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BAALYAA is a
nursery and primary
school, recognized by the Government Of Tamilnadu,India.
An
associate member school of International Montessori Society (IMS),USA.
(Follows Montessori and Kindergarten Education Methods)
About Baalyaa School
We believe that
from the time of birth, all children are ready to learn.
However, what we do or don't do as individuals, educators,
and collectively as society can impede a child's success in
learning. For example, if we do not provide proper learning
environment, the children will not be responsible to society
and the nation. The current educational practices do not
match the developmental level of the children. In effect,
we blame the victims, the children, rather than confronting
the real problem--an inappropriate learning environment.
The growing consensus is that the traditional scope and
sequence approach to learning and education with its
emphasis on drill and practice of isolated, academic skills
does not reflect current knowledge of human learning and
fails to produce students who possess the kind of
higher-order thinking and problem-solving abilities that
will be needed.
Children learn
best when their physical needs are met and they feel
psychologically safe and secure. They construct knowledge.
They learn through play. Children's interests and "need
to know" motivate learning. Human development and
learning and are characterized by individual variation.
Children in the age group of 2 to 6 years are especially
vulnerable to effects of positive learning environment.
From the age of 6 to 10 years, the children consolidate
the learning through experiments, motor skills, symbols and
pictures to an eclectic form. The natural process of
learning and proper learning environment forms a solid
ground for a child to go in for higher levels of education.
What should the
early childhood education provide? Early childhood education
should create the following in the child:
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Awareness:
Experience, Acquire an interest, Recognize broad
parameters, Attend, Perceive
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Exploration:Observe,
Explore materials, Collect information, Discover,
Represent Figure out components, Construct own
understanding, Apply own rules, Create personal meaning
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Inquiry:
Examine, Investigate, Propose explanations, Focus,
Compare own thinking with that of others, Generalize,
Relate to prior learning, Adjust to conventional rule
systems.
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Utilization:
Use the learning in many ways; learning becomes
functional, Represent learning in various ways, Apply to
new situations, Formulate new hypotheses and repeat
cycle
It
is now evident that greater emphasis is to be on:
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Active, hands-on learning
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Conceptual learning that leads to
understanding along with acquisition of basic skills
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Meaningful, relevant learning
experiences
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Interactive teaching and cooperative
learning
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A broad range of relevant content,
integrated across traditional subject matter divisions
Traditional
instructional method of rote memorisation,
burdening the child with books and confining them to a
closed environment makes a negative impact on the child
development and behaviour and this is what the psychologist
and educationist say.
BAALYAA
,A Montessori And Kindergarten School,
known as BAALYAA School, is the school for early
childhood education.
Modeled in Montessori and Kindergarten
education methodology, BAALYAA encourages the natural
process of learning in Children.
The school provides a language and literacy enriched environment
where children have hands-on opportunities to learn.
BAALYAA’s child-centered programme follows the developmentally
appropriate practices and the curriculum framework follows the
Montessori Curriculum Guidelines and provides an instructional
program that is vertically aligned with the Kindergarten
Essential Knowledge and Skills.
The approach is to enhance
the learning process in a child from pictorial, symbolic,
phonetics to structural presentations." Good and sound
foundation ,from pre-school till 5th class,
prepares the child to
cope with any model of higher education". Situated at
Plot number 97,Sivan Koil Street,K.G.K.Nagar, Keelkattalai,
Chennai-600117 ,Tamilnadu,India, BAALYAA emphasises on self directed
learning in children. "FOUNDATION LEARNING SHOULD BE MADE
EASY"- This is
a school with a difference.
The school uses first-of-its-kind
colour worksheets, covering handwriting, number concept,
language development and general knowledge and also unique
storybook format as teaching aid. The language development
format here is listening-speaking-reading-writing. Only after
mastering the first three stages is the child asked to take on
writing in Head start. Story, puppet, flash card, crayons, flannel
board, song and reading card are all used freely. The array of
games and puzzles make the child interested while learning is
incredible. The school, keeping in mind the fact that English is
not a phonetic language, has combined structured and phonetic
learning styles, while making use of the child's inherent desire
to learn. This helps the children to understand, think and
reason in English. The children have the ability and attitude,"
the school helps habituate this into learning process". Because
the children enjoy what they do, they remember what they learn.
The school integrates the activities such that the children get
to understand a single concept from different perspectives. They
are age appropriate and even the play activities supplement
their efforts at the learning process. In essence, the school
imparts education using both Montessori and kindergarten
methodologies.
Parents who are looking for a school for their children, which,
not only keeps the children engaged but also involves them in
creative activities such as painting, song and dance, BAALYAA
fits the bill.
The community of learners that has been created
at BAALYAA provides an optimal educational environment for
children. BAALYAA immerses the students in the full range of
academic, cultural, social and physical avenues of exploration
characteristic of the finest standards of liberal arts
education. The students are guided by teacher members
clearly and passionately committed to and trained for early
childhood education.
The school promises a homely atmosphere too.
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Background
Curriculum
Age & Class
School Timings
Crèche
Background
Educational research has increasingly shown that students in
many schools don't really understand most of what they are being
taught. Howard Gardner, Harvard Psychologist and author of the
best selling book The Unschooled Mind goes so far as to
suggest that "Many schools have fallen into a pattern of giving
kids exercises and drills that result in their getting answers
on tests that look like understanding. Most students, from as
young as those in kindergarten to students in some of the finest
colleges in India, do not understand what they have studied, in
the most basic sense of the term. They lack the capacity to take
knowledge learned in one setting and apply it appropriately in a
different setting. Study after study has found that, by and
large, even the best students in the best schools can't do
that."
In many,
many Indian schools, children do exercises and fill in workbook
pages with little understanding. There is a great deal of rote
learning. Superficially, it may seems that these children are
learning the material. However, all too often a few months down
the road little of what they "learned" will be retained and it
will be rare for the children to be able to use their knowledge
and skills in new situations. Learning to be organized and
learning to be focused is as important as any academic work.
Doing worksheets quickly can be impressive to parents, but there
is rarely any deep learning going on. More and more educational
researchers are beginning to focus on whether students, whether
young or adult, really understand or have simply memorized
correct answers.
"We considered the school years ahead. We realized a child
usually does his best if he has good learning habits, a sound
basis in numbers and math, and the ability to read. We realized
that if he has had an excellent start in his Montessori and
Kindergarten school, he will reap the benefits of his past work
under the enthusiastic guidance of teachers who will share his
joy in learning."
We want
,asides competency in the basic skills; to honestly enjoy school
and feel good about themselves as students.
BAALYAA’s
vision is to prepare students for their own success in secondary
and higher education and beyond in successful careers.
The school believes fervently in helping to shape children who
will make major positive contributions to their society and the
world in the years ahead. As the
mission states, BAALYAA wishes to help students “lead
responsible, constructive, fulfilling lives.”
With these considerations and vision, BAALYAA was started on
January 25,2002.The
school started with just two children and has steadily grown
since then. The school is listed
with the
International Montessori School Connections
as one of the Montessori Schools in India. There are only thirty
odd schools listed from India.
The
school places appreciation for the unflinching support of the
parents for the school. This school is one of its kinds in this
neighborhood
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Background
Curriculum
Age & Class
School Timings
Crèche
Curriculum
BAALYAA is an English medium school.
The school follows Montessori/
Kindergarten methods in its curriculum
Pre K.G-
is the time to discover a new space full of opportunities, to
learn the spoken language, practical and sensorial
activities and basics of etiquette and interpersonal
relationship.
LKG
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the time to lay the foundations for reading, writing and
arithmetic.
UKG
- is the time to improve
handwriting and the ability of reading, counting and
comprehension.
Primary - (Standard I and above)
Scholastic- subjects like English-I language, Mathematics,
Science, Social sciences, Computer education and any II
language. (Tamil/ Hindi).
Non-Scholastic -
subjects like Art skills, drawing,
painting, coloring, hygiene, health and physical
education, dance, music-Indian and western and out-door games.
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Age & Class
School Timings
Crèche
Age & Class At The
Time Of
Admission
Play Group 2 years – 2½
years
Pre- K.G 2½ years –
3½ years
L.K.G 3½ years – 4½
years
U.K.G 4½ years – 5 ½
years
Standard I and above 5½ years - and above
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Curriculum
Age & Class
School Timings
Crèche
School Timings
Play group, Pre-K.G 9:30 A.M to
11:30 A.M
L.K.G 9:30 A.M
to 12:30 P.M
U.K.G 9:15 A.M
to 1:30 P.M
I Std to V Std. 9:15 A.M
to 3:00 P.M
Interval 10:15 A.M
to 10:30 A.M
Lunch 12:15 Noon
to 12:45 P.M
Afternoon session 12:45 P.M to
3:00 P.M
Crèche
The office of the
Vishvodayaa trust is at Madipakkam which is a sub-urban locality
of Chennai City. The sub-urban area generally witnesses fast
growing owing to settlement of people who avail jobs in the
city. The higher cost of living in the city makes people to opt
sub-urban locality for their living.
One of the main problem
faced by most families especially in the urban society and is
also catching up in the rural environment is day care of the
children. Now the society revolves around money for every day
living and with empowerment of women by higher education, both
men and women become the working class with a job to earn to
their niche. The problem of day care of the children is
aggravated in the society with out breaking of nuclear families.
So, to serve the society
and to solve their problem, the Vishvodayaa trust ,which has its
objective of taking care of early childhood development ,started
crèche for working parents and to benefit children under
BAALYAA School.
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Age & Class
School Timings
Crèche
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