Early childhood, beginning in infancy is a period of profound advances in reasoning, language acquisition, and problem solving, and importantly, a child’s environment can dramatically influence the degree and pace of these advances.
Orchard Kinder Preschool & Childcare provides high-quality Early Childhood Education.
Research has shown that much of what to succeed in life is established piror to kindergarten.
During that time, children's brain undergoes rapid development; it’s a period when a child builds cognitive skills — the foundation for reading, math, science and academics — as well as character skills, social-emotional growth which includes everything from impulse control to problem solving.
An one year old young learner brushing his teeth after the meal.
Orchard Kinder's methodology is based on evidence and thesis found in Highscope and other early childhood researches. Our program aims to cultivate children's inter-person skills, social-emotional skills and self-confident through age-appropriate lessons and structured activities.
Easter event including an egg hunt game, story telling, creation of baskets, Easter eggs and bunny ears.
Our teachers are qualified early childhood education teachers and are awarded with certficates issued by the local governement.
They all had at least spent 2 to 4 years early childcare education programs and 1-4 years on-the-ground expereinece.
Some are fluent in Chinese, some are fluent in English with at least TOEIC score 800 or higher.
An example of mixed age classroom; 1 half year to 5 years old children learning together.
“To nurture children to attain all-round development in the domains of ethics, intellect, physique, social skills and aesthetics, so as to prepare them for life. To stimulate children’s interest in learning and cultivate in them positive learning attitudes, in order to lay the foundation for their future learning.”
To assist children
One of Orchard Kinder's mission is to faciliate and to assist children to develop strong social skills.
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The rate of return to investment in human capital is markedly greater when investments occur at younger ages.
That is, while larger investments have been typically made in secondary education, higher education, job training programs, and remedial education, the rate of return is notably lower than if these same funds were invested in human capital formation during the infant/toddler and preschool years.
“A large body of empirical work at the interface of neuroscience and social science has established that fundamental cognitive and noncognitive skills are produced in the early years of childhood, long before children start kindergarten...” - Dr. James Heckman
Increased child and maternal earnings and employment translate into increased tax revenue. Abecedarian participants’ lifetime earnings increased by about $44,000, and their mothers’ lifetime earnings increased by more than $79,000.
Remedial education can consist of repeated grades or specialized schooling, and the additional cost of this extra schooling can be expensive.
Abecedarian participants experienced lower rates of grade retention and special education placements. Perry participants were less likely to be retained or place in special education classes
A number of programs with long-run follow-ups found the eardly childhood programs reduced juvenile arrests and criminal records of participants.
Many cost-benefit analyses find that these cost savings are substantial, and often account for the single largest portion of the accrued benefits over time.
Early childhood education can also benefit society by improving health outcomes for participants, thereby reducing public expenditures on health care, or lowering insurance premiums for private health coverage.
The achievement gap can be identified among children as young as 9 months of age.
Recent research indicates most, if not all, of the achievement gap found at age 5 (at schoolentry) and at age 8 could be eliminated by an intensive two-year early childhood program for infants and toddlers
When examining the academic records of two groups of students (high school graduates and dropouts), researchers found the dropouts had consistently lower scores in reading, writing, math and spelling when compared to the graduates.
These differences between the two groups of students were evident as early as kindergarten and the disparities increased throughout their academic careers.
Orchard Kinder filed and reported to the city government of Yokohama as a private sector kindergaren & childcare facility under Article 59 2 of the Child Welfare Act. As a result Orchard Kinder is obligated to performan a 3rd party inspection on its facilities every year.
Inpection includes but not limited to facility safety, disaster & fire prevention, evacuation drills and protocols, health and sanitation management, placement of qualified personnel, complaince.
Orchard Kinder has passed the inspection and has been awarded a certificate that our facilities cleared all requirements since 2014.
We had been looking for a partner that is able to provide fresh and satefy, high quality food for our children.
Having seek through hundred of providers, we are pleased to annouce that Orchard Kinder and Niconico had reached an agreement appointing Niconico as our primary meal provider.
Niconico is one of the the leading children and school meal providers, sourcing most of food freshly within Japan and its facilities fulfilled the HACCP standard.
The Bluff Medical Clinic
Dr. Tsunehiro Akashi
Services including medical checkup semi-annually, health consultation, healthcare advisory etc.
*Dr. Akashi is fluent in English and Japanese.