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Overview
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Curriculum is your child's first step in education. This curriculum encompasses nursery and reception years that stimulates curiosity to learn among children aged 4 to 6 years old. We aim to provide a happy and secure learning environment which fosters enriched learning.
Using the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Curriculum, Preschool focuses on 3 areas of development: Communication and Language Development, Physical Development and Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSE). The curriculum is further supported by an integrated phonics programme.
This programme is an ideal basis for your child's entry to International schools after completion. By following the EYFS, parents can be assured that all children undertaking this curriculum will be ready for Year 1.
4/5 - 5/6 Years Old
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum (EYFS)
Key Areas:- Communication and Language Development
- Physical Development (Sensory Play)
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Character Building)
- Literacy & Phonetics (English, Malay, Mandarin)
- Mathematics
- Understanding the World
- Expressive Arts and Design (Arts & Crafts, Music)
Our Approach
- HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT: We aim to develop the whole child through a creative curriculum approach as a happy confident child is a successful one.
- PLAY BASED: We provide children with carefully-chosen play experiences and resources that nurture skills and help them to develop in the core curriculum areas.
- CHILD CENTERED: We take the lead from children themselves, and plan our daily activities in response to their interests and ideas.
- LEARNING JOURNEY: We pride ourselves on providing a supportive, enriching and exciting learning journey through our Preschool, planting the seeds for a life-long love for learning and establishing the foundations for successful education in Primary school and beyond.
- PARENT PARTICIPATION: We strive to promote and enrich positive relationships with our parents and the community to enable to continue the learning journey at home.
Our Learning Environment
Collinz International School Preschool Department is in a beautiful purposeful setting with its own indoor play area. It caters for children aged 4-6 years, and children follow the Preschool curriculum. The classes are well-resourced with qualified teachers as a guide.
We emphasise on both indoor and outdoor learning to encourage a positive and enthusiastic attitude to learning. We encourage the children to make their own choices as we believe that this encourages independent learning. We fully utilise the sensory and physical opportunities inside and outside as this enhances the children's learning.
Each classroom is equipped with a whiteboard and a projector as well as airconditioned to ensure the comfort levels of our students. Our library is also equipped with reading material well-suited to their levels. We have a vast range of picture books, easy non-fiction, and books in multiple languages. We regularly review our resources and maintain our equipment to ensure that we have a high regard to health and safety.
Curriculum Areas
The Early Years Foundation Stage has seven areas of learning (3 key and 4 specific), all of which are connected and are of equal importance. We believe that every child should be nurtured both intellectually and emotionally at the start of their school life. In the Preschool programme, we place emphasis on three key areas of development:
We aim to develop children's confidence and skills in expressing themselves and also learning to speak and listen in a range of situations through our Preschool programme.
- Developing confidence and skills in expressing themselves
- Learning to speak and listen in a range of situations
We recognise physical education as a crucial aspect of a child's development. At Collinz, children are given opportunities to develop their co-ordination, control and movement. They are cultivated into individuals who understand the importance of physical activities, thus making healthy choices in their diet.
- Developing coordination, control and movement
- Understanding the importance of physical activity
- Making healthy choices in relation to food
- Develop hand-eye coordination, foot-eye coordination, balance, body and space awareness and moving with control.
We strive to help children build positive relationships with themselves and the people around them, thus developing a positive relationship with each other.
- Developing a positive sense of themselves and others
- Forming positive relationships and developing respect for others
- Developing social skills and learning how to manage their feelings
- Understanding appropriate behaviour in groups
- Developing confidence in their own abilities
Every child is unique and has particular interests, skills and needs; they will have opportunities to interact in positive relationships and enabling environments, both indoors and outdoors. They will take part in a balance of carefully planned child-initiated activities in order to develop as individuals, and as effective learners. The four specific learning areas are:
At Collinz, children are exposed to a wide variety of reading materials which will spark their interest in learning 3 languages, English, Mandarin and Malay.
- Recognize and connect letters and sounds
- Explore texts and poetry
- Embark on their reading, writing and literacy journey
- Exposed to a wide range of books
- Begin emergent writing
- A thorough immersion into language learning through stories and singing
- Hands-on activities, rhymes and a variety of games
- Role-play and vocabulary work
- Develop skills in counting
- Comprehending and using numbers
- Calculating simple addition and subtraction problems
- Describing shapes, spaces and measures
- Matching, sorting, seeking patterns
- Mathematical understanding developed through stories, songs, games and imaginative play
- Experimenting with counting and numbers
We strive to help children build positive relationships with themselves and the people around them, thus developing a positive relationship with each other.
- Learn about the physical world and their community
- Develop knowledge, skills and understanding to comprehend the world around them
- Foundation for subjects of Science, Geography, History, and computer skills
- Express and share their thoughts, ideas and feelings creatively
- A variety of activities in art, movement, dance and music
- Hands-on experiences of percussion instruments
- Singing and movements which encourage children to learn about beat and rhythm
