IK – International Kindergarten is Open Wings
Open Wings is our Pre-primary curriculum designed to welcome the little ones to the world of fun and learning. The programme is designed to nurture the budding enthusiasm and facilitate learning following the best practices for physical growth and mental development.
Working backward; Moving Forward
We understand that early education is not just about delivering content by teaching letters and numbers. It is not about setting our curriculum and pedagogy based on what and how we want the child to learn. It is the other way around.
It is about understanding how a child wants to learn and facilitating learning in that direction.
WOW! - Wheel of Open Wings
Spokes of Wheel – Described
Global Practices:
Our curriculum and pedagogy are a result of studying the best teaching-learning practices across the world. Active Learning, Concept mapping, flipped classrooms and so on.
Learning Facilitators
Gone are the days where limited information was pushed into children’s brains through rote method. We strongly believe that anything that is learnt with interest and excitement lasts longer. Gamified learning is a way of teaching subjects in the form of games.
Scientifically Designed Curriculum
Open Wings curriculum is designed by subject experts, academicians, child psychologists, pediatricians and experienced teachers making use of the best tools and technology to ensure physical growth and mental development at its fullest.
Gamified Learning
Brain studies show that the loving interactions with caring adults strongly stimulate a child’s brain, causing synapses (neural connections) to grow and existing connections to get stronger. Hence all that our well trained teachers do is to facilitate children’s leaning through proper guidance and tender care.
Learners’ Lounge
Our classrooms are much beyond 4 walls, a few desks and a black board. They provide bean tables and chairs for right sitting and carrying our reading and writing. Carpet floor helps them involve in craft work and other classroom activities or games. Puppets, Building blocks, booklets, theme based paintings on walls – everything make the classroom a great place to learn.
Tools & Technology
Digital classroom that includes – projector, screen and speakers help us to carry the world into the classroom. We just don’t teach, we demonstrate. Listening & Pronunciation in language, concept understanding in Environmental Studies, Numeracy skills – are made easy and effective through many multimedia tools. What We Teach? Our TASK (Technology, Arts, Skills, Knowledge) based curriculum ensures 3600 learning. We strongly believe that a great form of formal educations starts in the school, goes beyond and prepares learners for life.
•Simple machines
•Idea of Hands-on: Assembling
• Functioning: Developing curiosity: Functioning
•Computers
•Visual Arts: Drawing, Colouring
•Performing Arts: Dance, Sing, Act
Smart Sats
Smart Saturdays, shortly Smart Sats are the most eventful days of the week for the little wonders. It’s a book-free day where students involve in different joyful and creative activities.
•A movie/ cartoon / video clip is shown to students on different themes
•Along with creating fun and excitement, these video clips also deliver values
• Games specially suitable for children of age-ghrop 3-6 are designed and conducted.
• Children slow learn the spirit of participation and fun in playing
3Cs – Celebrations, Competitions & Community Trips
National and religious festivals are celebrated at school to help students understand the importance of festivals, messages they bring and the rich traditions of our soil.
Competitions are held half yearly and yearly to develop the sportsman spirit in children. Event is organized at school level resembling any sporting event conducted for higher age groups.
Community Trips are the short trips outside the school, within town to make children connect what they study between the classroom walls to the community they live in.
SKILL DEVELOPMENT AT OPEN WINGS
Curriculum is designed to develop all these skills through various activities.
Life Skills curriculum integrates SET (Social, Emotional and Thinking) Skills. Scenario based teaching and assessment help children imbibe all the essential life skills.
Physical Skills focus on developing motor skills (gross and fine): from the starting stage of holding a pencil till students can handle various objects. Our physical education curriculum is designed to ensure all the motor skills are developed.
Language skills include spelling, pronunciation, speaking, listening, comprehension and so on. These skills are taught through multimedia aids along with classroom teaching.
In A Nutshell..
- Open Wings programme is designed with working backward approach understanding how children would love to learn which contributes to effective learning and knowledge retention.
- The programme is true-all round development programme as it integrates various components named TASK (Technology, Arts, Skills and Knowledge)
- Features like learners’ lounge and digital classroom support active learning of students.
- Early childhood skill development is made very comprehensive by including every domain: language, emotional, thinking, physical and social skills
- The programme explores the innate talents hidden in students and motivates them to identify what they are meant for.