Curriculam Philosophy

The first two to five years play a key role in a child’s life as they begin to absorb the world around them and develop. These experiences that children have early in their lives affect their physical, cognitive, emotional and social development. Children develop the healthiest when they are provided environments in which they can explore the world around them, play with others, and learn to speak and listen to others. To ensure the future success of a child, it is important to provide a strong start by providing experience which are based on sound theoretical foundations and are developmentally appropriate.

There is a growing evidence from the neurosciences it has that this is the stage for rapid and extensive brain development. Environmental conditions during early years substantially affects the growth of children‘s neural pathways. Providing right stimulation at the right time is the key to the networking of brain cells, which shape the way individuals behave, think and learn for the rest of their lives. Hence, providing adequate opportunities for stimulating experiences favourably affect various learning abilities.

Based on this understanding preschool curriculum aims at providing a cohesive approach to facilitate the unfolding of each child‘s innate potentials in all the domains of development. The curriculum focuses on the developmental stages when children enquire, explore and discover a great deal about themselves and establish attitudes and competencies related to the learning that stay with them for life.

It is also the starting point of formal education. What the child needs at this stage is a curriculum that is play based and caters to the all round development. This will enable the child to be better prepared to meet not only the immediate challenges of the primary education but also of life-long learning.

Objectives of the Curriculum

1. To enhance the all round development of a children‘s personality and inclusion of healthy attitudes, life skills and good values.
2. To lay the foundation for a healthy, productive, and satisfying life in the future by enabling the children to develop her/his maximum potential through:

1. Physical well-being, health, and motor development
2. Personal, social and emotional development
3. Creative, and aesthetic development
4. Language, communication and literacy development
5. Cognitive development -environmental awareness, development of scientific temper and developing mathematical thinking and reasoning
6. To prepare child for smooth transitions from home to schools and from preschool to primary school