ST. MONICA'S ANGLO-CHINESE KINDERGARTEN

Children are fostered the spirit and attitude of self-directed learning, develop high-level thinking and skills, enhance interpersonal communication and self-care abilities. In the happy and explorative environment, they are guided to grow as individuals who love to learn.

According to the Education Bureau's 《Kindergarten Education Curriculum Guide'' (2017)》, the curriculum design is based on children’s developmental and learning needs, experiences and interests. Learning content could progress with an increasing degree of difficulty/complex based on children’s abilities and form progressive learning stages. Such spiral curriculum planning adopting various appropriate theme of exploratory play to integrate children's learning content, and inspiring the potential of children, enhancing self-directed learning and multiple intelligence development. 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.

We implemented various kinds of play, corner, project approach and Whole Language Approach, to Enhance children self-directed learning and problem-solving skills. The curriculum emphasizes the experiences of “Learning by doing”, to construct knowledge on their own, enhance multiple intelligences, nurturing to attain all-round development in the domains of ethics, intellect, physique, social skills and aesthetics, and fostering children with positive values and attitudes, through set up learning group, individual and mixed-age interactive ways with flexibility on different themes.