A weekday afternoon, from the school gate onwards
Homework done before you get home, and done by them.
Homework hour, in a student care room.
It's seven o'clock. Dinner's nearly over, the bag hasn't been opened, and the spelling list is still inside it. You already know how the next hour goes.
Student Care at Agora is built so that hour has already happened. Your child works out the order of the afternoon and gets on with it. The book comes home finished, with anything your child couldn't do circled for their school teacher.
What the fee covers, below. 4.9★ from 139 Google reviews
A free discovery visit. All six primary years. Open until 8pm. Fragrance Empire Building, beside ARC, with pickup from nine nearby primary schools: Radin Mas, CHIJ, River Valley, Cantonment, Blangah Rise, Alexandra, Zhangde, Queenstown and Qifa.
What actually happens
The order of an afternoon.
What your child does between school and dinner.
The whole sequence, in order
- They arrive from school. Freshen up, then lunch, eaten together.
- Homework and academic support. The long block, and the reason most families come.
- Tuition or enrichment, if you have booked it. Run at our centre by partner providers, so nobody drives anywhere.
- Snack.
- Research, creativity and reading, built around a weekly theme they work into on their own.
- Physical activities and life skills.
How the afternoon is timed
Blocks overlap and stagger, because a real afternoon does. So we publish the order and the two ends of it: the first bus reaches us at 2pm, minutes after the bell, and we are open until 8pm.
What our teachers do
Our teachers hold the shape of the afternoon, then stay out of the work itself. Every child knows the order: what starts, what follows, and what has to be finished before the door opens. That's why the book comes home done, and why finishing it belonged to them.
Children learn here by watching each other, repeating what works, and making their own meaning from it.
Qualified teachers also practise tīngxiě, Chinese spelling dictation, with each child twice a week. Every day, children research a weekly theme, then read, discuss and synthesise it, and present it to their teachers and friends.
Why the homework comes home uncorrected
Your child's school teacher needs to see the mistakes.
School homework is left in your child's own work, so their school teacher can see where they need help.
So when your child gets stuck, they circle the question. It goes back to school circled, and their teacher sees exactly where they stopped.
The school teacher gets an accurate picture, and reteaches the part your child actually missed.
Beyond homework
After homework: speaking up, handling money, and trying again.
Future Skills runs as a series of modules, one every two weeks, across all six primary years.
- All six primary years
- Two weeks a module
- No grades, no scores
- After homework
A module is a discussion, a worksheet, a group activity and a reflection. Nothing is marked. What a child says is the point, not what they get right.
Module 1
Growth Mindset
Effort, mistakes, and the word “yet”. Children practise turning “I can't do this” into “I can't do this yet”, and treating a setback as information rather than a verdict.
Module 2
Financial Literacy
Save, spend, share. Needs against wants, what things cost, and a shop role-play with play money and the three questions to ask before buying anything.
Module 3
Public Speaking
Breathing, volume, and looking at the room rather than the floor. Then a short talk on a topic the child picks. Nerves are treated as normal, and every attempt is applauded.
Module 4
Emotional Wellbeing
Naming feelings, and noticing where they show up in the body. Each child builds a toolbox of the three or four things that actually work for them.
After the first module our teachers told us the worksheets felt too much like school. We rebuilt them: less writing, more talking, and an activity in every lesson.
What the Student Care fee includes
What the fee covers, and what's charged separately.
One flat monthly fee. There's no registration fee, and the deposit is one month's fees. Ask, and within 24 hours you'll have the current fee and your school's transport cost in writing.
In the monthly fee
- Homework support, every school day
- A hot meal
- Daily outdoor play
- Project-based learning and Future Skills
- Holiday programmes during standard hours
- Open until 8pm
Charged separately
- Transport from nine nearby primary schools, with vetted, experienced drivers. Priced by school.
- Enrichment and tuition classes, run at our centre by partner providers. Booked by the term, if you want them.
- Holiday full days. They start earlier than a school day, so they carry a daily top-up, and we give you the figure in writing before the holiday begins.
Everything under "In the monthly fee" is included. Nothing else is added without telling you in writing first.
What Student Care families tell us
Four families, on what changed at home.
My son comes home with all his homework completed, allowing us to enjoy quality family time before he heads to bed.
My daughter has been here for a year. One day she suddenly wrote me a card: ‘Thank you mummy for sending me to Agora. I really like it!’ … It’s a huge relief to know she is in a place with caring teachers after school.
There were times when my boy wasn’t on his best behavior, teachers … took time and effort to speak with him, coach him and feedback to me at their soonest availability and this is what I appreciated so much.
I also feel very relieved to have them help my child in his spelling and tingxie every week so that I can spend more fun time with him as a full time working mum.
4.9★ from 139 Google reviews across all Agora programmes. Parents' own words, shortened where they ran long.
FAQs
Questions Student Care parents ask most.
Will a teacher check the homework and fix the mistakes?
We check it's done and nothing is skipped. We don't correct it. Your child circles what they're stuck on, so their school teacher sees where to help.
What happens with Chinese?
Chinese runs twice a week as tīngxiě dictation. Alongside it, children work through self-correcting digital worksheets in Chinese, Maths, English or Science, all aligned to the MOE curriculum.
Are all the ages mixed together?
For most of the afternoon, yes, and on purpose. Mixed ages are how children here pick up responsibility, empathy, and what a longer attention span looks like in someone two years older. Homework and academic practice are the exception: for those we split by age, so a Primary 2 child is never working from a Primary 5 child's sheet.
How late can I be?
We're open until 8pm. If you're running behind, call us and we'll stay with your child until you get here.
What about the school holidays?
We stay open through them and run holiday programmes. A full holiday day starts earlier than a school day and carries a separate daily top-up, which we'll give you in writing before the holiday starts.
Is transport included?
Transport is priced separately from the monthly fee. We run it from your child's school to Agora with vetted, experienced drivers. Each child is marked onto the bus by name and photographed, and again on arrival. Tell us your school and we will confirm the route before you commit to anything.
Which schools do you pick up from?
Nine primary schools near the centre: Radin Mas, CHIJ, River Valley, Cantonment, Blangah Rise, Alexandra, Zhangde, Queenstown and Qifa. Tell us your child's school and we'll confirm the route and the cost in writing.
Is there a registration fee or a deposit?
No registration fee. We take a deposit equal to one month's fees.
My child has a food intolerance.
Meals come from our central kitchen partners and are halal-certified. Our kitchen partners handle common allergens, so tell us about any intolerances or allergies and we will plan around them.
Who are the teachers?
Student care teachers, trained specifically for student care, and they keep training in it here. Ask on your visit who is in the room at four o'clock, and watch what they do when a child gets stuck.