🇲🇾 Tunku Putra-HELP School

Kuching, Malaysia

Elementary Homeroom Teacher

Submitted March 20, 2026

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The HELP group of schools bought Tunku Putra in 2018. Ibraco Bhd (property developer) partnered with the HELP group to develop the current school site. The group Co-CEO of HELP Education Group is Dr Gerard D. Louis. This is not an international school, it is a local school masquerading as an international school. Most students in the International department (either Primary or Secondary) are Malaysians, Chinese, Korean, Japanese or other with very low or no English skills. The school hosts a National and International department, primary and secondary, so the school is divided into NP, NS, IP, IS. It is the most expensive school in Kuching and many parents (especially Chinese) choose this school solely to be able to say "I send my child to the most expensive school in Kuching". Most children don't speak English fluently, and they are allocated in a year group above their age (if they are 10 they will be in Year 6, not Year 5) because of the school year running from Jan to Nov instead of Aug-Jun. Home-room teachers are expected to teach the Year 6 curriculum to children with poor English, and to children who are younger than their counterparts. There are more and more SEN children with complex needs as there is no selection during admission. The only criteria is the parents paying the fee. There is no support for home-room teachers. Most TAs are allocated to lower primary, with Y5 and Y6 sharing a TA between 4 classes, making the support virtually useless as one class has a TA once or twice a week. Therefore, children who received support from Y2 to Y4, are abruptly left without support in Y5 and Y6 because the big boss said no to spending more money for TAs. Many of these children are SEN or don't speak English. The school pushes all these complex issues on the home-room teachers.