Apr 12, 2024, 12:58 PM by Wendy Lee Yen Ting

8world interviewed Angela Khoo, Principal of NAFA Arts Preschool (Bencoolen), while featuring both Preschool campuses. This coverage also featured Tung Ching Yew, one of the designers for the preschool campus.

Apr 12, 2024, 12:57 PM by Wendy Lee Yen Ting

NAFA Arts Preschool, the first arts-themed preschool in Singapore has a holistic curriculum based on the NEL framework, a Reggio-Emilia-inspired environment, and daily arts to nurture creative, curious and confident children.

Apr 16, 2018, 18:19 PM by User Not Found

Kindergartens with this focus offers within its programmes both academic and arts education in music, art and dance such as piano and violin, languages, speech and drama, positive focus and visual arts performances. In Singapore, NAFA Arts Kindergarten is the first and only Arts Kindergarten and is the “junior extension” of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.

Apr 16, 2018, 18:19 PM by User Not Found

By the time Heather was three months old, Ms Lew, 36, had already registered her for a place at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Nafa) Arts Kindergarten. She said: "I didn't want my girl to be in a purely academic environment, and quite a few of my friends said that Nafa's pre- school has music and dance in its lessons."

Apr 16, 2018, 18:18 PM by User Not Found

For an hour every day, students at NAFA Arts Kindergarten (NAK) immerse themselves in the world of the arts. It could be a lesson in clay-sculpting one day and a class on the finer points of ballet the next. The popularity of NAK’s arts programme led to the opening of a second centre in Novena, NAK @ Derbyshire, in March.

Apr 16, 2018, 18:18 PM by User Not Found

NAFA Arts Kindergarten's pre-school programme is unlike other kindergartens as it focuses not only the academic but also arts and moral education for pre-schoolers. Its programme integrates art, drama, music and dance into the curriculum to support its students' holistic growth.

Apr 16, 2018, 18:17 PM by User Not Found

In 2004, NAFA established the first arts kindergarten in Singapore at East Coast. It has proved popular and currently has a long waiting list, with waiting time as long as 3 years! We hear that the number of children on the waiting list for each level is more than 150 and some parents place their children on the waiting list as young as 2 days old.