KidzRock International Preschool

KidzRock International Preschool is one of the first full-fledged Special Education Preschools in Singapore, offering a mainstream preschool curriculum for children with diverse developmental and learning needs.

Our school programmes are designed such that we have emulated the feel of a typical preschool setting whilst simultaneously incorporating a differentiated learning environment.

The school will offer the Nurturing Early Learners Curriculum by MOE (Ministry of Education), that establishes what children should know and be able to do at the end of their kindergarten education, to ensure they have a smooth transition from Kindergarten 2 to Primary/Grade 1. It covers six learning areas: Aesthetics & Creative Expression, Discovery of the World, Language & Literacy, Numeracy, Motor Skills Development and Social & Emotional Development.

The Carolina Curriculum for Preschoolers with Special Needs is an assessment and intervention program designed for use with young children from birth to five who have mild to severe disabilities. This will be used to teach and asses five major domains: cognition, communication, social adaptation, fine motor, and gross motor, covered in the IEP.

The principles of Applied Behavior Analysis are used as a teaching tool, a preventive tool and to maintain and generalize skills already learned.

Some of the strategies include delivering reinforcement/consequences (e.g. removal of teacher attention is strong enough consequence to diminish a behaviour) and incorporating visual supports.

Multi-sensory teaching uses all of a child's senses (taste, smell, touch, sight, hearing and movement). Incorporating visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, taste and smell in the instructional setting allows students to engage with the material in more than one way and helps students tap into their learning strengths to make connections and form memories.

It takes into account that different kids learn in different ways and helps meet the varying needs of all kids.PECS is a learning system that allows children with little or no verbal ability to communicate using pictures. Teachers helps the child build a vocabulary and articulate desires, observations or feelings by using pictures consistently, and starts by teaching the child how to exchange a picture for an object. Although PECS is based on visual tools, verbal reinforcement is a major component and verbal communication is encouraged.

TEACCH is a special education program using Structured Teaching, a process designed to capitalize on the relative strength and preference for processing information visually in individuals with autism, while taking into account the recognized difficulties. Individualized assessment and planning is used to create a highly-structured environment (organized with visual supports) to help the individual map out activities and work independently.

An Individual Education Programme (IEP) will be drawn up at the end of every 1st and 3rd term of the school calendar. An IEP is a legal document that describes the student's present levels of academic achievement and functional performance, how the student best demonstrates that learning, and sets out specific academic goals, including modifications and accommodations the school will provide for the progress that the student will make with the school's services.

GOLD™ by Teaching Strategies® is an observation-based assessment system which is fully aligned with Special Education Program outcomes. It measures the knowledge, skills, and behaviors that are most important for school success, focusing nine areas of development and learning; the first four describe major areas of child growth and development (social–emotional, physical, communication, cognitive and self-help), and the following five focus on content learning (literacy, mathematics, science and technology, social studies, and the arts).

Many of the developmental tasks that children must achieve—exploring, risk-taking, fine and gross motor development and the absorption of vast amounts of basic knowledge—can be most effectively learned through outdoor play. The playground and open field here at the Grandstand are large enough for children’s play to come to full expression, where children can make a mess, run, jump and hide and explore their environment.

Here at KidzRock, our kids get to visit Horsecity as part of the school’s schedule. They get to brush them, feed them, and pat them. By learning to care for the horses and ponies, children can associate the care they provide with feelings and an emotional bridge is constructed. This bond can lead to social and communication skill production with other people in his/her life as well.