The Preschool With The Largest Outdoor Nature Experience!
Discover Our Beautiful Indoor & Outdoor Learning Spaces
- Queenstown
- Orange Grove
- Novena
- Sembawang
Discover The World of Children’s Cove
Established in 2010, we are an Award-Winning pre-school that provides quality, educational and enriching programmes catered to as young as 2 months up to 6 years old.
Our Accolades
Healthy Pre-School Accreditation
As a Health Promotion Board certified Healthy School, we take pride in building an environment, and culture good health and hygiene that extends beyond our doors.
SPARK Certified
We are SPARK-accredited by ECDA; recognised for the combined quality of our management, teaching methods, and results.
Innovation Curriculum Award Winner
We focus on nurturing a culture of innovation in our schools. We have implemented innovative practices that have improved our existing curriculum or services.
Set Your Child Up For Success Now
With a proven track record of our child-centred teaching practices that focus on our proprietary C.O.V.E™ learning approach, we are highly committed to ensuring your child graduates with a deep passion for learning that will prepare them for success in school and life.
Together with our team of passionate and experienced teachers, your child is provided with a safe and secure environment combining the best of both indoors and outdoors for exploring, discovering and learning every day.
Our Unique Approach to Your Child’s Learning
CHILD-CENTRED
OUTCOME-AWARE
VALUES-BASED
ENVIRONMENTALLY-CONSCIOUS
Child-Centred
We believe that all children are born with the innate capacity and desire to explore the world around them. To honour this, we focus on developing that sensibility so that each child grows with an authentic enjoyment of self-motivated learning.
Outcome-Aware
We understand that early childhood is a first and crucial step on a long and often formalised learning journey. To prepare our children, we embed practical and relevant lessons throughout the curriculum to ensure confidence and competence.
Values-Based
Our values define who we are and we look to them as guiding standards of behavior. Our curriculum has a strong focus on character to build the image of a child: caring, confident, creative, curious and competent.
Environmentally-Conscious
We see the environment around us as an effective teacher and actively expose our children to her lessons so that they may gain a deep, experiential understanding of the world that also teaches them to care for it.
Child-Centred
We believe that all children are born with the innate capacity and desire to explore the world around them. To honour this, we focus on developing that sensibility so that each child grows with an authentic enjoyment of self-motivated learning.
Values-Based
Our values define who we are and we look to them as guiding standards of behavior. Our curriculum has a strong focus on character to build the image of a child: caring, confident, creative, curious and competent.
Outcome-Aware
We understand that early childhood is a first and crucial step on a long and often formalised learning journey. To prepare our children, we embed practical and relevant lessons throughout the curriculum to ensure confidence and competence.
Environmentally-Conscious
We see the environment around us as an effective teacher and actively expose our children to her lessons so that they may gain a deep, experiential understanding of the world that also teaches them to care for it.
Purposeful Learning Spaces For Your Child’s Holistic Development
Extensive Outdoor Space (For Jalan Penjara Site)
Spanning more than 200,000 square feet, our outdoor space houses an edible garden, mature fruit trees, a vast sandpit, pond and forest trail, allowing your child to bask in nature, make wonderful discoveries, and create their adventure.
Library
With an extensive collection of children literature and wordless books for storytelling and role-playing, your child will keep coming back to these shelves for more.
Art Atelier
This bright and colourful nook filled with all sorts of craft materials is an inviting corner that will spur your child’s imagination and set your child in a creative mood for our projects, such as lantern crafting. This is also where we boast our children’s art pieces!
Surrounded By Nature
From observing the life cycle of a butterfly to learning about water filtration and ecosystems, your child will be inspired by something new every day in this scenic and enriching compound which is teeming with life, nature, and discoveries to be made!
Dark Room
Pitch black it is, but this is how we awake the other senses! Some of the engaging sensory activities we reserve for this room are playing with glow-in-the-dark slime and making shadows on the wall to learn about light and shadows.
Cookery Room
The kitchen is the best learning lab to experiment with taste and textures! There will be hands-on practical sessions to learn about nutrition and food preparation to foster self-dependency at an early age.
Our Programmes – Tailored To Your Child’s Needs
Infant Care
For Ages: 2 months to 18 months Available: Half-day or Full-day With a teacher-to-child ratio of 1:3, our infant & toddler care is a well-balanced and holistic programme that ensures your child gets the proper love, attention and care that they deserve. With a wide array of sensory activities such as Music Time, Floor Time, Sensory Touch and Outdoor Playtime delivered by caring and patient teachers, your child gets to develop at his/her own pace for optimal growth and achieving crucial developmental development milestones.
Pre-Nursery
For Ages: 19 months to 2 years old Available: Half-day or Full-day With a teacher-to-child ratio of 1:6, our curriculum delivery is child-centred to support your toddler’s curious mind as they will learn both English and Chinese languages naturally through our immersion programme. With huge transitions during this phase, your child will be nurtured towards good character development.
Nursery
For Ages: 3 – 4 years old Available: Half-day or Full-day With a teacher-and-child ratio of 1:8, your child will experience the benefits of dynamic classroom learning with outdoor discovery and exploration. With the introduction of various children’s storybooks and art techniques, your child will develop a sense of creativity and passion for learning.
Kindergarten
For Ages: 5 – 6 years old Available: Half-day or Full-day With a teacher-and-child ratio of 1:12, your child will be nurtured to become more independent thinkers where they will take charge of learning by delving deeper into the inquiry learning cycles through active exploration of real-world challenges. This will effectively prepare your child with the essential skills for primary school education.Purposeful Learning Spaces For Your Child’s Holistic Development
Extensive Outdoor Space (For Jalan Penjara Site)
Spanning more than 200,000 square feet, our outdoor space houses an edible garden, mature fruit trees, a vast sandpit, pond and forest trail, allowing your child to bask in nature, make wonderful discoveries, and create their adventure.
Library
With an extensive collection of children literature and wordless books for storytelling and role-playing, your child will keep coming back to these shelves for more.
Art Atelier
This bright and colourful nook filled with all sorts of craft materials is an inviting corner that will spur your child’s imagination and set your child in a creative mood for our projects, such as lantern crafting. This is also where we boast our children’s art pieces!
Surrounded By Nature
From observing the life cycle of a butterfly to learning about water filtration and ecosystems, your child will be inspired by something new every day in this scenic and enriching compound which is teeming with life, nature, and discoveries to be made!
Dark Room
Pitch black it is, but this is how we awake the other senses! Some of the engaging sensory activities we reserve for this room are playing with glow-in-the-dark slime and making shadows on the wall to learn about light and shadows.
Cookery Room
The kitchen is the best learning lab to experiment with taste and textures! There will be hands-on practical sessions to learn about nutrition and food preparation to foster self-dependency at an early age.
Our Programmes – Tailored To Your Child’s Needs
Infant Care
For Ages: 2 months to 18 months Available: Half-day or Full-day With a teacher-to-child ratio of 1:3, our infant & toddler care is a well-balanced and holistic programme that ensures your child gets the proper love, attention and care that they deserve. With a wide array of sensory activities such as Music Time, Floor Time, Sensory Touch and Outdoor Playtime delivered by caring and patient teachers, your child gets to develop at his/her own pace for optimal growth and achieving crucial developmental development milestones.Pre-Nursery
For Ages: 19 months to 2 years old Available: Half-day or Full-day With a teacher-to-child ratio of 1:6, our curriculum delivery is child-centred to support your toddler’s curious mind as they will learn both English and Chinese languages naturally through our immersion programme. With huge transitions during this phase, your child will be nurtured towards good character development.Nursery
For Ages: 3 – 4 years old Available: Half-day or Full-day With a teacher-and-child ratio of 1:8, your child will experience the benefits of dynamic classroom learning with outdoor discovery and exploration. With the introduction of various children’s storybooks and art techniques, your child will develop a sense of creativity and passion for learning.Kindergarten
For Ages: 5 – 6 years old Available: Half-day or Full-day With a teacher-and-child ratio of 1:12, your child will be nurtured to become more independent thinkers where they will take charge of learning by delving deeper into the inquiry learning cycles through active exploration of real-world challenges. This will effectively prepare your child with the essential skills for primary school education.
What Makes Children’s Cove The Number 1 Choice For Parents?
Imparting Children with Astounding Habits
Our C.O.V.E™ teaching methodology encourages your child’s inquisitive nature, builds their resilience in learning and more.
Emphasis on Hands-on Learning
Your child gets ample opportunities to freely explore, discover and learn while being guided under a structured curriculum.
Close School-and-Parent Partnership
As parents, you also play a crucial role in optimal learning for your child. You will be informed in advance of topics so you can support them in the learning process.
A Fertile Learning Environment
Our school environments are purposefully chosen and designed to combine the best indoor and outdoor experiences for your child’s learning journey.
Diversified Culture
With a mix of locals and expats, your child will be exposed to a diversified learning environment to develop their social interaction skills and broad-based perspectives.
Special Invite
Join Us For A Guided School Tour!
Enjoy 25% off the monthly school fees for the first 2 months when you enrol after the tour!
Plus up to an additional $150 off monthly school fees till your child graduates! (Save $1,800 every year!)
Terms and conditions apply.
What Our Parents Say
Children’s Cove is a huge part of Darcie’s life and she has benefitted by your great education supported by great teachers. Darcie has always enjoyed this cosy yet stimulating environment. Thank you Children’s Cove for everything that you do and for being my daughter’s second home. I am forever grateful.
Warmly, Kiyomi (Darcie’s Mom)
Children’s Cove is a great school for those looking for a place where the kids can get lotsa learning in nature. They make the whole school experience so much fun! The school facilities are great, kids get to play a lot outdoors and develop their curiosity by many things outside the classroom, like plants, animals and playing freely. The teachers and staff have created a great safe environment for education and my daughter is always excited to be at school.
– Lim Hui Li (Gladys’s Mummy)
As a Mum sending my child to school, what I really care about before what he learns at school is feeling safe about sending him to school. Feeling safe putting my child in someone else’s care for a big part of his days. That’s exactly what the team at children’s cove has made me feel. So thankful to Teacher Adella, Teacher Jessica, Mi Lao Shi, Gong Lao Shi, and Ms Liza. You have all been AMAZING. Thank you.
– Eugenia, Ethaan, Isaac Mummy
Our Locations
The Preschool with the largest outdoor experience
Watch your child come alive in the boundless space of our 30,000 square foot complex, enveloped in lush greenery and the great outdoors. A leisurely stroll from the Queenstown MRT, and a blink away from the CBD.
30,000 Square Feet Space • Fully Air-Conditioned Interior • Forest Trail • Friendly Ducks & Chickens •
Run By Our Most Experienced Teachers
Hang with the original crew at Orange Grove: our most seasoned team of teachers who have been with us since the beginning. Come and see how they have honed the craft of childcare in the cosy space of the RELC building, a short drive away from Orchard Road.
Fully Air-Conditioned • Open Design for Easy Observation
Straight Out of A Storybook
Our charming playhouse lies peacefully hidden in Novena, at the edges of Orchard Road. Surrounding it, our sprawling garden gives children more than enough space to run, play, and learn in the bright outdoors.
Spacious Lawn & Garden • Luscious Fruit Trees • Edible Garden • Airy Ventilation
Active Learning in the Heartlands
Conveniently located in Sembawang Shopping Centre, the school caters to both infant care and preschool. Our language-art focused programme here gives children ample opportunities to equip themselves with the skills needed for primary school and beyond.
Language-Art Programme • Fully Air-Conditioned • Easy Access to Playground and Water Park • Convenient Shuttle Bus Service to SSC
