The Learning Lab is a private tuition and enrichment centre based in Singapore. It develops and runs academic programmes in English, Chinese, Mathematics and the Sciences (Biology, Physics and Chemistry). Programmes are available for students at pre-primary, primary, secondary and pre-tertiary levels.
Description
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The Learning Lab runs academic enrichment and tuition programmes for pre-primary, primary, secondary and pre-tertiary students.
The Learning Lab also offers preparatory classes for the Gifted Education Programme screening test and selection test. The Gifted Education Programme caters to the top 1% of each academic year and introduces added curriculum topics and components for high-achieving students within Singapore’s education system.
Similarly, preparatory classes for the Direct School Admission (DSA) programme are part of The Learning Lab lessons for Upper Primary students. Along with the PSLE, the DSA programme offers students entry into top Integrated Programme schools.
The Learning Lab has seven centres across the island, including United Square. In the East, The Learning Lab has centres at Mountbatten Square, Tampines Point and Tampines Mall. In West Singapore, The Learning Lab centres can be found at Rochester Mall, HomeTeam NS Bukit Batok and Westgate Mall.
Track Record
The Learning Lab is known as an elite centre that only accepts A and A* students into their programmes.
In the 2016 PSLE, more than 50% of The Learning Lab students attained a T-score of 250 and above. 9 out of every 10 of their students scored an A or A* in their English, Chinese, Math and Science exams.
From 2012, the Ministry of Education declined to name the top PSLE students and correspondingly, The Learning Lab has not released specific data, although it did share that it had produced the top students in 2012 as well as in 2013.
The Learning Lab takes in students from all around Singapore including students from Rosyth School, Nanhua Primary School, Rulang Primary School, Red Swastika, St. Hilda’s Primary School, Tao Nan Primary School and more. Similarly,
Curriculum
Curriculum at The Learning Lab is designed by a team of 50 in-house curriculum specialists. In addition to being hired based on academic merit in their field of content expertise, curriculum specialists are also assessed in terms of their ability to think and write critically.
The curriculum management units are organised along subject and age-group lines. These curriculum management units generate its proprietary teaching materials and case studies in the English, Math, Science and Chinese subjects. Lesson materials often include articles from international publications such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME Magazine as well as academic journals and publications.
Early Years Programme
The Learning Lab Early Years Programme enrichment classes in English, Mathematics and Chinese for the Nursery 2 and Kindergarten 1-2 age groups.
Enrichment Programmes
The company has organised…
Special enrichment programmes including:
- Junior Space Camp with ex-NASA engineers
- Motivational seminars with co-leaders of the Singapore Women's Everest team
Special holiday programmes including:
- Dream Academy, helmed by Singapore actress Selena Tan
- Coding camps in collaboration with First Code Academy
- Making Sense of Money: Introduction Workshops to Financial Literacy
In addition, the company has sent student contingents to several high-profile conferences including
- Global Young Leaders Conference in Washington DC and NYC
- National Youth Leadership Forum on Business and Innovation at Stanford
- Global Young Innovators Initiative at Harvard Law School
See also
- Gifted Education Programme (Singapore)
- Integrated Programme
- Education in Singapore