Unaccompanied Classes | Woodland Pre-Schools Hong Kong | International Kindergarten – Woodlandschools

Stepping Stones is your child’s first time being unaccompanied by a familiar adult. The play-based approach, social relationships and learning environment enable your child to build their independence, self-esteem and resilience.

A strong emphasis on physical development helps future academic learning: from strengthening finger muscles for pencil grip, practicing eye tracking in preparation for reading and writing, to strengthening core muscles which helps concentration and focus. These skills are presented in a fun, engaging and playful way.

Physical experiences and play activities in early childhood help lay down the cognitive wiring that will one day help your child to learn, problem solve and accomplish all the other things throughout their life.

Using the physicality’s of senses, balance, intuition, power, coordination, and control, we provide a well-balanced progression of move-to-learn activities for the children, creating a daily movement diet that builds the body and fosters the deep and intricate neural wiring in the brain that occurs in the early years.

The inclusion of language enriches the learning power of movement by providing the brain with the stimulation it needs to translate tangible experiences into new concepts and eventually into abstract thinking.

Smart Steps is included in all our programmes, with a deeper emphasis in our Stepping Stones programme.

As your child enters Pre-School, they have growing independence and agency, and acquired language to ask questions, follow their curiosities, and explain their understandings to others. This inquiring mind is used to start more formal academics of literacy and numeracy. 

Our child’s muscle memory has developed and become automated, allowing for greater concentration and focus as they learn letters and sounds, begin to understand the concepts of numbers and explore the use of language in stories and writing, all while strengthens their social relationships. 

At Prep for Primary, formal education beings. The journey through the previous stages has prepared your child for the demands of education. Your child has developed the skills for concentration and focus, collaboration and social competencies, enabling them to access the curriculum. 

Their curiosities and wonderings are further enhanced as they begin to collaborate and problem solve with their classmates, discovering answers to the questions and listening to ideas presented by others. Reading, writing and maths skills are used to help gain and explain their findings. The 21st century dispositions of collaboration, agile thinking and being technology-able are incorporated.