ELFA children over the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival celebration The children at ELFA Preschool @ Serangoon were especially excited on 13 September when they arrived at the centre. Their parents had accompanied them to school for the Mid-Autumn Festival celebration organised by the teachers. Many of them were dressed in the [...]
Children of ELFA Preschool @ Serangoon turned up at the centre on 18 July 2019 dressed to the nines in costumes of various colours and hues to mark Racial Harmony Day. Their teachers too came dressed in the unique and colourful traditional costumes. They began the morning hearing from the teachers stories about various [...]
Happiest birthday Singapore! From the ELFA Children and staff. All dressed in red and white, the teachers and children of ELFA Preschool @ Serangoon celebrated National day on 8 August 2019, Friday. A day where we celebrate Singapore’s independence from Malaysia in 1965. The children and teachers gathered outside of the [...]
Children 3 to 6 years are most unlikely to have the chance to help their parents in the kitchen. At ELFA Preschool @ Serangoon on 14 June 2019, the childcare children had the most unforgettable moments of their lives when they spent Father’s Day with their daddies “cooking” up a storm. The event kicked [...]
Getting their fingers sticky and wet or simply sweating it out, children turned stall holders to sell food and drink, and games, at the Elfa Preschool (Serangoon) annual Family Carnival on 14 June 2019. To provide family support, parents of the K1 and K2 children were roped in to adopt the “stalls”. The activities [...]
Having a Mandarin-enriched curriculum means that children at Elfa Preschool would occasionally observe various Chinese festival to understand their significance. On 7 June 2019 the preschool at Serangoon were treated to a variety of activities to mark the Dragon Boat Festival. Teachers shared the story on how the festival originated to commemorate the [...]
As a preschool that offers an enriching environment that emphasises strong immersion in Mandarin from Pre-Nursery to Kindergarten 2, ELFA Serangoon & Pandan Valley gives its children the opportunity to benchmark their proficiency in the language. For instance, in November 2018, our ELFA children from kindergarten 2 took the Youth Chinese Test (YCT) Level [...]
In support of the We Thank Our NSmen initiative by SAFRA, ELFA Preschool will waive off surcharges for late pick-up of children from our centres. This initiative will run for a year, from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020, when fathers are away for their annual In-camp Training (ICT) or serving other NS [...]
To widen their learning horizon, Chinese language teachers from ELFA Singapore joined their Crestar Education Group colleagues from Nurturestars and Kinderland preschools in Singapore and Malaysia to attend the 7th Asian Education Annual Conference in Zhuhai, China from 17 to 21 April 2019. The first two days after their arrival was scheduled for visiting [...]
Earth Day on 22 April 2019 presented another opportunity for ELFA Preschool @ Serangoon to raise more awareness about the threats to the wellbeing of our beloved Earth. The day was marked with teachers explaining how a clean and healthy Earth can help to sustain clean air and water, as well as the production [...]