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The Most Innovative Early Years Programme
MAKSON's Full-day Early Years Program offers UK's Early Years Foundation stage, combining with world's renown Montessori approach as well as our khmer programme, creating one of the most innovative Early Years Program. We provide our little learners with holistic exploring, learning and building great foundation for later stages.
Our Early Years Programme is headed by our school director and experienced homeroom teacher, together with our well-trained Learning Assistants. Our facilities and activity materials are carefully designed and chosen to make sure our students are safe and healthy and to create the love for learning. Your child’s health, safety, and learning are always our focus and priorities.
Age of Admittance
We accept children from the age of 3 years to the age of 6 years old. Our services are offered on the basis of first come, first served. Your child will be put in our wait list when the class has reached the maximum number. Please contact our Admission Office for more info about your child’s class.
Early Years Opening Times
The Early Years class is open from 7:30AM to 4:00PM during term time. And to make sure our busy parents easy and comfortable, we accept early drop-off from 7:00AM and allow late pick-up until 5:00PM.
EARLY YEARS CURRICULUM
Young children pick up languages very quickly and naturally. Every day lessons are taught in English by native speakers. Khmer and Chinese languages are also included everyday and taught by our high quality teachers. The children also learn songs and rhymes in these languages.
Children are taught to trace over lines, shapes and then letters. They gradually learn to form letters in cursive mode, first in large size then smaller, but they are taught to keep the letters on a line and between lines from the very beginning.
We use various readers, but on the whole the teaching is phonetic. Children have one-to-one reading sessions of about 8 minutes three times a week with their teacher. We send readers home everyday as well, in order to make rapid progress, children should read aloud to their parents every day if possible.
Children begin with 3 letter words and when they are totally confident with these they are taught various spelling patterns e.g. words ending in “ck”, “ook”, “ill” and “ell”.
With a variety of our modern children-friendly facilities including, playground, water play pool, gardens, sensory and movement room, your child is offered many opportunities to be active, to develop their coordination and movement.
Your child will be surrounded by our friendly and professional staff who are trained with child-protection policies and other children who are taught to be polite and respectful; therefore, your child will develop their social skills; learn to form positive relationships with others, children and adults; to manage their feelings and other’s ones; and to grow with confidence and respect.
As your child grows, and develops their love of learning, the curriculum bring in more specific skills.
The children explore contexts in which numbers arise in their lives. They are taught to count to 20 in our Daycare Programme, to 100 in our Early Years Programme, and to add and subtract using the language of mathematics. They are taught to count in twos both forwards and backwards, to count in tens, to recognise and write the numbers and do simple addition and subtraction.
It is important that the children understand the world around them. They are given many opportunities to observe, explore, ask questions. They regularly spend some time in the playground with older children. They also start to spend some time in the Primary years class with the 6 years old children on the term before their entry that Level.
Twice a week the children have an art lesson with a specialist art teacher. The children also do arts and crafts with their classroom teacher during afternoon activities.
The children have a formal music lesson once a week with a specialist music and singing teacher. They also sing in English, Khmer and Chinese with their classroom teachers. Once a week the children have a yoga and dance lesson with our professional specialist teacher.
The children have two PE & sport sessions each week with professional sports and PE teacher and go swimming once a week.
OUR MODERN EARLY YEARS FACILITIES
Modern and big classroom
Cooking Class
Library with variety of books
Modern & Safe Learning Materials
Big and clean Nap Room
Rock Climbing Wall
Swimming Pool
Playground
STEM Lab
Music and Dance class
Sport and PE Centre
Gardens
OUR COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENT
EARLY YEARS PROGRAMME
The Most Innovative Early Years Programme
Our Early Years Programme brings the best of UK's EYFS framework plus famous Montessori approach, encouraging our students to be independent, confident and creating the love of learning. Additionally, Chinese and Khmer languages are also included in our amazing Programme.
Every morning starts from 7:30am with Circle Time in English. Circle Time is a special time to remind our students of the things they did yesterday, share news that has happened in the meantime and discuss the day ahead. The children also share chants and rhymes, songs, read a story, and participate in movement games and relaxation activities. Circle time provides a time for listening, developing attention span, promoting oral communication, and learning new concepts and skills.
The day then generally continues with English literacy, and mathematics, and stories before lunch.The afternoon contains variety of activities; including Montessori lessons, sport, art, music and drama with specialist teachers in English, Khmer and Chinese. Exposure to a range of languages at this early stage is ideal for the development of linguistic ability later in life.
Communication with Parents
Parental/Carer Involvement
We understand how important communication is between parents and members of staff. We encourage parents to communicate with the school administrator or the key person as much as they wish. Parents are always welcome to request a formal meeting with their child’s key person or the school director to discuss their progress, the curriculum, activities, etc., but may find that these topics are covered during informal meetings.
PTC/Parents’ Evenings
Parents are invited to attend a PTC or parents’ evening each term, during which they will discuss their child’s progress and development.
Monthly and Termly Report Book
At this stage of learning, student learning activities and journey are recorded and observed throughout the course of month, term and year. Although, ongoing assessment is critical, we also assess students monthly and termly so that we can provide recommendation to our faculty members and parents to give proper interventions.
Early Years Food
We alway put health and safety of your child as our top priorities; therefore, meat, vegetables and even ingredients are carefully selected and checked by our school director for our students' lunch and snacks.
Snack and lunch menus are released monthly but monitored daily. We work with Psar Kruosar, the organic and safety meat and vegetables to bring healthy meals to our students.
We provide lunch and snacks for our children and we are able to accommodate most dietary requirements. Please check with our parent services team for monthly lunch and snack menu.
Parents who want to provide their own lunch need to bring to one of our child care assistants at least 30 minutes before lunch time.
Assessment for your child's development
Development & Learning Journey
Each child has a personal Development and Learning Journey to assess their progress. Progress will be demonstrated through observations, photographs and sometimes drawings or pieces of ‘work’.
Progress Check at Age Five
Between the age of five and six the key person will review the progress of the children, by completing the EYFS ‘Learning and Development Summary – Five-Six Year-Old Check’. This ongoing and year-end assessment is to make sure your child have good enough development, knowledge and skills to be successful when they begin another big stage of their learning journey which is Primary Years.