What Set Us Apart
A SCHOOL THAT ACCEPTS INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY. WE MAKE A LIVING BY WHAT WE GET, BUT WE MAKE A LIFE BY WHAT WE GIVE.
Divinity is not set up to generate profits while nurturing and educating children regardless of their disability/disorder.
Divinity’s only hope, and wish is to give these children their rightful dignity as children first before their learning difficulties or differences.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Divinity’s History
Divinity Especial Needs Intervention Centre was founded on April 01, 2007 by Ms Margaret Nathen as a Sole Proprietorship, to provide Early Intervention services which would enable special needs children to progressively graduate towards joining mainstream education schools.
We found that most times after a period of 3 months or so, these children regress, and exhibit compounding issues suffered from the lack of inclusivity in most mainstream schools, as well as the lack of passionate and creative teaching methodologies.
Divinity then embarked on expanding our scope to include Preschool (N1/N2, K1/K2) in the hope of better preparing them to meet the challenges of mainstream primary/Pathlight schools.
Now registered as Divinity Kindergarten Pte Ltd, our school enrolls children from age 15 months onwards.
Divinity strives to prepare all children to become lifelong learners and functionally responsible citizens; ready to meet the challenges of the future. In partnership with families and the community, our goal is to create relevant learning opportunities for our children both inside and outside the classroom that help them develop the knowledge, critical thinking, and character necessary to succeed in a technologically advanced world.
A world where children with special needs and typically developing children are recognized by their abilities, not their disabilities, and learn together in high-quality, inclusive environments.
Core Values
We believe that every child has a right to attend school and every child is a child first before his/her disability / disorder. To provide a holistic approach to education cum therapy services to address the varying difference of children with special needs.
Respect
We value each member of our school community and treat them with courtesy, politeness and kindness at all times.
Diversity and Inclusion
Every child has the right to an education and we strongly uphold that every child is a child first, before his/her disability/impairment.
Commitment
We devote our talent and energy towards nurturing each child we welcome into our school.
Recognition
We celebrate each child’s success and milestone achievement no matter how small.
Principal’s Message
In recent years we have started to notice a trend where our children who were transited to mainstream primary schools were not able to cope with mainstream academics mainly because of the lack of understanding, tolerance, and patience of mainstream schoolteachers.
We totally understand such teachers’ frustrations because they do not have the qualifications nor expertise in dealing with the ‘not normal’ behaviors of our children.
Also, these teachers have perhaps a classroom of 30 and sometimes 40 children with a packed curriculum to complete for each semester.
These returning children to our school got us rethinking and relooking:
- Are our services complete for such children?
- Are there educational pathways for children struggling at primary levels?
- Lacking in education, knowledge and understanding, will these children be able to deal with adulthood?
- Do we ignore the issues they face during these formative primary education years?
- Do we simply wait till they struggle through to adulthood before we address their issues?
- Do we want to make a positive difference only during early intervention and preschool years, and subsequently leave them to their own defenses?
We have come to a realization that:
- We have to fill that gap and provide for lifelong learning to all our young charges.
- We have to provide for a continuity of education at least till they reach secondary education level or higher.
- We want to give them a school where there is a continued assessment of their progress, their abilities, their learning difficulties, and learning differences.
- We need to grow towards more inclusivity (children with and without special needs); as we educate our children to become full-fledged, full-functioning adults who will contribute positively both in the community and as part of the nation.
- We have to therefore endeavor to give our children equal opportunities to receive the same education as all other children in regular schools, so that “no child is left behind”.