Our Curriculum

How We Build A Love For Learning

At Trehaus Preschool, your little one is will be actively engaged in the learning process helping to hone their learning skills.

Our classes are conducted in small groups of a 1:5 teacher ratio, allowing teachers to notice and address every child’s questions and offer tailored assistance more effectively in order to help them succeed. Little ones are able to reflect on challenges and work together to resolve them. This allows them to gain a true understanding of working as a team to problem-solve together, especially during critical-thinking tasks.

We focus on fostering a deep love of learning in our children by encouraging them to ask questions and spark a curiosity that will lead to an enquiry exploration. Our teachers guide lessons and activities whilst allowing the children to plan and carry out investigations, propose explanations and solutions, and communicate their understanding of the concepts in class.

Curriculum Framework

We aim to nurture all aspects of your child during their preschool journey with our leading research-based curriculum.

Little Projects

  • Little Entrepreneur

  • Little CEO

  • Little Engineer

  • Little Creative

  • Little Philanthropist

  • Little Chef

Our Proprietary Little Projects comprises 6 future and soft skills, alongside with a vigorous bilingual core fundamental programme (reading, writing, numeracy, fine and gross motor skills, life skills).

We focus on your children’s self-discovery journey as much as their outcome. What we offer, is a holistic education that incorporates the best elements of research-based pedagogies to create a child-led, play-based curriculum adapted to meet the needs of each individual child.

  • Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Entrepreneurial Skills, Idea-Selling

    Become tomorrow’s changemaker by being the first to see a problem, finding the right solution, creating a game-changing idea, and bringing it to market. Your child will pitch their idea, tell the story of the problem it solves and mobilise their classmates to bring the idea to life by delegating individual tasks with action lists, instilling and encouraging creativity.

    They will learn

    • Leadership and understanding other people’s needs and desires

    • What are their strengths and weaknesses, and importance of teamwork

    • To develop creative solutions and the art of persuasion to sell their idea

    • To observe and collect information from real-world settings

    • Financial literacy with TREHAUS currency

  • Leadership and Teamwork, Executive Function and Task Management, Confidence and Public Speaking

    Become the most admired CEO of tomorrow. Your child’s problem-solving and leadership skills will be unlocked. Your child will practise empathy and cooperation as they lead their team through a project. They will hone their decision-making skills as they gather opinions from their classmates. They will become confident public speakers when they host the annual management event.

    They will learn

    • How to express one’s own opinions or preferences regarding an idea

    • How to negotiate an idea with others to reach consensus

    • What actions are needed to undertake a task

    • Numeracy and mathematical calculations for budgeting

    • How to communicate clearly and speak in public

  • Logical Reasoning, Design Thinking, Basics of Coding, Engineering and Robotics

    This programme provides pathways to unlock your child’s inventive spirit as they learn to tinker by deconstructing and rebuilding objects in our special Little Makers studio; learning basics of coding, creating apps and robotics to design products.

    They will learn

    • Logical reasoning of simple principles and laws of nature

    • Numeracy and concepts of mathematical computation

    • Spatial relations and shape-related elements of structures

    • Cognitive understanding of simple mechanical components

  • Experimenting, Creative Expression, Art and Music Appreciation

    This programme is designed to ignite your child’s innate imaginative spirit and creative spark, through embracing and experiencing music, movement, communications and the arts. With partnerships with art museums, your child will learn to love the arts. As little producers, they will produce songs, music videos, and even perform their own creations. In movement, they will express themselves via different mediums. You child will unlock their inner creative, sonically, visually, verbally, and tactilely.

    They will learn

    • Fine-tuning of auditory neurological processing

    • Awareness of specific elements of sonic and/or acoustic stimulation

    • Expression of emotions and ideas through music and art

    • Language and lyrical storytelling

  • Value-Based Social Responsibility, Environmental Consciousness, Giving Back and Helping Others

    Beyond “What will I be when I grow up?” this programme is designed to help your child question and discover “What can I do to make the world a better place?” Your child will become citizens of the world and contribute to a brighter future. An ethics and values-focused learning programme – your child will be encouraged to help others; learn about giving back to society through volunteering, fundraising projects, visiting old age homes and hospitals, and participating in charities.

    They will learn

    • Different ways of life in local society and in other parts of the world

    • That one can influence other person’s feelings through action

    • To reflect on one’s feelings toward another, developing empathy

    • Fine-motor manipulation of materials in making gifts for other people

  • Developing Healthy Habits And Nutrition, Practical Life Skills, Cultural Appreciation

    Our cultural tastemaker programme is designed to expose your child to the art and science behind the disciplines of culinary and hospitality through real-life hands-on experiences. Your child will prepare and serve nutritional meals after gardening and farming from their urban farm, learn to service a table with joy and humility, understand good nutrition and its values, and develop healthy habits.

    They will learn

    • Fine-motor manipulation of food materials and utensils – from picking herbs from our own urban garden, to food nutrition, presentation and dining etiquette

    • Numeracy concepts: proportion, counting, measuring, volume, estimation, sorting

    • Sensory exploration with textures, colours, tastes and smell

    • To follow step-by-step instructions

    • Nutrition and cultural studies, and eliminate picky eating habits

    • Creativity and science chemistry in culinary arts

Little Learners

  • 小作者 （Xiao Zuo Zhe)

  • Little Journalist

  • Little Mathematician

As much as it’s all about learning through play, we also want our kids to know when it’s time to sit quietly, listen respectfully to others, and learn together in groups. Little Assembly includes session from our Xiao Zuo Zhe, Little Journalist and Little Mathematician groups, where our children gather to listen to stories and songs, to perform to the class, present their Little Programme projects, and practise their public speaking.

  • Mandarin is more than a subject in the Xiao Zuo Zhe curriculum. The learning experiences designed in the curriculum are relevant to children’s daily lives, providing them a meaningful context to develop knowledge and skills in Mandarin language and literacy.

    Our children’s journey with Xiao Zuo Zhe starts with Chinese nursery rhymes, music and poems to open up their world of learning Mandarin. Books are another key element to build children’s foundation in Mandarin. Starting with stories, books are the channel for children to move from avid story listeners to competent readers and writers.

    In addition, Xiao Zuo Zhe also adopts the multimodal approach to respond to children with different learning styles and guarantees that children will listen, speak, read, and write Mandarin confidently in their everyday life.

  • Aims to expose children to the knowledge of English language and literacy in a fun and engaging way, Little Journalist provides multi-sensory learning experiences to integrate all aspects of literacy for the children.

    Starting with books designed by our Trehaus curriculum specialists, Little Journalist nourishes children’s love for books and eventually prepares them to become avid readers and writers.

    In this well-paced program, children will learn phonics, literacy and be given authentic opportunities to apply their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills and use these skills as windows to understand the world around them.

  • Tapping on children’s innate curiosity for math concepts and skills, and inspired by the key elements in Singapore Math, Little Mathematician provides authentic, fun and hands-on learning experiences to support children in developing a solid foundation in math and logical thinking, step by step, developing and honing their ability to think mathematically.

    In our Little Mathematician curriculum, children will find math approachable, applicable and relevant. Math is more than worksheets and rote memorization; instead, it is a way to deepen children's understanding of the world through abstract thinking.

Little Academic

 
 
 

Helping your child enter BIG school with confidence!

Give your child the best preparation for formal learning in Primary One with Little Academic, helping little one’s develop confidence in academic tasks, communication and social interaction that is needed when they move to a formal classroom environment

Conducted in small groups, this P1 prep programme will help them acquire and apply enhanced literacy, mathematics and Chinese skills. Our children’s self-management, perseverance, risk-taking, critical thinking, and problem solving skills are also reinforced as part of our Little Academic’s engaging learning experience getting them familiarised with the behaviours and attitudes needed for Primary One whilst developing a deep love of learning.

Here at  Trehaus School, we are committed to working with our parents to provide the best learning experience for your child.

 
 

 Little Explorer

Trehaus Preschool has created an environment where learning through play comes naturally, and our Little Explorer Time is dedicated to that all important indoor and outdoor play. Archaeological excavations in our sand pit, gardening in our urban farm patch, multi-sports in the Futsol court, imaginative make believe in our “Village” shops and bank, painting, building and creating in our MakerSpace to jamming in the Music Studio — everywhere and everything in our preschool is a tool for exploratory learning.

Nurturing the Whole Child

Trehaus children will develop character skills that build the Heart, be equipped with knowledge of the Head to navigate the world and learn the necessary values and skills to empower them to use their Hands to give back to society

Sample Timetable

A day in the life of our Trehaus Children