Curriculum

Curriculum Model
The Caterpillar’s Cove offers a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning. It provides a complete curriculum model which incorporates guidelines on what students should learn, as well as guidelines on teaching methodologies and assessment strategies.

At the heart of The Cove’s curriculum is a commitment to both structured inquiry and emergent curriculum as the leading vehicle for learning.

The curriculum is characterized by

• a set of habits of mind and a set of domain learning outcomes appropriate and sequential within each age group and across all ages from 18 months to 6 years.
• a variety of indoor and outdoor activities
• both structured and emergent curriculum
• learning through play, mediation from adults and collaboration with peers
• preparation of children for school readiness: activities are designed to encourage the children’s exploration in language, math concepts, creative expression, social and physical learning.

The Toddler Curriculum Framework

The Toddler curriculum philosophy is as follows:
We believe in a responsive approach that fosters respectful, responsive and reciprocal dispositions for the 18 months to 3 year-olds.

Active Learning is at core of the curriculum; key experiences centre around care-giving routines and play activities that are both teacher-directed and child initiated.

Using the responsive approach to learning, a set of developmental learning outcomes comprises both developmental domain and habits of mind outcomes are derived. From the learning outcomes, the play curriculum and the caregiving curriculum forms the basis of all the programmes in the centre.