Kindergarten section

Positive, caring relationships based on trust and respect,
are at the heart of our philosophy.

What we want to achieve at our kindergarten is:

• To provide a safe, happy, caring, developmentally appropriate, nurturing environment for social, emotional, cognitive and physical growth.
• To enable all children to develop their capabilities as successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective to society.
• Providing a strong foundation for future academic Success.

We have a clear understanding of our values:

1. Happiness and well being.
2. Engagement.
3. Communication.
4. Achievement.
5. Integrity.
6. Partnership and care.
7. Challenging.
8. Commitment to excellence.

Our mission

To transform the lives of the children and families we work with, through creating a kindergarten that feels like home with an extended and supportive family environment.

We believe that every day is a learning day and that
learning is all around us.

• Spend quality teaching time with each child.
• Develop close child-teacher bonds of affection trust and respect.
• To engage our children in the highest-quality teaching and learning and maximize success for all.
• Assess each child’s social, emotional, cognitive and physical growth and work to achieve the best learning outcomes for each child.
• Develop confidence and self-esteem.
• Promoting effective team work.
• Encouraging all children to be leaders of their own learning.

English

Our English teaching curriculum is based on the Jolly phonics program. Jolly phonics is a fun and child-centered approach to teaching literacy through synthetic phonics. With actions for each of the 42 letter sounds, the multi-
sensory method is very motivating for children and teachers who can see their students’ achievements. The letter sounds are split into seven groups.

There are five key skills for reading and writing complemented by jolly readers and jolly grammar, which provides a through foundation for
teaching literacy over three years in school

1. Learning the letter sound, 42 main letter sounds, this includes alphabet sounds as well as digraphs.
2. Learning letter formation.
3. Blending, how to blend the sounds together to read and write new words.
4. Identifying the sounds in words.
5. Tricky words: they have irregular spellings and children learn these separately.

Math

They learn the following:

• How to count and recognizing numbers
• Comparing
• Patterns
• Addition
• Subtraction
• Position
• Shapes
• Three dimensional shapes

General knowledge

They learn about science and different information about everything around them.

Arabic

They learn letters and their sounds, how to form them and how to start reading.

Religion

Learning based on the curriculum from the Ministry of Education.

Extracurricular activities

In our kindergarten everything is something new to learn with fun. We have:

• Art lessons doing crafting and colouring.
• music lessons.
• P.E. lessons (physical exercise).
• We have indoor activities like colours day, sports day etc.,
• and outdoor Activities like small trips.

Classes

We have three levels in our kindergarten:

• Playgroup from two years an half to almost four years old.
• Junior class from four years old to almost five years old.
• Senior class from five years old.

We have 20 kids in each class room with a class
teacher and teacher assistant.

Location

The Kindergarten & Daycare campus is located along Al Doha street across from Al Manshiya mosque.