Adopting “child-centeredness” as the core value of our curriculum, we seek to create a rich learning environment, engage children in diverse and interesting learning activities, providing them with opportunities to explore, discover and understand the meanings of things. We offer a meaningful learning experience to foster all-round development including their children’s behaviour, attitudes and characters. We advocate gaining learning experience through the process of “learning by doing”, which helps enhance children’s thinking skills, problem-solving skills, self-management skills, communication skills, cooperation skills, and nurture their analytical skills and creativity. It also develops children’s ability to use information media to broadens their knowledge in different learning areas thus nurtures them to be a proactive learner who is able to put their knowledge into good use.
We promote learning through play to help children acquire knowledge, develop different basic skills and nurture positive values and attitudes. Play corners are set up at our campus to encourage self-directed learning in children, providing them opportunities to construct knowledge, promote self-directed learning, enhance learning abilities and put their knowledge to use. Through the process of playing, they will not only be able to consolidate what they have learnt, but also learn to follow rules and be polite, learning to conform to social norms and develop an awareness of being a good citizen. In order to provide children with diverse learning opportunities, different types of Montessori learning materials such as game boards and Lego walls are made available to the classroom from time to time.
There are two on-site English-speaking teachers at our school. Children are exposed to English every day. We adopt a curriculum that makes connections among the themes of the English and Chinese language subjects. Through incorporating teaching materials and play-based teaching that create links between the two language subjects, basic concepts are taught in children’s mother tongue first to ensure they will get a better grasp of the related concepts in English lessons. Our music teachers and English teachers integrate Orff Schulwerk music activities in English teaching to enhance children’s interests in learning English and their English speaking ability, thereby helping them to acquire a higher proficiency in English.
Through field visits and hands-on activities (e.g. farm visits and farming), children are able to know where food comes from, understand that farmers work hard and nothing good comes easy. They will then learn to be graceful for farmers’ hard work and be willing to share, cherish food and not to waste any food.
