OpenKids Programmes
Two complete learning systems, one for art and one for technology, built to grow with a child from a first class to an advanced portfolio, competition work and the applications that follow.
Two Systems
Every figure here is the same one the Art and Tech pages give.
| Art Programmes | Tech Programmes | |
|---|---|---|
| Ages 3–18 | Ages 4–18 | |
| Four stages and one Portfolio track, breaks at 3 · 6 · 8 · 10 | Four levels per track at 7 · 10 · 13 · 16, Robotics from 4 | |
| From 3, and from 8 a direction: Fine Art · Design · Exploration | Three tracks: Robotics · AI Coding · 3D Design | |
| REMAT, five modules: Regroup · Extend · Multi · Atman · Theme | Five STEAM habits of mind on one project-based core | |
| Bruner's spiral curriculum | Bruner's spiral and Bloom's six levels | |
| Five ATL strands, 3–18: Thinking · Communication · Social · Research · Self-Management | Five STEAM strands across nine age bands | |
| Exhibitions and international youth art competitions | Competition training from age 8, by readiness | |
| Direct School Admission (DSA) Visual Art in Singapore, then an art-school portfolio | The technology portfolio for DSA, then a university portfolio after 16 | |
| A free trial class | A free trial class |
Two Programmes
Taken together, they build the same habits: looking closely, making things and showing the work.
Every stage stands on the one before, until a young artist has a body of work of their own.
A body of work in many media, a trained eye, and a portfolio with its process pages and an artist statement.
Children start by building, write code from seven and can train for competitions from eight.
Working projects they can explain line by line, a design log and competition record, and a technology portfolio.
In Every Class
what a lesson holds in each programme, in the order it happens.
A hello, then a question that opens the theme.
Each material shown before a child picks it up.
A piece of their own, with room to explore.
The work held up and talked about.
A problem the build has to solve.
A machine takes shape, one step at a time.
It runs, it fails, it gets better.
The build is shown working, and the changes explained.
By Age
A free trial class settles the exact starting point.
Your child's age
Genuinely common, and an advantage: pair one class from each programme. The work grows into one hybrid portfolio, not two. Where Art meets Tech
Art Programmes
Create
Ages 6–8
Ideas before technique: drawing from memory, form in three dimensions and a first look at art history.
Tech Programmes
Robotics
Ages 7–9
Mechanisms and first sensors, block coding and playful logic, and first 3D models to spin, scale and print.
Competition training opens from age 8, by readiness.
Art × Tech
The two systems already touch in three places, so a child who takes both is on one journey rather than two timetables.
In ArtFrom age 8 the Design direction includes digital painting and animation design: drawing that lives on a screen.
In TechThe 3D Design track turns drawings into models to spin, scale and print: the track where art and engineering stop being separate subjects.
In ArtA drawing becomes a model becomes an object: the studio's AI and 3D printing course takes an idea off the page.
In TechFrom screen to print: finished models are checked for real fabrication, then printed and held.
In ArtEvery art lesson opens with a theme rather than a textbook, led by questions.
In TechEvery tech lesson opens with a challenge rather than steps to copy: a real problem the build must solve.
Among the competition types students enter are art and technology creative competitions, where a drawing, a model and a printed object can sit in one exhibition. A child who takes both programmes builds one hybrid portfolio: a few visual works beside one or two working projects, joined by a single line of curiosity.
Where both programmes leadFuture Pathways
a body of work that grows for years, is judged outside the classroom and opens the next door, from school selection to university.
Each stage builds on everything below it.
Art from 3 and Tech from 4. Year by year a child keeps finished work and builds the habits behind it: looking closely, testing an idea and trying again.
The work meets people who have never met the child, under a deadline that does not move. In Art that happens when the work is ready; in Tech, from age 8, by readiness.
In Singapore, the portfolio behind a Direct School Admission (DSA) application. In the teens, an art-school portfolio or a technology portfolio for university.
Portfolios and records shaped into university and art-school applications, with guidance from the OpenKids Future Pathways team. It starts with a free consultation.
The Admissions Step
Four steps with the OpenKids Future Pathways team, built on the work a student has already made.
School research, a review of the student's profile and an application roadmap matched to their work and goals. Schools are chosen as a course to attend, not a ranking to chase.
Curating the portfolio and filling its gaps: which projects to deepen, which competitions to enter, what to create next.
Personal statements and essays in the student's own voice: a specific moment, the work that proves the interest, the link to the course, and a door left open.
Mock interviews and portfolio walkthroughs, practised until the student can present their work with confidence.
In Singapore at 16, the same evidence folder serves both DSA-JC for junior college and the polytechnic Early Admissions Exercise (EAE). Outside Singapore, it serves school and university applications.
We plan, structure, question and edit; the sentences are the student's own. No one can promise an offer, and the work starts a year or more before applications, not in the final semester.
A conversation about your child: age, interests, existing work and goals, not a sales script.
An honest read on where things stand, even when the answer is not yet.
A written plan for the portfolio and the applications, with every fee in writing before you decide.
Every stage hands its evidence to the next: the folder kept at six shows where to point at seven, and the records at twelve are the raw material at thirteen.
What a student carries into the room is the work itself.
Questions
Start with what your child already loves. Art Programmes begin at 3; Tech Programmes begin at 4 with robotics, and AI coding or 3D design open from 7. After a free trial class, the teacher recommends a starting point.
Find where your child starts by ageYes. The two programmes are designed to run side by side, and some campuses teach both under one roof. From seven to twelve the overlap is the point: children who build robots draw better machines, and children who draw see better designs.
See the campuses that teach bothEach programme is its own weekly class, so a child can take one or both. One deep commitment and one lighter one is a rhythm most families can keep, and the teacher will say at the trial whether two classes suit your child's age and energy. Holiday classes and workshops at every campus widen the week without adding to it.
Art Programmes run from 3 to 18, with the Portfolio track open from 8. Tech Programmes run from 4 to 18: robotics 4–18, AI coding and 3D design 7–18, and competition training from 8 by readiness. From 16, students can also take university-application technology training.
The work itself is the record: a folio and sketchbook in Art, a design log and saved projects in Tech. It is shown at the end of lessons, at showcase days and exhibitions, and in the learning plan the teacher revisits with you. Parents follow their child's learning record on MagiBox; a record that moves with the family to any campus is where the system is heading.
The lesson is your child's: parents usually wait outside so the class runs as it always does, and the teacher who led it talks you through what they saw afterwards. Ask the campus when it confirms the time.
Book a free trialYes. Both programmes have a portfolio path: Direct School Admission (DSA) preparation in Singapore, then portfolios for art-school and university applications in the teens. University applications begin with a free consultation. No outcome is ever guaranteed.
Book a free consultationArt Programmes run to 18, with the Portfolio track alongside. The Tech course tracks run to 18, and from 16 university-application technology training runs alongside them; competition and research work can continue into the university years, to 24. Both programmes then shape the work into applications, starting with a free consultation.
Book a free consultationYes. There is no charge for the trial class. If you decide to continue, the campus sets out the fees in writing first.
More questions about the trialFees are not published online. After the trial class, the campus goes through your child's learning plan with you and puts every fee in writing.
More questions about the trialChoose a campus near you and book a free trial class. Your child joins a real lesson with students of a similar age, and the teacher recommends where to begin.
Find your campusFurther Reading
A serious portfolio is built over years, not months. Here is the age-by-age timeline that keeps the final eighteen months calm instead of frantic.
What a child learns in art at 3, at 8 and at 16, stage by stage. The map follows REMAT, the spiral art curriculum developed in Singapore by TAFA Group, and the five learning skills that run through all of it.
Seven is a sensible age to start coding, provided the class fits how a seven-year-old thinks. What the research, Singapore's screen-use guidance and what schools already teach suggest you look for, and what to ask at a trial class.
Classes labelled AI are everywhere, and the labels promise a lot. What children can genuinely learn about artificial intelligence at each age, what Singapore's schools already teach, and how to tell a real class from time spent with a chatbot.
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