Each week passes quickly at Fairchild. Our experienced and nurturing Educators provide many engaging hands-on learning experiences that allow happiness to bloom. The Reggio Emilia approach is all about having children seen as competent, resourceful, curious, imaginative, inventive and to possess a desire to interact and communicate with others.
Our Reggio-inspired environment, often referred to as ‘the third teacher’, is thoughtfully designed and arranged in a way that engages and informs children beyond the direction a teacher provides. Our goal is to create an atmosphere that fosters creative exploration, demonstrates respect for children’s work, while encouraging encounters, communication, and relationships.
Elegant simplicity and learning through the joy of discovery are at the heart of Fairchild. By enabling learning through play, the children discover nature through their senses. They have been eager to get hands on with our mealworms during our free play time.
The mealworms helped the children be aware of the word ‘brave’ as they choose whether to touch them, or have one crawling on their hands. They discovered courage doesn’t always feel like courage. From the outside, courage can look impressive and powerful and self-assured. It might look reckless or thrilling. From the inside though, it can feel frightening or unpredictable. It can feel like anxiety, or fear, or rolling self-doubt. Courage often looks different from the outside to the way you would expect it to feel on the inside. Courage and fear always exist together. If there is no fear, there is no need for courage.
Courage is something magical that happens inside us to make us push through fear, self-doubt, anxiety, and do the things that feel hard, risky or frightening. Sometimes, courage only has to happen for seconds at a time – just long enough to be brave. Courage comes in the way of grand gestures, super heroic feats, or actions of dragon slayers. The truth is, our children are slaying their own dragons, every day. Our children are heroes, every one of them. The key is helping them realise it so they can use it to push through when they feel scared or confused. Happiness is the key, and something we have in abundance at Fairchild.
Fairchild Kindergarten
Address: G/F & 1/F Kong Chian Tower, Block 1, 351 Des Voeux Road West, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong
Tel: 2803 2638
Fairchild Junior Academy
Address: 22/F, Park Commercial Centre, 180 Tung Lo Wan Road, Tin Hau, Hong Kong
Tel: 2898 1611
K1 students learn to upcycle food waste and observe the life stage of mealworms.
