When Nisha was looking for a daycare for her toddler, the thought that crossed her mind was – Is a structured curriculum important while choosing a daycare, apart from amenities and safety provisions? Or just feeding, sleeping & playtime is enough? After considerable research and speaking to her friends who had kids of similar age, she and her husband took a call that they would choose a daycare which has a structured curriculum which is age appropriate and built on a set of values. They finally selected an Ipsaa centre nearby after carefully examining their curriculum. Let’s see what this couple found out.
One of the tenets of Ipsaa Daycare is that early child care and learning is very important. It is important to sow the right seeds of learning and development among children so that they are inquisitive and lifelong learners . Meaningful activities are scheduled at the daycare according to the age, milestones achieved thus the transition happening at every point.
Programme – Full Day Care (4 months to 2 years)
The programmes offered at the this stage are beauty and joy:
- The curriculum is designed keeping each child’s characteristics in mind & sharpening all the windows of knowledge. The babies get involved in sensorial activities and utmost care, love & patience is what they receive in return.
- The Joy curriculum is framed to enhance the developmental growth; it provides a structure that mentor’s and support staff can use to make informed decisions as they plan educational environments and experiences for their cutest children.
Daily schedule includes:-
– Arrival and settling
– Meal times
– Calming with prayers and meditation
– Language development through rhymes songs
– Circle time
– Story time
– Picture book reading
– Exploring the environment
– Participating in planned activities
– Free play
– Music and movement
– Nap time
Programme – Play School (2 years to 4 years)
Here, the main focus is giving the children never–ending opportunities to learn and grow. The main guidelines include expertise or ability to complete something successfully in the below five areas:
- Language
- Cognitive
- Scientific Understanding
- Social emotional and cultural development
- Physical development
Daily Schedule includes :-
– Routine building
– Working on complete work cycles
– Reading picture books
– Outdoors
– Music and movement
– Structured and un structured play.
– Planned activities-colouring painting clay craft puzzles
Programme – After School (4 years to 12 years)
This programme is specially designed for kids who come to Ipsaa post school & would love to feel at home. For such kids, the most important is unwinding, someone to listen to them about their day at school, relax, enjoy some space for themselves. At Ipsaa, they allow them to be, plan their day ahead – read a book, enjoy sometime with friends, homework time. They follow 4 stages here:
- Harmony
- Perfection
- Truth
Daily routines for the day include:-
– Warm and nutritious food
– Nap times
– Play activities-block Room/outdoors/board games
– Music and singing
– Once a week age appropriate movie viewing in the auditorium
– Cultural activities
– Celebrations of festivals
– Reaching out to meaningful Habba activities
– Art and craft
– Clay and pottery
– Access to books and reading times.
– Providing opportunities to practice active listening, negotiation and leadership through interactive sessions with peers and mentor mums.
All what a parent wants is to see their happy child after a stressful day at work and Ipsaa makes sure that the parents see happy and joyful children who are excited to share their day at Ipsaa.
For more information on this center, Please register here at the earliest.