Setting the foundation
for a bright generation!
In Hamel Al Mesk nurseries, we follow a bilingual educational program that endorses the Oxford Curriculum, Creative Curriculum and the HMK’s Arabic Curriculum, in addition to a program that promotes Islamic values and the Holy Quran.
Our program meets the needs and requirements for the children’s physical, mental, emotional and social development. Our curriculum allows children to develop confidence, creativity and thinking skills and prepares them for school.
Our teachers are trained to develop the child’s individual skills and help them achieve their true potential. Our teachers work to achieve the goal of creating a bright generation capable of developing a sense of discipline based on Islamic values.
Creative Curriculum
One of the most important goals of the Creative Curriculum is to help children become motivated learners. This means encouraging children to be active and creative explorers who are not afraid to experiment with their ideas and to come up with new ones.
Our goal is to help children to be self-reliant when learning, to be self-confident and naturally inquisitive. In this curriculum, we teach children the self-directed learning, so they can apply it not only in preschool but throughout their lives. We allow them to learn at their own pace and in their own way. We help them develop good habits, especially a positive sense of themselves, which will make a difference for them in the future.
The best way for children to succeed is to teach them creative thinking. This means giving them the chance to delve in hands-on exploration which helps them build lifelong critical thinking skills and boosts their self-confidence.
With Creative Curriculum, children learn to think actively, experiment and try to figure out how things work and learn from the world we live in. In their early years, children will explore the world around them using all their senses (touch, taste, hearing, smell and sight).
In addition, Creative Curriculum helps teachers interact with children in ways that enhances the children’s development and learning process, their social experience in order for them to live and adapt to their surroundings and helps forming strong bonds between their home and the nursery.
The planned activities for children, the way we set a learning environment rich with positive stimuli, our choice of educational games and tools that support children’s learning through play and fun, the daily schedule planning and constant communication with children are all designed to achieve our curriculum’s goals and give the child a successful start in primary school.
Oxford Curriculum
The Oxford Curriculum for the English language is a fun, interesting and integrated curriculum. It makes learning English for a child stimulating and enjoyable as this curriculum is organized and rich with attractive learning resources that work on creating a positive learning environment where the child can develop self-confidence and self-reliance during his/her learning process.
The curriculum is designed in an easy and clear way, with more attractive images and characters, beautiful songs and stories, and fun, life-based activities that help improving a child’s critical thinking skills.
The Oxford Curriculum trains the children in pre-reading skills, developing English vocabulary, learning the names and the pronunciation of letters as well as learning pre-writing skills, ensuring the development of their fine motor skills to prepare them for developing their writing skills later on.
The curriculum aims at building the four English language skills (listening – speaking – reading – writing) and developing the English language communication skill for children, along with the arithmetic and learning numbers skills.
It also teaches important cultural and ethical values such as respecting others, showing humility, maintaining hygiene and tidiness, preserving the environment and loving nature, as well as gaining social skills such as cooperation, helping others, maintaining things, sharing with others, giving children examples on good behaving which are drawn from everyday life.
Islamic Education Curriculum
We are keen to instill the love of Islamic values in the child through the Islamic Education curriculum as well as pursuing them with his/her own conviction.
This approach teaches the child the right behaviors. It teaches and trains him/her the precise skills that he/she needs, which are age appropriate and based from his/her reality, so that he/she can live and adapt with others and ultimately be capable of building a successful relationship with himself/herself and his/her surroundings in the future.
A continuous follow-up is set for the purpose of checking the implementation of these skills by the children, their understanding of them and their practice of the right behaviors. The follow-up is done through an effective and positive communication with the parents via interviews, circulars, behavioral experiments, worksheets and home practices.
The Holy Quran
We have also been keen on including the Holy Quran in our curricula to motivate the child, encourage him/her to recite and memorize some Quranic surahs, which helps him/her to increase his/her linguistic reservoir, teaches him/her the correct pronunciation and helps him/her to read correctly after a while.
In addition, learning the Quran will help the child in developing his/her ability to memorize and will boost his/her memory. Repeating the surahs will make it easier for him/her to memorize them later on.
Infant Curriculum
Infants grow and change at an amazing pace during the second year of their lives.
Therefore, we were keen on preparing in our nursery a developmental program and special activities which help the child to gradually develop his/her basic skills: motor, sensory and language ones.
The development of the aforementioned skills and the child’s knowledge acquisition at this young age are mainly carried out in our program through:
- The multiple sensory experiences and activities which help the child develop all his/her senses.
- The various motor activities that work on developing the child’ large and fine motor skills.
- Playing and discovering things around him/her, getting to know them and learning their names.
- Listening to stories and simulations, following instructions and learning how to pronounce words through lots of different activities which help him/her understand the language and start learning how to speak.
To follow up on the child’s progress and development, an assessment is conducted to monitor the development and learning of all activities and practiced skills through monthly reports. The child’s parents are updated on the child’ sensory, motor and language development on a daily basis.