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P3 to P6 · Small groups of 5
Primary Science Tuition Singapore
Arche Academy teaches primary science from Primary 3, the year science starts, to Primary 6, in classes of no more than five. In P3 and P4 we build the habit that PSLE Science marks hardest: explaining an answer with the right science words, not just knowing it. From P5, classes turn to the PSLE. We are at Blk 208 Hougang Street 21, three minutes from Kovan MRT.
Two stages
Primary science has two jobs
Science starts in P3, and the habits a child forms in the first two years decide how PSLE Science goes. We teach the foundation years and the PSLE years as separate classes.
P3 and P4: the foundation years
New vocabulary, first experiments and the first open-ended questions. The work here is learning to explain: why a magnet attracts, why a shadow forms, why a plant needs light, in a full sentence with the right science keyword.
P5 and P6: PSLE science
The five themes come together in one paper, and Booklet B rewards precise cause-and-effect answers. That class has its own page: PSLE Science tuition for P5 and P6.
P3 and P4
P3 and P4 science tuition
Primary science looks easy in P3. The topics are friendly, plants, animals, magnets, and most children enjoy them. The trouble shows up in the open-ended questions, where a child who clearly understands the idea still loses marks because the answer is vague or misses the keyword the marker is looking for.
That habit sets early. A child who learns in P3 to write “the magnet attracts the iron nail because iron is a magnetic material” instead of “because it is a magnet” has a two-year head start on PSLE Booklet B.
So our P3 and P4 classes do two things: teach the MOE syllabus for the level, and train the answer. Every topic ends with open-ended questions written, marked and rewritten.
At the end of P4, the school uses the year-end results to recommend Standard or Foundation Science for P5. Here is how P4 subject-based banding works. Our tutors have also set out where primary students lose marks in Science, with before-and-after Booklet B answers.
P3 and P4 children share one class of up to five. The answering skill is the same at both levels, and it is the part of science that improves most with practice.
The syllabus
What P3 and P4 science cover
From the MOE 2023 Primary Science syllabus. Schools choose the order within each year.
| Level | Theme | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| P3 | Diversity | Living and non-living things; classifying living things; diversity of materials |
| P3 | Cycles | Life cycles of plants; life cycles of animals |
| P3 | Interactions | Properties of magnets; making and using magnets |
| P4 | Systems | Plant system; human systems; matter |
| P4 | Energy | Light and shadows; heat and its effects |
Why P4 matters more than it looks. At many schools the P4 end-of-year paper already has the PSLE shape: a multiple-choice booklet and an open-ended booklet, close to the PSLE split of marks. P4 is where a child either gets used to that format or meets it for the first time in P5.
How we teach
What lessons look like
Five children, not fifteen
Every class is capped at five, so the tutor reads every open-ended answer each child writes, not a sample of them.
Keywords, every topic
Each topic comes with the science words the marker expects. Children learn them as part of the idea, not as a list to memorise in P6.
Write, mark, rewrite
Open-ended answers are written in class, marked on the spot and rewritten until they would score full marks. That loop is the whole skill.
You can see what happened
Every family gets a private parent dashboard with homework tracking and lesson-by-lesson notes.
Results
A primary science result we can name
Jaeden, PSLE Science. In his mother’s words: “From a 55% (AL 6) in his Primary 4 End-of-Year exam to an outstanding 91% (AL 1) in the PSLE Prelim, his improvement has been nothing short of incredible.” He also won an Edusave Good Progress Award for being in the top 10% for improvement. More results, with names, are on our reviews page.
FAQ
Questions parents ask
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Find us
Where we are
We are in Hougang, three minutes’ walk from Kovan MRT, within easy reach of Serangoon, Sengkang and Punggol.
Arche Academy
208 Hougang Street 21, #04-215, Singapore 530208
+65 9678 7010
Classes Tuesday to Friday 3pm to 9pm, Saturday 9am to 5pm.
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Book a trial lesson
Come and sit in on a class before you decide anything. You will see how your child is taught, meet the tutor, and get an honest read on where the gaps are. If your child does not need tuition right now, we will tell you that too.