Child Development Centre under Office of Phuket City

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The children are taking us to their 'Dolphin' room.
This is a pre-school lesson
in the Child Development Centre
under the Office of Phuket City.




The school bags are tidily placed on a shelf.
After parents drop them off in the mornings,
the children know what they have to do.
Everyone is well dressed,
ready to learn new things,
join in activities, have meals, and play.
This is a preparation stage for everyone
before they are introduced
to the first lesson on their education path. "We have 4 Child Development Centres.
They accept children aged 4 years up.
The centers prepare the children
for social skills & to be independent
at a certain level."




This week is 'Good Health and Wellness'
at the Child Development Centre.
The children then learn about their bodies
and simple health care.




Now, it's time for a midday nap.

The Child Development Centre,
under the Office of Phuket City,
currently opens for all children,
different from its original purpose
when starting in 1995 to serve only
the children of the municipality's staff.
While the younger ones are taking a nap,
it's time for the older ones of K.1 and K.2
to exercise with different equipment located
in the grounds of the kindergarten school
under the Office of Phuket City.
It is situated nearby within the compound
of the Office of Phuket City's Public Library.
Everything looks so fun.
It's difficult to make up your mind.

The Office of Phuket City has opened classes
for this kindergarten on a trial period
for one semester now.
It started by giving lessons
to kindergarten students from
Tesaban Ban Bang Niew school.
The school accepts new enrollment
in the 2009 academic year.
"We originally planned to stop kindergarten education
in some of our schools
to get prepared for the Office's Kindergarten School which is called Tesaban 6.
But we still face limits in term of classrooms
& teachers so we delayed it
& will fully commence in 2009.
We are determined to prepare the best
for children to go to their 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th year."

The children begin to learn about the open world and meet more new friends here.

Category:

Education

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• Phuket
• Thailand
• child
• development
• kindergarden