Our ShawsPlay Curriculum further includes ShawsPlay Club — a holistic learning syllabus designed to equip your child with vital 21st-century life skills. Your children will cook like little chefs, create works of art (Shaws Art), pick up specialised sports, participate in speech and drama, learn to swim (Lorong Chuan Campus), develop programming skills (Code Play) and much more!

Sports-based Play

Replace screen time with outdoor playtime! Yes, more sports! Expert coaches from Shaws Little League will help your child love sports like soccer, rugby, basketball, baseball, hockey, volleyball, golf and athletics.

Code Play

Our in-house coding programme actively engages your child with problem-solving games. We use screen-free tech toys such as wonderbug, bee bot and dash. No screen time is involved for the N2 and K1 children, with limited exposure for K2.

Sensory Play

Heighten your child’s five senses through our sensory play programme! They will be doing activities that stimulate their senses. This helps them to develop socially, emotionally, cognitively, linguistically, creatively, and physically as they explore the world.

Water Play/ Messy Play

Let’s get dirty! Our children enjoy learning with water, mud and paints. Through these activities, they learn motor skills, literacy skills, mathematics skills and so much more.

Outdoor Learning

At Shaws, we are blessed with wonderful outdoor environments where our children can thrive. Our outdoor gardens, herb gardens, butterfly gardens and playgrounds encourage our kids to independently develop their literacy, social and cognitive skills.

S.T.E.A.M

S.T.E.A.M stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths. Integrated into our play-based curriculum.

S.T.E.A.M. encourages your child to ask questions like a Scientist, build like a Technologist, solve problems like an Engineer, create and express like an Artist and analyse like a Mathematician!

Earth Ambassadors

Protecting the Earth is a responsibility that transcends age; every child at Shaws is an Earth ambassador. Your child will learn about environmental concepts such as conservation through our inquiry-based units of study each term and apply them.

Raise Confidence

Being able to complete various team-based games during playtime boost your child’s confidence level. We progressively increase the level of difficulty to encourage them to strive higher and empower them to go further, boosting their courage and initiative.

Build Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills

Play offers opportunities for your child to encounter, explore and overcome obstacles. Carrying out simple tasks like building blocks to complex ones like performing a drama piece will sharpen his or her critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Improve Knowledge Retention

Confucius once said, “I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.” Studies have shown the correlation between hands-on learning and the ability to recall the teaching. Our play-based curriculum ensures your child will understand concepts from a fundamental level rather than memorise them.

Foster Teamwork

Our playgroup environment offers your child the chance to work with his peers to achieve a common goal. This cultivates patience, emotional self-regulation, perseverance, and communication skills — vital elements of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Social Intelligence.

Develop Motivation and Grit

Resilience is the ability to bounce back after setbacks. Through play, children are encouraged to figure things out. If they don’t get it the first time, they have to keep trying. Over time, they will build up their grit, determination and resilience.

At Shaws, your child at this early age will be exposed to letters and their associated sounds in a fun way through LetterLand, rhymes, games and other play-led learning activities. Your children will also start to acquire pre-reading, pre-writing and problem-solving skills.

Your children at this age are ready for a more complex understanding of numbers. They will learn sounds, word families and consonant blends under our phonics programme and embark on creative writing. In-depth Mother tongue lessons are also introduced, with basic writing skills. Learning experiences outside the school environment will also be introduced through excursions.

Being more mature and a faster learner, your child is now introduced to concepts like division, multiplication, story sums, compositions, penmanship and reading at a higher level. Beyond that, they will work on projects and be equipped with more advanced life skills classes to prepare them for further education and life in general.

Your child needs the right nutritionally balanced diet to thrive. To ensure that, all our meals are cooked in-house in our Shaws Kitchen. The kitchen is led by Head Cook, Aunty Alice, who has provided supervision over the production of food in Shaws for over 20 years.

Parents are welcome to pack your own food for your child.

Curious to know what a day is like in a preschool with a play based curriculum? Check out our program calendar below!