Outdoor
Explore how MK@Bendemeer's outdoor programme supports children's growth through play, curiosity, and creativity.
Our outdoor curriculum promotes holistic child development through purposeful play in both natural and thoughtfully designed outdoor spaces. Children engage in a range of activities like Unstructured and Structured Play, YES! Day, Let’s Find Out sessions, as well as playground and wheeled vehicles experiences. These activities support physical development, creativity, independent thinking, and environmental awareness.
Through a spectrum of child-led, teacher-child shared and teacher guided activities, MK@Bendemeer fosters learning dispositions from the NEL framework: Perseverance, Reflectiveness, Appreciation, Inventiveness, a Sense of Wonder, and Engagement through the outdoor . Outdoor learning plays an important role in our curriculum as it nurtures children into confident leaders, passionate learners and members of a gracious community.
Playground & Wheeled Vehicles Time
Our Playground and Wheeled Vehicles time focuses on nurturing the disposition of Engagement, where children are deeply interested and actively involved in learning as they interact with the materials. During this time, they enjoy learning and playing alongside their friends in a joyful and meaningful way.
Let’s Find Out
Our Let’s Find Out outdoor programme builds on children’s sense of wonder and curiosity. Children with this disposition express excitement about learning and show keen interest in the world around them. They are confident in asking questions and enjoy exploring, investigating, and discovering new things.
YES Day!
Our YES Day programme nurtures children’s inventiveness by encouraging flexible thinking and creative problem-solving. Children are provided with a variety of resources and given the autonomy to choose the materials they wish to explore and how they engage with them.
Children enjoying a combined YES Day with their friends from other classes.
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Structured Play
Our Structured Play programme helps children develop perseverance as they work towards completing tasks despite challenges. Through teacher-directed games and activities such as skill-focused relays and group games with rules, children learn to stay engaged and resilient. Structured Play may also serve as an extension of our HI-Light activities.
Children learning the skill of leaping from their HI-Light lesson.
Unstructured Play
Unstructured Play involves a balance of teacher- and child-directed experiences, where teachers provide materials and a broad theme for exploration. Through this programme, children develop appreciation as they work collaboratively, learn from one another, and recognise that everyone has ideas to contribute.
Children building a luggage conveyor belt during Loose Parts Play.
