Dear Furano,
For PG children: Activities planned for children at this age are basically experiential in nature and we involve the children more on Montessori activities although other activities are also introduced throughout the day. The focus is mainly on nurturing fundamental characteristics such as resilience, creativity, concentration, confidence and their sensorial and motor skills. It may sound fairly abstract to you at this point and it will be wonderful if you could join us at our open house so we can share more with you. The next 2 scheduled open houses are on the 8th and 15th December (Saturday) from 9 am to 4pm.
We will also be most happy to show you the facilities we have in placed in our brand new centre that spans about 7000 sqft overlooking greenery. We look forward to meeting you!
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RE: [Ang Mo Kio/Bishan/Thomson/Toa Payoh] Preschools
Dear Blingbling,
Thanks for your comments. Perhaps the following information can clear some of your concerns about our school.
Montessori style of learning is experiential, whereby the pace and progress are dictated by the individual child. In other words, instead of getting children to learn based on the pace that is set by the teacher/centre, the child learns at his own pace. Teachers plan each child’s weekly Montessori activity based on his/her observation of the child’s progress (this serves as a guideline). If the child progresses faster than expected, he/she will progress ahead of plan. During Montessori sessions, the activity that each child engages in are independent of his peers. In traditional Montessori sessions, children ranging from age 18 months up to 6 years can be put in the same class. Due to our size and the other curriculum that we offer, we are not able to do that. Hence, we adopt an open concept which physically combines Nursery and Kindergarten classes respectively together. Our physical classes are intentionally designed to allow us the flexibility to combine or break up the groups in accordance to the activities.
As mentioned, Montessori sessions forms only part of our full spectrum curriculum. We incorporate many other activities such as Mandarin, Young Art Theatre, Thematic Learning and more to nurture the child’s literacy, creativity and team work. To clarify, we have a structured weekly time table for each respective classes. Apart from Montessori, children of each level will engage in the same activities based on their level. Our time-table is posted on our notice board as well as on our parent-centre platform for enrolled children. It is true that we don’t have a class plan for Montessori as this style of learning is individualised. Our style has been tried, tested and improved upon, over the last 8-9 years. Rest assured that the children do not learn the same things throughout the 2 years. Hope this helps on clearing your doubts. We will be most happy to address any further concerns that you have.