Hours of Rote Learning without Success? Here’s How You Can Break the Cycle and Cultivate a Champion Mindset in Your Child

Why Meaningful After School Activities Are Important

Our children are exposed to a wide variety of stimuli. As such, they need creative and engaging methods of learning. However, many of us come from the generation that believes that if you study long and hard enough, you will achieve academic success. Consequently, the usual after school activities are tuition, revision, and studying. In addition, parents are so busy trying to juggle everything that we may not have the patience and energy to teach our children in the evenings. This leads to frustration on both sides and children may even develop a negative mindset towards learning. The best way to break this cycle is to ensure that children have meaningful after school care. They will then be more motivated and challenged to achieve their best potential.

Introducing MindSpace After School Care

MindSpace is the new after school care brand from MindChamps, and is fully integrated with a proven research-backed curriculum from MindChamps, the only education group with 100% of their students having a one-grade improvement for Science, Maths and Chinese, and 60% having improvements of three grades or more across all subjects in the PSLE results, as verified by KPMG Singapore. It offers comprehensive after school care for Primary 1 – 5 students.

MindSpace ensures that your child is well taken care of after school. In addition to providing nutritious meals and homework guidance, MindSpace has well-trained Specialist Subject Coaches and a comprehensive enrichment programme.

MindSpace believes that the way to nurture a child is by giving him or her these 6 special gifts:

1. The Gift of a Champion Mindset

What’s the first step to doing something well? It’s having the right mindset and the will to get it right, isn’t it? That’s exactly why MindSpace firmly believes in developing a Champion Mindset in its students.

A Champion Mindset is one that will help your child turn even the most negative situation into an opportunity for personal growth. It is based on the 3-Minds approach that MindChamps has developed by working alongside educational experts:

• The Champion Mind: Celebrating your child’s uniqueness, going beyond conventional wisdom and overcoming adversity to achieve success
• The Learning Mind – strategies for learning how to learn that will help your child to understand, store, recall, and synthesise information and concepts
• The Creative Mind – connecting multiple perspectives and integrating them to solve problems and generate new and creative ideas

When used in tandem, the 3 Minds will allow your child to achieve the Champion mindset and unlock their fullest potential. This is especially effective when you, the parent, get involved as well.

As parents, you can engage strategies such as raising your child to be a problem solver, encouraging your child to learn from mistakes, and learning to resolve conflicts wisely, to help cultivate and sustain a Champion Mindset in your child.

The Champion Mindset goes beyond just academics. When it becomes a part of your child’s life, it will apply to every aspect of his or her life.

2. The Gift of The Art of Learning

MindSpace believes that knowing how to learn is far more important for your child than knowing what to learn. The Art of Learning interweaves MindSpace’s learning techniques with the concepts that your child learns in school. This will build strong foundations and your child will learn how to apply new concepts. In addition, your child will have opportunities to discover his or her creativity in discovering alternative solutions when presented with challenges.

Children often feel overwhelmed by the many different things they learn in school. Using a 3-stage approach in its Art of Learning, MindSpace will help your child to feel in control and confident to apply their knowledge:

1. Active Understanding – helps your child to understand, order, and reduce information
2. Active Storage – helps your child to store information effectively
3. Active Recall – helps your child to reconstruct, synthesise, and apply information

3. The Gift of the Optimal Flow Method^TM

The MindSpace curriculum is guided by the Optimal Flow Method^TM in which the coaches will help your child break down the topics learnt in school and build upon prior knowledge for better and understanding and recall. The end product? Your child achieves subject mastery and walks into the examination room feeling empowered with confidence!

The Optimal Flow Method^TM changes its focus according to your child’s level in school:

• Primary 1 & 2: Focuses on the seamless manner in which topics are taught. Introduces techniques and mindsets that your child needs to develop the skills, attitudes and values necessary for success while strengthening their ability to apply what they have learnt in school.
• Primary 3 & 4: Represents how the topics are interwoven
• Primary 5 & 6: Enhances understanding by revisiting key concepts introduced early in the programme

4. The Gift of Specialist Subject Coaches

Notice how we never mentioned teachers? That’s because MindSpace believes in training their teachers to be coaches who undergo up to 200 hours of specialist training to be accredited as Champion Mindset and Specialist Subject Coaches.

Mums and dads, this means you can be assured that your precious child will be nurtured by passionate and dedicated educators who uphold high standards. In turn, your child will have a positive and independent learning attitude to help them excel in all that they do!

5. The Gift of Specially Crafted Nutritious Meals and Supplements

One thing that many parents struggle with is what your child eats when you are not around. MindSpace understands that concern and strongly believes in the importance of your child’s physical and mental health. They have a partnership with Nature’s Farm, Singapore’s trusted health and nutrition provider, to ensure that your child is receiving healthy and nutritious food every day. Furthermore, they offer specially selected supplements that contribute your child’s overall wellbeing!

6. The Gift of Family Time and Bonding

Everyone says that Singaporean children are far too stressed out. Hardly surprising, given that many children spend their weekends attending all manner of tuition and enrichment lessons. MindSpace believes in the importance of spending quality time as a family. As such, they include a wide range of successful enrichment programmes to eliminate the need for tuition in the evenings and weekends. That means more time for family fun!

In giving your child these 6 precious gifts, MindSpace believes it can end the cycle of frustration and negativity towards learning. In turn, your child will be nurtured to be the Champion that he or she is meant to be!

Mums and Dads, if you don’t particularly need afterschool care for your child but would still like for them to benefit from the MindChamp’s curriculum, you are welcome to join the weekend classes that are available at MindSpace centres!  

There’s nothing like seeing and experiencing for yourself what MindSpace has to offer so do go ahead and book a centre visit. You can also contact MindSpace to find out about the capacity and availability of vacancy. There are several new centres opening islandwide this year. If you enrol in a new centre, you can save over $1,000 for the first year! Here is the full list of new centres:

Remember, imbued with a Champion Mindset, your child can go forth with confidence and excellence. Start nurturing your champion today for a better tomorrow!