and graphical forms. Through questions based on real-world contexts, such as calculating household finances, delivery charges and water consumption, students will pick up financial terminologies like interests and instalments and better understand the practical application of maths concepts.
Students will learn to use algebra to convey mathematical ideas, eventually mastering the application of algebraic equations to a variety of problems and solving them systematically and logically. They will also hone their presentation and organisational skills as it is key to demonstrating clear and accurate thought processes as part of the solution.
Lesson Duration: 2 hrs
Class Size: 13 students
Our Secondary 1 Science programme is designed to reinforce and deepen your child's scientific knowledge and skills, as our lesson content will develop their analytical thinking abilities and sharpen their practical experimentation skills.
Our curriculum will introduce students to General Science topics across Biology, Chemistry and Physics, such as Cell Structure and Organisation and Exploring Diversity of Matter by Its Chemical Composition/Physical Properties.
Students will refine their laboratory and experimental skills by identifying variables and recording experiment procedures. They will also develop answering techniques involving data analysis, experiment-based questions and application questions.
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