PRE-PRIMARY WING

The Nursery is the child's first experience of school. Our endeavour is to make school an extension of home so that weaning from home to school is not a painful experience. At GPS, teachers provide a sound foundation for developing language and social skills by providing stimulating classroom situations. The surriculum is a 'thinking curriculum' which aims at bringing out 'the best of each child'. In nursery section, emphasis is laid on mental readiness for reading and writing skills. The four skills that are taken care of are:

a) Motor Control : The child is introduced to a variety of games designed to develop his eye and hand co-ordination, large muscle control as well as finer muscle control. Some of these are sand and water play, paper tearing, threading beads, building blocks, jig-saw puzzles, fitting in toys, bat and ball, use of tools like scissors, brushes, painting, drawing, coloring, scribbling etc. Each activity has a purpose and it also helps them to acquire finer control which later helps in writing skills.

b) Visual Discrimination : There are a lot of activities which enable the child to exercise his/her observation skills. Some of these are "Odd-one-out", "Find the difference in two pictures", "Find the similar one", "name tags", "matching games", "word pair", "picture pair", "look and color" etc. With these activities the child will not have problem in discriminating p and q, b and d etc.

c) Audio Discrimination : All the activities under this aspect help to listen carefully. The child learns to listen carefully, to enjoy listening to stories and when he is learning to read and write the words will be familiar. Some activities are phonic sounds, games like 'find your partner', 'follow the leader', 'jingles', 'rhymes, 'music', 'story telling' and many others.

d) Language Usage : When the child is getting ready for creative writing he needs language/vocabulary. He wants to express himself. Some activities are 'show-and-tell', 'make believe play', 'virtual reality', 'daily diary', 'conversation', dramatization, games like Chinese whisper etc.