Hess Education Centre

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451 Joo Chiat Road, #02-01 Katong Junction, Singapore 427664
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+65 63336915
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+65 63336912

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Katong Junction
451 Joo Chiat Road, #02-01 Katong Junction

Holiday ProgrammesEnglish ProgrammesMandarin Programmes

Hess Education Centres offers fun and exciting enrichment courses for children from pre-nursery to Primary 6.  The main focus is on languages (English and Chinese), and speech and drama.  Courses are offered generally on a 1 two hourly session per week basis, over 10 weeks.  The key value differentiating factor is the use of native language teachers eg. UK, USA or Australian teachers for English and PRC teachers for Mandarin.

The English Enrichment program is designed to help children develop their confidence in speaking, writing and communicating.  The program is designed not only to reinforce, but exceed the Ministry of Education primary school requirements.  The Student-centred teaching techniques and integrated materials are effective, meaningful and stimulating enabling children to learn more, faster.

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About Hess Education Centre

Hess Education Centre celebrates 23 years of educational excellence since being founded in Taiwan by American educator, Karen Hess.

Hess Education Centre combines established resources and experience with the expertise of local Singaporean educators to develop a world-class English language study program for students in Singapore. Hess Education International has more than 20 years experience teaching English. In 2004, Hess Publishing Company materials were selected by over 200,000 school students in Asia. Currently, our 600 native speaking English teachers educate over 60,000 learners in our programs.

Our Mission

We are here to provide opportunities for our students to achieve their maximum learning potential by nurturing their skills, creativity and confidence in our classrooms.

Five Features of Educational Excellence

  • Quality Native Speaking Teachers
    • We have recruiting offices managed by experienced recruiters who know our expectations and what it is like to live and work in Asia, established in the UK, Australia, Canada, America & South Africa. This enables us to successfully choose the best candidates for our schools from a large pool of applicants.
  • Specialized Intensive Teacher Training Program
    • All of our teachers, even those with years of classroom experience, must successfully complete our intensive initial training program, in addition to four full day follow up trainings in their first year of teaching with us. This ensures our teachers are well trained and effective, in the Hess teaching environment.
  • Interactive & Imaginative Curriculum
    • Our Award winning Educational Research Department & Publishing Company have over fifty full time curriculum designers and artists continually developing top quality English and Mandarin programs. A team of local and international curriculum designers ensures a rich blend of approaches and appropriate fit to the needs or our learners from all over the world.
  • Engaging Teaching Techniques
    • We strongly believe in blending the best teaching philosophies and techniques of the east and the west. We appreciate the need for children to achieve the necessary learning outcomes in today’s competitive society, but we don’t believe a love of learning and creativity must be sacrificed in order to reach these outcomes. Our ultimate goal is to nurture life long learners who will eventually have enough passion for learning, they will no longer need us to guide and empower them to learn. We also believe each learner is unique and must be successfully engaged to reach their maximum learning potential. Our multi-sensory VARG (Visual / Action / Rhythm / Game) method reaches the full range of learning styles, so all learning types can succeed.
  • We love what we do! This is powerful. We feel we are some of the luckiest people in the world. We get to assist children successfully discover a life long love for learning, we get to assist parents in providing the best for their children without having to make painful sacrifices, and we get to learn and grow ourselves. We are passionate about what we do.

Confidence and precision are our specialties. We excel at setting a strong foundation and empower our learners, to express themselves confidently and creatively. Come discover our Ministry of Education approved English and Mandarin programs for Play Group, Nursery, Kindergarten and Primary students.

Facilities: 

Our spacious school offers safe, interactive play areas, a Dress Up Drama Room, Arts Studio, Creative Writing Room, Learners Lending Library, Reading Corner and a Stage area. Our students have the opportunity to be taught, or have parts of lessons taught, in these various rooms and areas.

Nurseryand Kindergarten play Area

Our interactive play areas are safe, comfortable places where students can interact with a variety of educational toys, puzzles and games. These interactive materials offer our students an opportunity to engage in activities that are stimulating and challenging. It is a fantastic way for students to occupy their time while they wait for their class to begin or their parents to pick them up. We also have a slide and indoor jungle gym that let students burn off any excess energy before and after class.

Dress Up Drama Room

The Dress Up Drama Room is an integral part of our AMAZING! Speech and Drama programmes. Students are able to let their creativity run wild as they dress up as superheroes, wizards, witches, fairytale characters or whatever their imagination desires. It is also used during nursery and kindergarten classes to help develop role-play skills that are essential for effective communication. Amongst the numerous costumes, wigs, props and hats there is a music corner where students can experiment with sound and instruments, as well as a puppet show station with puppets and a puppet show stage.

Arts Studio

In the Arts Studio a students’ creativity and artistic talent can be unleashed. It is the perfect area for teachers to conduct arts and crafts activities with its spacious area and art-decorated walls.

Our Creative Writing Room is another area designed to help foster the creative thinker and allow students’ imaginations to run free in a safe environment. It is a fantastic room for our AMAZING! Creative Writing classes as it provides the students with a stimulating environment, allowing the free flow of ideas and creative thinking.

The Learner’s Lending Library serves two functions at our school. Firstly, our teachers often conduct part of their classes in this library as it has an extensive list of children’s books and resource materials. It has been designed to offer the students a safe and comfortable environment that encourages reading and reading exploration. Secondly, the Learner’s Lending Library allows students to borrow books, allowing them to read the books at home with their family and friends. This is a great opportunity for these students to practice their reading skills and demonstrate their improving English abilities at home.

Reading Corner

The Reading Corner is an additional reading area where students can browse a sample of the books found in the Learner’s Lending Library, or just sit quietly and read before class or while they wait to be picked up by their parents.

Students have the opportunity to express themselves and perform for family and friends on the Stage.

Visitors to our school will surely notice the decorations based on the monthly theme and the abundance of informative displays. These displays give detailed explanations of our courses, information concerning our students’ charity work, examples of our students art and written work, as well as useful parenting tips and articles. We warmly invite you to come and have a look for yourself, at what our centre has to offer you and your child.

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