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Highlights
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- Child-centred environment
- Encourages children to be curious
- Allows children to explore their interests
- Leads to self-motivated learning
- Helps children reach their fullest potential
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Happy Days Childcare Centre, Taiping is dedicated to the goal of providing excellent early childhood education and childcare programmes to meet the needs of parents in the surrounding community. Staffed by caring teachers in a well-equipped environment, the centre strives to unfold children’s full potential with a creative curriculum guided by the teachings of Maria Montessori. Happy Days offers half-day and full-day programmes to 2- to 6-year-olds with the aim of fulfilling the following objectives:
- To provide a varied environment in which children can develop to their fullest.
- To provide understanding and love with personalised attention.
- To offer learning experiences that spark children’s curiosity and promote independence.
- To help children develop self-regulation and social skills.
- To lay down a foundation of well-being and love of learning.
- To foster self-confidence in children’s own abilities to prepare them for the future.
Stimulates Curiosity to Learn
Here, teachers understand that it’s natural for children to be curious. They want to know why the caterpillar is green, why birds can fly, and the answer to so many more other questions. This is just their brains connecting bits and pieces together to learn about how the world around them works. Curiosity is really one of the best things that children have, as it is what helps create a love of learning. Therefore, teachers at Happy Days strive to cultivate children’s own natural desire to learn rather than just filling them up with facts from a book.
Children spend time each day engaged in activities that are designed to stimulate their curiosity to learn, as well as provide the skills they need for a smooth transition to primary school. Within the prepared environment, they get to explore their own interests in the areas of language, mathematics, sensorial, science, geography, practical life, culture and more. Some examples of activities include, gardening, scooping, pouring, sorting shapes on geometric trays, counting sequence numbers, identifying patterns, learning letter recognition, reading, and early stages of writing. There are also many scheduled outdoor activity times for children to appreciate and respect nature. While everything is fun and engaging, they are carefully planned according to the stages of the child’s development.
Teachers Prioritises Each Child’s Individual Needs
Another key feature of the childcare centre is that teachers are mindful of each child’s individual needs. First and foremost, they love and respect the child’s unique strengths and weaknesses, and allow him to progress at his own pace. After unobtrusive monitoring, teachers will gently guide him to reach his optimal potential.
Healthy Habits That Last a Lifetime
At Happy Days Childcare, children follow a consistent pattern of learning time, meals, outdoor play and nap time. The predictability of the routine positively influences their discipline, independence and emotional well-being. Habits developed now will stick with them throughout their lifetime.
Prepared for Primary School
On the whole, the enriching learning experiences work hand-in-hand to reach children’s school readiness skills, such as letter and number formation, proper pencil grip, understanding of topics to be introduced in primary school, emotional self-regulation, problem-solving, and a confident approach to lifelong learning. This ensures children are well prepared to go to any type of primary school later.
