A Pure Mandarin program that is a step-up from the Dragon program, this class works on listening, speaking, reading and writing aspects of the Chinese language through hands-on activities, activities that engage the body, senses and mind, and a curriculum focused on whole-child development.

• Pure Mandarin immersion

• Emphasize on listening, speaking, writing and character recognition/reading skills through a variety of hands-on 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.

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

• Creative activities like art & craft, object exploration, group projects and learning through body/senses

• Body-Brain Kinesiology activities to stimulate physical and cognitive development

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

• Learning of Mandarin Phonics (Hanyu Pinyin 汉语拼音)

• Learning of Chinese characters and practicing characters strokes writing and developing proper phrasing and sentencing skills

• No prior knowledge of Mandarin required

• No parental involvement and socks are required

• Class size (max 16 students with 2 teachers)

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

• King’s Arcade N2 Phoenix (year child turns 4) :
  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 N2 Phoenix (year child turns 4) :
  8:30 am to 12:30 pm
  Option to enroll 3x to 5x a week