Curriculum
We are a faith-based preschool focused on holistic learning, and teaching children the values of life.
Educational Philosophy
Children flourish when they are seen, loved, and free to explore.
Celebrating and growing each child's unique potential.
Creating a nurturing space for growth and discovery.
Cultivating life skills and a passion for learning through values-based education.
Domains of Development
5 domains of development. 1 integrated journey.
Our curriculum supports children's growth across values, skills, knowledge and dispositions. It stays aligned with Singapore's preschool learning outcomes, set out in MOE's Nurturing Early Learners Framework. Values, social-emotional competencies and learning dispositions are woven through every learning area.
Aesthetics and Creative Expression
Health, Safety and Motor Skills Development
Language and Literacy
Discovery of the World
Numeracy
Our Curriculum Framework
Everyday classroom life becomes meaningful learning.
Values, Social Emotional Competencies & Learning Dispositions
Values Matter (PG–K2)
- Values Matter lays the foundation for moral and character development, at the core of all learning.
- Through stories, songs, conversations, play and daily routines, children learn to recognise emotions, build relationships and practise our values of Respect, Love, Community and Truth.
- From Nursery, values deepen through Life Lab, and they are woven into every other part of the curriculum, including daily devotions.
Health, Safety & Motor Skills Development
Kids Move 跃动玩家 (PG–K2)
- Our children enjoy daily outdoor play, and movement is woven into every area of learning.
- Kids Move 跃动玩家, our in-house movement curriculum, builds balance, strength, body awareness and safe movement habits through structured games and physical challenges.
- In the Preschool Years, programmes with the Health Promotion Board (Fun with Food) and the Singapore Children’s Society (Kidzlive Body Safety) extend this into healthy eating and body safety.
Language & Literacy
Language Sensory Play (PG–PN)
- Through open-ended sensory play with everyday materials, children build vocabulary by talking about what they see, feel and discover. This is TOTS SPA in Playgroup and Language Sensory Play Projects in Pre-Nursery.
Phonics & Reading, English (N–K2)
- Children build reading and writing through the structured Phonics Foundation programme, learning letter sounds, blending sounds to read words and segmenting sounds to spell them.
- Children receive a Code Cracker activity book (for reading and spelling) and Readers every term.
乐学种子 (Le Xue Zhong Zi): Mandarin Language and Literacy (PG–K2)
- In the Early Years, children build Mandarin through songs, rhymes, stories and conversations.
- In the Preschool Years, thematic and story-based lessons, with Readers, activity sheets and curated picture books, build vocabulary and word recognition in familiar contexts.
*Only at our Private centres: Language Arts and Chinese Creative Drama, taught by specialist educators.
Numeracy
Math: Key to Learning (PN–K2)
- We focus on quality of understanding over quantity, revisiting concepts regularly so they are retained and applied.
- Instead of rote learning, we encourage play-based lessons with a strong focus on mathematical language, so children can express their thinking clearly.
- Key to Learning Construction adds hands-on building challenges that grow spatial thinking and problem-solving.
Discovery of the World
Sensory Play (PG–PN)
- Hands-on sensory experiences, questions and conversations build curiosity and a sense of wonder. In Pre-Nursery, Key to Learning You-Me-World helps children understand themselves, others and the world around them.
Life Lab (N–K2)
- Life Lab, our inquiry-based programme, combines inquiry with Values Matter as children investigate real-world questions. Each centre plans its own topics.
- We encourage children to dig deeper and ask why, so they discover concepts first-hand.
- We develop values and learning dispositions through self-led exploration that focuses on the process of learning, not just the product.
Aesthetics & Creative Expression
Art (PN–K2)
- In Pre-Nursery, Key to Learning Artographics lets children explore lines, shapes, colours and textures to express their thoughts and feelings.
- From Nursery to K2, Art Encounters teaches children to use the elements of art and artistic processes to express ideas with growing intention.
Music & Movement (PG–K2)
- Toddler Tinker Time (PG–PN) builds vocabulary, listening and a sense of rhythm through songs, games and movement.
- 佳美音符 (Jia Mei Yin Fu), from Nursery to K2, builds musical expression through singing, body percussion and instruments.
- Only at our Private centres: Chinese Creative Drama, where children bring stories to life in Mandarin through role play and movement.
What sets our curriculum apart?
Child-led Learning
- We believe that there are multiple pathways to learning and each child develops at a different pace.
- We celebrate children’s unique ideas and expressions.
- We value the process of learning over the product.
- We respect each child’s way of expression and tailor the learning to better match their needs.
- We work with parents as a child’s first teachers, we build upon the foundations laid from home and invite them into the learning process.
Values Matter
- We shape children’s morals and character based on Christian values: Respect, Love, Community and Truth.
- We hold unhurried conversations about life and its challenges.
- Promote values-in-action.
- We put values into action, turning real-life moments into learning.
- We intentionally mould the personhood and well-being of every child.
Executive Function & Life Skills
Based on neuroscience and brain research, everything we do builds children’s three core brain functions:
- Cognitive flexibility: Seeing other perspectives and adapting to change.
- Working memory: Holding information so it can be well used.
- Inhibitory control: Resisting impulse.
We intentionally equip children with the 7 Essential Life Skills from Mind in the Making, necessary for lifelong learning, goal-directed reasoning and problem solving. These are:
Focus & Self-control
Perspective Taking
Communicating
Making Connections
Critical Thinking
Taking on Challenges
Self-directed Engaged Learning
Our educators observe these skills in everyday play and routines, and we invite families to practise them at home.
Preparation for P1 & Beyond
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Strong foundations in phonics, numeracy and bilingual literacy prepare children for Primary 1 lessons and routines.
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We build the joy of learning, the confidence to ask for help and perseverance through setbacks.
- We teach children to navigate friendships and resolve conflict.
Our Inspiration
The Reggio Emilia Approach
At the heart of the approach are these 3 main components: the Child, the Environment and the Teacher. We value every child's unique way of thinking, playing, sharing, interacting. The familiar phrase "the environment as the 3rd teacher" reflects learning spaces built with open-ended, hands-on materials. Teachers make room for exploration, where children experiment, solve problems and discover within safe boundaries.
Mind in the Making (MITM)
MITM's 7 essential life skills are based on the science and research of children's brain development. We intentionally encourage executive function skills that are linked to children's success in school and life. These skills are: Focus and Self Control, Perspective Taking, Communicating, Making Connections, Critical Thinking, Taking on Challenges and Self-directed, Engaged Learning.
The Social Constructivist Approach
We develop children's cognitive learning abilities through the Key to Learning programme. This playful, collaborative approach is based on Vygotsky's theory of social constructivism, where all learning takes place in a social context. It builds logical reasoning, creative thinking and symbolic representation, with a focus on how children learn.
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