Our Curriculum

Discover how MK's curriculum nurtures your child holistically through play and active learning, building strong language, social, and thinking skills from an early age.

Last updated 23 June 2026

Our curriculum is specially designed based on MOE’s Nurturing Early Learners (NEL) Framework (opens in new tab). This is where we believe that children are joyful, active, curious and competent learners, and we aim to nurture your child holistically to be lifelong learners. In addition, we believe that children learn best through an integrated approach and intentionally planned learning activities.

MK offers classes in the 3 official MTLs (Chinese, Malay and Tamil). We encourage children of Chinese, Malay and Indian ethnic race to take their own MTLs.

MK Curriculum

Our MK curriculum comprises 2 flagship programmes:

HI-Light Programme
Starlight Literacy Programme for English and MTL

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Curriculum: Our Flagship Programmes

Starlight Literacy Program - Early Childhood Literacy
Language learning is a dynamic and ongoing process that begins in infancy and early childhood and continues throughout the schooling years. In early childhood, the focus is on developing children’s listening and speaking skills. An active, interactive approach helps to nurture children’s interest in learning languages.

We use Big Books, songs, rhymes and games to help your child to:

Develop listening, speaking and early literacy skills.
Enjoy English and their Mother Tongue Language (MTL) (i.e. Chinese, Malay or Tamil language).
Communicate with confidence.
Learn about local customs and traditions.

Mother Tongue Language (MTL) and BilingualismBilingualism is a cornerstone of Singapore’s education system. Learning our MTL gives us direct access to our cultural heritage, and can help us better understand our values, roots and identities.

At MK, we nurture bilingualism by focusing on listening, speaking and engaging children in games and activities that encourage early literacy development.

By using their MTL to communicate with teachers and their friends on a daily basis, children build a strong foundation that will prepare them for language learning in later years.

HI-Light Programme
The HI-Light Programme is designed to support the holistic development of children across these six learning areas through an integrated approach to learning. It provides children opportunities to explore, discover and learn about the world around them.

Aesthetics and creative expression
Discovery of the world
Language and literacy
Motor skills development
Numeracy
Social and emotional development

Weeks of Wonder (WoW) Projects
Collaborative and Self-directed Learning
Each term at MOE Kindergarten (MK) culminates in a Weeks of Wonder (WoW) project. In a year, children complete 2 WoW projects in English and another 2 in their Mother Tongue Language (MTL). Children will work together with their friends on a topic of their choice.

Through WoW projects, children learn how to:

make their own decisions
develop problem-solving, process and investigative skills
collaborate with one another
communicate effectively in English and their MTL

Through the process of finding answers to their own questions, WoW projects allow children to:

experience the joy of self-motivated learning
build their confidence
strengthen their learning dispositions or positive behaviours and attitudes towards learning

Find out more about Weeks of Wonder (WoW) Projects (opens in new tab)