Star Learners @ Sengkang Sports Centre - 57 Anchorvale Rd

My Daughter had switched from another childcare centre to Starlearners@SK Sports Centre in January 2018 as N2. And for my Son had started schooling as N1 this year January 2019. We have no regrets to place both of our kids in Starlearners Sports Centre branch, because we can see their growth! Most importantly, they love their teachers Ms Sitti, Ms Zhang, Ms Zila, Ms Meng and Teacher Assistant Ms Gan very much! I can tell that they love the Principal, Aunty Toh and Aunty Yati too, because whenever my kids talk about them, they are always so happy! Under the tremendous care and concern given by the School's Staffs, we as parents, are absolutely very happy to see our children are well-taken care of and they enjoy going to the school. ==================================== Beginning of this year 2019, I am very worried about my Daughter's phonics because alot of my surrounding friends sent their kids for external Phonics class. I didn't send my girl to any external enrichment class, as I do not want to stress my kid. So, I had called up Ms Sitti to have a talk with her & get her advices. With her assurance, I had told my hubby to give our daughter some time. And at home, I will try to recap her phonics and what she had learnt from school. Sometimes, my girl will tell me," Ms Sitti said this is a magic word!"  I guess she is learning Phonics well in a fun way. Indeed, we had seen progression in our Daughter's phonics along the way. Many thanks to Ms Sitti's way of teaching Phonics to her. As for my Son's 2nd day of school, he cried badly when I walked away and hide myself during his naptime. Ms Zhang is very patient in handling him and manage to coax him to sleep. He kept crying and do not want to school in Jan and Feb. However, Ms Meng Or Ms Zhang will always help to calm him down. Slowly, my boy had started to adapt himself and love going to school. Apart from that, his communication in English had improved too..Thank u, Ms Zila for teaching him English! At times, our Son do catch my hubby and me in surprise, when he speaks English. =) All these efforts are really worth complimenting for... ==================================== Lastly, I must take this chance to thank the Principal Mrs Diana! She is a very passionate and dedicated Principal! Take for recent case about the long overdue referral fee that I had brought up to her. It was supposed to be my friend's child Centre Principal's job to settle it, but Mrs Diana made an attempt to followup closely and reminded that Centre Principal about it. I really appreciate her effort for making the extra miles. Cheers to Mrs Diana's great mentorship, Passionate Teachers and Caring Support Staffs, who make me totally feel no regrets in placing both of my kids there! =) Thank u for all the love to my children! ❤

As parents, we might have given them some hard time from time to time, but these teachers from Sengkang Sport have performed outstandingly well in our opinion. We would like to highlight their strength and give thanks to teachers of N2 for the effort that they have put forth this year. Teacher Liza ============= This year we manage to see Teacher Liza on a more prominent role as the N2 English teacher. As parents we are very happy on how she manages the class. She is firm when needed, as N2 class is more discipline and in order when going on excursion and also gentle when students needed her. As our daughter easily get bored and learn fast on certain situation, Teacher Liza will at times teach her some new songs and also learn basic math calculation while waiting for the kids' turn to go to the toilet, making learning fun by using elements around the environment. From my understanding it is not part of the curriculum at the point of time, and we are much appreciated that Teacher Liza have taken the initiative to do so, to keep our daughter engaging and make learning fun for her. our daugther will always come home waiting to learn to count more stuff and even teach us parents new songs. At time Teacher Liza has try to follow up on how daugther is doing at home to understand our daugther character more in dept. We truely appreciate her effort and care for our daughter. Yu Liaoshi =========== Last year we were really impressed with Yu Liaoshi. And this year is no different. We truly appreciate Yu Liaoshi patient for teaching our daughter Chinese. Our daugther will come home excited to tell us all the beautiful Chinese words to practise and dance. Coming from a non-chinnese speaking family, at times it is very hard to follow up with our daugther's Chinese language. Yu Liaoshi have been very helpful explaining to us parents on what our daugther have learn in school and also show us books during previous PTC on our daugther favourite Chinese book in class and share abit about the book story. As parents we love to follow up with our daugther after school and Yu Liaoshi have gone her way to write down the han-yu pi-yin on the home activities for Syafiqah, making it possible for us to do so. We truely appreciate that she have gone out of her way to assist us and be very patient on teaching our daughter. N2 Teachers ============ For the past 2 years, our daughter had to deal with teacher from her class leaving the school. And at times we are worried for our daughter development as she could get very attached to a teacher one day and suddenly her favourite teacher leaving the other day. We are very happy that Teacher Liza and Yu Liaoshi have been around for the whole of this year to guide our daugther development. Both of them are excellence teachers and work in sync with each other. Making our experience with the school engaging, interactive and worry free as we know our daugther is in good hands. As parents we would love to see both Teacher Liza and Yu Liaoshi be guiding our daugther through K1, as some of her friends (Best friends included) will be leaving school for MOE kindergarten next year. And having both Teacher Liza and Yu Liaoshi will really help our daugther go true these hard times. School Development =================== This year we saw much of the school rebranding and we parents really welcome and appreciate the school effort to make things easy for us parents and teachers. There were bugs in the school app in the beginning, which was expected for any new software. At times bugs like not receiving app notification, not receiving invoices and etc happen and the school principle and teachers have been very helpful in relaying information to parents, to bridge in the gap. We are happy that the app has made things easy and more secure for parents to view school activities photos, invoices, e-consent, buying of uniform and much much more.

My girl has been with the centre since 2015 and graduating this year. My boy is now in PG. Teachers came and left, and each one of them had always left a deep impression on my children, especially Nayli, who is graduating this year. The smiles that the teachers put on every morning, greeting the children when they are dropped at school, makes it so welcoming for the children. To us parents, who might always look like we are in a rush to drop them off so that we can run off to work, seeing the smiles and the cheery "Good morning!" or "Zhao an!" never fails to uplift my mood for the start of the day. The staff were truly accommodating, especially in ensuring that Zuhaily is being managed better in the school, which at times will mean that Nayli has to be taken out of her class to reassure Zuhaily that everything will be alright. The staff have always been prompt in updating the goods and bads that happened in the centre albeit I cannot deny the fact that my heart jumps everytime I receive a call from the centre. However, deep down inside I know that the teachers are trying their best to do as much as they can. The occasional video updates given to me. It just reassures me that I made the right choice enrolling my kids into Star Learners. Zuhaily had a new English teacher this year, Ms Gill. Her addition to the centre was a nice complement to the centre as well. Zuhaily comes back and will excitedly share the things that he did in school, and most importantly, he remembers what has been done. He will make it a point to get us to read the personalised Children's Day card that Ms Gill has written for him. The occasional updates written about Zuhaily in the comm book is also much appreciated. Thank you Ms Gill! The teachers adore Zuhaily so much and I am so thankful that he is given so much love. What heartens me the most is when Nayli took so much time and effort to write a personalised message for each of the teachers on her cards for Teachers' Day. That is just a reflection of how much of an impression the teachers have left on her, does not matter whethere they are in direct contact with her or not. And enrolling Ms Siti into her Kids' Club? That sounds very exclusive. The Chinese teachers, namely Xiao LaoShi, Yu LaoShi, Zhang LaoShi and Meng LaoShi have been doing such a good job in teaching Mandarin in a fun way, given that Mandarin is not our Mother Tongue. Occasionally, Zuhaily will break into Mandarin at home when we are playing or reading. It has also been useful for both Nayli and Zuhaily to engage with our elderly neighbour who only communicates in Mandarin. Ms Nasreen has done such a wonderful job in preparing Nayli for Primary 1. It is highly engaging and teaching them and preparing them for the real life cum next year. I appreciate the time when she was trying to educate Nayli the importance of being humble. Thankiew Ms Gan for loving Zuhaily so much. He will always remember his pet name, Ali Baba. :) Thankiew Ms Siti for being such a comfort to Zuhaily, knowing that you are someone whom he can turn to when he feels insecure in school. In fact, you have such a warm personality that both my children can attest to that. Ms Zilla is also a teacher who makes effort to make things fun for the children, and i feel that she can totally let loose just to ensure that the children listen and enjoy their learning. Thankiew Ms Liza for teaching fun dance moves to the children during the special events in school. And Mrs Diana, thank you for always being attentive to the needs of the parents and the children, and as a principal of the centre, i am truly impressed that you take time to connect with the children and remembers all their names as well! :) I have never regretted my decision to put my children in Star Learners @ North East.

I would like to compliment all the teachers and staffs in Star Learners @ Sengkang Sports Centre on their wonderful teaching skills and all care they gave to the children. All the contribution from them lead to the wonderful improvement in my children's performance during the years. Principal Mrs Diana always keeps a very positive direction for the school which provided educational and interesting activities for both parents and children. The activities were not only simple interesting but also very meaningful. Children visited the Singapore Health Board to learn how to have a healthy habit in their daily life, they went to the Peranakan Museum to explore different culture and they went to Air Base Museum to have hands on experience to the airplanes. The school also organised many parents-child activities. For example, the Father’s Day celebration were held always in a form of sports competition and activities. It was not only making the father and children closer, but also reminds the importance of health. For Mother’s Day, centre also organised very meaningful talks for mothers and grandmothers, such as “How important is regular gynaecological check-up”. The activities were not only help to widen children’s knowledge, but also show great care to the parents. The teachers in the school are very knowledgeable and responsible to all the children, for both academic results and their daily life. My daugher is a quiet girl and always shy to speak out. With Teacher Nasreen and Xiao Lao Shi’s teach and help, she is now much more confident than previous. She got great improvement in academic performance in English, Math and Chinese. She has also acquired deep interest in the above subjects with teachers’ encouragement. My son is always too active and sometime naughty. However, with the care from Yu Lao Shi and Teacher Liza, he learnt how to behave himself well and how to be a polite and nice boy. Both also received care from all the teachers and staffs in the centre. Aunty Yati helps to provide a clean environment to them and Aunty Toh always prepares healthy and delicious food for them. As working parents, we can leave children with Star Learners without any worry. My girl is graduating this year, and the brother will have another 2 years with Star Learners. Star Learners is more like a family to my children. I would like to say thank you to all of you in Star Learners @ Sengkang Sports Centre for providing such a nice environment and great learning journeys for the children.