Birla Open Minds Preschool Curriculum - Celebrates the importance of these formative years by providing a strong and sure start.
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Our mascot is charismatic and clever bird standing tall and proud ready to spread its wings and plunge into the high fight of creativity, collaboration and innovation for a strong and sure start. It signifies confidence that each child represents at Birla Open Minds International School.
OUR CURRICULUM draws on neuroscientific research and is developmentally appropriate, integrated and creative. It aims to instill care for self, for others and for the environment in our children.
Our approach honours the development of the child as whole: intellectually, physically, emotionally, and socially across ages. It also recognizes that all children are intelligent and capable learners and will develop across and within these developmental areas in unique and individualized ways.
The learning goals that lead the curriculum, instruction and assessment are developmental in nature and ensure a “whole child” focus.
CREATIVEWe engage learners through creative learning experiences. Creative expression across learning domains is invited, encouraged and celebrated. Children are exposed to dynamic learning environments, challenges and choices in activities, open ended questions, and interactions with peer and teachers. Working with colors and textures, engaging with music and movement and a plethora of other mediums with ample freedom ensure nurturance of the creativity in each child.
INTEGRATEDSince children learn in different ways and learn better if learning experiences are interconnected or intergrade, our curriculum is suitable for them. It is theme based and investigate ideas from multiple perspectives. Our themes combine different areas of learning And become catalysts for developing concepts, skills and attitudes while relating this learning to real life. This learning ensures development of multiple intelligence in children.
Birla Open Minds International School is a unique school community that works in collaboration with students and parents to provide quality education in a positive and supportive environment.
Learning centers are resource-equipped centers set up throughout the classroom where children engage in activities of their choice. Play at these centers reinforces conceptual understanding as well as provides opportunities for differentiated learning.
The centre of the classroom is free and has the celebrated circle. Whole group interactions during the circle time, music and movement activities and organized games build community, strong social skills and a spirit of belonging in the learners. This circle enables the teacher to maintain eye contact with every child.
The verdant environs resplendent with vegetable patches, gardens, trees and flowers aplenty in addition to equipment for play make a vibrant outdoor area. The outdoors are an extension of the classroom and children with their magnifying glasses and cane baskets can be found exploring, discovering and sharing the mysteries of nature.
Table top activities are teacher guided and provide focused learning experiences for small groups of children. They allow the teachers to have intense interactions with the children and provide individual mentoring.
Care for self begins with building self-esteem through developing self-help skills, providing choices, autonomy, challenges, success affirmations and support to help the children know and flourish in this knowledge of being unique and special.