Founded in 1994, Yonghe Little Oxford Bilingual Talent Kindergarten, formerly known as Beijing Little Oxford Bilingual Kindergarten, is the first international bilingual kindergarten in Beijing. Later, it was acquired by Yonghe Preschool Education Group and renamed Yonghe Little Oxford Bilingual Talent Kindergarten, and has opened four branches in Beijing so far, which is the Asia-Pacific Preschool Education Seminar Demonstration Park, the designated visit demonstration garden for kindergarten principals in 18 provinces across the country, and the Beijing Municipal Government's foreign-related demonstration kindergarten. Among them, Modern City Park was rated as a first-class kindergarten in Beijing in 2011.
The Little Oxford Bilingual Talent Kindergarten curriculum focuses on two aspects, one is bilingualism and the other is talent. Little Oxford adopts Chinese and English teaching, holds the certificate of employing foreign cultural and educational experts and foreign staff issued by the Beijing Bureau of Foreign Experts, all foreign teachers are full-time teachers, and the qualifications and employment methods of foreign teachers are guaranteed. Little Oxford Kindergarten said that its English teaching is mainly combined with TPR teaching method (full body response teaching), CLT teaching method (communication teaching method) and other teaching methods, in fact, it emphasizes the interaction of the body through games, and completes bilingual teaching through role-playing and game interaction between teachers and children. Little Oxford has been bilingual since its inception, with a full-time foreign teacher in each class, and English lessons are arranged every day, which can create a better English learning environment for children. If parents want their children to be exposed to English learning as early as possible, Little Oxford's curriculum arrangement does not require parents to go to the kindergarten to enroll in classes.
The rich talent program is another major feature of Little Oxford Kindergarten. In addition to the general bilingual courses, Little Oxford's curriculum also offers a variety of talent courses, including dance, speech, musical instruments, calligraphy, painting, martial arts, rapid calculation, shorthand and other courses, and parents can choose talent courses according to their children's interests and hobbies. It can be said that the most popular type of talent in the parent circle is involved in Little Oxford, which saves the cost of parents reporting classes separately.
Little Oxford also pays attention to children's hands-on ability and parent-child interaction. On major holidays, children will be organized to participate in festival-themed activities, such as presentations, sports meetings, and handicrafts. Every year, there are a variety of parent-child outdoor activities, such as field trips, visits to botanical gardens, zoos, etc. However, this requires parents to be able to make time to participate in the activities.
The curriculum of Little Oxford Kindergarten is basically the same, but there are differences in hardware facilities and teacher arrangements among each branch. For example, the modern city park has a total of two floors, covering an area of 2,000 square meters, with a construction area of about 2,300 square meters, and 8 teaching classes. Although the outdoor space is not large, due to the small class size, 20-25 students per class, the outdoor range of young children is sufficient. Modern City Park is a first-class kindergarten in Beijing, and the children's recreational facilities and area meet the requirements of the Beijing Education Commission, and each class has at least two teachings and one guarantee, and teachers can ensure the care of children.
However, the operation of Little Oxford Kindergarten adopts the franchise joint venture model, that is, under the premise of joining by Yonghe Preschool directly sent the principal, so the management of each kindergarten is unsatisfactory, and in recent years, the kindergarten class of the head park Anhui Kindergarten has also been complained by parents due to the lack of patience of teachers.
In terms of tuition, although the fees of each kindergarten are different, the average tuition fee is about 5,000 yuan a month. Three meals and two o'clock, 24 yuan per day, work and rest time from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. School bus service is provided at 450 yuan per month within 5 kilometers and 600 yuan per month within 10 kilometers. The childcare fee is slightly higher at 580 yuan per month for kindergarten classes and 330 yuan per month for primary, intermediate and large classes. Yonghe Little Oxford Bilingual Talent Kindergarten enrolls children between the ages of 2 and 6, and there is no restriction on household registration, but it is recommended that parents start from the kindergarten class in order to move up to the kindergarten class smoothly.