English Class with Ms Cheryl

June marks the start of the school holidays, and I know many of you are already thinking ahead on how your child can use this time well, without losing momentum.

So here’s a June Holiday Special: a 3-day Composition Workshop designed to help students sharpen their writing from the inside out.

We’ll be focusing on how to build stronger ideas, write with clearer structure, and bring more depth and detail into every composition.

If your child needs that reset or boost this holiday, this is the space we’ve set aside for it.

April has been one of those months where we’ve been quietly gearing up for what’s ahead in May and the June holidays.

We’ve continued building momentum in oral practice—steady, focused work on helping students speak with more clarity and confidence. Our 1-to-1 PSLE sessions have been progressing well. It’s been a gradual but meaningful process of strengthening fundamentals, closing gaps, and helping students become more intentional in how they approach each oral question.

Looking ahead, May will be a busy and important month. The PSLE English Masterclass is scheduled for 18 & 19 May, where we’ll be focusing on sharpening key exam skills as we examine the 2019 PSLE paper 2.

Weekly regular classes will continue throughout, keeping everything grounded in consistency - writing, comprehension, and language skills all steadily reinforced.

May feels like a month where things begin to click into place, and I’m looking forward to seeing that unfold as we steady our pace and navigate the mid-year stretch with focus and balance.

I know many of you are already thinking ahead for the June holidays - how your child can use this time well, without losing momentum.

So here’s a June Holiday Special: a 3-day Composition Workshop designed to help students sharpen their writing from the inside out.

We’ll be focusing on how to build stronger ideas, write with clearer structure, and bring more depth and detail into every composition.

If your child needs that reset or boost this holiday, this is the space to set aside for it.

We often think of PSLE English as an endless ocean of grammar rules and vocabulary, making it impossible to “study for”. This overwhelming broadness is why many students rely on “feeling” the answer by explaining “it just sounds correct”.

I once read our human brains thrive on pattern recognition to simplify complex information. What if instead of guessing, your child uses the “math formulas” behind the language to solve Synthesis and Transformation questions?

I’m sharing the 5 Core Patterns Practice Guide used during our Masterclasses to help your child navigate this deep ocean with more confidence.

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How is your child developing their composition skills? If they’re relying on a list of words and phrases to build stories, chances are their writing could end up looking much like everyone else’s. More importantly, are they using words that truly fit the context?

One simple way to change that is by building sentences from word parts - nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Many of us don’t realise how powerful this can be: knowing how different word parts work together helps your child craft sentences that are vivid and precise. Instead of memorising phrases, your child learns why certain words fit and how to combine them, creating original stories with their own voice.

Does your child struggle with vocabulary questions where all the options look almost exactly the same?

In the PSLE English paper, these “look-alike” words are designed to trap students who rely on guessing. But there is a faster, more reliable way to find the answer.

By breaking a word into its front block (prefix) and root block, your child can decode the meaning of a word they’ve never even seen before.

Swipe left to see how we use word slicing to solve this tricky wildfire question.

Share this with a PSLE parent who needs a shortcut!

With the PSLE Oral just 4 months away and full papers 6 months away, we continue to focus on steady preparation this April.

📍1:1 Oral Practice – Helping each child speak clearly and confidently.

📍Paper Review – Looking at past year PSLE papers to understand patterns and tricky questions.

📍Weekly Classes – Building oral, reading, comprehension, and writing skills a week at a time.

It looked straightforward. Two short sentences. Just combine them using “whose.”

Easy... right?

But here’s what tripped so many students up in the 2017 PSLE English Paper:

When two past events are mentioned and one happened before the other, you can’t just stick them together in simple past tense.

Many students knew “whose.” But they missed the sequence of time.

We break down questions like this, one step at a time, so students understand why an answer works, not just what the answer is, in our monthly masterclasses and weekly classes.

It looked straightforward.
Two short sentences.
Just combine them using “whose.”

Easy… right?

But here’s what tripped so many students up in the 2017 PSLE English Paper:

When two past events are mentioned and one happened before the other, you can’t just stick them together in simple past tense.

Many students knew “whose.”But they missed the sequence of time.

We break down questions like this, one step at a time, so students understand why an answer works, not just what the answer is, in our monthly masterclasses and weekly classes.