Kortoba Preschool

Welcome to Kortoba Pre-School! We look forward to getting to know your child. Our mission is to build confidence and love of learning, giving children a solid foundation for a healthy and happy life. We emphasize also on Motor Skills and Life Skills.

It is with great pleasure and enthusiasm that we welcome you to Kortoba Preschool (KPS). Kortoba Preschool has been serving the needs of the children since 1977. We, at KPS, firmly believe in offering a program that promotes healthy development by creating a warm, loving, safe, positive and fun environment. We provide children learning opportunities for social, emotional, physical and intellectual development.

The program is flexible so children always feel included. We encourage independence, self expression, and respect for others as well as our environment. The KPS Program, additionally, focuses on the children’s wealth of energy and gross motor capabilities. KPS establish fair and consistent classroom rules, offer a wide variety of activities to keep the children occupied and stimulated. We offer praise for appropriate behavior too.

KPS help the children learn to use their words to express feelings and solve problems. We provide choices to re-direct the children. If a child’s behavior is inappropriate, we will speak to the child, stating the problem, help him/her choose a better behavior, and re-direct when appropriate. Most of all, we try to set a good example by being proper role models.

KPS welcome, at any time, comments you may have on our program content, structure, schedule or any other matter. We have created a website with you in mind. Our goal is for the web site to be an extension of our school to involve parents in our learning, activities, and academic progress. Our website allows us to maintain a strong, positive line of communication that is open between your home and the school. Your parental participation and input are the most invaluable tools we have as child care advocates. So, please feel free to voice your concerns and suggestions.

Kortoba Preschool thank you in advance for considering our school. We will try our best to meet your expectations because we too feel that your children deserve quality care that exudes optimal growth experiences, and maximizes the learning potential of these very important years of your child’s life. Our teachers and staff are guided by a Lifeways-based curriculum. We pride ourselves on a low student to teacher ratio. Our teachers develop age-appropriate activities that introduce and strengthen academic and social skills.

In addition to the "basics", we offer children a range of gross motor skills and creative opportunities including Songs, Nursery Ryhmes, on-going drama workshops, and organized team sports. We strive to include enrichment activities that extend our children knowledge and understanding of the world outside the Pre-School. Each year, our children take field trips to working firms, ice cream factory, fire stations, Kuwait Flour Mills & Bakeries Co., and other local places of interest.

We are also committed to parent education. For interested parents, we offer a number of seminars throughout the year to help you better understand and support your children’s development. In Kortoba Pre-School, we have a wide selection of books, ranging from nursery rhymes, to more compound picture books. Parents can check out books for children once a week and are required to read the books they take home and return it within a week. Children are then quizzed on the book, and after that, may check out another book.

Kortoba Pre-School boasts an extremely large and spacious classroom area. This classroom has different sections for each class, however, the openness of the classroom allows for kids of different age groups to cooperate and play together guaranteeing us, and you, the parents, that no social barrier will form around the child.