Our Preschool programme integrates the National Early Years Curriculum (MOET) with Cambridge Early Years Curriculum, providing a strong foundation for lifelong learning. It is further enriched by Jolly Phonics and Numicon approaches to support children’s holistic development across literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills.
Subjects offered at AHB Preschool include:
The National Early Years Curriculum (MOET) is developed following the “Early Education” model, integrating multiple subjects to explore weekly themes across five key areas of learning:
Cognitive Development
Physical Development
Language and Literacy Development
Artistic Development
Social and Emotional Development
Cambridge Early Years is an international programme for children aged 3–6, designed to support holistic development through play-based and experiential learning.
The curriculum focuses on six key learning areas: communication and language, creative expression, mathematical thinking, personal, social and emotional development, physical development, and understanding the world.
Using a spiral learning approach, children continuously build and strengthen their knowledge and skills over time. A multilingual learning environment at AHB helps children develop confidence and readiness for Primary education within a bilingual and international pathway.
The Cambridge Programme establishes five key elements that define a truly international education:
an international curriculum, a global approach to teaching and learning, assessments with Cambridge International, international recognition and university acceptance worldwide, and a global community of learners, teachers, and schools. It offers a clear pathway for academic success from Primary and Lower Secondary to Upper Secondary and Advanced levels.
At the Pre-Primary level, the Cambridge Programme provides essential preparation, giving children opportunities to build foundational knowledge and skills for Primary School. The curriculum is broad and balanced, covering core subjects such as English, Mathematics, and Science, and incorporating both classroom and external assessments. It also helps children develop vital skills in research, analysis, evaluation, reflection, collaboration, and communication.
Jolly Phonics is a systematic, child-centred approach to teaching literacy through sounds and actions. It uses a multi-sensory method to make learning fun and engaging, helping children build a strong foundation in reading and writing.
Through Jolly Phonics, children develop five key skills for reading and writing:
Learning the letter sounds – Children are taught the 42 main letter sounds, which include alphabet sounds as well as digraphs such as sh, th, ai, and ue.
Learning letter formation – Using multi-sensory techniques, children learn how to form and write letters correctly.
Blending – Children learn to blend sounds together to read and write new words.
Identifying sounds in words (Segmenting) – By listening for individual sounds, children strengthen their spelling skills.
Tricky words – Children learn irregularly spelled words separately to improve reading fluency and writing confidence.
Numicon is a multi-sensory approach to teaching mathematics, designed to help children of all ages understand the relationships between numbers. Through a hands-on, visual, and tactile learning process—by seeing and feeling—children build a solid foundation that supports their mathematical understanding in later years. Numicon uses engaging learning tools such as coloured shapes, pegs, and other manipulatives to provide rich sensory experiences and make abstract concepts more concrete.
