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Play in the Early Years: Key to School Success
There is a well-established consensus among early childhood professionals that play is an essential element of developmentally appropriate, high-quality early education programs. Play provides benefits for cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and moral for children from all socio-economic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds.
A play-centred preschool curriculum is not a laissez-faire approach. It’s not the same as giving children “free play” separate from “teaching.” Rather, teachers use the power of children’s developing ideas, interests, and competencies to promote learning — through play, circle-time, and small-group activities. This power is most evident in children’s play, as play is the central force in the development of young children. Play is not a break from the curriculum; play is the best way to implement the curriculum.
The teacher is the key to the play-centred curriculum. Teachers use keen observation to asses and support children’s learning and development through play. Teachers facilitate play through responsive interactions with children, based on an understanding of how play contributes to academic and social learning.
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| Programmes |
| Playgroup (18 months to 2 ½ years)
Year-Round Registration.
Activities are based on hands-on experience. The children are encouraged to touch, smell, see and hear the world. Through play they begin to understand how different things work. Play allows them opportunities to express their thoughts and feelings, as well as develop effective physical, mental, and social skills.
Activities include:
• Music and movement
• Story Time
• Imaginative play
• Art and craft activities
• Sensory Exploration
• Language
• Math Concepts
• Chinese Language |
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| Workgroup (3 to 4 years old)
Aims & Objectives: To build and reinforce skills and concepts necessary for formal education in primary schools using a thematic structure and carefully designed activities. (Covers reading readiness, pre-writing skills, mathematical skills, fine motor skills, self-helped skills )
Content :
Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Self Help Skills, Care of Environment, Grace and Courtesy, Control and Coordination, Listening and Sequencing, Reading readiness, Reading exercises, Vocabulary, Oral comprehension, Preparation for writing, Writing readiness, Mathematics (Numbers, size, colours, shapes, time), Creative Arts, Music and movement, Structured play activities, Story Telling, Puzzle Time, Social-Emotional Development, Moral Development, Aesthetic Development, Chinese Language) |
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| Advanced Workgroup (4 to 6 years old)
Aims & Objectives:
This is a ‘School Readiness Programme’ specially designed and incorporates various skills to prepare children for the challenges that lay ahead of them when they begin formal education in Primary One. Our comprehensive curriculum covers essential areas such as Language Skills, Mathematical Understanding, Social Skills and Study Skills.
Language Skills
Our curriculum provides an emphasis on reading for meaning as well as phonic skills, both developed through interactive reading, writing, listening and speaking activities. Grammar and Vocabulary included.
Mathematical Understanding
We provide hands-on learning experiences with generous use of quality learning manipulatives and materials to help children make sense of abstract math concepts.
Social Skills
We provide fun and motivating ways to help children learn to make choices and develop important social skills so that they can be effective and co-operative members within our community of learners.
Study Skills
We provide interesting and lively activities to help children build effective and useful skills to cope with both school and peer pressure.
Content :
Literacy, Vocabulary, Grammar, Oral Comprehension, Comprehension Skills, Mathematics, Social and Study Skills, General Awareness of Singapore, Chinese Language |
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| English /Mathematics Preparatory Enrichment (6 to 7 years old)
Aims & Objectives/Expected Outcomes:
This is a ‘School Readiness Programme’ specially designed and incorporates specifically English and Mathematics Skills incorporating Primary One curriculum.
Course Content :
It covers areas in:
Vocabulary & Cloze Passages
To understand new vocabulary under the themes of : body parts, friends, relations, people at work, places in the neighbourhood, animals, fruit and vegetables.
Sounds & Listening Comprehension
To strengthen their phonics sounds, child will also acquire skills in noting details, following instructions, making inferences, recalling details, predicting outcomes.
Reading Comprehension
Child will acquire skills in recalling details, predicting outcomes, making inference, drawing conclusions, predicting outcomes, understanding cause and effect, finding main ideas, classifying, using contextual clues, differentiating between true/false statements, sequencing.
Language Usage
Child will acquire skills in : I am/Your are, He is/She is, Have/has, Full stops/question marks, can/can’t, Plural nouns, Continuous verbs, Adjectives, And/but, But/because, Who/what/where/how.
Mathematics
Child will acquire skills in : Counting 0 – 20, Comparing numbers 0 to 20, tens and ones, Number bonds, addition within 20, Subtraction to 20, Addition and subtraction sentences, ordinal numbers, addition and subtraction using models, recognizing shapes, length, mass. |
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| English Grammar Enrichment (6 to 7 years old)
Aims & Objectives/Expected Outcomes:
This is a Grammar enrichment programme that covers all components of grammar that gives a child a thorough grounding in the basics of grammar that is essential to achieve competence in English Language.
Course Content:
It covers areas in:
Nouns – Proper, singular, plural, countable, uncountable nouns, possessive nouns, personal nouns, reflexive nouns, demonstrative pronouns, interrogative pronouns,
a, an, the
quantifiers ( a few, many, a little, much, some, any)
adjectives
verbs
adverbs
modals
simple past tense
past continuous tense
simple future tense
prepositions
conjunctions
types of sentences
sentence structure |
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| English Phonics Enrichment ( 5 to 6 years old)
Aims & Objectives/Expected Outcomes: This is a carefully structured program specifically designed for emergent readers. It takes the child sequentially through the hierarchy of phonics skills. It teaches the child the regularities in letter-sound relationships by exposing them to phonic rules and generalizations that conforms to a well-defined hierarchy of skills.
Children learn the relationship between letter and sound and how words are written and read. Children learn the proper pronunciation of the alphabets. Children will learn to pick up simple vocabulary. Reading should become easier for children. Children to construct simple words and eventually sentences. At the end of the day, success reading gives the child self-confidence.
Target Students/Admission Requirements: 5 to 6 years old
Course Syllabus/Content:
It covers areas in :
Consonant sounds, vowels, blends, diagraph |
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| Creative English Enrichment (Module 1 to 6) (7 – 12 years old)
Aims & Objectives: This is a Creative English Writing enrichment programme that covers all components grammar, comprehension, creative writing with reference to Primary 1 to Primary 6 syllabus. The aim is to improve the students’ writing style and help them write more creative essays. Also, to improve the students’ vocabulary as to express themselves better in writing.
Module 1 and 2 focuses on the basics of writing and is intended for Primary 1 and Primary 2 students.
Module 3 & 4 prepares Primary 3 and 4 students for essay writing
Module 5 & 6 is for Primary 5 & 6 students and aims to develop their writing skills.
Course Content:
Ample practice on vocabulary and expressions so as to enrich their description in the creative writing.
The student will be taught how ideas are presented, how the paragraphs are organized. The students will be given systematic guidance and learn how to express and organize their ideas in writing.
Produces different types of writing : narratives, diary, letters, postcards, posters, factual reports, descriptive writing, report writing, instructional writing, writing of poems, current affairs reporting, analogies, advertisements. |
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| Chinese Hanyu Pinyin (6 years old)
Aims & Objectives:
This is a structured course which teaches children the basics of hanyu pinyin, at the end of the course, the child will be able to read Chinese Hanyu pinyin independently. Essential pronunciation skills will be taught before entering primary school. Students can master this useful tool and use it with confidence. Primary One vocabulary included in the syllabus. |
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| Chinese Enrichment ( 6 years old)
Aims & Objectives:
Course contents follow the school syllabus closely. Provide students opportunity to revise and reinforce what they have learnt in school. Class exercises to enrich student’s vocabulary: word differentiation, choosing the right word, rearranging and completing sentences, cloze passage, comprehension and composition. Equal emphasis on oral and written communication skills.
Course Content:
填笔画 Fill in the missing strokes
组部件成字 Character Building
辨字测验 Word Recognition
填写量词 Fill in the Blanks
构词 Verbs
词语选择 Vocabulary
组词成句 Sentence Construction
完成对话 Completing Dialogue
阅读理解 Reading Comprehension |
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