Children's Learning Centre in Singapore

Petra Education Centre:
Petra Education Centre is a teaching and learning place for young children, teenagers and adults. Petra Education Centre is known for its range of quality programmes in English, Math, Science and Multi-sensory Petra Phonics. Registered with the Ministry of Education in 1997, Petra Education Centre boasts of 10 years of academic excellence and incredible results. Petra is especially renowned for its individual attention and guidance towards academic progression and success.

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The minimum age of young children is three years old for local students and five years for international students. All young children below the age of five are assessed for their ability to benefit from classroom instruction before being admitted to Petra. Students enjoy the cosy atmosphere and the individualized attention that they get at Petra which may be lacking at larger institutions. The course structure allows students to maximize results and plan their study time more effectively.

- Lower Secondary English
- Creative Writing Workshop
- Reading and Spelling Clinic
- Multi-Sensory Petra Phonics
- Remedial English Programme
- Comprehension Skills Workshop
- Audiblox Mind Training Programme
- PSLE English Examination Practice
- Speech Training for Children
- Handwriting Class- Manuscript and Cursive
- Individual Science and Mathematics Classes
- English Examination Practice for GCE O Level
- Homework Supervision and Supervised Study Programme
- Creative Writing and Enrichment Classes for Primary School
- Creative Reading, Writing and Drama Class for Young Children
- GCE O Level A-Maths & E-Maths group classes (Sunday)
- Petra Phonics Basic Level
- Petra Phonics Intermediate Level
- Petra Phonics Advanced Level
- Petra Phonics with Conversational Skills - Basic Level - Full Time
- Petra Phonics with Conversational Skills - Intermediate Level - Full Time
- Petra Phonics with Conversational Skills- Advanced Level - Full Time

We have one of the best Phonics programme for young children, called PETRA Phonics. It is a multi-sensory interactive Phonics programme that is based partly on research on how children learn best and also on the neurological study done by Dr Samuel Orton. It is a Reading programme that has been refined over the years through actual teaching and learning.

Speech Training
One of our approaches is to demonstrate and give ample practice sessions on the place and manner of articulation of problem sounds. We also teach intonation patterns, pitch variation and stress.

Children who are not reading age appropriately or are unable to start reading despite having learnt the alphabet and their sounds need not fret anymore. Our Reading Specialist has helped thousands of children with such or similar problems.

Audiblox programme
Audiblox is a system of cognitive exercises, aimed at the development and automation of foundational learning skills, including the skills that make it possible to distinguish left and right, cross the midline, and to remember. This programme can be tailored to meet the needs of varying groups of children from children of average and above average intelligence to dyslexic children or academic underachievers.

- To help learners develop a positive attitude to language learning by providing comprehensible input that is purposeful
- To provide maximum opportunity in the language learning process for the integration of listening, speaking, reading and writing
- To generate more classroom interaction which allows the purposeful use of language by promoting collaborative learning
- To enhance language proficiency by encouraging the cultivation of the reading habit
- To incorporate thinking strategies into language tasks (reading and writing activities) to foster intellectual growth
- To teach grammar in context and according to learning needs rather than as discrete items
- To help learners develop self-monitoring techniques to achieve greater linguistic accuracy
- To provide a rich language environment and the support and responsibility to enable learners to manage their own learning

Petra Education Centre is ideally located in one of Singapore's safest and convenient neighborhood and centrally located at an area well known for education - Pandan Valley Estate at Ulu Pandan Road which lies off the vibrant central district of Holland Road. There are facilities like hair dressing salons, a large supermarket, home made ice cream store, a cafe, a clothes store, a medical clinic and a Chinese enrichment centre in the immediate vicinity.