Our Visit to Eye level

Our Visit to Eye level.

       We were invited to visit Eye Level to find out more about their programme. The first thing that struck me was that the staff were very helpful in giving information. Moreover, the environment is very clean and conducive. 

Eye level's main philosophy

    Eye Level's main philosophy is to encourage self-directed learning. This means that Eye Level has a systematic and individualized programme to help each child learn in their own pace. Moreover, each child's learning progression depends on their ability to understand a topic and their pace of learning.  

Using the Progress Chart to Monitor the Self Directed Learners

What really impressed me is that although each child's learning is self-directed, the teaching staff actually closely monitors the progress of each child using the progress chart. The progress chart clearly shows what the child has learnt and what he or she needs more practice on.  

The progress chart shows the number of booklets for each topic and the teacher will mark, assess the child's performance and check his understanding in each booklet before deciding whether the child is ready to move on to a more difficult level for the topic.  More practice will be given to those who needs more time to understand a particular topic. 

     

The Lessons

       For older and more independent learners, work is assigned to them and they are expected to complete the task before returning to the teacher to receive feedback. Of course, should they encounter any difficulty, the teacher is always ready to assist them. The teacher is strategically located in the middle of the room, always ready to answer questions or to give feedback to the individual student. 

Photograph of one of the classroom- a row of individual work station for students on the right side of the room. 

The individual work station. 

  For younger children who need constant supervision and more help from the teacher, they will be seated in "an island". This seating arrangement is to ensure that younger children can be monitored closely and be on task. When they become more independent learners, the teacher will "upgrade" them to the individual work station. 

Their Programme

They have a range of programme for children of different ages and for the different subjects. Below is a quick summary of some of their programme. 

For more information, you can visit their official website or call up their centres and their friendly staff will be more than willing to assist you.

Giveaway and a limited period Discount 

1. Sign up and complete a free diagnostics test to receive a free copy of "The Giant's Pants".

For the first 20 readers who sign up and complete a free Diagnostics Test, you will receive a copy of the book " The Giant's Pants". 

The Giant’s Pants is the Global Grand Prize winning story out of more than 1,000 entries that participated in the 22^nd Eye Level Literary Award. 

2. Get a 20% discount off the first month when you enroll your child.

For the first 50 readers who sign up to enroll your child in any of the programme, you will get a 20% discount for the first month. Just quote "Raising Our Successful Children" to get the discount.

You can visit the link below and sign up immediately.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/iamthekey_raisingoursuccessfulchildren

or to call 
Mr Nicholas Seow at 8777 7224 for more information. 

A new beginning..Twenty Sixteen

A new beginning..Twenty Sixteen 

Reflecting on year 2015

Reflection is a way to bring closure to the past year and to help us focus on what to do for the next year. We have to grow each year. We have to grow individually and as a family. 

2015 was a year of achievement for us.

a) I survived being a Stay-at-Home-Mum and I manage to design a game SingaPlorers as part of the SG50 celebration to help children and Singaporeans learn about Singapore's nation building story. This is an achievement to me as I always wanted to design a game and publish it. In fact, the blueprint for the game was done in 2010. I am happy that I am finally able to accomplished my wish in 2015 and glad that I'm still contributing to the society in ways that I can.

b) I managed to organise a charity event involving 7 families ( 9 adults and 10 children). This door to door food distribution to senior citizens at the end of 2015 was an opportunity for us to contribute to society and for our kids to learn about compassionate. 

c) The children are learning and developing well. This itself is already a great achievement to me. All I wish is for all the children to be happy and healthy. It is a bonus that Natalie has performed well in 2015 and achieving in the different aspects of school. Emmanuel has shown tremendous improvement in his ability to read and do his mathematics. Faith is discovering more and more each day. Also, she has become more independent. More importantly, the siblings have grown much closer together. 

d) Daddy decided to do a little "career switch" to be able to spend more time with the family. I greatly appreciate this. His decision to switch from a upper management role to a senior teacher role is not one that many people would make. However, to him, family is his priority and he proves it with his action. I am greatly touched. As he always says " you work to live, not live to work". Hence, Daddy is spending a lot more time at home and taking up more daddy duties like teaching the children maths, piano and bringing the kids for outdoor play more often.

A new beginning..Twenty Sixteen 

Twenty sixteen is truly a new beginning for our family in many ways.

Emmanuel started his primary school journey, Faith is going to school for the first time and Natalie is in a new class and learning a new subject- Science. 

For my hubby and I, we are entering our 10th year of our marriage life. In a blink of an eye, we are really married for nearly 10 years. Marriage is not easy and being together happily for 10 years is really an incredible achievement.  

For me, I am entering into my 30! Yes, I am going to be 30 years old this year.  As I look back at my life at this point in time, I asked myself, what have I achieved? My answer is simply "Natalie, Emmanuel, Faith, my hubby and my happy family". Anyway, for this year, I really want to start or try something new. I'm not sure what it is yet. But I am truly excited. 

New goals

Goals give us a direction for the year and help us to stay focus on what is important.  

As a family:

• We are going to learn ice-skating together this year. Ice - skating is new to the children and to Daddy. I hope we will be competent by the end of the year. This is in preparation for our 10th year anniversary trip to Korea (still planning). This is gonna be our main bonding activity and family time for the year. 

Natalie: 

To learn more about science and to discover more on forensic science. 
To achieve band 1 for Science in CA1. 

Emmanuel: 

To achieve at least 3 more levels in taekwondo by the end of the year. 

To achieve at least a band 2 for all his subjects at the end of the year. 

Faith: 

To have more fun. 

To discover the world. 

Mummy: 

To start or try something new this year. 
To organize one charity event. 

Daddy: 

To discover new ways to teach effectively.

Twenty Sixteen is a new beginning..

So what are your goals? What do you want to achieve this year?
Download the goal setting document here to help you and your children to set goals today.