Programs & Curriculums

• Enjoy art and music and movement activities
• Express ideas and feelings through art and music and movement
• Create art and music and movement using experimentation and imagination
• Share ideas and feelings about art and music and movement

• Show an interest in the world they live in
• Find out why things happen and how things work through simple investigations
• Develop a positive attitude towards the world around them

For English Language:

• Listen for information and enjoyment
• Enjoy listening to stories, rhymes and poems
• Understand and follow one- to two-step verbal instructions

• Speak to convey meaning and communicate with others
• Express personal needs and wants
• Talk about personal experiences with others
• Ask simple questions
• Respond appropriately to ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘where’ questions

• Read with understanding and for enjoyment
• Have print and book awareness
• Recognise upper and lower case letters of the alphabet
• Recognise beginning and ending sounds in words
• Recognise familiar/sight/high frequency words
• Show understanding of the story/rhyme/poem by responding to questions and talking about the characters and events

• Use drawing, mark making, symbols and writing with invented and conventional spelling to communicate ideas and information
• Recognise and write their own name
• Form upper and lower case letters of the alphabet
• Copy words and phrases with understanding of basic writing conventions (e.g. word spacing, appropriate use of upper and lower case letters)

For Mother Tongue Languages:

• Have an interest in learning Mother Tongue Language
• Actively participate in Mother Tongue Language activities
• Enjoy Mother Tongue Language activities

• Develop foundational language and literacy skills
• Listen with understanding
• Speak to convey meaning
• Recognise words and read with assistance
• Make marks, draw symbols and write letters/characters to represent ideas

• Be aware of the local ethnic culture
• Be aware of customs and
• Interact with friends, family and the community

• Enjoy through participation in a variety of physical activities
• Demonstrate control, coordination and balance in gross motor tasks
• Demonstrate control and coordination in fine motor tasks
• Develop healthy habits and safety awareness at home, in school and at public places

• Recognise and use simple relationships and patterns
• Match, sort and compare things by one attribute (i.e. according to colour, shape or size)
• Put things in an order according to size or length and sequence events
• Recognise, extend and create simple patterns (i.e. AB patterns)

• Use numbers in daily experiences
• Rote count to at least 10
• Count reliably up to 10 things
• Compare the quantities of two sets of things and use ‘more’, ‘less/few’ and ‘same as’ appropriately
• Match number name/numeral/number word to the quantity of a set of things (within 10)
• Recognise that the quantity if a set of things is the ‘same’ irrespective of the starting point of counting
• Recognise that the quantity of a set of things stays the same regardless of the arrangement
• Recognise numbers (1 to 10) in numerals and in words
• Form numbers (1 to 10) in numerals
• Name parts that form the whole in quantity (e.g. 2 and 3 makes 5)

• Recognise and use basic shapes and simple spatial concepts in daily experiences
• Recognise the four basic shapes (i.e. circle, square, rectangle and triangle)
• Use the basic shapes to form other figures (e.g. use two squares and a triangle to form a boat)

Name position (i.e. top/bottom, in front of/behind), direction (i.e. up/down, left/right) and distance (i.e. far/near)