During the Early Childhood Conference 2019, Minister Desmond Lee spoke on the benefits of outdoor learning and how this affects the development of children. Mr Lee also outlined certain changes some preschools would be implementing in the 2020 curriculum to factor in the time preschoolers spend on playing and learning outdoors. While some childcare centres...
Parents often transfer their children from one school to another for various reasons. However, it can be a struggle for little ones who have gotten used to a certain school, teachers, schoolmates and routines to have to switch over to something completely new and different. Children are surprisingly resilient and usually adapt quite quickly, but...
Most preschools, childcare centres and kindergartens in Singapore are closed on Children’s Day, which is commemorated on the first Friday of October each year. This year, instead of bringing your child to play outdoors, how about embarking on some meaningful activities with your child? From volunteering with therapy dogs to beach cleaning, take your pick...
Most preschools in Singapore hold Parent-Teacher Conferences (PTC) up to two times a year. This kind of meeting provides opportunities for parents to connect with their child’s teachers and find out more, first-hand, about how they can work together for the better of the kids. However, many parents get stuck at this point and are...
Children are natural learners – from the moment that they are born, they absorb information and pick up patterns, ideas and concepts to figure out their environments and how they relate to others. Even as infants, they go through growth spurts that lead to mental leaps as they learn new things. As they grow older,...
Every child has a right to feel safe and secure in preschool. It is therefore distressing for both children and parents when bullying happens. A study in 2015 listed Singapore as having the third-highest rate of bullying in the world. Bullying behaviour can emerge from as early as three years old when children start to...
Play is defined as an enjoyable activity of choice and is an instinctive behaviour that children exhibit. All around the world, children love to play, be it indoors or outdoors, with or without toys. In childcare centres and nursery school in Singapore, lessons are moving away from rote learning to include more play-based learning, and...
A child’s transition from preschool to formal schooling is always an exciting time for parents. There is the slight reluctance to accept that your little ones have grown so quickly, but there is also that eagerness to see what other great things they can achieve as they become more independent in their own ways. The...
A supportive parent-teacher partnership is essential to bring out the best in your child. After all, parents and preschools have a shared goal – to build a positive and collaborative partnership to maximise your child’s potential. As the saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child. In our modern Singapore context, the village...
As our preschoolers learn about the world around them and how things work, we do our best to impart important lessons that they can take with them throughout their growing up years. But what can we do to prepare them for emergency situations that requires them to think on their feet? A lesson on first...
