Expat Living City Guide – June 2018

CITY GUIDE 2018 133

LEARN & PLAY

School hours: 9am to

12.15pm, 2.15pm or 5pm

School ye ar date s: Four

terms a ye ar f rom Januar y

Age s taught: 6 months to

6.5 ye ars

Ye ar e stablished: 1999

A teacher’s perspective
Name: Wong Yiun Swan
Role: Vice Principal (We st Coast)

I joined White Lodge in 2012 and taught the Kindergarten
class for about 18 months. I then returned a year ago, taking
the role of Vice Principal at the West Coast centre. I feel that
the curriculum at White Lodge engages children and teaches
them general knowledge as well as cognitive and language skills.
They can learn, explore and spark their curiosity about their
surroundings.
I enjoy teaching art, mathematics and cookery. I enjoy seeing
children using the different skills they learn in their routine to
help with their learning. Cookery, in particular, is a combination
of all the skills: language skills to read the recipe and get the
right ingredients, mathematics to measure the amounts of each
ingredient, and the motor skills to cook. And maybe some science
for trial and error too!

White Lodge

7 locations islandwide

6255 4230 | whitelodge.edu.sg

A WORD FROM

THE SCHOOL

White Lodge is a preschool

and kindergarten offering a

curriculum that complements

the Primary Years Programme

and the UK, US and Australian

Framework, in an environment

in which children can explore

and express themselves through

active learning.

WHAT’S NEW?

We have introduced Mandarin

listening stations for Pre-

Kindergarten and Kindergarten

classes, so children can listen to

books being read in Mandarin,

while following the words on the

page in front of them. This has

enabled them to focus on the

sounds of words read without

any interruption, offering the

chance to develop fluent reading

in another language.