“Kindergarten: the first step towards a world of learning and wonder.” By anonymous
At Premier Academy Kindergarten, we are dedicated to embodying our core values in a meaningful way, welcoming children aged 2 1/2 to 5 1/2 years. We take a holistic approach to development, addressing cognitive, social, emotional, physical, creative, and ethical growth, ensuring integrated experiences that empower learners to thrive.
Every day features a structured routine with greetings, morning responsibilities, and thematic songs during circle time. Playtime and interactive lessons are central to our activities, including opportunities for children to share “weekend news” that promotes communication skills and fosters initial leadership by taking on classroom responsibilities. Storytelling and collaborative play enhance creativity and essential social skills.
Our dedicated teachers exemplify our core values through their interactions, building trust, modelling integrity, and pursuing excellence through personalised teaching. We inspire curiosity through engaging activities and cultivate a strong sense of community, ensuring every child feels valued.
Premier Academy Kindergarten offers and adapted curriculum that is based on the Cambridge Early Years Framework and the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum from the UK. This framework ensures that children from birth to age five receive a comprehensive, play-based education. It emphasizes essential safety standards and provides children with foundational skills for future academic success. Additionally, we incorporate sensory play into our learning journey. Our teaching approach also integrates elements from Montessori and Reggio Emilia philosophies. This adapted approach offers higher attainment levels and prepares students for the academic rigour that we are known for.
Our Kindergarten lays a strong foundation for character building, and our pastoral curriculum fosters relationship-building, emotional literacy, self-regulation, social skills, and mindfulness practices. Overall, we strive to bring our core values to life at our Kindergarten.
In line with our vision statement, our students are prepared to make a difference in the world every single day!
Why Premier Kindergarten?
Our doors are always open to welcome parents to take a guided tour of our school, where one can experience firsthand the vision and mission of the academy through a purposefully built learning facility that has been carefully planned and equipped with resources to cater to different personalities, talents and cultures, and where diversity and collaboration with families is encouraged. As a school, we are geared towards developing confident, independent and globally minded individuals who are equipped with the skills and knowledge to thrive in an ever-changing world.
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What does learning look like at Premier Kindergarten?
Premier Academy Kindergarten offers an adapted Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum. The foundation stage curriculum is organized into six learning areas.
Personal, social, health and emotional development
Helps children develop a positive self-image and respect for others, build positive relationships, enhance social skills, manage their feelings, and gain confidence in their abilities.
Communication and language
Provides children with opportunities to experience a rich language environment, develop their confidence and skills in expressing themselves, and engage in speaking and listening across various situations.
Mathematical development
Children engage in hands-on math sessions to develop counting skills, understand numbers, solve basic addition and subtraction, and explore shapes, spaces, and measures for deeper comprehension.
Knowledge and understanding of the world
Involves guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community through opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology and the environment.
Physical development
Premier Kindergarten provides opportunities for young children to keep active and interactive; and to develop their co-ordination, control, and movement.
Expressive arts and design
At Premier, children are encouraged to share their thoughts, ideas and feelings, through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play, and design and technology.
A Typical Day At The Kindergarten
Playgroup students leave at 12:30 pm with an option of full day.
Extracurricular Activities
At Premier Kindergarten, learning continues beyond the classroom through exciting extracurricular activities that support holistic development.
We offer a range of optional paid clubs led by trained instructors, including Monkeynastix, ballet, skating, Taekwondo, tennis, LAMDA, Zumba, and Little Einsteins. In-house activities such as arts and crafts, music, dance, and science rotate each term to keep experiences engaging.
Children also take part in community service initiatives like bake sales and charity events, fostering empathy and social awareness from an early age.
Physical growth is encouraged through termly events:
- Sports Day (Term 1)
- Swimming Gala (Term 2)
- Football Festival (Term 3, Reception only)
These programmes build confidence, coordination, teamwork, and compassion — all while having fun!
Pre-School Education
Nurturing Growth Through Play, Exploration, and Independence
Playgroup for 2 ½ years old
Developing Roots
Our Playgroup children spend most of their time engaged in play-based learning, both within the classroom and outdoor learning environments. Learning through senses is a key element throughout this stage of learning. Activities that encourage listening, touching and feeling; visual discrimination, tasting, and smelling are encouraged throughout our playgroup curricular. Water/sand play is also encouraged from the very beginning. Children at this age are also introduced to swimming and basic I.T skills. P.E skills also play a big role in aiding gross motor development and balance.
Nursery for 3 ½ years old
Emerging Wings
Our 3 ½-year-olds at this stage have attained quite a number of basic skills and can work at these independently. It is at this stage of learning that adults are bombarded with lots of questions during their day to day interactions with children within this age-group. These children continue to enjoy play and their attention spans are getting longer. Careful planning at this level is given especially to include inquiry-based learning in order to enable them to obtain answers to their numerous questions through exploration and experiments. Independence is encouraged throughout this stage of learning whereby children are encouraged to use their own abilities in solving day to day challenges.
Reception class for 4 ½ years old
Ready to fly
At this stage, four year olds have developed a “Self-image” and have learned to master plenty of skills. Activities at this level of education are developed to ensure that they are self- directed with a reasonable amount of challenge to enable children to experience success so as to boost their confidence in trying out new tasks. At this stage preparation for Year 1 takes place to ensure a smooth transition.
This includes strengthening social skills, developing independence, encouraging responsibility, and building foundational academic abilities through play-based and structured learning experiences.
Child Care Safety, Health and Security
