Healthy Pre-School Accreditation
At HPB, we encourage pre-schools to establish a culture that promotes healthy living through our Healthy Pre-Schools (HPS) Accreditation Framework. Here are some programmes your pre-schools can adopt to empower the pre-schoolers, staff and parents in supporting this culture.
This accreditation is awarded to pre-schools with comprehensive school health promotion practices for pre-schoolers, parents and staff.
Participating pre-schools will be assessed based on the three criteria of supportive environment, targeted intervention and capacity building, as shown in the diagram below.
There are 2 tiers of accreditation; Basic and Platinum. The table below summaries the criteria required for each tier.
Creating a supportive environment
We have a variety of programmes that help pre-schoolers learn about nutrition, physical activity, myopia prevention and mental health.
You can register for these programmes through your zonal leads or the respective departments as indicated.
Plug & Play Programme
Objective: Engage pre-schoolers, parents and staff with a suite of exciting new initiatives on nutrition, physical activity and mental wellness.
Target audience: Healthy Pre-Schools (Platinum)
Contact your respective Zonal Leads for more information.
Zippy's Friends
Objective: Equip pre-schoolers with the social skills to navigate their social environment, emotional skills to identify and express their feelings, and coping skills to deal with everyday challenges and transitions.
Target audience: K1 and K2
Programme details:
- Pre-implementation training: A compulsory 6-hour training workshop for educators teaching the programme.
- Implementation: The ZF programme consists of 6 modules, each containing 4 lessons (approximately 45 minutes per lesson) to be carried out in the designated order. All 24 lessons should be conducted within a maximum of two-year period for the same batch of pre-schoolers (i.e. during the K1 – K2 period).
- Resources: Complete lesson plans for educators and activity booklets for pre-schoolers will be provided by HPB
Contact your respective zonal leads for more information.
Providing Targeted Intervention for Identified Groups
This criteria aims to help overweight and severely overweight pre-schoolers maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Building the Capacity of Stakeholders
These programmes equip educators and parents to promote healthy living in their pre-schools and at home with their families.
For Parents:
Colours of the Mind
Objective: Equip parents with tips to help their child cope with challenges and enhance their mental well-being.
Parents will learn to:
- Communicate better with your child;
- Build your child’s social intelligence;
- Build your child’s emotional intelligence and more!
Target audience: Parents/caregivers with children two to six years old
Programme details:
Duration: 1 hour
Language: English (Chinese/Malay upon request)
Size: Up to 60 (Min: 30 pax)
Contact your respective zonal leads for more information.
Active Together Parent-Child Workout
Choose between:
Kidz Zumba – Features kids-friendly routines based on Zumba choreography, age-appropriate music and gets children moving to the beat. Let your child have fun and rock with their friends!
Kidz Kpop – Combines simple K-pop dance moves with aerobics. Let your child have fun, dance to their favourite K-pop songs and get fit at the same time!
Target audience: Parents and Pre-schoolers
Programme details:
Duration: 1 hour
Location: As proposed by school
Language: English
Size: Minimum 30 parents (Up to 80 parents)
Contact your respective zonal leads for more information.
For Educators:
Educator's Training
Objective: To equip pre-school educators with the knowledge on key child health issues so that they will be positive role models and provide a supportive environment to inculcate healthy habits in the students.
Target audience: Pre-school Educators
Programme details: HPB will send invitation to register via email to all pre-schools.
*If you have not received any emails, please provide your Zonal Lead your centre’s latest email address to include in the mailing list.
Accreditation process
Accredited Healthy Pre-Schools will receive:
For more information, please refer to the detailed criteria in the
Healthy Pre-school Toolkit 2019.
Here is the list of Pre-schools who have been accredited as Healthy Pre-schools (Platinum).
Application
Kindly complete the application form and email it to hpb_ppd@hpb.gov.sg.
Further enquiries
For general enquiries, you can contact hpb_ppd@hpb.gov.sg. For zonal enquiries, you can contact the respective zonal leads below:
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