Pre School education in India plays a very crucial role in a toddler's life. It offers an enriched environment, academic simulation, and many socialization opportunities for children of the same age group. It plays an important role in preparing children emotionally, mentally, socially, and physically for further education opportunities, and a proper understanding of different subjects.
Pre-primary education in India follows an easy and interesting curriculum, and teachers make the entire learning process enjoyable for the children. Pre School and Kindergarten methods lay a solid foundation for children and help them to grasp knowledge easily in the later stages of education.
Pre-primary education
- Ages : 3-6 years
- Duration: 3 years
- Primary Languages: Hindi, English, other local languages
- Terms : 2 semesters
- Admission Term: throughout the year
- School types: Day Care Centres, Anganwadis, Nursery Schools, Preschools, Preparatory Schools, Kindergartens, Montessori schools, Pre-Primary sections, and more.
Children are taught through play in the form of various games and indulge in activities that make them cheerful and happy. These include Rhymes, storytelling, and movement activities which help them to learn basic skills. Pre-primary education guides children to learn simple skills including reading, writing, and numbers and helps to foster creative thinking, among other things.
The early years are the most significant years for the growth, development, and learning of all children. Pre-primary education in India caters to children aged 3 to 6 years.
Why Pre-primary Education?
- It Provides strong foundations for all-round development and lifelong learning
- Prepares the child for school
- enables children to become effective communicators and foster both receptive and expressive language.
- helps children become involved learners, think critically, be creative, collaborate, communicate and connect with their immediate environment.
- enables a smooth transition of children from preschool to primary schools.
Preprimary education is the time when children learn through the exploration of their environments and are involved in observation, questioning, discussion, prediction, analysis, exploration, investigation, and experimentation. Here they learn how to construct, modify, and develop a broad range of concepts and ideas.
Classes may be divided into several activity areas such as the art area, block building area, doll and dramatic play area, maths area, manipulative area, science or discovery area, music and movement area, sand and water play area, book reading area, and more, which make the learning process more enjoyable for children. Several approaches to learning may be used including:
- Play-Based Approach
- Activity-based Approach
- Projects or Inquiry-based Approach
Children at this level can learn through playing, conducting various activities, and inquiry.