Mission
In Raffles House, our mission is to educate the whole child, to provide a firm foundation in the pursuit of excellence in academic, character, value system and social responsibility. We want our children to find joy in lifelong learning, to be a competent, analytical and confident communicator.


Our Philosophy
We believe every child can learn and wants to learn. Each child is unique and carries a gift. A child's first few years of formative development are highly significant to his future development. At Raffles House, we believe that we are touching lives and therefore strive to provide the highest quality child-centered curriculum that focuses on the intellectual, social, emotional and physical development in a caring, cheerful and secure environment surrounded with qualified and passionate educators.


Our Methodology
In Raffles House, children learn through integrated and interactive experiences, which allow them to imagine, explore, reason and communicate. Our learning foundation is based on a thematic approach guided by clear learning objectives and supported by fun and objective driven, hands-on learning centers. A good balance of Play and Structured Methodology is an important, natural and integral part of learning in Raffles House. Children are taught by language specialists. Our motivation is the education of the whole child, with competency, confidence in learning and communication.


Management
Ms. Isabel Ng, BBA, CFA (Executive Director)
• Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours Degree), National University
of Singapore
• Awarded Top Student in Finance in her faculty, Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder
• Raffles Girls' Primary, Raffles Girls' Secondary and Hwa Chong Junior
College

Career Background
Isabel's first career life was in the Technology and Investment Industry. She has held several senior management positions in Finance, Operations and Business Development. The Education space is Isabel's second career life. She has spent numerous years working in UK, USA and Singapore.

Educational Philosophy
In Raffles House, our philosophy centers on a common goal for all parents, regardless of which cultural and social groups we belong to. Our goal is to educate the whole child. What this means is that we look at education not only as a method to equip the child with depth and a wide range of knowledge, but we are also committed to building a strong value system and a passion for life-long learning in each child. At the crux of it, we believe the ability to deliver really depends on the quality of our curriculum, the values and training of our teachers and our ability to actively seek advice from educational experts and learning institutions.

Our responsibility to deliver quality early childhood education is spelled out with clear individual learning objectives. We have the task of ensuring that our children are well equipped to take on the increasingly challenging syllabus in primary schools with a great passion for life long learning. Learning must therefore be fun and challenging.

We have chosen to call our school Raffles House Preschool, not only because the founders were all from Raffles Girls' Secondary or Raffles Institution. More importantly, because our vision is to build a premier preschool, in line with the accomplishments and strong heritage that the name has come to be associated with, in the education services


Advisors and Specialists
Raffles House is proud to have a great team of local and native-speaking teachers who specialises in early childhood education and literacy in various languages such as English, Mandarin and Japanese.

In the pursuit of educational excellence, we earnestly and with great honour, are supported by experienced educators and advisors who share with us the vision of bringing forth the best in our children.

Ms. Rosemary Reuille Irons Master of Science in Education (Indiana University) Lecturer in Mathematics Education Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia (since 1976)

• Member: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• Australia Association of Mathematics Teachers and Queensland Association
of Mathematics Teachers
• Mathematics Education Research Group of Australia
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• Australian Literacy Educators' Association
• OMEP- Organisation Mondiale Pour L'Education Prescolaire
• (World Organisation for Early Childhood Education)
• Association for Childhood Education International Early Childhood
Teachers Association

Rosemary is a familiar figure in the professional circuit of presenters, seminars and workshops of mathematics education in various countries including Australia, New Zealand, England, Malaysia and Singapore.

She is the author/co-author of approximately 20 books and a yearbook chapter for the council of Teachers of Mathematics, with numerous publications for mathematics for preschool in Australia, United States, New Zealand, England and Singapore. She is the author of Kindergarten Growing with Mathematics which has been awarded the "Promising Mathematics Program by the U.S. Department of Education".

Most recent publications include "Pre-Kindergarten Growing with Mathematics" program. The Growing with Mathematics Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 5 programs are on the research list for the National Science Foundation. Rosemary was a member of the year 2002 team of international educators to develop a revised version of the Kindergarten Growing with Mathematics program for use in schools in the United States.

From Rosemary Irons:
"I believe in children. Children are natural creators, thinkers, and problem solvers. We, as teachers, have a responsibility to provide an exciting and interesting mathematics learning environment that encourages every child to develop to his or her maximum potential"

Ms. Haydi Danielson BA, Geography, UCLA, USA Master of Science, Public and Private Management, Yale University, USA Master of Science, Forest Science, Yale University, USA Co-Founder, Director, Carden El Encanto School

Haydi Danielson attended Viewpoint, a Carden School in Calabasas, California as a student in elementary and junior high school. She went on to earn her BA in Geography from UCLA and two master degrees from Yale University, in Public and Private Management and in Forest Science.

For fifteen years, Mrs. Danielson made her career in the field of natural resource management, primarily in urban forestry. She has participated in making public policy related to California's urban forest management, and has worked as a high level manager in the wholesale plant growing business. When her children reached school age, she was unable to find a school that met her high standards for elementary education. In 1998, Mrs. Danielson redirected her professional efforts and co-founded the Carden El Encanto School in Santa Cruz.