At Siriaunda School, we believe that every child is a capable and curious learner. Rooted in our commitment to nurturing holistic development, our curriculum draws inspiration from globally respected educational frameworks, including the Singapore Nurturing Early Learners Framework.
It is thoughtfully designed to support the physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and creative growth of our young learners, preparing them for a lifelong journey of learning.
Our Pre-Kindergarten Programme is built on the principles of creative play and the multiple intelligences of children. We utilize thematic activities integrated with Story-based Approach (new) and Vygotsky’s “Key to Learning” Early Childhood Programme and sensorial learning to foster the various developmental areas of our children. Siriaunda School is the first Kindergarten in Thailand to implement Vygotsky’s “Key to Learning” Curriculum, an Early Childhood programme grounded in the educational and developmental theories of Vygotsky.
Our goal is to help children develop language, numeracy, and social skills through an integrated learning process that emphasizes creative play and critical thinking. The programme includes a variety of engaging activities such as art and craft, construction, cookery, dramatic play, music and movement, outdoor activities, physical development, sand and water play, and storytelling sessions.
Our Pre-Kindergarten English Programme employs the Multiple Intelligences Approach (Howard Gardner, US), Play-based Learning, Nature-based Learning, and the Story-Based Approach to help our children speak and understand the English language. We also aim to assist our children in starting with letter recognition of the English alphabet and introducing a rich repertoire of vocabulary through sensorial learning and elaborate dramatic play.
Our Pre-Kindergarten Mathematics Programme aims to teach our children to recognize and apply fundamental sensory standards of colour, shape, and size. It embeds essential conceptual learning in carefully structured and sequenced everyday activities. The tasks offer systematic procedures for developing foundational mathematical understanding.
The Story-Based Approach is an educational method that seamlessly integrates storytelling into the learning process. This approach harnesses the power of narrative to engage learners, making concepts more relatable and memorable. It offers children the opportunity to develop problem-solving skills, critical thinking skills, creativity, emotional intelligence, and more lifelong skills that will aid them in the future. It also fosters high motivation, active participation and cooperation among children.
The Vygotsky Key to Learning Curriculum focuses on the “how” of learning and was created by a world-class team of developmental psychologists and educators. Vygotsky believed that true education is not merely the acquisition of specific knowledge and skills but the development of children’s learning abilities—their capacity to think clearly and creatively, plan and implement those plans, and communicate their understanding in various ways.
Through this cognitive program, children develop exceptional mental tools, abilities, and mindsets, which are essential for successful learning of all kinds. Ongoing research confirms that the Key to Learning Curriculum has a profound and positive impact on young children’s achievements. This programme is now widely used in England, Scotland, Wales, Poland, the USA, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa, Russia, India, and Thailand. The modules used in the Pre-K level are:
Artographics
The Artographics programme helps young children develop the skills they require for both writing and expressing themselves creatively in their artwork. They have opportunities to develop the fine motor control and spatial awareness that both tasks require. They learn to use marks on paper or manipulate plasticine to create visual models of aspects of the world, employing a variety of media to create expressive images. They learn how to represent subjects in movement as well as at rest, and how to use contrasting features of posture and facial expression to convey different emotions. They also learn to use colour to express emotion and create contrasting moods.
Expressive Movement
This programme offers young children the opportunity to develop emotional intelligence and non-verbal communication skills through movement, gestures, and expression. It fosters creativity by asking children to use their bodies to produce imaginative representations of emotional states, animals, people, and scenarios.
Sensory Mathematics
Sensory Mathematics helps children recognize and apply fundamental sensory standards of colour, shape, and size. It enables them to begin analysing objects and their relationships using culturally defined sensory norms. The natural world is rich in its diversity of colours, shapes, and forms. Our senses allow us to perceive this diversity, but it is culture that teaches us to understand our perceptions—how to look and what to look at. Human cultures organize experience, systematizing and classifying it in ways that allow us to make sense of the world and operate confidently within it. Sensory abilities, shaped by our cultures, form the foundation upon which mental development builds.
Finger Gym + Finger Gym Teaching Materials
Finger Gym is a comprehensive programme of developmental games, stories, rhymes, and activities designed to improve fine motor skills, language, and handwriting.
Various learning centres, including art, construction, Dramatic Play, English, Thai, Mathematics and library, are set up in the classrooms to provide opportunities for independent learning. Learning centres offer a variety of activities and materials that cater to the multiple intelligences of children, and children can choose to go to the learning centres that interest them.