Our school’s youngest students are in Pre-K. We have one half-day class for 3 year-olds, and one for 4 year-olds.

Students then progress to our full-day Kindergarten.

Grade 5 is the final grade in this Program.

The FYP is designed to ensure that our students enjoy their school lives by being busily co-operative as they develop secure foundational skills in literacy, numeracy, technology, the Arts, and Physical Education.

Their rich daily program, homeroom-based with a homeroom teacher who acts as a school-based ‘parent’ concerned with all aspects of the students’ life, contains studies in Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, Music, Drama, Modern Foreign Languages, and Physical and Health Education.

The modern languages are French, taught throughout the year, and Spanish and Mandarin, taught occasionally in Flex blocks in a conversational way with little written expectation.

The math program is Singapore Math, repeatedly proven to be the most effective math program in the world.

Science, while classroom-based, is often hands-on as students conduct experiments and record their findings. Plants grow from seeds, chicks hatch from eggs, salmon fry hatch to be released as part of enhancement programs, and so on.

Social Studies includes History, Geography, Basic Economics and Current Affairs.

Language Arts classes, which use the Lucy Calkins Literacy Project, are designed to develop secure skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking. We regard the technical aspects – spelling, punctuation etc. – as important, and we aim to develop in the students a love of reading, and confidence in speaking. Mandatory participation in our annual Public Speaking Competition helps.

Art, Music and Drama, together with PE, help the students not only develop skills in, and appreciation of, these subjects, but also teach them the value of teamwork, co-operation, effort, and performance.

The mobile computer labs are used across the curriculum as required so that students develop the necessary IT skills to assist their studies. The mobile lab is accompanied, when needed, by an IT teacher who supplements the subject input with IT advice.