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As an adaptable and agile leader in the early childhood sector, NTUC First Campus (NFC) continuously strives to provide the best for our families. In these unprecedented times, NFC responded to the needs of our families through various efforts such as the rapid development of useful home-based learning (HBL) resources and forging valuable partnerships with industry partners to provide a one-stop portal for parents to access home-based learning resources. These efforts helped to support our children’s learning during the Circuit Breaker period and beyond, ensuring that children and families continue to get access to high-quality pre-school resources and education.
KidzMatters: The one-stop portal with compelling home-based learning resources
During the COVID-19 Circuit Breaker period, NTUC First Campus recognised that some families might not have access to learning resources at home. Hence, we launched KidzMatters, a centralised one-stop portal providing specially curated, high-quality and compelling home-based learning resources for children to continue learning at home.
As a leader in the early childhood sector, NFC partnered all five anchor operators to make home-based learning resources and parent guides available on KidzMatters, to reinforce their children’s learning. Besides having access to new content daily on the KidzMatters platform, parents have also been able to pick up tips and techniques from accompanying parent guides on how to facilitate and optimise their children’s home-based learning experience.
Parents can access KidzMatters via website (www.kidzmatters.com) or the mobile app.
My team moved at lightning speed to engage internal and external stakeholders to set up the KidzMatters portal at the onset of the circuit breaker period. We obtained inputs from parents to understand the type of home-based learning resources that can best support their needs, enabling them to better engage their children.
During the circuit breaker period, KidzMatters offered some online art classes which I enrolled my child for. I was able to use these sessions to not only have my child learn, but I had opportunities to interact with my child too.
KidzMatters gave me many good suggestions on activities I could do with my child during the circuit breaker period and weekends. My daughter Clara had lots of fun during the virtual art class too.
Teaching Chinese Nursery Rhymes through music
In April 2020, NTUC First Campus produced a music video based on a series of Mother Tongue books written by Dr Connie Lum, NFC’s Director of Mother Tongue Languages Curriculum. The series is written for children from 0-3 years old with a local context.
Reflecting NFC’s thought leadership in breaking new grounds to teach the Mother Tongue curriculum, this is the first pre-school created nursery rhyme music video in Singapore. My First Skool children also had the opportunity to be in the music video, which was based on the song, “早安儿歌” (Good Morning).
The music video also served as one of the home-based learning activities parents could engage their children with during the Circuit Breaker period.
Click here to view the music video!
