Péntemind grows five minds in every child. Kidzee pairs each with a step in how children learn: feeling settled
first, then taking knowledge in, keeping it, using it, and making something new of it.
The school's Péntemind board, the day's theme written up: Empathy and Inclusion.
1
Empathetic mind
Emotional Balance
Knowing their own feelings and noticing other people's. Kidzee puts it first: a child who feels settled is ready to learn.
In a child, this can look like waiting for a turn, or comforting a friend who is upset.
2
Conscientious mind
Knowledge Acquisition
Taking in new things with care, and beginning to make thoughtful choices of their own.
In a child, this can look like asking “why?”, and choosing which book, which colour, which way.
3
Focused mind
Knowledge Retention
Staying with a task and practising until it comes right, so that what is learned stays.
In a child, this can look like trying a puzzle again, and again, until the last piece fits.
4
Analytical mind
Knowledge Application
Looking closely, comparing and working things out, step by step, to solve a problem.
In a child, this can look like sorting blocks by size before building with them.
5
Inventive mind
Knowledge Development
Thinking past the usual answer: imagining, and trying ideas of their own.
In a child, this can look like a box that becomes a bus, or a story with a new ending.
Kidzee's Péntemind is aligned to NEP 2020 and the National Curriculum Framework.
Learn, unlearn, relearn, by example
Kidzee calls its approach metacognition: learning to notice how you learn, so a mistake becomes a better way. Here is
what the three words can look like, in one child and one tower of blocks.
Learn
A child builds a tower of blocks, straight up, tall and thin. At the sixth block, it falls.
Unlearn
They let go of “taller is better” and look again at what went wrong: the bottom was too narrow to hold it.
Relearn
They build again, on a wide base. The tower stands, and now they know why.
An example of the method, not a record of a lesson at the school.
Eight programmes, in plain words
Péntemind's programmes, as Kidzee describes them: the names your child may come home talking about.
All eight run in every year from Playgroup to Senior KG. From Class 1, the classes learn from NCERT's textbooks.
Playgroup
Nursery
Junior KG
Senior KG
ArtsyWhirl & Twirl
Artsy
Art, and learning to look at art: making it, and enjoying other people's.
Mental Might
Understanding that people differ, that everyone belongs, and how we are all connected.
Showstopper
Drama, from planning a little play to putting it on.
Tell-a-Tale
Stories that explore who does what and what is right or wrong, then invite children to draw worlds of their own.
Whirl & Twirl
Dance, through its five elements: body, action, time, space and energy.
Personality Development
Growing a child's self-esteem and self-confidence.
Critical Thinking
Thinking things through in order, and giving reasons.
Eco-Conscious
Living gently on the earth: small, eco-friendly choices.
Stage by stage, year by year
What each stage brings, from the first day of Playgroup to Class 5. Follow one thread through the years: words,
numbers and shapes, or the world around.
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