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Interesting Holiday
Enrichment Classes!
The June school holidays CRESTAR LEARNING CENTRE
are just around the corner One of the regional leaders in lifelong education, Crestar
a bunch of fun and
and you’re looking for the Learning Centre hasthis upcoming June great enrichment
classes for children
holidays. These
perfect enrichment class programmes are three to five lessons long and last
for your children. Well, your between one and two weeks. Some of the enrichment
search is over! We’ve found classes are actually short taster programmes to let your
a few enrichment classes child experience what their regular 11-lesson programmes
are like!
that are not only beneficial
but fun too! We are especially looking forward to the programmes
they’ve created especially for the holidays!
Art
Whether you’re into clay modelling, 3D paper sculptures or
even Chinese brush painting, Crestar Learning Centre has a
programme for you and your children!
Chilren will learn to create beautiful 3D paper sculptures
of flowers and a variety of other gorgeous items from the
Paper Relief classes.
Here are a list of the oth er Art classes Crestar provides:
• Clay modelling
• Mosaic art
• Felt craft
• Canvas painting
• Paper diorama
• Chinese brush painting
Cook & Bake
Is your child thinking of becoming
the next Jamie Oliver or perhaps the
new Twelve Cupcakes superstar?
The art of cooking and baking has
been slowly increasing in popularity,
evidenced by the number of cafes
and restaurants sprouting in
Singapore as well as the buffetloads of food pictures on the
different social mediums.
Crestar Learning Centre has also
lined up a few cooking programmes
catered for children to learn essential
kitchen skills and great recipes.
Here are some of the recipes that your child
will be learning with Crestar:
• Cookies
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Chocolate cream
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Raisins
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Butter corn
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Strawberry
• Cupcakes and large cakes
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Marble
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Oreo cheesecake
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Blueberry
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Pizza
Fruit tarts
Sushi
Macaroons
Crestar Learning Centre has nine centres around the
island. For more information on the different holiday
programmes as well as a full list of the addresses of the
centres, we recommend opening your browser and pointing
it to www.crestar.com.sg.
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Family & Life • May 2014
LOGICMILLS
ACADEMY
In an increasingly complex
world abundant with
information, it’s difficult to
find meaning and to connect
the dots. Unfortunately,
the traditional Singaporean
pedagogy just can’t cut it
anymore, according
to Professor Mark
Nowacki, founder
of LogicMills.
Instead, the skills
that today’s children
need now, more
than anything else,
are higher-order
thinking skills,
great collaborative
quotient and the
ability to cross
different cultures.
That’s the promise
of LogicMills,
the only MOEcertified institution
“providing analytical thinking
skills through experiential learning”. As Nowacki
explains, “the students are actually learning real-world
learning abilities by playing games, which makes it
fun!” It’s not just fun and games though; the LogicMills
programme has been validated by the MOE to increase
students’ grades across all the different capability
spectrums by an incredible 16.8 percent. In another
independent longitudinal study, a group of Secondary One
students that went through the LogicMills programme
for a few weeks went on to score higher grades than their
peers in the ‘O’ level examinations three years later!
The idea for LogicMills was planted when Nowacki’s wife
and fellow founder, who dealt with the CEOs of a wide
variety of multinational companies, asked the C-suite
executives about the strengths and weaknesses of the
average Singaporean worker. “They’re great. They’re
hardworking and are able to follow instructions but we
wish that they would be able to make decisions on their
own,” was the common refrain.
Similarly, Nowacki, who also teaches at the Singapore
Management University, realised that young Singaporean
children were already blessed with the ability to think
rationally and logically through his experiences with
them. This quality somehow became blunted as they
progressed through the education system, which was
what he was seeing at the tertiary level.
LogicMills is simply teaching children, perhaps merely
restoring, life skills, all of which are useful not only in the
boardroom or the office but also in everyday living. We
can certainly get behind that!
The Academy has a wide variety of taster holiday
enrichment programmes, combining thematic integrated
learning with fun experiences and excursions. The
holiday programmes are typically two to three days long
and are held on the second and third week of the June
school holidays.
LogicMills is at 1 Goldhill Plaza, #03-01. If you would like
to know more about the enrichment holiday programmes,
do check out www.logicmills.com, give them a call at
+65 6253 2558 or email them at [email protected].