Our Program Highlight

NEWS TIME
Entering this information era, children are exposed to all kinds of information at the click of a mouse. In this programme, exposing children to appreciate and understand current affairs at a young age could help them better understand the world around them. With proper guidance they would also learn to differential relevant information for their growing intellectual needs. Ultimately, children will have the ability to present their knowledge confidently. This is a key factor for a successful adulthood.

MIND & BODY
Positive Mental Health is extremely important for the well being of a "whole" human. Unfortunately, it is the most commonly neglected area, as stress in daily affairs has caused us to constantly be living in fear and anxiety. Prolonged exposure to such circumstances not only will cause emotional upset, it will have detrimental effect for both body and mind. Therefore, the objective of this unique programme is to train children to have the ability to keep their mind at peace with the world they live in. Another feature of this meditation and mindfulness practice is that there is no religious connotation.

STUDY PERIOD / TUTORIAL
Being able to concentrate and understand schoolwork and assignment is extremely important in order to be able to excel academically. With physical conducive environment and strict supervision by trained staff, students are able to spend quality time in their schoolwork and accomplish more within a period of time. In addition, there will be Tutors around to give individual attention to help students improve their weaker subjects.

VEGETARIAN MEAL
In order to help children develop a strong sense of responsibility to the environment and cultivating love to themselves and others, our centre strictly advocate the idea of providing nutritious vegetarian meal to the children. Modern day farming has caused great catastrophe to both the environment and animals on earth. In addition, Medicine of the 21st century have shown substantial evidence that a lot of sickness are closely related to our way of diet. Thus, we believe by providing children with a proper nutritious diet, they will eventually become healthier and responsible adult of the future.

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Enrichment Programs

An analogy given by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong when he opened the 2nd Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Education Ministerial Meeting in April 2000, education is like teaching one to fish.

"In the long term, we ought to be able to fish in different waters and all seasons, and constantly developing new techniques to increase our catch," PM Goh said.

We believe in building this analogy further by providing enrichment programmes to help shape a holistic form of modern-day education. We could be expecting a more responsible and humane "fisherman". This unique program has been developed by TLC Student Care Centre to specially cater for its students - shaping students with a difference.

GUIDED READING
Introduction
Guided reading is the heart of a reading program. It gives teachers and students the opportunity to talk, read and think their way purposefully through a text. It provides the perfect instructional setting for teaching and reinforcing essential skills and assessing reading behaviour.

SELF-ESTEEM
Introduction
Self-Esteem is appreciating my own worth and importance and having the character to be accountable for myself and to act responsibly towards others. Self-Esteem is about gentle confidence. A person with high self-esteem is aware of his/her own strength and weaknesses.

Research has shown a strong link between a child's self-esteem and his / her academic success; children who feel good about themselves learn more easily and retain information longer. In fact, they do better in every way: if they have a sense of well-being they are much more likely to be able to handle the ups and downs of daily life, including prejudice, abuse, addiction, delinquency and violence.

POSITIVE HUMAN RELATIONS SKILLS

We live in a social world, not an island by ourselves. The relationships we create and maintain with others should be viewed as treasures. By using good human relations principals and strategies, we learn to manage our social and school relationships effectively. This is important for our personal growth and future advancement.

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School Holiday Programs

School holiday can never be the same without a well planned "enrichment" program offered by TLC Student Care. We believe that learning need not be strictly bind to classroom lecture, text books and computer software. We are educating "human" and thus education is a diversified array of activities that offers children a wide variety of learning adventure, in short, to make learning a fun and fulfilling experience. The programs we have are as follows:

1. Outdoor Adventure
   
2. Music Enrichment
   
3. Educational Excursion
   
4. "Yes I can"!
   
5. Mind & Body
   
6. Fun with Cooking
   
7. Overseas Immersion
   
8. Appreciation Day
   
9. Organic Farming
   
10. Money & Me
    
    

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Parents' Enrichment Programs

Parents as role model and life long mentor to their children can never be replaced by schools or any form of educational institution. We intend to help parents to equip themselves with the relevant skills to bring up their children positively, hence a wide range and variety of enrichment activities for parents have been planned to reach this objective.

Parent Workshop
We have been working closely with various Volunteer Welfare Organisations in the field of counselling and parental education. The main objective of having such workshops is to guide parents toward positive parenting and interaction.

Adult Self-Esteem
Problems between adults can sometimes affect children adversely. Unfortunately, most problems we are not in a position to solve but as long as it is within the area of parental education, our centre is keen to help. One of such program inculcates in parents high Self-Esteem. This could help to improve both personal life of the parent personality and family life.

Parent Support Group
Parental Education will only be beneficial to a certain extent if there is no "follow up". Therefore, having a parent support group enables our centre to delve into the subject matter with greater depth. It also provides a means of feedback for the centre to understand the children and family better. With regular meetings, parents will be able to foster strong bonding among one another as they share their thoughts and feelings regarding parenting and raising children.

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Centre's daily Time Table