Nursery Curriculum Guide
2026 -27
PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAMME
Throughout the year, students will be guided through six Units of Inquiry of global significance, providing opportunities to broaden their learning by developing their conceptual understandings, strengthening their knowledge and skills across, between and beyond subject areas.
The following four Units of Inquiry will be explored throughout the year. Each unit is developed around a concept, a Central Idea and Lines of Inquiry.
Who We Are: Relationships and Wellbeing
An inquiry into:
- Myself: My health and wellbeing
- Interactions: My relationships with others and my sense of belonging
- Growth: The impact on my learning and development
How We Express Ourselves: Creating and Responding: (Expression 表達)
An inquiry into:
- inspiration, imagination and creativity -
- personal, social and cultural modes and practices of communication
- intentions, perceptions, interpretations and responses
Sharing the Planet: Living Things 生物
An inquiry into:
- Living things in our environment 我們周圍的生物
- Our needs and the needs of other living things 我們生存的需要以及其他生物生存的需要
- Our responsibility towards the well-being of other living things 我們對於其他生物的健康成長的責任
How the World Works: Senses 感覺
An inquiry into:
- Our senses 我們的感覺
- Using senses to explore 運用不同的感覺探索周圍的世界
- Why we explore 探索世界的原因
LANGUAGE
The development of language is fundamental to all areas of our learning programs. Language helps us communicate our thinking and understanding.
Language is socially constructed - it is dependent on social interactions and relationships. It permeates all subject areas. As such, we view all of our teachers and assistants to be language teachers.
English is our main language of instruction, with Chinese (Mandarin) taught as an additional language. We take similar approaches teaching both English and Chinese.
Students are provided opportunities to enrich their vocabulary by describing different sensorial experiences and exploring stories, songs and rhymes. Students learn how to interact socially - using appropriate voice and body language. Students recount and retell experiences and stories through socio-dramatic play, drawing and "writing".
MATHEMATICS
Mathematics is a global language of concepts and symbols through which we make sense of the world around us.
Mathematics is taught through three main stages:
- Constructing meaning and ideas about a mathematical concept through interactions with objects, discussions, experimentation and play;
- Transferring these ideas and understandings into symbols;
- Applying these ideas and understanding in real-life and hands-on problem solving activities.
Mathematics is taught through the strands of number, shape and space and measure.
Students explore the concept of counting. They learn how to connect number names, numerals and quantities (including zero) up to 10. They are provided opportunities to explore patterns around them, describing and creating them by using materials, sounds, movements and drawings.
Students explore the concept of space by following and providing simple directions. They compare the length, mass and capacity of different objects. They sort and describe basic 2D shapes and 3D objects. They explore the concept of time by identifying days of the week.
OUTDOOR LEARNING
Students explore a range of land-based environments (including school grounds and local built environments). They will use different tools to observe nature in outdoor and natural settings. They will investigate how plants need water, light & a suitable temperature to grow and flourish. They will have opportunities to create and maintain a sensory garden.
WELLBEING
Wellbeing is a central pillar of our school and is taught on a weekly basis. Students learn through Relationships and Sexuality Education, Social and Emotional Learning, PE & Health and Digital Wellbeing. There is a focus on self-management, relationship skills and fundamental movement skills.
THE ARTS
SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES
Science and Social Studies are primarily taught through the Units of Inquiry (see above). We have new curriculum for 2025-26
This year, we will have a focus on students developing their scientific understanding in the areas of Living Things, Physical and Chemical Science and Earth and Space.
Through Social Studies, students learn about the past, the present and the future through exploring their community and finding out about the wider global community. They learn about their environment and their place in the world through place knowledge and geographical skills.
ICHK Kindergarten and Primary
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