(Random Text)During the last semester of the Senior-K year, children go through a 6 month enhanced preparatory course with a focus transitioning to primary schools. Here, they acquire and apply enhanced literacy and mathematics skills, as well as expand their EQ and IQ dispositions. Self-management, perseverance, risk-taking, critical thinking, and problem solving skills are reinforced as part of the Prep class learning experiences. Apart from preparing the children at school level, parents are also involved in the transition.
Duration: 18 months – 2.5 years Pre-Nursery 2.5-3 years Nursery 1:2.5-3 years old and abve Early Years programme promotes age-appropriate, holistic development focusing on children’s communication and language skills, creative expressions, as well as physical, social and personal competencies. Skills, concepts and content development are implemented in age and developmentally-appropriate ways through emergent play situations. Through this, children get to make sense of the things and people around them, investigate the world, and engage in active social interaction. It ensures a smooth transition to the more structured and skills-driven learning expectations of the preschool years.
In the Preschool years, emphasis shifts from emergent strategies of the early years to purposeful acquisition and understanding of content, skills and concepts. Children’s developing language competencies are more visibly used as tools for communication and for learning content and concepts. With increasing maturity of their physical competencies, preschool children are able to take on greater challenges in physical pursuits, and engage in more sophisticated pre-writing and writing experiences. Expectations for self and social development are prioritized resulting in even greater autonomy and independence, enhanced self-help skills, emotional self-regulation, self-concept and confidence..
During the last semester of the Senior-K year, children go through a 6 month enhanced preparatory course with a focus transitioning to primary schools. Here, they acquire and apply enhanced literacy and mathematics skills, as well as expand their EQ and IQ dispositions. Self-management, perseverance, risk-taking, critical thinking, and problem solving skills are reinforced as part of the Prep class learning experiences. Apart from preparing the children at school level, parents are also involved in the transition. Through our home learning activities, which are sent home at the end of each month, parents get used to the idea of having to support and extend their child’s learning across all these skills areas at home.
Our children are actively engaged in many hands-on exploratory and experiential learning. Languages are also taught in fun ways like poem recital, tongue twister, word games, etc.Bilingualism is becoming more common worldwide, and it remains a central educational policy in Singapore. In this document, we review research related to bilingualism and literacy development and achievement. Following an ecological framework, we outline known factors contributing to literacy achievement and discuss findings from bilingual research regarding these factors. We conclude with recommendations for educational practice informed by the research literature
We have a unique curriculum for the little ones, we provide them with ample opportunities for their exploration, discovery and experiences. Our curriculum is based on building a firm foundation in developing life-long learning skills through mastering self-help skills and developing independency..
