SHUN TIN RHENISH NURSERY

Mission: To nurture all-round development of children in their moral, intellectual, physical, social, aesthetic and spiritual aspects development in the Love of Christ. Vision: To provide quality early education, and allow children to develop abilities of lifelong benefits.

Our overall curriculum design is modelled on early childhood development theories and arranged according to physical and mental development and interest in learning of children in each class, with adjustments to be made to cater to individual needs. Focusing on teacher-student interaction and supervised hands-on experience through games, visits and activities, we aim to induce children's learning motivation and curiosity, and enhance their life skills. In addition, we employ native-speaking English and Putonghua teachers to provide bilingual communications opportunities to promote children's language development, improve their bi-literate and trilingual language skills. We will follow the “Kindergarten Education Curriculum Guide” (2017) to plan curriculum. Children of nursery classes will not be asked to write, and there will not be mechanical copying exercises and drills on calculation.

Using subject matters deeply relevant to the daily life experiences of young children, we adopts an integrated activities approach to arrange collective and group learning activities for children where they can learn to cooperate with others from an early age; while an diversified learning area provides children the opportunity to plan and conduct their personal learning activities to inspire independent learning , unleash their academic potential, promote proactive exploration and thinking skills while enhancing balanced developments in knowledge, skills and attitudes. Since we emphasize learning from daily life experience of young children, we frequently take our students outside the campus and learn from real situations in the community to broaden their horizons and knowledge base. Our focus on young children’s language development is at such that we have developed our school-based programmes, including : ''Pre-writing Training Course'', ''Learn to Write'' and ''English Phonological Awareness Training'' to help children develop their language abilities .