Berries - Discussion

[tiffany42]

Hi spring,

My ds is in berries housing for the past 3 years. I would say the teachers are very committed and my ds enjoys the class and I can see Vast improvement in his Chinese.

[spring]

Hi tiffany42....


Thanks for replying me. Glad to hear that the teachers r committed.:)

[my3darlings]

Hi, anyone enrolled their kids in Tampines Central branch? any feedback or comments on this branch as I intend to enrol my ds starting of next year. Btw, they do have once and twice lessons per week, anyone knows the difference and which is better?

[bigsnoopy]

I am wondering if I should let my DD continue with Berries when she goes to p1. I know Berries is good for preschoolers as they focus on songs and other interactive things. Any comment about Berries program for primary school? Which is better Berries or Tuition?

[jedamum]

bigsnoopy:

I am wondering if I should let my DD continue with Berries when she goes to p1. I know Berries is good for preschoolers as they focus on songs and other interactive things. Any comment about Berries program for primary school? Which is better Berries or Tuition?

my boy is with berries since K1. He is now in P3. berries adopt advance teaching method for primary school. my boy is having normal chinese for his school, but with berries, he is under Higher Chinese class, so he gets to learn more. I see it no harm to drop berries but only if your girl (or you) is independent enough to continue to read CL books, converse in CL , do activities to keep up with the CL interactions at home (i am assuming you have an English-speaking background) etc (like tamarind's children).
for primary school syllabus, berries has their set of notes/techniques in 'teaching' oral and compo writing. my eat-potato boy can do Band 1 for CL at P3 SA1 (his is neighbourhood school though), very much thanks to berries (condition that i still need to reinforce berries teachings at home esp compo writing; i have to qualify that i feel that berries compo only provides a skeleton/guide for parents to further stretch their kids at home - my boy did not improve his writing until i stepped in to reinforce/stretch what he learned in berries; however, without berries' framework, i won't know where to start). but berries alone is not going to help if my boy does not pick up CL reading soon (i am getting him to read a short story on alternate nights).
2 cents.

[Happy Mama]

jedamum:

my boy is with berries since K1. He is now in P3. berries adopt advance teaching method for primary school. my boy is having normal chinese for his school, but with berries, he is under Higher Chinese class, so he gets to learn more. I see it no harm to drop berries but only if your girl (or you) is independent enough to continue to read CL books, converse in CL , do activities to keep up with the CL interactions at home (i am assuming you have an English-speaking background) etc (like tamarind's children).

for primary school syllabus, berries has their set of notes/techniques in 'teaching' oral and compo writing. my eat-potato boy can do Band 1 for CL at P3 SA1 (his is neighbourhood school though), very much thanks to berries (condition that i still need to reinforce berries teachings at home esp compo writing). but berries alone is not going to help if my boy does not pick up CL reading soon (i am getting him to read a short story on alternate nights).
2 cents.

Hi jedamum, my DD has also benefitted from Berries. She started since Pri 1 and is now in Pri 3... but I've heard that Berries will not be too suitable as they move up to Upper Primary i.e. Pri 4... What are your thoughts on this? Just need to hear some feedback before deciding if I need to change to another school when she goes Pri 4. Thanks.

[jedamum]

Happy Mama:

jedamum:

my boy is with berries since K1. He is now in P3. berries adopt advance teaching method for primary school. my boy is having normal chinese for his school, but with berries, he is under Higher Chinese class, so he gets to learn more. I see it no harm to drop berries but only if your girl (or you) is independent enough to continue to read CL books, converse in CL , do activities to keep up with the CL interactions at home (i am assuming you have an English-speaking background) etc (like tamarind's children).

for primary school syllabus, berries has their set of notes/techniques in 'teaching' oral and compo writing. my eat-potato boy can do Band 1 for CL at P3 SA1 (his is neighbourhood school though), very much thanks to berries (condition that i still need to reinforce berries teachings at home esp compo writing). but berries alone is not going to help if my boy does not pick up CL reading soon (i am getting him to read a short story on alternate nights).
2 cents.

Hi jedamum, my DD has also benefitted from Berries. She started since Pri 1 and is now in Pri 3... but I've heard that Berries will not be too suitable as they move up to Upper Primary i.e. Pri 4... What are your thoughts on this? Just need to hear some feedback before deciding if I need to change to another school when she goes Pri 4. Thanks.

i heard that berries are not efficient for upper primary too. my boy shared with me something the other day when i arranged make-up class for him; he told me that there was a kid sleeping in class while the teacher teach and another who copied answers. is it because the teacher is not able to motivate the children? i'm not sure. discipline-wise, i feel that (based on this) the teachers will not be able to help those who do not pay attention in class and rapport-wise, my boy's teachers for the past yrs build better rapport with the students as compared to his current teacher - is it the case as the level goes up? i'm not sure. although my kid has not reach that stage yet, my personal feel is that berries has good materials, but to stretch the kids, we still have to do more at home. and until i can find a better one, i have no choice but to stick to this one.

[bigsnoopy]

@ jedamum Thanks. After reading ur comments, I will continue to monitor her progress as I need to confess I don’t practice the materials at home at all as I don’t know how to read the more difficult words not to mention han yu pin ying. I return everything to my mandarin teacher lieow. Took the easy way and went to poly so no more contacts with mandarin until now.

[Happy Mama]

jedamum:

i heard that berries are not efficient for upper primary too. my boy shared with me something the other day when i arranged make-up class for him; he told me that there was a kid sleeping in class while the teacher teach and another who copied answers. is it because the teacher is not able to motivate the children? i'm not sure. discipline-wise, i feel that (based on this) the teachers will not be able to help those who do not pay attention in class and rapport-wise, my boy's teachers for the past yrs build better rapport with the students as compared to his current teacher - is it the case as the level goes up? i'm not sure. although my kid has not reach that stage yet, my personal feel is that berries has good materials, but to stretch the kids, we still have to do more at home. and until i can find a better one, i have no choice but to stick to this one.

Ya lor, that's why I haven't pulled her out yet. I'm still looking around too.

[markfch]

Happy Mama:

Ya lor, that's why I haven't pulled her out yet. I'm still looking around too.

When you find what you're looking for, pls pm me, ok.

A lead for a dog, how's that for an exchange? :evil: