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Primary 3
Tuition Classes for Primary 3
As your child progresses to Primary 3, the academic demands increase with more subjects and deeper content. This is a critical year for building confidence and mastering foundational skills across English, Maths, and Science.
Aligned with the latest MOE syllabus, our lessons are carefully structured by our curriculum team to equip students with the techniques and strategies needed to tackle new challenges with confidence. We place strong emphasis not just on content mastery, but also on thinking skills, application, and communication.
Class Fees: approximately $82 to $98* per 1h 45min session (charged per term)
Class Duration: 1 hour 45 mins
Class Size: Maximum 12 students
*pricing differ with location and weekdays/ weekends
Overview of Primary 3 Programmes
Read Critically, write creatively
Students learn to read with a critical eye, exploring the works of various authors and inquiring into children’s stories. They develop the ability to summarise ideas, infer meaning, and draw conclusions to engage deeply with a variety of texts. Through guided reading, students also emulate the writing and characterisation techniques of authors to create engaging and authentic stories of their own.
BECOME AN EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATOR
Students participate in regular class discussions and presentations that boost their confidence, enhance active listening skills, and strengthen their ability to express personal ideas and opinions clearly.
CULTIVATE A CURIOUS MIND
Research shows that curious learners tend to achieve better academic outcomes. Our students are exposed to a wide range of themes, such as inventions, food, and nutrition to connect language learning with real-world contexts. These themes ignite their curiosity about the world around them and help broaden their perspectives.
MASTER KEY STRATEGIES AND SKILLS
We equip students for exam success by honing their time management, question analysis, and answering techniques. Regular reviews and personalised feedback further strengthen content mastery and confidence.
CLOSE COMMUNICATION WITH PARENTS
Stay informed with regular updates from our teachers about your child’s progress. Each term, parents receive a Learning Snapshot that highlights key strengths, areas for improvement, and personalised recommendations to support your child’s growth.
Key Curriculum Focus
Through the course of our Primary 3 English programme, your child can look forward to learning the following:
- Explore a Wide Variety of Writing Themes and Text Types
- Build confidence and adaptability by engaging with different genres, such as narratives, descriptive pieces and other creative formats.
- Generate Meaningful Plotlines based on Given Themes and Visual Cues
- Brainstorm relevant ideas based on given themes and images, with an emphasis on developing clear conflicts and resolutions.
- Structure Stories with Strong Narrative Flow
- Use tools like the ‘story mountain’ to organise ideas, sequence events logically, and ensure cohesive plots with engaging beginnings and satisfying endings.
- Apply Writing Techniques
- Strengthen stories through techniques such as varied sentence structures, show-not-tell, slow-motion descriptions, and purposeful dialogue to build suspense and emotion.
- Expand and Apply Rich Vocabulary
- Build a strong vocabulary bank of vivid adjectives, action verbs and figurative language to enhance story tone, characterisation and scene setting.
- Engage with Texts Across Varied Themes
- Students explore a wide range of fiction and non-fiction texts that challenge their thinking, introduce rich vocabulary, and engage them with meaningful topics.
- Apply Answering Techniques
- Learn to analyse key terms in questions and identify contextual clues within the text to answer comprehension and cloze passage questions accurately.
- Construct Clear and Concise Responses
- Practise writing relevant, grammatically correct answers with precision, using evidence from the text to support responses.
- Strengthen Inference Skills
- Deepen comprehension of texts by making logical inferences and drawing well-supported conclusion
- Master Grammar Structures
- Deepen understanding of grammar topics such as reported speech, gerunds, and infinitives, as well as active and passive voice.
- Strengthen Sentence Construction Skills
- Practice sentence synthesis using correlative conjunctions, question tags, and a variety of tenses to form more sophisticated sentence types.
- Apply Grammar Rules Accurately
- Learn to identify contextual clues and analyse sentence structure to apply grammar rules correctly in both multiple-choice questions and open-ended tasks.
- Reinforce Learning Through Targeted Practice and Reviews
- Regular reviews and practice opportunities help consolidate understanding, clarify misconceptions, and provide timely teacher feedback for continuous improvement.
- Confidence in Speaking
- Participate in in-class discussions and presentations on topics such as personal aspirations, relationships, and the consequences of actions to build confidence and express ideas clearly.
- Foster Active Learning
- Practice attentive listening and respond meaningfully to peers’ ideas in both structured and spontaneous conversations.
- Develop Clear and Coherent Responses
- Organise oral responses that are logically sequenced and well-supported with simple reasoning and personal experiences.
- Stimulus-Based Conversation and Reading Aloud
- Engage in oral practices that develop clarity, pronunciation and expressive reading, with guided support on picture-based discussion
What goes on in our English programmes?
Lessons are structured to help students investigate the craft of writing with examples from notable children’s literature (e.g. How did the writer make the character memorable? What were some of the writing techniques he used? How can we emulate them?)
Students are encouraged to learn grammar through a mix of implicit and explicit instruction (e.g. noticing patterns in different sentences vs listing of grammar rules)
Students hone their reading skills with integrated phonics components that include catchy songs / rhymes to stimulate their interest
Students engage in a wide range of themes (e.g. biodiversity, young game changers) throughout the year to ignite their curiosity in the world around us
“Develop Your Voice” modules encourage students to be active listeners and articulate speakers
ACHIEVE CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING
Children learn through the Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract approach by recalling and building on pre-existing knowledge. During the programme, your child will explore and apply concepts beyond the syllabus.
UNLEASH CURIOSITY IN MATHS
Research shows that curious children attain better academic outcomes. Children will explore mathematical concepts through open-ended activities and develop a system of generating results from exploration of ideas and concepts. Our Maths tuition programme also extends problem solving through investigation.
COMPUTE WITH EFFICIENCY AND ACCURACY
Children will be able to confidently apply knowledge and address learning needs through weekly exercises and assessments. Each child will be exposed to a wide range of computation exercises and challenging tasks.
ACHIEVE HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH PROBLEM SOLVING
Our Maths enrichment programmes guide students in mastering heuristic strategies for problem sums, identify task requirements by exploring similar concepts in different problems, and explore different solutions to the same problem.
ARTICULATE CONFIDENTLY
Children will learn to identify and correct errors, be confident in providing justification for answers and question assumptions made in problem-solving. The Eton Academy encourages children to cultivate an open mind towards learning from and sharing with peers.
CLOSE COMMUNICATION WITH TEACHERS & PARENTS
Receive regular updates about class performance from our teachers. Learning snapshots are sent termly to see areas of strength and improvement and teachers’ recommendations.
Concepts and Skills
Some maths concepts and skills that your child can look forward to in our Primary 3 Maths programme include:
- Whole Numbers (up to 10000)
- Four operations
- Compare and order
- Fractions
- Equivalent fractions
- Addition and Subtraction
- Money
- Measurement
- Length, mass and volume
- Time
- Area and Perimeter
- Square, rectangle, rectilinear figures
- Geometry
- Angles
- perpendicular and parallel lines
- Statistics
- Bar graphs
- Draw A Model
- Part-whole
- Comparison
- Repeated identity
- Stacking
- Simultaneous Equations
- Before-change-after
- Double-ifs
- Working Backwards
- Make A List
- Assumption
- Patterns
What goes on in our Mathematics programmes?
Lessons are structured around weekly investigative problems to help students draw connections to real-life experiences e.g. how much water do we consume in a day? How can we represent it in different measurement units?
Students learn how to apply heuristics to solve a variety of math problem sums
Lessons use manipulatives, hands-on activities and class projects to give students a fun learning experience
Interactive activities and quizzes are used to engage students and check for understanding
Weekly stretch activities are included to help students deepen their understanding of each mathematical concept
Reviews of the prior week’s content are conducted at the start of each lesson to assess students’ readiness and consolidate students’ learning
FUN, HANDS-ON SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS
From observing live specimens to navigating magnetic mazes, our hands-on activities make science come alive! Students develop a deeper appreciation for real-world science as they engage in memorable experiments that spark curiosity and lasting understanding.
DEVELOP SCIENCE LITERACY
Your child will gain the confidence to ask meaningful questions, make logical conclusions and analyse information from experiments. Through guided discovery and exploratory projects, they will learn to present their ideas in a coherent and organised way, building strong scientific literacy.
SHARPEN ANSWERING TECHNIQUES
Students will master key scientific concepts and learn effective strategies to form clear and succinct explanations for open-ended questions. With our targeted approach, they will receive personalised feedback and take part in regular topical reviews to close learning gaps and hone their critical thinking skills.
NURTURE CURIOSITY AND INQUISITIVENESS
Curious learners are confident learners. Through investigative tasks and real-life science scenarios, we help our students explore the world around them, boosting their love for learning and building a strong foundation for academic success.
BECOME AN EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATOR
In our interactive lessons, students will learn to express their ideas clearly and confidently. They will practise sharing hypotheses, explaining their reasoning and presenting their findings during our class discussions.
CLOSE COMMUNICATION WITH PARENTS
Stay informed with regular updates from our teachers about your child’s progress. Each term, parents receive a Learning Snapshot that highlights key strengths, areas for improvement and personalised recommendations to support your child’s growth.
Topics and Skills
Through the course of our Primary 3 Science programme, your child can look forward to learning the following:
- Characteristics of living and non-living things
- Classification of living things (Animals, Plants, Fungi & bacteria)
- Materials
- Life cycle of plants and animals
- Magnets
- Observational skills
- Classifying
- Comparing
- Recognising a fair test
- Introductory data analysis in different representations
What goes on in our Science programmes?
Lessons are structured to help students investigate the craft of writing with examples from notable children’s literature (e.g. How did the writer make the character memorable? What were some of the writing techniques he used? How can we emulate them?)
Students are encouraged to learn grammar through a mix of implicit and explicit instruction (e.g. noticing patterns in different sentences vs listing of grammar rules)
Students hone their reading skills with integrated phonics components that include catchy songs / rhymes to stimulate their interest
Students engage in a wide range of themes (e.g. biodiversity, young game changers) throughout the year to ignite their curiosity in the world around us
“Develop Your Voice” modules encourage students to be active listeners and articulate speakers
