KUCHING: The Sisters of St. Francis, Sarawak will be setting up a new kindergarten here in Kuching, a press release stated yesterday.
The kindergarten, named St. Joseph’s Kindergarten, will commence operation in January 2018. It will be a co-ed kindergarten. For its first intake in January 2018, the kindergarten will take in four and five-year-old only.
It will be located at Jalan Taman Budaya – the same location as St. Jude’s Kindergarten which was closed at the end of 2016.
St. Joseph’s Kindergarten is affiliated to St. Joseph’s Private School, Kuching. Students from St. Joseph’s Kindergarten will get direct admission to Primary 1 at St. Joseph’s Private Primary School without having to sit for the assessment test subject to certain criteria. However, admission to St. Joseph’s Private Primary School is not compulsory. Parents are free to send their child to any other schools to continue their primary education.
The Kindergarten will follow the Malaysian Pre-School syllabus. Medium of instruction will be in both Bahasa Malaysia and English. There will be enrichment curriculum with the inclusion of teaching materials used by established kindergartens from Singapore and West Malaysia.
School fee will range from RM2,400 to RM3,600 per year depending on the level. In addition to the school fee, there will also be a registration of RM200 (refundable if the child is not given a place) and miscellaneous fee of RM400 per year.
Normal school hours will be from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon, Monday to Friday. For the convenience of parents, we are exploring the possibility of providing after school care from 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm. This can only be done if we have a reasonable number of students enrolling for after school care. The fee for after school care is estimated at RM300 per month per student.
Parents interested to send their child to St. Joseph’s Kindergarten can enquire at St. Joseph’s Private School, Jalan Nagor, Off Jalan Satok, Kuching (tel: 082-414575/420575). Registration will close on July 31,2017, the statement concluded.
