India's 1" Augmented Reality based Curriculum for Early years
Sanfort has launched its new curriculum 2.0, an app SanMeta based on Augmented Reality for the 1″ time in India, Children can now experience their books coming live in their school and at home also. Learning through AR technology gives the children a relatable experience of the concepts; they can see birds flying out of their books, animals walking on the floor, planets revolving in the classroom and fruits on their palm, etc. The AR Learning ecosystem makes learning live, interactive and fun-filled and helps teachers and parents to make learning experiential.
Core Values
Our curriculum is based on the U.K. Concept of Preschool Education (EYFS—Early Years Foundation Stage), which involves effective and time-tested elements of traditional learning infused with cutting-edge technology resources. This makes teaching and learning more effective and joyful. The curriculum is crafted to help children learn with uniquely designed activities, games, and role-plays.
Our curriculum is designed around the “Core Value Circle,” which assists children in refining their senses, communication and language development, motor skill development, physical development, creative development, social development, personality development, problem-solving, reasoning and numeracy skills, practical life/care for self and environment, and understanding of the world.
THE AREAS OF LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT ARE AS FOLLOWS:
SENSORY SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
A child uses all five senses since birth to explore and make sense of his surroundings. Children at an early age are excited to explore new things every moment, so every unfamiliar sight, taste, smell, and sound can be exciting for them. We plan our sensory activities to allow children to learn by touching, tasting, smelling, seeing, moving, and hearing. The type of movement involved in our sensory play, like squeezing, pinching, sorting, placing, scooping, listening, etc., are designed to improve their fine motor skills and increase the brain pathways to boost their hand-eye coordination. This holistic learning process encourages children to play safely, engage with their surroundings, and improve their brain development.
COMMUNICATION & LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
There is a wide range of opportunities for language skill development. We have a well-equipped book corner and a role-play area. Storytime, D.E.A.R., and news time activities are regular features. Children are encouraged to explore various innovative linguistic activities that provide opportunities to understand and learn new vocabulary.
Early writing skills are promoted at the appropriate age, and children are encouraged to write alphabets, numbers, and letters using tracing activities in different ways, followed by upper and lower case letters. Children’s knowledge of word building is developed through individual and group activities. Stories, poems, listening stations, worksheets, computer applications, and audiovisual aids help them associate sounds with letters and words and develop an understanding of phonetic sounds.
The classroom’s colourful and thematic display is always interactive and provides a stimulating learning environment. This is an integral part of our system, which is very helpful in developing children’s awareness of the written word.
MOTOR-SKILL DEVELOPMENT
We have specially designed activities and tools to develop children’s motor skills, which help them grow physically and strengthen their bones, muscles, and ability to move and touch their surroundings.
We have scientifically planned activities for children to enhance their fine motor skills through the movements of their hands, wrists, fingers, feet, toes, lips, and tongue and develop their Gross motor skills by involving them in activities and games like walking, running, jump, and skip, etc.
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Children at their early age experience a wide range of activities that help them to develop and strengthen their muscular skills, manipulative skills, and control of their body and an awareness of space. At our schools, children learn how to use a range of tools including pencils, paint brush, paper, scissors, crayons and glue sticks and participate in a variety of activities such as drawing, painting, cutting, sticking, etc. There are also opportunities to make models and use a good range of construction toys.
There is a variety of indoorand outdoor activities planned to enable their gross and fine motor skills and to imbibe activities, based on their hand-eyes co-ordination and body control. We encourage the children to use their imaginations and physical skills to make good use of our resources.
CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT
Our schools have a stimulating and informative atmosphere for early learners. They will explore a new topic related to the curriculum plan. Activities, such as painting, drawing, multi media and model making and role-plays ensure that the children are actively involved in their school activities. They are encouraged to participate in dance, music, drama and debates in the school events, festivals, special assemblies and inter-schools competitions to show and improve their creative skills.
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Children’s personal and social development is a strong feature of our schools, both in planned activities and guided play in the daily schedule. Sanfort’s behaviour policy ensures that the children learn right from wrong in the early stages and they are taught to think and respect the feelings of others and develop a sense of empathy.
Children are encouraged to play together and share. They are given opportunity to play and work in groups or independently. Children also develop their self-confidence and personal independence, through activities such as news time, giving out the snacks, looking for their own book and taking care of their own personal hygiene.
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
We believe that every child is unique and we respect its uniqueness accordingly we try to blossom the inherent talent and personality quotient. Personality development is an outcome of cognitive, emotional, motivational and temperamental attributes that determine child’s view about himself, his world and the future.
Children are easy to adept and curious to learn.With this believe we have an outcome based performing art activities in our curriculum. We encourage them to participate in Role Plays, Stage presentations, Show & Tell, Music, Dance & Drama, Rhyme & Stories, etc. to develop a self – esteemed and confident child.
PROBLEM SOLVING, REASONING AND NUMERACY
In our schools children are given a wide range of scientifically planned activities, they are encouraged to count and sort using shape, size and colour. They are introduced to environmental mathematics through child friendly play dough, constructive toys, abacus, thread & beads and pattern based wall and floor games activities. Our teachers use rich mathematical vocabulary to introduce concepts such as under, over, behind, heavy and light. Children are encouraged to use day-to-day life skill concepts of counting as a part of their play to enhance their thinking skills.Lots of activities are planned to refine their fine motor skills and they are encouraged to write numbers.
PRACTICAL LIFE/ CARE FOR SELF & ENVIRONMENT
Our aim is to develop self-reliant individuals who are independent in accomplishing wide range of life-skills by themselves and prove to be a valuable asset to the society as a whole.
Promoting a sense of self and environment includes personal, social, psychological, emotional and spiritual components of an individual’s well being. We create an environment that supports children to engage in self-care with their positive outlook, self-awareness, healthy habits and mindfulness, etc. We empower them to do things for themselves like Yoga & aerobics, use of magical words, table manners, self-hygiene, basic etiquettes and positive outlook.
Awareness about environment is also an important aspect for children. To inculcate the behavioral values we plan activities and events like tree plantation drive, earth day, save water, save electricity, clean your neighbourhood and help the needy, etc. to make them global citizen.
UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD
We encourage our students to look at the world and all its surroundings. The children are encouraged to portray self-images in every term through drawing, model making, painting and self-expression. We help them to develop their moral values to take care of the environment and surrounding being a good citizen of the nation. Their Photographs and videos are taken on a regular basis so that children can refer to their past experiences and learn from them.
