CURICULLUM

The school is affiliated to Tamil Nadu Matriculation Board. We believe that the classroom experiences of children are to be organized in a manner that permits them to construct knowledge in consonance with the child’s nature and context, thus providing equal learning opportunities for all the children. Teaching aims at enhancing the child’s innate desire and acumen to learn. Activity is at the heart of children’s attempt to make sense of the world around them. Therefore, every resource is deployed in a child-centric manner to enable them to express themselves, handle objects, and explore their natural and social milieu and to grow up in good health.

Our guiding principles are as follows

• Teaching and learning to shift away from rote methods.
• Curriculum to be enriched enough to go beyond textbooks
• Teach less to learn more
• Opportunities to be created to enhance the ability of children to link learned knowledge to life outside the school
• Teaching students to be effective communicators with a diverse array of languages being taught including English, Hindi.
• Examinations to be more flexible and integrated with classroom life.
• Classroom experience is directed towards becoming good citizen with a sense of equality and compassion towards others.

We take pride in ensuring that our curriculum complements our overarching goal of harbouring in our students need to the hour value education and life skills.

Value Education

Moral Education and not moral policing is the call of the hour and we at Vidiyal School have undertaken the crucial responsibility of imparting a curriculum which is qualitative and not just quantitative

Life Skills

Our students are trained for life. They are encouraged to imbibe basic skills about health, nutrition, relationships, etc. and so as to become independent and also learn the dignity of labour.

PRE-PRIMARY STUDIES

The pre-primary wing at our school is a vibrant centre where innovation and grandeur is reflected by the colourful set-up and thematic approach in teaching and design. Following a Montessori approach, we believe that children are active learners, explorers, experimenters and artists. Therefore the young impressionable minds are provided with a rich, meaningful and balanced curriculum based on the development of the essential skills and ‘Multiple Intelligence’. The system stresses on the importance of providing wings to our little angels.

Our classrooms have themes including underwater, space, animals etc., and we have both indoor and outdoor activity areas for our tiny tots. Where in one hand the indoor activity room has a range of exercises and models that help children develop necessary skills, on the other hand the outdoor area comes fitted with a spiral slide, Platform Merry Go Round, Children Swing, Jungle Gym Climber for our little angels

The pre-primary wing is a kingdom of creative learning with exclusive trained professionals for introducing young minds to Music, Dance and Theatre.

Each child in the pre-primary wing is given a plant which is named after the child. By nurturing the plant, the children imbibe a sense of responsibility, care and compassion.

We also have an all-weather splash pool for our tiny tots to get them acquainted with water and take their first steps towards swimming.

PRE-PRIMARY CURRICULUM

The school follows the much acclaimed Montessori Education which is integrated Curriculum adopted and acknowledged by the American Montessori Society.

There are 3 prime areas and 4 specific areas of learning in this Foundation Stage curriculum.

PRIME AREAS

PSED – Personal, Social, Emotional Development

• Making relationships
• Self-confidence and self-awareness
• Managing feelings and behaviours

CL – Communication and Language

• Listening and attention
• Understanding
• Speaking

PD – Physical Development

• Moving and handling
• Health and self-care

SPECIFIC AREAS