This is a pure Mandarin immersion program for children turning 3 years of age. Curriculum focuses on whole-child development and targets all learning domains, while focusing on building a solid Chinese language foundation for young children.

• Pure Mandarin class conducted entirely by native Mandarin-speaking teachers

• No prior knowledge of Mandarin is required

• Highly interactive and hands-on activities that emphasize on listening, speaking, early-writing and early-reading skills through a variety of Chinese language and cultural activities

• Curriculum content/goals covers all learning domains (in Mandarin): cognitive awareness, numeracy, language and literacy, fine and gross motor development, social-emotional development, and creative and aesthetics expression.

• Curriculum is theme-based and close to children’s lives, making learning a new language meaningful and easy for children.

• Fun language activities include Chinese nursery rhymes, story telling, poems (classic and contemporary), dramatisations, songs, music and movement and language games

• Hands-on and creative activities like art & craft, object exploration, group projects and learning through body/senses

• Physical activities include gross motor activities (at gym) and fine-motor/pre-writing activities to promote overall physical development of child

• Classroom routines, self-help and character-building activities are designed to promote independence, confidence, self-regulation and social-emotional skills

• Proprietary Mandarin Phonics (Hanyu Pinyin) introduced in every class.

• No parental involvement and socks are required

• Small class size (max 12 students with 2 teachers)

• Available at King’s Arcade (MOE/ECDA-registered Kindergarten) and Tides.

• King’s Arcade N1 Dragon (year child turns 3) :
  8:30 am to 12:30 pm or 8:30 am to 2:30 pm.
  Option to enroll 4x a week, Mondays to Thursdays or 5x a week, Mondays to Fridays

• Tides N1 Dragon (year child turns 3) :
  8:30 am to 12:30 pm
  Option to enroll 3x to 5x a week