Age and Classes : Children enter the primary upon completion of 2 years and 6 months of age and must complete 6 years to enter the elementary in June. They work in a mixed age group Classrooms.
Time Table: The children follow a three hour work-cycle in the morning followed by an hour’s lunch break and a two hour work cycle post lunch.
Calendar:The academic year from June to April is divided into three terms. Each term is interspersed with a vacation after its completion. Aalaya follows a five day week, Monday to Friday.
Syllabus:
- 1. Exercises of practical life: Lead children to the gain motor co-ordination, independence in care for oneself and one’s environment, manners and social behaviour.
- 2. Sensorial activities: Develop consciousness and refinement of movement and senses. This lays the foundation for intelligent exploration of the environment and abstraction.
- 3. Language: Development of spoken language, enrichment of vocabulary and perfectionment of pronounciations, preparation for and acquisition of writing and reading. We offer language with phonetics.
- 4. Arithmetic: Understanding of numbers and its applications in arithmetical operations.
- 5.Other activities: Singing, Drawing, Painting, Handicrafts, etc.
facilities
Our classroom has a busy, protective atmosphere where joy and respect abound. Within such an enriched environment, freedom, responsibility, social and intellectual development spontaneously flourish!.
The room is attractive, with many carefully designed materials and activities for the children to choose from. The children are free to engage themselves in activities that interest them.
All furniture and equipments are made to the child’s size.
