Monday
Steamed sweet corn and milk
Fruit
Papaya
This is what a morning looks like
The shape of the day, the rooms it happens in, what gets eaten, and how all of it reaches you.
The morning, from the door onwards
Six stages, in the same order in every room. The younger the class, the shorter each one lasts.
08:30Exploration
Free choice around the room
09:00Circle time
Songs, calendar, weather
09:30Focused subjects
Small group, at a table
10:00Snack
Children pour and clear
10:15Enrichment
Music, art or the garden
11:00Motor skills
Climbing, balance, running
Rooms built to be used
Nothing here is a display. If it is out on a shelf, a child is allowed to pick it up.
The hall
Movement, music, and somewhere to run when the weather says otherwise.
Sensory room
Rice, water, dough and sand, on a floor that is meant to get messy.
Indoor playground
Climbing and balance, whatever the afternoon rain is doing.
Classrooms
One room per level at Kuningan, with everything at child height.
What happens after the morning
KYZN Afterschool Care picks up where the school day stops, and runs until pick-up.
Fourteen activities run across the week, from swimming and gymnastics through to bricks, ballet and music. A child does one a day, not four.
Around it sits the part that matters more at this age: a rest, a healthy snack, and a bath, so the child who gets into the car is not the one who has been going since half past seven.
- Fourteen activities across the week.
- A rest, a healthy snack and a bath before pick-up.
- Ask admissions which activities run at your campus.
What gets eaten
Snack is a lesson as well as a meal. Children pour their own drink, serve themselves, and clear their own plate.
Tuesday
Banana pancakes and milk
Fruit
Melon
Wednesday
Vegetable soup and bread
Fruit
Orange
Thursday
Chicken porridge
Fruit
Banana
Friday
Sweet potato and mung bean
Fruit
Watermelon
A sample week. The real menu is published in illumine every Monday.
The menu rotates monthly and is planned around the allergies in each room. Tell us about yours before the first day.
How the year gets written down
Teachers record what they see while it is happening. This is one entry, as it reaches you in illumine.
Creative expression
Chose the thick brush, mixed red into yellow, and stopped to look at what had happened before painting again. Named the colour orange without being told it.
- Knowledge
- Two colours can make a third.
- Skills practiced
- Holding a brush, mixing, waiting for a result.
- Attitude shown
- Stopped to look before carrying on.
- Next step
- Offer blue, and see whether the same test gets repeated.
You will not have to ask how it went
Every KYZN family gets illumine. Six things live in it, and all six update during the morning rather than after it.
The daily report usually lands before a parent has left the office: a photo or two, what was eaten, how long the nap ran, and one line about what happened.
The rest is there so an ordinary question does not need a phone call. Attendance, the portfolio, this week's snack menu, a direct message to the class teacher, and the term calendar.
Daily report
Photos and a short note, sent before you leave the office.
Attendance
See the moment your child is checked in and out.
Portfolio
Observations collected all year, not only at report time.
Snack menu
This week's menu, published every Monday.
Messages
Reach your child's teacher without a class group chat.
Calendar
Term dates, holidays and events in one place.
Come and stand in it
Photographs only get you so far. Pick a morning and we will walk you through the rooms while class is running.