Cherie Hearts @ Gombak

Believing strongly in the provision of quality early childhood education for young children, Cherie Hearts @ Gombak was born on 1st May 2008.

Located inside MINDEF (Ministry of Defence), Cherie Hearts @ Gombak is the safest and most secured place to be.

At Cherie Hearts @ Gombak, we believe in developing a holistic child. Not only do we focus on the child’s physical, intellectual, social-emotional and language development. We also believe strongly in character building and discipline. Great emphasis is placed on the children’s health and nutritious needs too.

Our spacious and homely environment provides children with lots of opportunities to explore and learn. Our learning environment and materials are specially designed to facilitate learning through self-discovery, problem-solving and exploration.

All our educators are highly qualified with at least a Diploma in Early Childhood Education. With a strong team of dedicated, passionate and caring early childhood educators and educarers, we strive to exemplify the best child care and educational practices.

We are very proud to be able to achieve these awards:

• Singapore’s OK (Preschool)
Our centre maintains good environmental hygiene practices and has achieved the Singapore’s OK (SOK) certification.
• Healthy Eating Award 2009 & 2010
Our centre provides nutritious, healthy and well-balanced meals.

Our Programmes:
Cherie Hearts offers a whole host of services to cater to the varying needs of our parents and children.

Enrichment Programmes

FutureKids®
Join FUTUREKIDS® all over the world in exploring new frontiers using today’s technology. It’s creative and challenging. It’s fun yet productive, practical yet exciting. It’s the new path to computer mastery for children aged 4 onwards. Each module features project-based activities that are infused with interesting themes and academic content in core subject areas such as math, science and social studies, etc. The curriculum incorporates hundreds of sequential learning objectives to enable students to master the 10 key technology areas to become fluent computer users.

The ‘Theatrical Kids’ (Chinese)
Recognizing the importance of ARTS education in young children’s holistic development, Cherie Hearts offers The ‘Theatrical Kids’, a comprehensive arts programme in Chinese which comprises the four components of arts – drama, music, dance and visual arts. Each session, the children will experience different forms of arts specially conducted by 2 separate performing arts specialists who are currently also active in the arts scene in Singapore. In addition to the regular class sessions, the children will also be given opportunities to visit performances and other art exhibitions.

In Cherie Hearts, we strongly believe that the best way to communicate your child’s progress is through watching them applying what they have learnt in a fun and meaningful way. To the children, being able to perform and showcase their talents will help them build their confidence and self-esteem, and develop their personalities.

Acts of Life
Acts of Life is an educational company that provides high-energy, resource rich Speech & Drama classes with unique opportunities to actively cultivate children’s academic readiness through the learning of the Arts & History, while developing in each a more in-depth knowledge of themselves and others. Operated by a team of expats and experts, the program prepares children for LIFE through THE ARTS & HISTORY!

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Melody Wang (Branch Director of Gombak)
Ms Melody’s passion for young children has spurred her onto the journey in the Early Childhood industry. Graduated with a Diploma with Merit in Early Childhood Education from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, she then went on to pursue her Degree in Early Childhood Education with University of South Australia and Certificate in Infant/ Toddler Care and Development.

Believing strongly in the provision of quality early childhood education for young children, Ms Melody believes in providing a happy and secure learning environment where children can learn meaningfully through play, with the guidance from a team of dedicated early childhood professionals, in partnership with parents and the community. She hopes to work hand-in-hand with parents to build their child’s foundation years and also to develop each child’s potential to its fullest.

Ruth Lin (Assistant Branch Director of Gombak)
Ms Ruth possesses a Degree in Early Childhood Education with University of South Australia. It is highly commendable that Ms Ruth is not only well-equipped with the knowledge of early childhood education from her degree course but she is also competent and experienced with children of the various age groups. She began her working life as an infant educarer and had gained invaluable experience from it. Her passion with the infants, spurred her to go on to pursue a Certificate in Infant/Toddler Development.

Ms Ruth believes that food and nutrition plays a very important role in children’s development thus she places great emphasis in providing healthy, nutritious and well-balanced meals to the children.

Chen Sihui (Principal of Gombak)
Ms Sihui is a very dedicated and passionate teacher. She began her early childhood journey as an infant educarer before proceeding to the childcare sector to take up the principal position in her previous school. Her warm and friendly personality enables her to work very well with the children, parents and teachers. Ms Sihui possesses a Degree in Early Childhood Education with University of South Australia, Diploma in Early Childhood Education from Ngee Ann Polytechnic and also a Certificate in Infant/Toddler Development. Ms Sihui believes very strongly in the African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child”. She believes that each and every one of us plays a very important role in developing a whole child.