Programme
Academic learning at Heartfield Kindergarten is a joyful, fun-filled experience. The theme-based curriculum opens opportunities for exploration and discovery throughout the school year.
Believing strongly that children learn best through their senses, Heartfield Kindergarten makes an effort to constantly engage and stimulate each child through their sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste.
We offer a variety of quiet and energetic activities in an integrative approach to meet our children’s holistic needs. Learning is a time to make choices, expand ideas, mix with others and explore various materials. Our teachers are at hand to engage with the children and facilitate interaction amongst peers.
A day in Heartfield Kindergarten is filled with exciting exploration, discovery and learning. This is what your child’s day will be like:
Your child will be welcomed by a class teacher at the front door of the school and his/her temperature will be taken to ensure the wellbeing of your child. School bags, water bottles and snack boxes will be taken out by your child and placed in designated areas. Then your child is ready to start the day with friends and teachers.
We enjoy swings, slides, cycling around the cycling track or jumping on the trampolines. He/she could also be exploring the herb garden to see if there are any herbs to harvest or tend to, or going to the banana grove to see if the bananas are ripe. Learning to care for and appreciate the environment.
The children then proceed to multisensory Discovery Stations where they develop language skills, mathematical concepts, aesthetic appreciation and scientific inquiry and processes.
We rehydrate and re-fuel while chatting with our teachers and friends. This is a wonderful time to build relationships!
Smaller group learning in English or Mandarin is a highlight. Children get to ask questions, share, dramatise and discuss the content they are exploring.
Our morning session ends with a review of the day’s learning and a goodbye song.
Children who are 2.5 years and older can join the Extended Programme which is an extension of our day. They develop their self-help skills by eating their packed lunch together with their teachers and friends. After lunch and some quiet activity time, the Extended Programme starts. This includes Mandarin/English speech and drama, art/music or sports/games.
Stars
2.5 years
Class
8:30am – 11:30am (3hr)
8:30am – 12:30pm (4hr)*
Rockets
2.5 years – 3+ years
Class
9:00am – 12:00pm
9:00am – 1:15pm*
9:00am – 3:30pm#
# with 5-day EASEL
Afternoon Program
(1:30pm to 3:30pm)
Astronauts
N2 (4 yrs)
Class
8:30am – 1:30pm
8:30am – 3:30pm#
# with 5-day EASEL
Afternoon Program
(1:30pm to 3:30pm)
Launchers & Captains
Launchers: K1 (5 yrs)
Captains: K2 (6 yrs)
Class
8:30am – 1:30pm
8:30am – 3:30pm#
# with 5-day EASEL
Afternoon Program
(1:30pm to 3:30pm)
Class
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Monday
Sportball
Multi Sensory Sport programmes introduce children to the fundamental concepts and skills behind eight popular ball sports. Sportball has been encouraging kids to “play with passion, play for fun” since 1995.
Tuesday
Lively Chinese Literacy
Literacy is the foundation for learning any language. Learning Chinese through our literacy class (reading and writing) your child can expand his/her vocabulary, help improve their expressive language, build confidence and cope better with the intense Chinese learning in local primary schools.
We aim to build your child’s literacy skills in a relaxed and enjoyable learning environment, and experience literacy in a fun and interactive way through games, music, performance & creative crafts.
Wednesday
Cooking Science
Cooking is an exciting way to reinforce the math, language and science that the children learn at school. It teaches children essential life-skills, social-skills and self-confidence.
Children measure, pour, knead, roll, cut, fold, spread, stir, use a mixer. They also learn about the different ingredients because we allow them to taste, smell, touch and feel them . Being in the kitchen also allows them to hear familiar sounds of how different things work. It expands their horizons.
At each lesson, the teachers will engage with the children in conversation to describe what they are doing and ask questions to provoke their thinking, make predictions and explain them, comparing the results by encouraging them to make observations each step of the way.
It is the application of motor, math and science (process-oriented) skills all packed into one cooking activity.
Thursday
Fun Phonics & Grammar Greenhouse
Fun Phonics for 3-4 years old.
Fun Phonics is a programme that adopts the Montessori holistic approach where children learn the sounds that each letter makes, manipulate letter blocks, distinguish phonemic sounds and create words using special letter blocks.
Grammar Greenhouse for 5-6 years old.
Through stories and other literature, your child will grow their awareness of effective speech patterns used in daily language. We will incorporate hands-on activities and engage their interest in reading and writing!
Friday
Chinese Speech and Drama
Learning Mandarin is not difficult when you learn it through speech & drama. Children get an opportunity to practice using Mandarin words, their imagination to act through storytelling, song & dance, drama & movement.
Monday
Sportball
Multi Sensory Sport programmes introduce children to the fundamental concepts and skills behind eight popular ball sports. Sportball has been encouraging kids to “play with passion, play for fun” since 1995.
Tuesday
Lively Chinese Literacy
Literacy is the foundation for learning any language. Learning Chinese through our literacy class (reading and writing) your child can expand his/her vocabulary, help improve their expressive language, build confidence and cope better with the intense Chinese learning in local primary schools.
We aim to build your child’s literacy skills in a relaxed and enjoyable learning environment, and experience literacy in a fun and interactive way through games, music, performance & creative crafts.
Wednesday
Cooking Science
Cooking is an exciting way to reinforce the math, language and science that the children learn at school. It teaches children essential life-skills, social-skills and self-confidence.
Children measure, pour, knead, roll, cut, fold, spread, stir, use a mixer. They also learn about the different ingredients because we allow them to taste, smell, touch and feel them . Being in the kitchen also allows them to hear familiar sounds of how different things work. It expands their horizons.
At each lesson, the teachers will engage with the children in conversation to describe what they are doing and ask questions to provoke their thinking, make predictions and explain them, comparing the results by encouraging them to make observations each step of the way.
It is the application of motor, math and science (process-oriented) skills all packed into one cooking activity.
Thursday
Fun Phonics & Grammar Greenhouse
Fun Phonics for 3-4 years old.
Fun Phonics is a programme that adopts the Montessori holistic approach where children learn the sounds that each letter makes, manipulate letter blocks, distinguish phonemic sounds and create words using special letter blocks.
Grammar Greenhouse for 5-6 years old.
Through stories and other literature, your child will grow their awareness of effective speech patterns used in daily language. We will incorporate hands-on activities and engage their interest in reading and writing!
Friday
Chinese Speech and Drama
Learning Mandarin is not difficult when you learn it through speech & drama. Children get an opportunity to practice using Mandarin words, their imagination to act through storytelling, song & dance, drama & movement.