Ages 1 to 5
The first classroom should feel like somewhere kind.
Daycare, creche, nursery and kindergarten, where school stops being a strange place and starts being theirs.
Daycare · Creche · Nursery · Kindergarten
A day here
What actually happens between drop-off and home time.
- Arrival
Dropped at the gate, walked in by a familiar face. Bags down, names ticked, a settling song.
- Morning circle
Register, weather, calendar, a story. The routine that makes the rest of the day feel safe.
- Learning through play
Letters, numbers and language, taught with sand, water, blocks and a great deal of talking.
- Snack & outdoors
Fruit, water and running about. Gross motor skills are on the timetable, not squeezed around it.
- Creative time
Painting, music, dressing up, building. Mess is expected and cleaned up together.
- Rest & home time
A quiet mat for the little ones, then handover, with a word to whoever collects them.
What we promise
Four things we will not compromise.
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Small groups, known faces
Children are with the same adults every day. At this age, attachment is the curriculum.
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Ready for Basic 1
They leave able to read simple text, handle numbers, hold a pencil properly and sit through a lesson.
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Settling done gently
New children start on a phased timetable. Nobody is left crying at a gate to "get used to it".
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One campus, one family
Older siblings are a corridor away, and the child already knows the school they will move up into.
Before you ask
The practical answers.
- 1 to 5
- Ages taken, from daycare through kindergarten
- 8 to 4
- School day, Monday to Friday
- 1 : 25
- Group ratio across the school, smaller in Early Years
The room itself
Soft floors, low shelves, and somewhere to nap.
Early Years has its own wing, cots for the youngest, a soft-play corner, and everything at the height of the child using it.
