Features
Curriculum
The school uses diversified and inspiring games to build a balanced, integrated and spiral-styled curriculum. It focuses on the children, delivered through projects, stories, aesthetic education, whole-language instruction with matching games and project activities in a diversified, systematic and stimulating classroom environment. Subject to the different capabilities of the children, the curriculum adopts a balanced, integrated and spiral-styled learning approach with emphasis on the learning initiative of the children.
Whole-language Pedagogy
The school adopts the whole-language pedagogy with emphasis on 'natural', 'real' and 'complete' language context and environment. It respects children's learning autonomy and capabilities to allow them naturally develop their interest in language and words. Through different activities such as story teaching, news sharing, parent-child reading plan, role-play, food tasting etc., children will be placed in a meaningful context and environment for practical use of language, which fosters their listening, speaking, reading and writing interests and eventually enhances their language abilities.
Project Activity
We use diversified exploration activities to induce children's learning motives. 'Learning by doing' is the key and we let children actively participate in the activities – identify the problem, confirm the nature of the problem, suggest possible solutions, experiment and ultimately solve the problem. Let them 'take action', encourage them to continuously think and voice out their opinions, stimulate their learning interest and foster their active exploration and learning attitude, thus enhancing their expression abilities and self-confidence.
Emotion Education
The school cares about the social and emotional development of the children. Through a series of diversified activities such as emotional stories, emotion corner, role-play, songs etc., we help children to identify their emotions, express them properly, understand others’ feelings and solve problems, and to help children build stable and positive emotions.
Perceptual Motor Programme
The school pays attention to children's healthy brain development and perceptual motor training is included in the curriculum. The training allows children to learn the knowledge and skills of daily life through their five senses and arms and legs activities. Together with the 'Parent-child Perceptual Motor Training Homework', children are able to sharpen their sensory recognition abilities through games. This also helps cultivate positive emotions, improve concentration, develop motor control and establish foundational cognition and conception.
Life Training
The school focuses on the all-rounded development of children. We provide appropriate life skills training to children of different ages and developmental stages, in order to enhance their hand-eye coordination, abilities to use both hands, fingers flexibility, and thus their overall self-care abilities.
'Leap!' Body Education Programme
The school implements the 'Leap!' body education programme for both K2 & K3 classes, to let children understand, love and bravely move their bodies. Children can use their bodies, combining with observation and their own imagination, to express their feelings about different things, improve their body movement, rhythm, stability etc. In addition, the programme encourages children to observe, appreciate, respect and cooperate with each other, which in turn improves children's social skills.
Aesthetic Education
We have invited experienced art tutors to carry out aesthetic education programme for our children. Through various activities such as artworks appreciation, observing the lines and shapes of different artworks, children can enrich their knowledge of different places and cultures. Clay creation is also used to express their experiences, feelings and imagination in life, enabling them to develop their art sense and creativity.
Language Enrichment Programme
The school implements English and Putonghua enrichment programmes for K2 & K3 students. Both programmes are taught by foreign teachers. Proper pronunciation and grammar are demonstrated to improve the effectiveness of children's language learning. The language enrichment programme provides different learning methods such as singing songs, playing games, telling stories to allow opportunities for children to 'listen' and 'speak', enabling them to learn in a happy environment.
