The NPC Preschool is a three year program designed to develop children’s skills cognitively, emotionally, socially, physically, and linguistically.
Required age of entry to the NPC Preschool*
                                               Kindergarten I (Kg1):  3 Years
                                               Kindergarten II (Kg2):  4 Years
                                               Kindergarten III (Kg3):  5 Years
* Children must reach the required age of school-entry on or before January 31st in order to register for the program.

At the end of the school year, KG1 students will be able to:

• Participate in group work
• Play and interact well with other children
• Show appropriate social behavior
• Take care of personal belongings and needs
• Show eye-hand coordination
• Name shapes
• Name colors
• Recite numbers
• Show eye- hand coordination
• Recognize graphic forms
• Understand and apply different concepts
• Understand and follow instructions
• Relates what they learn to daily life situations

At the end of the KG2 students will be able to:

·         Participate in group work

·         Play and interact well with other children

·         Show appropriate social behavior

·         Take care of personal belongings and needs

·         Control fine motor skills

·         Control gross motor skills

·         Show eye-hand coordination

·         Name shapes

·         Name colors

·         Complete and create  a pattern

·         Show eye- hand coordination

·         Recognize and write  graphic forms

·         Understand and apply different concepts

·         Understand and follow instructions

·         Relate what they learn to daily life situations

·         Write numbers from 1-10

·         Matches numbers to equal sets

·         Recognize and write some English letters 

·         Recognize the sound of these  letters

·         Decode letters in words

·         Match words with the same sound

·         Use  English language to retell stories

·         Recognize and write  own name

·         Understand standard Arabic language

·         Use standard Arabic to retell stories

·         Acquire readiness for reading and writing

At the end of the KG3 students will be able to:

·         Participate in group work

·         Play and interact well with other children

·         Show appropriate social behavior

·         Take care of personal belongings and needs

·         Control fine motor skills

·         Control gross motor skills

·         Show eye-hand coordination

·         Name and draw 2 and 3 dimensional shapes

·         Complete and create a pattern

·         Understand and apply different concepts

·         Understand and follow instructions

·         Relate what they learn to daily life situations

·         Write numbers from 1-30

·         Can perform addition and subtraction operations

·         Recognize and write  letters 

·         Recognize the sound of letters

·         Read and write words with short vowel sound

·         Have suitable phonological awareness

·         Can express himself/herself in English

·         Write own full name

·         Understand standard Arabic language

·         Use standard Arabic to retell stories

·         Can read and write simple Arabic words