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The program is designed to be sufficiently flexible to accommodate for individual children's patterns of learning and development.
The program is designed to be sufficiently flexible to accommodate for individual children's patterns of learning and development.
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Class Structure
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Our Half-Day and Extended Programs cater to young learners from two years and eight months to five years of age. Our professional teaching team is highly experienced and qualified in early childhood education. Our favorable teacher-child ratio also helps ensure children’s learning needs are appropriately met.
School Commencement
School typically starts in mid-August.
School Hours
Morning Session: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Afternoon Session: 1:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Extended Program: 9:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.School Bus
Parents are highly encouraged to consider the use of the school bus services as the road structure near the school has limited capacity to accommodate a high volume of traffic. For school bus route enquiries, please contact the Pre-School office.
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Curriculum
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The ISF Pre-School curriculum is rooted in the school-based Eight Virtues + One framework, drawing together the essence of Chinese and Western thinking to cultivate a global outlook. Guided by a commitment to sustainability and global stewardship, our program is delivered through an immersive bilingual model: 70% Putonghua (using traditional Chinese characters) and 30% English. Young children are immersed in a rich bank of experiences from which they learn to make sense of themselves and the world around them.
Learning at ISF is purposeful, concept-driven, experiential and inquiry-based, and inclusive, catering to learner variability. Each unit is designed to focus on issues relevant to young children and lasts several weeks to allow in-depth and authentic learning. The curriculum fully integrates the six key learning areas:
- Language
- Early Childhood Mathematics
- Nature and Living
- Arts and Creativity
- Physical Fitness and Health
- Self and Society
The program is designed to be sufficiently flexible to accommodate for individual children’s patterns of learning and development. The program provides opportunities for new learning to be fostered and enables children to reflect on different ways of doing things, makes connections across time and place, establishes different kinds of relationships and encounter different points of view.
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Assessment
Effective assessment procedures are critical to effective teaching and learning at all ages. Teachers can best meet the needs of individual learners when they are able to establish, through a range of diagnostic and formative assessment procedures, the next step required to be taken in the teaching process. Taking the time to find out students’ understanding of concepts and mastery of knowledge and skills is an essential part of the planning process.Reporting
The progress and achievement of our students are reported to parents through portfolios, reports and parent-teacher conferences.
