Student Life
What a Kindergarten day actually looks like — a short day, built around play, with time to settle into it.
The shape of the day
- A short day, on purposeJr. KG runs from 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m., Sr. KG from 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. Long enough to settle into a routine, short enough that a four-year-old is still enjoying it at the end.
- Learning at a table, togetherChildren work in small groups at child-height tables rather than in rows, so a teacher is never more than a step away and children learn as much from each other as from the board.
- Time to moveDance, movement and sports in the play area break up the day. At this age sitting still is a skill being learned, not one to be assumed.
- Something made, most daysDrawing, colouring and finger, thumb and palm painting — work that goes home and gets put on a fridge.
What the children do
The activities that run through the Kindergarten year, alongside the academic work.
Festival celebrations
Fancy dress
Dance and movement
Sports
Drawing and colouring
Finger, thumb and palm painting
More on school life
Sports
Movement in the play area every day, and the section’s own sports day, podium and prize distribution once a year.
Campus Gallery
The classrooms, the play area and the children at work — photographed as they are.
Photographs
Annual school sports — the Kindergarten prize day
First prize at the inter-school competition
