For the coming weeks, we will be highlighting local and international schools around Beijing from our upcoming 2014-2015 School Choice Guide, which comes out in early February 2014. Scroll down for more information on how to participate in our annual school choice fair in March 2014.

MOMA Kids provides children with the encouragement, inspiration, and environment needed to meet their potential and develop a life-long love of learning. The school is committed to providing a loving, holistic, and pastoral environment, allowing students to develop healthy minds and bodies. MOMA Kids’ Green Economy policy educates students on the need to take care of themselves and the world around them. As a carbon-neutral school, MOMA Kids sources and eve produces its own organic food, and has a 100 percent commitment to recycling its waste and water. In addition, the school provides an extensive, creative, and exciting curriculum for its students. MOMA Kids follows the English Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum, and delivers this in English and Chinese to prepare students for their personal and academic lives. The school encourages parents to participate in their children’s life at MOMA Kids, exchanging constructive assessment and feedback, taking on challenges, and celebrating successes together.

Founding date: 2011

School type: International nursery and kindergarten

Grades offered: Nursery and kindergarten

Is the school registered with the Ministry of Education? In process

Tuition fees (2014-2015 academic year):  RMB 70,500 (MOMA residents are eligible for a discount)

Lunch fee: RMB 7,800/year (three meals and snacks daily)

Insurance fee: RMB 100/year

Miscellaneous fees: RMB 3,000 the first year, RMB 1,500/year the second year

Lunch offered: Western food made with organic produce

Age range: 1.5-6

Number of students: 120

Nationality of students: China, Germany, US, Italy, France, and more

Foreign passport holders accepted? Yes

Local Chinese students accepted? Yes

Primary teaching languages: Chinese and English

Class size: 15-25 children

Teacher/student ratio: 1:4

School hours: 8am-5.30pm

After-school activities: Taekwondo, dancing, cooking, Orff music, Lego, art, drama

School facilities: Two outdoor playgrounds, two indoor playgrounds, music function room, cooking classroom, art classroom, reading area, skyline theater, mini golf course, bamboo garden, organic garden

Total area: 2,800sqm

School nurse or doctor available? Yes

Contact: Dongzhimen MOMA, 1 Xiangheyuan Lu, Dongcheng District (6464 7386, bjdmkids@firstcare.com.cn) www.first-edu.com.cn 东城区香河园路1号当代MOMA 

Word from a Parent:
“Since my son Jingjie entered MOMA Kids, he has been under his teacher’s care and has made a lot of progress. Teacher Wang makes sure he is fed and dressed, and has helped him adjust to kindergarten life. Teacher Han broadened his mind. Teacher Xiaoqing and the foreign teachers enhanced his interest in learning, helping him to be a student with logical thinking and clear speaking. He has become very popular in the neighborhood due to these great changes!”
Cheng Yang (China), mother of Hu Jingjie

For more information on the 2014-2015 School Choice Guide email editor@beijing-kids.com and click here to view the 2013-2014 School Choice Guide on ISSUU. For more information on our upcoming School Choice Fair on March 1-2, 2014, please e-mail  schoolchoicefair@truerun.com.

Photo courtesy of MOMA Kids

The local fire department paid a visit to MOMA Kids International Kindergarten on Monday, October 15, but not to fight any fires. Instead, it was to teach students about fire safety as part of MOMA Kids’ “Little Guys in a Big World” project, so students got a chance to get some hands-on fire safety learning.

After a full-scale fire drill, the students watched as the local fire department demonstrated the dangers of fire. Following the demonstration, staff attended a workshop that covered how to identify and eliminate fire hazards, and how to execute evacuations in the event of a fire or earthquake. MOMA Kids’ ”Little Guys in a Big World” project focuses on teaching students responsibility for their own safety, and educates them on the dangers of stranger danger and road safety.

Photo courtesy of MOMA Kids