EtonHouse International Pre-School Hong Kong 3.66

The EtonHouse International Pre-Schools in Hong Kong are a part of the EtonHouse International Education Group. Headquartered in Singapore, the EtonHouse Group is a global organization with 100 schools in 12 countries with over 10000 children from many different nationalities. The EtonHouse International School and Pre-School campuses over the last two decades have established standards of excellence in international education from the kindergarten to the senior years.

The EtonHouse International Pre-Schools in Hong Kong reinforce this reputation of excellence and leadership in educational practice by offering a high quality early childhood programme based on research and best practice. The highly individualised and responsive programme offered in EtonHouse provide children an engaging and meaningful learning environment where they develop into confident, competent, responsible and multilingual global citizens.

The curriculum is inspired by the work undertaken by colleagues working in the world renowned pre-schools and infant toddler centres in Reggio Emilia, in Northern Italy. EtonHouse, in collaboration with Reggio Children started the International Network in Asia to enhance communication, dialogue and professional development opportunities between Reggio Children and early childhood professionals in Asia.

The EtonHouse Inquire ￮ Think ￮ Learn curriculum is a research based programme that focuses on inquiry based integrated learning where children’s ideas, interests and theories inform the design of curriculum experiences. EtonHouse runs several International Baccalaureate (IB) World Schools in different parts of the world. There are 7 IB certified EtonHouse campuses. The early years curriculum in EtonHouse is therefore in alignment with that of the primary years. EtonHouse also has a dedicated research and training arm called the EtonHouse Education Centre that focuses entirely on quality and professional development of its teaching staff. It also organizes several high quality international conferences.

Young children at EtonHouse are respected as competent thinkers and communicators who are offered many opportunities to engage with a wide range of materials and resources to extend and challenge their thinking. The curriculum invites children to explore, discover, hypothesise, predict, problem solve, construct and document their deepening understanding of the world in which we live. Topics of study for project work may be captured from the children’s current competencies, skills, ideas and theories, through family and community events as well as the best known interests of children. EtonHouse Hong Kong offers a high quality integrated bilingual programme in Chinese.

In Reggio Emilia, they refer to the learning environment as the ‘third teacher’. In EtonHouse Hong Kong, our teachers pay great attention to the look and ‘feel’ of the classrooms carefully organizing spaces for small and large group work. We believe that children have a right to a respectful environment. The environment brings the outside world indoors to ensure that children build deep relationships with the natural world. The carefully planned spaces with innovative and open ended resources and learning materials create an environment for exploration, research and a life-long love for learning.

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