Find out how to help your child prepare for the PSLE oral exam, and get tips on what to do in the weeks leading up to it.
Understanding the Differences in Every Child’s Ability
Explore the latest articles from Explico. We are a provider of online learning courses for parents, educators, and students. In this article, we talk about how to raise a happy child free from fear of failure and stress.
Importance of Family building a right environment for Child’s Learning Journey
The spread of the Omicron variant is increasingly making physical learning unsafe for students, which is why schools are embracing digital learning to help students shift from in-person to learning from home through e-learning platforms. If you are a parent or a family member trying to navigate how to provide the best support to your loved ones to learn effectively from home, you are in the right place.
Group Learning vs. Individual Learning: Pros and Cons
Do you know which learning style is best for you? Check out the pros and cons of group learning and individual learning to see which suits you better!
The Future of Online Learning: How Parents Can Prepare for 2022
As e-learning progresses, we need to be on the lookout for new trends in education and prepare for them in time. This article will discuss what 2022 holds for online learning and how you can make plans for them.
Internet Safety for Kids | How to Keep Your Children Safe Online.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a new fear for Singaporean parents. In a recent survey by Google, 62% of them expressed increased worry about online safety. Their top concerns included protecting children’s privacy and security online and spotting scams or preventing children from oversharing personal information on the Internet. However, with more time spent on screens comes an increased need to protect them from cyber dangers lurking anonymously online.
How To Develop Confidence In Your Child?
You probably noticed when your self-esteem was at an all-time high. You felt good about yourself, and you knew what made life worth living and how to be happy with the person that is me! But have you ever thought about why kids seem so confident in some areas but not others?
5 WAYS: How To Make Holiday Better For Kids
Most kids get pretty tired during the holiday season, and there’s a good chance they’ll be on their best behavior every time you go to another event. But make sure not to schedule more than one demanding activity in a day, as this will only increase your kid’s frustration level – which might turn them into brats! You need to remember that children also enjoy physical activities and plenty of downtime besides just going from place to place with no breaks. And don’t forget: They’re thankful for everything you do too!
How do parents stay sane during HBL?
e more careful than ever about what their children watch and play with. HBL also often comes with a more sedentary lifestyle as children would rather play games on the computer or sit in front of the TV than go outdoors.
4 Ways To Prepare Your Child For PSLE
PSLE exam is a few weeks away. As a parent, we asked our child to prepare for the PSLE, but what do they really need to prepare?
PSLE TIPS: how to improve your child’s focus?
Here are five tips for helping your child boost their attention span, whether in school or at home.
How does mock help to prepare before PSLE?
Mock exams do not always give us the same result as our real PSLE does. BUT it is still important to take mocks and assess a child’s performance on them because they help us improve on our weaknesses while learning time management skills that will come in handy during the actual exam day.
How to manage PSLE stress?
As exam season looms closer, many students find themselves increasingly anxious and stressed. As a parent or teacher, we should make children understand the root of their anxiety and learn how to overcome it with healthy coping skills, like meditation or deep breathing exercises. Fear not, though, for there are several ways you can reduce the stress that comes with PSLE preparations.
PSLE English Composition Writing and Common Mistakes
Writing is one of the most challenging skills to master as it often requires a student to be adept at many different subjects. Writing has many components, including reading and comprehension abilities, analyzing ideas with planning strategies, or using literary devices such as hyperbole (omg!), similes, metaphors, and alliteration to communicate an idea clearly while […]
PSLE Mock Exam: Check your child’s readiness level before the exam
PSLE Mock Exam: Check your child’s readiness level using. If you want to help your child prepare for exams, make sure that their emotional readiness is addressed as well.
The PSLE English Oral Exam Details and Expert Tips to Help Your Child
The oral examination accounts for 15% of your child’s PSLE English grade. Therefore, this component is worth a sizable portion of the overall marks, and thus, it’s an important chance to secure crucial points in this area.
Singapore: Home Base Learning
As Singapore enters Phase 2 (heightened alert) this week, all primary and secondary schools implement complete home-based learning until the June holidays.
I feel the time is ripe for the Singapore education system to continue to reform, adapt and grow in response to Covid-19.
Meanwhile, we in Explico are going further into the digitalization of our educational tools as a continuation of our exciting journey ever since our launch last year.
Growing EdTech industry of Singapore
EdTech, also known as education technology, consists of everything around us. From computers to teaching math to the submission of assignments online, online degree platforms, online gaming, virtual reality technology to simple mobile learning applications, and much more. The education technology sector has had drastic changes in the past decade and is still in the […]
Benefits of Planning the New Year With Your Child: Important Things to Consider
The new year is considered one of the best parts of the year to plan with your family. Everyone evaluated the previous year and excited about what comes next. Most importantly, you want to do better and carry the rest of the family along, including your kids. If your kids don’t know much about planning […]
Benefits of Extracurricular Activities and How to Introduce Them
Studies have shown the incredible roles extracurricular activities play in developing children’s academic, psychological and social well-being. They improve students’ character development, promote happiness, and boost their engagement in the classroom. Among other benefits, extracurricular activities help students take on life skills that empower them to combat life challenges successfully.
5 Ways to Help Your Child Maximize the New Year
The beginning of the new year is often the most exciting for parents and kids. You set goals with your child, and everyone is excited to reach them. Most importantly, you look for ways to support your kids so they can make the most of the new year.
However, this is where it gets tricky. How do you support your child through the year without becoming too overbearing? Understanding how to provide the right amount of support without pushing too hard is often the most challenging part for parents.
Discussing Career Paths With Your Child: How to Begin
Kick-starting career conversations with your child isn’t easy. No matter their age, you never want to appear imposing, insensitive, or overbearing. You want to get it right. So, it’s tough, especially if you don’t know the right things to say. When is the right time to talk about career choices with your child? How do […]
Ways to Ensure Shared Parenting Does Not Disrupt Your Child’s Academics
Divorces and separations are a part of human existence. It impacts not just the immediate parties who are separating but also affects the children of the marriage. In a bid to cushion the effects of divorce/separation on children, some separated couples often decide to co-parent their offspring. This has been proven to be beneficial in […]
How To Identify the Right Teacher for Your Child
As a parent, you may find that your children fail to do well in school regardless of your best efforts. This could be because the subjects have gotten more complex; this is often the case as children advance through the years. It might also be because your child’s teacher fails to give them the attention they need. Another reason why children perform abysmally in school can be a lack of proper guidance from parents and guardians.
Identifying Your Child’s Academic Strengths (and Making Them Work)
Every child has academic strengths and weaknesses. Hence, if your child is academically gifted, they would have areas they excel at and others in which they don’t perform well. In many cases, parents often spend time trying to convert a child’s weaknesses into strengths or at least trying to better the weaknesses. Unfortunately, this is often an exercise in futility. Invariably, focusing on a child’s weaknesses ends up making the children have strengths that are not fully developed. A better approach would be working to identify and better any areas of academic strengths a child has exhibited.
Benefits of Planning Ahead for Your Children’s Holidays
Most parents are aware of the school holidays weeks before they show up. Yet, it is common to find these same parents wondering where all the time went whenever the holidays come to an end. Both children and parents find that at the end of the holiday season, they cannot point to something tangible accomplished within the period. The reason for this is simple: most folks don’t plan their children’s activities before the holidays, and some don’t even plan.
Essential Study Tools That Boost Productivity and Performance
Getting your child to be on their academic A-game can be a lot of work. It requires a hands-on approach from parents, teachers, and guardians. However, some children still perform suboptimally even with a concerted effort from parents and teachers. Factors like illness, laziness and even distractions can cause subpar performance by children. Thankfully, you […]
Benefits of Online Assessment and Studying
Online assessments and studying are essential to achieving several learning goals in the age of digital learning. Research affirms that online knowledge assessment enhances the learning experience, provides real-time feedback, and facilitates students’ development of critical skills. However, despite online learning and assessment popularity, many parents wonder if it’s the best learning approach for their […]