Private Kindergarten Curriculum

Language & Literacy
Children develop their expression and receptive language skills through their daily interactions with adults and other children. This includes practicing turn taking in conversations, joining in puppet play, participating in group time, learning songs and finger plays and listening to stories. The children gain an understanding of the different elements of stories such as listening to stories, retelling stories through drama, making up their own stories. An understanding of literacy practices emerges via talking, listening and expressing themselves creatively.

Social Skills
The children develop healthy life skills such as washing their hands before meals and wiping their nose with a tissue. They discover environments (home and school), learning to understand and follow rules about safety and care for the environment. Children are encouraged to play well with other children, including the ability to solve simple disagreements, resolve problems, join in group games and discussions and confidently take their turns.

Aesthetics & Creative Expression
Children have opportunities to express themselves and develop their fine motor skills over time using different size and style for finger painting, easel painting, collage and play dough modelling. The children are also  given opportunities to freely express themselves during creative play, art and craft activity and drama play time. They explore and discover musical concepts by listening and dancing to music and exploring the rhythm patterns of variety of musical instruments. They develop a variety of movement skills such as throwing, catching, walking, tiptoeing, galloping, bending, stretching and twisting etc.

Numeracy and Logical Thinking
Mathematical concepts are explored throughout the day in the children’s play explorations and their interactions with teachers. Children develop and practice problem solving skills by investigating the consequences of their actions in their play. Children are supported in their investigations to become familiar with mathematical language and building their vocabulary. Children’s number skills are expanded through experiences including rote counting, numeral recognition and counting using one to one correspondence.

Discovery of the World
We provide activities to engage children’s five senses so as to provide them the opportunities to discover the world around them. The children develop a sense of enquiry by gathering information from a variety of sources such as books, posters and items from home. They have hands on opportunities to explore and experiment with a variety of materials, such as sand, water and are encourage to use reflective thinking by questioning why things happen and what we learn from these experiences.

Partnership
To promote the well-being of each child, the school strongly believes in close partnership with parents and community. To ensure parents are well-informed of their children’s development, we provide regular updates to parents through digital app, phone calls and emails, as well as weekly update of newsletter.  In addition, we hold half yearly Parents-Teachers Conference.