Principal encourages early childhood learning

A school principal has urged parents to enrol their children in the early childhood leaning programme using Accelerated Christian Education (ACE).
Full Gospel Christian Academy principal Mary Hailai made the remark during an open day in Port Moresby.
“The open day is specifically to showcase our curriculum-ACE-to parents and explain how we teach their children in school before the students go off for term break,” she said.
She said it was important to enrol children using the ACE curriculum so that they learned Christian values while growing up.
“The ACE curriculum is based on Biblical values, when we teach them how to pronounce, learn how read and write, we teach them Christian values and discipline as well.”
Hailai said children enrolled as early as three years and above, had to undergo level of paces to develop their knowledge.
“The first level of education begins in the kindergarten level using the curriculum to develop early childhood learning, the students have to complete 60 paces of learning before entering pre-school,” she said.
Hailai said the same occurred to preschoolers’ level before they reached the ABC level, she said this level then determined whether the child was now able to transit to the primary level or remained and completed the remaining paces.
“Using this curriculum, we diagnose students who transfer from public schools to church-run schools so that we know which level of education they need to be placed in order to improve their learning,” she said.
Hailai said, they had been instructed to build an early childhood learning centre for beginners that would be recognised by the Government.