Use MySejahtera app

KUCHING: Those who are sending children to taska (childcare centres) or early childhood education institutions are reminded to use the MySejahtera app’s check-in feature at the premises as required under the enhanced conditional movement control order (CMCO) standard operating procedures (SOPs). Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah said […]

Wushu training for kindy pupils

KUCHING: Sarawak Nanyang Wushu Federation is now organising a training programme for kindergarten pupils. It stated in their statement that the special wushu training is to help the children to build up their immune system for a healthy body and mind. The said training will start on Saturday (March 27) for class A1 and on […]

New benchmark for early childhood education

KUCHING: SeDidik aims to set the benchmark for national and international early childhood education. Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Assistant Minister Datuk Rosey Yunus in expressing the ministry’s hoped to achieve the target, said the focus to strengthen SeDidik as a high quality early childhood education institute (IPAKK) is to focus on […]

Kindy kids, parents thank frontliners with cards, fruit and water packets

KUCHING: Pupils of Krista Kindergarten Taman Centurion and their parents recently made 400 Thank You cards and 500 packets of fruit and water for frontliners who were on duty at Kampung Haji Baki during the enhanced movement control order (EMCO) and at Sarawak General Hospital. They handed over the gifts created under the kindergarten’s annual […]

Taska Qaseh Laila moves to new building

KUCHING: Taska Qaseh Laila has moved to Banglo Bunga Ros in Jalan Bampfylde here. Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg commended the Single Mothers Association or Persatuan Ibu Tunggal Sarawak (Pitsa) for its success in upgrading the previously-dilapidated bungalow and transforming it into the kindergarten’s new premises.  “Pitsa has managed to renovate the […]

New kindergarten building at village soon

MUKAH: Kemas Kindergarten at Kampung Petanak here will have a new building soon. The new building at the same site is a replacement for the former one, which had been declared unsafe for occupation by the authority. A local contractor has been appointed to construct the building, which is scheduled to complete next month, said […]

Kindergarten gets facelift

MUKAH: Tabika Kemas Kampung Kuala Lama here was given a facelift through a community ‘On-The-Go’ (OTG) programme on Saturday. Among the activities included grass-cutting and adorning the classrooms, as well as repairing and painting the building. The programme was organised by the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) Tellian Youth and Women Wings, and led by […]

2,385 out of 2,865 kindies resume classes

KUCHING: A total of 2,385 out of 2,865 kindergartens statewide or 83.4 percent resumed operation on Wednesday (July 1), said Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah. “From the 480 kindergartens which have yet to open, 461 of them are under the Community Development Department (Kemas) and 19 are […]

Over RM14m disbursed to preschools

KUCHING: The state’s Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Ministry have disbursed a total of RM14.05 million to 2,932 registered tadika operators in Sarawak. Its minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah said the special annual grant was to subsidise the tadika operator’s operation cost and purchase of hygiene equipment for their premises in compliance […]

Pre-schools, kindergartens to open on Wednesday

KUALA LUMPUR: With government and private kindergartens, pre-schools, nurseries and day-care centres scheduled to resume operations on Wednesday (July 1), parents must surely be busy making the final arrangements to send their little ones there after a three-month hiatus following the imposition of the movement control order. For sure, there will be some parents who […]