Our Curriculum

Pre Nursery : 2.5-3 Years

Early Literacy

- Build a vocabulary of 20 words every month.
- Recognise small letters through thematic association.
- Use of sensorial materials to strengthen fine motor grip & control.
- Follow 1 or 2 step directions; express wants and needs.
- Use fingers and basic tools to trace alphabets.

Early Numeracy

- Identify, recite and count numbers.
- Explore measurement through creative play.
- Introduce pre-math concepts such as heavy/light, big/small, one/many.
- Sorting through colour, shape, size or purpose.
- Provide alternatives to enable decision-making.

Social & Emotional Development

- Gain an awareness of self.
- Encouraged to do things independently.
- Express emotions through gestures and facial expressions.
- Sorting through colour, shape, size or purpose.
- Encourage parallel play.
- Learn social understanding through pretend play.

Pre Nursery : 3-4 Years

Early Literacy

- Build an additional vocabulary of 30-40 new words per month.
- Construct simple sentences using 2-4 words and narrate familiar stories.
- Use fingers or sensorial tools to trace small letters and associate the phonic sound.
- Enhanced visual-motor coordination for emergent writing.
- Introduce a variety of painting tools to improve tripod grip.
- Answers simple questions such as ‘who?’, ‘what?’, ‘when?’, ‘where?’, ‘how?’ etc.

Early Numeracy

- Identify and match numerals; grouping objects by numbers.
- Understand the spatial relationships of 3D objects.
- Understand one-to-one correspondence of objects to numbers.
- Understand stable order of numbers and number cardinality.
- Complex sorting by combining colours, shapes and patterns.
- Use prompts to encourage decision-making by offering choices.

Social & Emotional Development

- Identify strong preferences.
- Confidence to do tasks independently.
- Express feelings and needs through words and emotions.
- Recognise the feelings of others and communicate concern
- Encourage cooperative play.
- Encourage empathy and understanding of social contexts.

Lower Kindergarten : 4-5 Years

Term 1

- Thematic learning on my family, fruits & vegetables, healthy food, my body, my school and farm.
- Introduction to letters, phonic sounds, small and capital letters, and identification and tracing of letters.
- Pre-math concepts such as big & small, less & more, heavy & light, one & many.
- Counting from 1-10 through hands-on and fun activities.

Term 2

- Explore new topics such as animals, birds, garden, plants, trees, flowers, living and non-living things.
- Reinforce the learning of phonic sounds, recognise and write small letters, match small with capital letters.
- Identification of objects through names and beginning sounds.
- Counting up to 25, tracing and writing numerals up to 25 and understand sequencing.

Term 3

- Learn about transport, music, community helpers, sky & space, seasons, public places and the environment.
- Introduction to word families such as ‘at’, ‘an’, ‘et’, ‘it’, ‘ug’, ‘ot’, etc.
- CVC words -- learn to identify, read and write.
- Count, trace and write numerals up to 50, sequencing, number games from 1-10.

Upper Kindergarten : 5-6 Years

Term 1

- Thematic learning on my home, my family, my body, my emotions, my healthy food, trees, plants, flowers.
- Learn about garden tools and insects, fruits and vegetables, living and non-living thingsRhyming words ‘wig’, ‘dig’, ‘pig’ etc and all vowel sounds.
- Spell and write 3-letter words, read aloud words.
- Count and write up to 50 number names.
- Sequencing, lesser & greater,before & after, ascending order, counting with coloured rods.

Term 2

- Learn about animals, birds, garden, plants, trees, flowers, living & non-living things.
- Introduction to 4-letter words, consonant blends ‘pl’, ‘br’, ‘fl’, ‘dr’ etc.
- Introduction to Digraphs such as ‘oo’, ‘ee’, ‘ck’, ‘ng’, etc.
- Demonstrative adjectives such as ‘this’, ‘that’, ‘and’ along with read-aloud words.
- Count and write up to 100, count before, after and in between, counting with coloured rods.
- Descending order, group counting, skip counting, lesser & greater.

Term 3

- Explore sky & space, seasons, birds, ocean, world and the environment.
- More Digraphs such as ‘sh’, ‘ch’, etc, short and long vowel sounds.
- Introduction to ‘in’, ‘on’, ‘under’ and read aloud words.
- Reading simple sentences; simple question and answers.
- Count up to 150, group counting, skip counting.
- Picture and number addition & subtraction.