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Playgroup

The first step into school: play, songs and stories, and learning to be happy away from home for a while.

A girl in pink glasses dipping her fingers in the paints over her workbook, a boy beside her watching
Age
2 to 3 years

A day in Playgroup

From the gate in the morning to home time, in the school's photos.

Children with school bags walking up the path to the school's door, seen from behind, the vans parked beside them

Arriving

The class settled at their desks round the floor mats, workbooks open, a teacher bending to help at the back
The class at their desks round the floor mats under a space mural, a teacher kneeling with two children

Circle time

A teacher bending over a boy's open book at his desk, his classmates at their books around him
Two little ones at a worksheet with their teacher, one beaming with his chin in his hands

Hands at work

A boy pressing his painted palms onto a sheet of paper
Two boys at an orange table eating from their open tiffin boxes, the class at their desks behind

Tiffin time

Small children climbing the frame beside the slide, their families standing by

The playground

Children climbing a rainbow wooden ladder, one seen from behind
Three children with school bags climbing into a school van, seen from behind, a hand reaching to help them in

Home time

From the gate to home time

Children with school bags walking up the path to the school's door, seen from behind, the vans parked beside them

Arriving

The class settled at their desks round the floor mats, workbooks open, a teacher bending to help at the back
The class at their desks round the floor mats under a space mural, a teacher kneeling with two children

Circle time

A teacher bending over a boy's open book at his desk, his classmates at their books around him
Two little ones at a worksheet with their teacher, one beaming with his chin in his hands

Hands at work

A boy pressing his painted palms onto a sheet of paper
Two boys at an orange table eating from their open tiffin boxes, the class at their desks behind

Tiffin time

Small children climbing the frame beside the slide, their families standing by

The playground

Children climbing a rainbow wooden ladder, one seen from behind
Three children with school bags climbing into a school van, seen from behind, a hand reaching to help them in

Home time

From the gate to home time

What children learn in Playgroup

The first things children learn at school.

Péntemind's programmes here: Artsy, Mental Might, Showstopper, Tell-a-Tale, Whirl & Twirl, Personality Development, Critical Thinking, Eco-Conscious.

  • A little girl standing inside the climbing frame, holding the bars, another child climbing above her

    Play

    Free play indoors and outdoors, games, and dance and movement every week, for steady hands and strong legs.

  • A teacher kneeling beside two children at their desk with a paint palette and a workbook, the class behind

    Songs and stories

    A story told every day, time to talk, and more than 20 rhymes and stories by the end of the year.

  • A girl smiling down at her work at her desk, two boys beside her

    Happy away from home

    Circle time every morning, a day that follows the same steps, words for feelings, and please, thank you and sorry.

A year in Playgroup

Six themes, one after another. Each brings its own letters, numbers and shapes, until by the end of the year the whole alphabet is there.

  1. Me

    My name, my body, my clothes and my feelings.

  2. Family and school

    Family, home, school, friends and greetings.

  3. Food and flowers

    Vegetables, fruits, flowers and good manners at meals.

  4. Animals

    Animals of the farm, the wild and the sea, birds and insects.

  5. Getting about

    Going by land, by water and by air.

  6. The sky and the seasons

    Summer and winter, the sun, the moon and the stars, day and night.

By the end of the year

What the Playgroup year works towards, step by step, at each child's own pace.

  • Words

    • Says and knows the letters A to Z, and the sound of each
    • Speaks in short sentences and tells a small story
    • Knows more than 20 rhymes and stories
    • Says please, thank you and sorry

  • Numbers and shapes

    • Counts and knows the numbers 1 to 9
    • Knows the circle, the square, the triangle and the star
    • Sorts, matches and compares

  • The world around

    • Names the parts of the body and the people in the family
    • Knows more than 20 fruits and vegetables, and more than 20 animals
    • Knows how people travel by land, water and air
    • Knows summer and winter, and day and night

  • Growing up

    • Follows the day's routine
    • Shares and takes turns
    • Says how they feel
    • Knows safe and unsafe touch
    • Knows the first rules of the road

  • Art

    • Has met Indian art in the Warli, Madhubani, Kalamkari, Gond and Bhil styles
The next stage

Nursery

3 to 4 yearsStill the same school, on the same campus.On to Nursery
Children at work in their maze books round a pink table, seen over a girl's shoulder, a boy looking up

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