Playschool, Preschool and Student Care on Alexandra Road

You will know what your child worked out today and why.

Agora Colearning is an education centre on Alexandra Road, beside ARC. Playschool from 6 months, Preschool from 18 months to Kindergarten 2, Student Care for the primary years and enrichment classes all run under one roof.

See a day here

4.9★ on GooglePreschool licensed by ECDA

A toddler crawls out from under a big blue foam arch on the terrace turf, laughing at the camera.Playschool: stay or drop off
After school, a Student Care teacher leans in to help a boy with a worksheet.Student Care: homework comes first

Which programme is right for my child?

Five programmes and how each one works.

Start with your child's age.

In Playschool you can stay. Mini Explorers and Preschool Transition can move to drop-off once your child is settled. Child between 18 months and 3? Choose Playschool for mornings, Preschool for a full day.

1:5Educators to children in the youngest Preschool class
6 weeksBetween learning plan reviews
DailyMandarin in Preschool
Until 8pmStudent Care, every weekday

What you'll receive

How you'll know, programme by programme.

Each programme sends something back to you.

Weekend Wonders · the note home

"Place toys just out of reach to practise stretching and core strength."

Playschool and Weekend Wonders. After each Weekend Wonders class you get one small thing to try before the next one. On weekdays you see it yourself, in the room.
Individual Learning Plan · one goal

"To successfully use scissors to cut along a line, within a set timeframe."

Reviewed
Every six weeks and shared with you
Preschool. One goal from a learning plan. A daily note comes home in between.
Student Care. We check the homework is done and nothing is skipped. If something isn't finished, the handover note says what's left and why.

A day here

The day here, in order.

A Playschool morning at the centre: grown-ups sit on the floor with their toddlers, helping them brush a big cardboard set of teeth.
  1. You sit together. A grown-up can stay for the whole session.
  2. Music and movement.
  3. Fine motor work.
  4. Sensory play: water, clay, fabric, wood.
  5. Snack together: an early go at sharing and taking turns.

Weekend Wonders: one guided hour on a weekend morning, 9 to 10am or 10.30 to 11.30am.

See Playschool
Late-morning phonics: a teacher holds up the sound card s while three preschoolers in Agora tees trace it in the air.
  1. Drop-off from 7.30am.
  2. Individual Learning Corners: build, role-play, solve puzzles and explore loose parts.
  3. Morning curriculum: Read Write Inc phonics, literacy and numeracy.
  4. Outdoor play every day: the timber fort, slide, climbing wall and mud kitchen.
  5. Lunch together, then a rest or midday inquiry: clay, robotics and Mandarin.
  6. The afternoon extension, if you choose it: weekly projects linked to your child's plan.
See Preschool
A Student Care teacher helps a girl with a worksheet on a tablet while another girl works beside them.
  1. Arrive from school, lunch and freshen up.
  2. Homework and spelling, hardest subject first.
  3. A snack, then the day's activity block: Character, Future Skills, Thematic learning or Team Quest. A booked class can replace it.
  4. Outdoor play, then a rest and a drink.
  5. Library and quiet reading until pickup. Open until 8pm.
See Student Care

How we teach

Do plants need soil? The class found out.

One Preschool class, one Thursday morning, in the order it happened.

How children learn at Agora
Three children look up at two handwritten questions taped to the window. One asks if plants need soil, the other if they need sunlight.
1Explore
Two questions on the window and a tray set up to test each one.
Four preschool children lean over two trays, one of soil and seedlings and one of seeds on cotton wool, comparing them.
2Reflect
They compare the trays and say what they notice.
Two children read their own recording booklets, one pointing at the chart they drew.
3Extend
They write it down in their own marks, then push the question further.
Two children set up a new test together, pressing a seed into a cup of soil.
4Apply
Two of them carry it into a new test, together.

Four steps, in every subject, every week.

The centre

Our centre on Alexandra Road, beside ARC.

We moved here from HarbourFront Centre at the end of July 2026. Playschool, Preschool and Student Care share one floor of the Fragrance Empire Building, near Labrador Park MRT.

See the centre, room by room
Three children smile from the wooden climber under the pergola, the Agora Colearning sign behind them.Three children smile from the wooden climber under the pergola, the Agora Colearning sign behind them.
The early years room: a round table set with small chairs and low cubbies along the wall.
The early years room. Tables and cubbies at a toddler’s height, on purpose.
A classroom with a teal wall, small tables and daylight from the doorway.
A classroom. Daylight and shelves the children can reach without asking.
The library with a class in it: children read along the curved shelving and two sit inside the teal hexagon nook.
The library. Low shelves and a reading nook cut into them.
The Student Care room: a teal wall, white tables and orange chairs, where the long homework block happens.
The Student Care room. Where the long homework block happens after school.

What families say

In their own words.

4.9★ rating
on Google

"… Claire and her team gave my son as much time as he needed to feel safe and confident. They met him where he was emotionally, and that made all the difference."

Robert T.Preschool parent

"I have looked for a preschool that actively cares and listens to the child, never leaves a crying child assuming they’ll ‘just be ok’ … Agora is the place!"

AvniPreschool parent

"… my son comes home with all his homework completed, allowing us to enjoy quality family time before he heads to bed."

Dylan E.Student Care parent

"We appreciated the flexibility of the programme as other schools are usually unaccompanied or did not give us the option to enter the premises."

Andrea L.Playschool parent
A teacher reads a picture book to a small group in the library while a parent holds a baby on the cushions.

The teachers

The same practice in every room.

Every new teacher completes the Agora Training Plan before running a room. So when your child gets stuck, the adult beside them handles it the same way, whichever teacher it is.

"Instead of asking, ‘What curriculum do we follow?’ we ask, ‘What does this child need next?’"

Claire MichaelHead of Early Years

Meet the people

Discovery visit

See the school on an ordinary morning.

A discovery visit lets you do that.

  1. 1
    Tell us your child's age,

    here or on WhatsApp.

  2. 2
    We WhatsApp you within 24 hours

    to find a time while your child's programme is running.

  3. 3
    Come and see it.

    Watch a class, meet the teachers and go through the fees. You decide afterwards, in your own time.

Enrolling now and for January.

Arrange your discovery visit

Tell us a little about your child. We'll WhatsApp you within 24 hours to find a time.

No cost, no obligationNothing is due at your visit

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