A Year of Growth: Celebrating 2024 and Embracing 2025

We open 2025 with Gratitude.

Gratitude for the mighty efforts of our students and the stellar results they have produced. Some of these may not be the traditional definition of “stellar”, but they are definitely that as the students have done their best and improved.

Gratitude for the unwavering support of family, friends, colleagues and parents who continue to walk with us through everything.

Gratitude for the opportunity to work together again.

Looking Back at 2024

The past year has been about celebrating individual wins and victories. Indeed, we are immensely proud of the effort and hard work that our students have put in to achieve their personal goals. Most of them improved, 65% of our with our PSLE students achieving AL1 to AL3 scores and 60% of our O Level students achieving Distinctions in English. While grades are a useful snapshot of ability under pressure, more important is the progress each student made in their personal English journey. We celebrate the confidence that the students displayed under pressure and anxiety to perform. They acknowledged the challenges in the paper, but all also never gave up. Congratulations, students of 2024!

Our composition writing workshop series, Write On!, was another highlight. Many students and parents commented how the last-minute five week preparatory programme to PSLE really helped clear doubts and strengthen writing.

Challenges That Made Us Stronger

Of course, not everything went according to plan. Not all new plans went smoothly, not all teaching tools worked. However, these missteps made us determined to find the right balance between structured lessons and spontaneous conversation, to know when to acknowledge something is not working and change tack, to stay flexible and adaptable in our delivery.

Looking Forward to 2025

As we take our initial steps into 2025, we at Simply English look forward to:

  1. Getting to know our students as individuals and helping them reach their potential.
    To this end, we are working to include more creative and innovative teaching methods to increase our students’ understanding and love for the English Language. To this end, we will be including Storytelling techniques more purposefully and targetedly into our Oral Prep programme for Upper Primary and Upper Secondary Students.
  2. More collaboration opportunities
    In 2025, we are happy to see our team grow and look forward to working with each member to improve our services to the students. We are also excited about opportunities to work with other like-minded individuals and be part of a bigger collaborative “family”.
  3. A new “home”
    We will be moving to a new “home” in May / June 2025, so watch this space!

This year, we at Simply English aim to continue to provide value to our students and parents. Be it through the rigorous lessons, engaging activities or connecting with the students as individuals, our main goal is always to build confidence and hoping they learn to love the language. We may certainly start off working on English as a subject to improve exam scores, but we have really done our jobs only when the students leave with confidence and understanding of the language, when they explore language on their own without the pressure of parents and teachers.

In addition, we teachers learn as much as we teach. The students too are our guides as we navigate their academic and personal journeys together. To all our students – past, present, and future – thank you for allowing Simply English to be part of your language learning journey.

Here’s to another year of Growing Together, Step by Step!

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