Elementary

Junior Kindergarten

The junior kindergarten parallels the senior kindergarten in scope, but it is less academic, focusing more on structured play, free play, and other activities designed to facilitate learning while having fun.

Parents sending their children to junior kindergarten have half-day and full-day options. Those families enrolling their children under the full-day option who are able to demonstrate a need to accelerate their children (due to differing school calendars in their home countries) would be able to do so after appropriate student assessment.

Kindergarten

The kindergarten program provides initial learning experiences in language development, number concepts, creative skills, and social and physical development. Using concrete experiences, pupils are given the building blocks for perceiving, thinking, and problem solving.

Educational experiences provide balance and variety among physical, mental, spiritual, and social activities as the child's world of awareness is extended from the home to the classroom.

General Elementary

The curriculum of the elementary division uses traditional teacher-directed study/learning activities in Theological/Character studies, language arts, science, social studies, Chinese, math, physical education, art, and music.

The curriculum seeks to provide a continuum in each core content area as the basis for the development of perceiving, thinking, and problem-solving skills.

The child moves from concrete experiences to increasingly more complex levels of abstraction in critical thinking. Skills related to each area are built upon previous learning and measurable performance objectives.

Since students come from a variety of educational backgrounds, an effort is made to identify the instructional level of each student in relation to the subject continuum, including recommending and/or requiring alternative instruction, if necessary, which will assist the pupil to achieve at an optimum level.