Curriculum

Our curriculum, based on the English national curriculum, is designed to develop a firm foundation in key learning skills such as listening, speaking, concentration, persistence and learning to work together and to cooperate with other children. It is also focuses on developing early communication, literacy and numeracy skills that will prepare young children for their Primary Education, helping to give them a secure foundation on which future learning can build. This will help to ensure that they will continue to flourish throughout their school years and beyond.

The Pre-School is based on practices that encourage English language development, since English is the school’s language of instruction.  This means that children in Pre-School:

• have the opportunity to acquire English over the course of the year in a communicative setting that contextualises language use
• are encouraged to build speaking, listening, and basic literacy skills in a structured environment that supports both English and mother tongue development
• are expected to extend their vocabulary, build phonemic awareness, and understand and respond to a variety of children’s literature.

Songs, games, and circle time activities in our classrooms nurture language in a way that is both instructive and fun.  Through structured play, students are encouraged to increase their oral English proficiency, build up their vocabulary, and learn to use English in a functional way. 

While LIS provides many opportunities for children to begin to develop English as a second language, the school strongly recommends that parents build up their children’s mother tongue language skills.  A child’s mother tongue proficiency is still evolving during the Pre-School years.  Continuing to establish a strong base in the mother tongue – through structured talk, reading aloud to your child, talking about new words, discussing school themes, playing word and rhyme games – will help your child succeed.   Please talk to your child’s class teacher about how to encourage your child’s language development.

If you are interested in reading aloud in your mother tongue to our LIS students, please contact the Pre-School leader. 

In the classroom environment English is the language of instruction.