Preschool Curriculum

[xh mummy]

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[Corrine]

Hi,


I have been looking for a pre school for my gal since beginning of this year and have visited a number of preschool to look at their environment and curriculum, and some of the observations have keep me wondering about the standard of local preschool:

1) some teachers are not able to conduct meaningful group activities and give simple instructions

2) witnessing groups and groups of preschool children out on the void deck wandering around and doing nothing. There is one day within 2 hours all 3 preschools near my area let the kids out to wander around while the teachers stand there and talk. I also witness 2 teachers bringing a group of about 10-12 kids cross roads to go to the nearby NTUC…

3) like what kiasumaster mentioned in the first page of the thread, most of the preschool, the curriculum are almost non existence. Even English teachers are not able to communicate in fluent English, let alone PRC teachers.

4) Chinese teachers from PRC might not be teaching standard Chinese as most of them are not trained in Pre-school education and some of the terms they used are different from those we used in SG.

5) No guidance for "Free Play time" and its 100% playing on your own rather than learn through play.

6) My fren’s son and his classmates pronouce his name wrongly cos the teachers pronouce it wrongly, and its a very simple chinese word.

All in all, I feel that it is important to send kids to preschool to learn all the social skills but parents will still have to play a major role in preschool education. I am a full time working mum, so I understand the agony of "No time", but looking at the scenarios, if we don’t squeeze out some time for the young ones, and leave them to the teachers mentioned above, can’t imagine what will happen to us and the kids in near future.

[jedamum]

Corrine:

Hi,


I have been looking for a pre school for my gal since beginning of this year and have visited a number of preschool to look at their environment and curriculum, and some of the observations have keep me wondering about the standard of local preschool:

Preschool may mean Kindergarten (2-3hrs type) or Childcare (half/whole day). As you are a FTWP, i believe you refer to the latter. With regards to Preschool education, I have a bias view that cheap and good (curriculum) ones are virtually non-existing. In addition, you may get one with good curriculum but teachers who do not go the extra mile or one with poor curriculum and with teachers that inspire and care.
Look for 'referrals' around the forum to see if you can find the closest to the ideal one that you have in mind.
Good luck.

[shoppingqueen1309]

Corrine:

Hi,


I have been looking for a pre school for my gal since beginning of this year and have visited a number of preschool to look at their environment and curriculum, and some of the observations have keep me wondering about the standard of local preschool:

1) some teachers are not able to conduct meaningful group activities and give simple instructions

2) witnessing groups and groups of preschool children out on the void deck wandering around and doing nothing. There is one day within 2 hours all 3 preschools near my area let the kids out to wander around while the teachers stand there and talk. I also witness 2 teachers bringing a group of about 10-12 kids cross roads to go to the nearby NTUC......

3) like what kiasumaster mentioned in the first page of the thread, most of the preschool, the curriculum are almost non existence. Even English teachers are not able to communicate in fluent English, let alone PRC teachers.

4) Chinese teachers from PRC might not be teaching standard Chinese as most of them are not trained in Pre-school education and some of the terms they used are different from those we used in SG.

5) No guidance for \"Free Play time\" and its 100% playing on your own rather than learn through play.

6) My fren's son and his classmates pronouce his name wrongly cos the teachers pronouce it wrongly, and its a very simple chinese word.

All in all, I feel that it is important to send kids to preschool to learn all the social skills but parents will still have to play a major role in preschool education. I am a full time working mum, so I understand the agony of \"No time\", but looking at the scenarios, if we don't squeeze out some time for the young ones, and leave them to the teachers mentioned above, can't imagine what will happen to us and the kids in near future.

Yes I agree. We need to constantly make time for our children. And seriously, it's very hard to find good teachers who are able to teach well and also have a strong passion for children. Sigh. I think maybe sometimes the teachers also cannot tahan their work, because I have to say that it's not easy to work with a whole class of students.... especially when they are very young and anything can just happen.

[shoppingqueen1309]

hey! just want to ask, how do kindergartens celebrate birthdays of the children?? Do they celebrate individually or as a group per month

[JJ_T]

Hi I’m enrolling my kids (one 3yo & 2yo next yr) to preschool.

anyone heard of Hui Ming CC & Sunflower childcare at amk??
can mummies share their experiences?

[libran269]

Hi Mummies,

I had requested my DD’s preschool cum child care to provide curriculum or syllabus they follow for each class. My DD is in N2, so I requested for what can be expected at the end of N2. I didnt get ay repsone for 2 weeks and finally I had to have so may talks with them. Their stance they dont give out to parents. I was totally shocked, do you think my request was absurd.

Anyway, this is one of the pricey CC where I pay and this is how their teachers and mgmt behave. I am planning to pull her out from there. But I called up few preschools near marine parade/siglap, there arnt any vacancies. Mummies can you please give some suggestions.

Thanks.

[micollh]

Does MOE has a set of syllabus for pre-school? anyone knows? i feel each school has slightly different curriculums… like some i know they start HYPY earlier, some later… some do writing earlier, some later…??

[libran269]

Hi Insider,

That’s a very interesting information.
Even though my DD’s prechool adopts all this but I am worried if she would be lost when joins P1 when peers are way ahead of her.

[ectanz]

libran269:

Hi Insider,

That's a very interesting information.
Even though my DD's prechool adopts all this but I am worried if she would be lost when joins P1 when peers are way ahead of her.

My dd's current preschool also adopted this concept but I know tat this will be really insufficient for P1 preparation and thus enrol her in other enrichment classes. I hv gone thru P1 assessment n past yr test paper and it's no joke.

As her preschool does not adopt spelling test in K2, she in fact feel nervous and lost of what to do during her spelling test in her P1 preparation class. She does not know how to react to the sudden spelling test. In the end, she got 4 out of 10 words correct. I hv gone thru the words that she missed in the spelling test and she can spell correctly at home. Adequate exposure in this kind of environment during K2 can really help the children in preparating their next milestone.