Primary 4

Primary 4

Key Growth Year

Key Growth Year

Your Primary 4 child should focus on refining key learning skills that help him or her to apply knowledge mastery.

This year is about setting clear academic and personal growth goals that put your child in good stead to manage upper primary.

 

 

Your Primary 4 child should focus on refining key learning skills that help him or her to apply knowledge mastery.

This year is about setting clear academic and personal growth goals that put your child in good stead to manage upper primary.

 

 

Programme Outlines

 



 

English

Lesson Duration: 1 hr 45 mins
Class size: 10 - 12 students


 

Besides honing key skills such as answering techniques and answer precision, your child will also focus on developing critical thinking and reflective learning skills in order to achieve new personal bests.

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Content and Language Mastery


Learn intermediate and advanced grammar rules and thematic vocabulary that will help to build a strong foundation in the language.

These include:

  • Relative pronouns
  • Question tags
  • Phrasal verbs

 

Skills and Techniques


Students refine their skills in the following key areas:

Speaking

  • Students will hone their communication skills through public speaking platforms such as individual presentations and learn how to present their opinions in a persuasive manner

Reading and writing

  • Students will read a wide variety of passages such as non-fiction and personal recount passages
  • Students will learn how to identify organisational patterns in a text such as chronological sequencing, compare-and-contrast and topic sentences
  • Students will learn to write a good story with structure, using advanced techniques including simple characterisation and slow-motion description
  • Learn how to create story ideas related to the theme and visual using a story curve to generate reader interest
  • Practise the precise use varied sentence structure and accurate word choice
  • Learn the WISE method (Writing= Ideas +Structure + Expression)

Read more about TLL’s WISE method and systematic approach to honing writing skills here.

Metacognitive skills

Students will hone their metacognitive abilities and develop skills that will help them evaluate their own work.

These include:

  • Error analysis
  • Answer precision
  • The ability to identify logic gaps
  • The ability to answer inferential questions

 

Contextualised Learning


Students will be introduced to a wide variety of themes that will help them to link classroom learning to events, people, places and cultures in the real world.

Key themes include:

  • Focus on the environment
  • The world today
  • The career series

 


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Mathematics

Lesson Duration: 1 hr 45 mins
Class size: 10 - 12 students


 

 

Our Primary 4 Math curriculum expands on topics learnt in P3 with increasing level of complexity. Your child will also be introduced to new topics which require the application of prior knowledge and the ability to make new connections. Find out more.

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Content Mastery


  • Students will master new topics such as Factors and Multiples, Decimals and Symmetry
  • Students will expand their foundational understanding of basic arithmetic that includes rounding off and the four operations of decimals
  • Students will build upon fundamental topics such as Fractions, Area and Perimeter and Geometry
  • Students will solve word problems involving concepts such as equivalent fractions, redistribution and part-whole relationship

 

Skills and Techniques


  • Students will apply heuristics such as Supposition, Forming Equations, Advanced Model Drawing and Draw a Table to solve word problems
  • Students will use a protractor to measure and draw angles

Applied Learning


  • Students will learn and apply new skills through project-based learning, such as using the 8-point compass and other geometric properties to locate points on a map
  • Students will reinforce new concepts through class activities and games such as ‘War of Numbers’, which requires students to match decimals and fractions that are of equal value
  • Students will appreciate the real-life application of Math through class activities as well as problems in real world context such as filling parts of a pizza with different toppings using Fractions

Download our programme brochure for the full curriculum details.


 

Science

Lesson Duration: 1 hr 45 mins
Class size: 10 - 12 students


 

The transition from Primary 3 to Primary 4 involves the shift from the ability to recall concepts to the ability to apply knowledge for topics with abstract concepts.

Our curriculum is designed to expose your child to real-world scenarios related to the topics to deepen and develop an understanding of how science concepts are applied.

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Content Mastery


  •  Students will be introduced to new topics such as Matter, Light and Heat
  • Students will revise topics covered in Primary 3 at a greater depth and be exposed to questions of higher order thinking

Skills and Techniques


  • Students will learn techniques to analyse unconventional and challenging questions systematically
  • Students will learn answering techniques to construct relevant and coherent answers to open-ended/free responses questions
  • Students will interpret data to infer relationships, draw conclusions and explain findings using relevant keywords
  • Students will learn to draw relationships between variables based on the results of an experiment

Applied Learning


  • Students will conduct hands-on experiments such as investigating the effects of heat on liquids to hone practical skills and observe science concepts in action
  • Students will learn to observe good practices when conducting science experiments and identify correct apparatus to use to obtain accurate results
  • Students will learn to make connections between application questions with unfamiliar context to the scientific concepts that they have learnt
  • Students will be exposed to interesting passages such as the effects of surface area and its application in real-world contexts to make science more relatable and exciting

Download our programme brochure for the full curriculum details.

 

 

 

 

Parent & Student Stories

 


“Teachers are cheerful and kind-hearted, and shower her with lots of encouragement."

 

 

"Valerie really enjoys her lessons at The Learning Lab! She always shares with me that her teachers are cheerful and kind-hearted, and shower her with lots of encouragement. In addition to the nurturing environment, I am also extremely satisfied with the curriculum here.

In English classes, Valerie is taught specific writing techniques and introduced to model compositions, which enable her to digest and understand concepts more readily.

Her composition has since improved from 58% to 95%, in a short span of half a year! Presentations conducted termly also offer Valerie a valuable edge in honing her public speaking skills.

As a parent, I am heartened to know that my child is in good hands and am confident that she will be able to excel academically and beyond."

- MS AUDREY TEA

Parent of P3 student, Enrolled in English

 


“Finding the world beyond the classroom.”

 

 

"Recalling the lessons I’ve had in Paris 1 or New York 5, the most valuable one I gained was the sense that the world is my oyster.

I took English from P4 to S4, and the fondest moments have been those where my teachers and I discussed the many happenings outside of the classroom.

Be it my teacher’s fondness for architectural marvels across the world as a window shedding light on the ebbs and flows of the global economy, or her entertaining stories of her childhood encouraging reflection on our own educations, I have learnt much more than just English itself.

I am privileged to feel like I can now feel the pulse of this vast world, becoming an active participant in it, and in large part I have because TLL encouraged me to find this world beyond the classroom."

- GLORIA CHUA

TLL student from 2004 -2010

 

 

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