part of the Class 1-3, NCERT EVS and Mathematics curriculum. ... Explorer: The
children turn into explorers as they go on imaginary journeys, exploring science ...
Centre Address:
Corporate Office: Sesame Schoolhouse Pvt. Ltd. E-1/A, 2nd Floor, Kailash Colony, New Delhi - 110048, India email:
[email protected] website: www.sesameschoolhouse.in
as seen on: Mon - Fri: 8:30 am
Sat: 9:00 am
SESAME STREET, The SESAME STREET street sign, design and associated characters, trademarks and design elements are trademarks owned and licenced by Sesame Workshop. ©2012 Sesame Workshop USA.
Their grades are better in the core areas of English, Mathematics and Science. They read more books for pleasure and place higher value on academic achievement.
Young children are sponges for learning. From birth to age five, they’re making giant developmental strides, more than at any other time in life. In fact, the brain forms as many as 700 neural connections per second before the age of five.
Give your child the Sesame Street advantage with our Sesame Street Preschool and afterschool programmes. We offer your child an energetic head start to succeed in a globally complex world – with a curriculum that integrates best practices from around the world; having teachers that are highly trained to promote a culture of inquiry; providing an environment that is safe and inclusive and a learning experience that integrates audio-visual, digital, print and outdoors in unique activities to engage and entertain them.
Welcome to Sesame Street! In this critical window, high quality education is the key to unlocking their potential. Young children who are given the right support and stimulation at school are excited to learn and ready to thrive-academically, emotionally and socially. For over 40 years, and in 150 countries around the globe Sesame Street has entertained and engaged children – making them ready for school and ready for life. Research has proven that children who grow up with Sesame Street have higher grade point averages in high school. 1
Worldwide research has proven that investing in good quality early childhood education leads to lifelong learning and benefits. At preschool children are exposed to numbers, letters, and shapes. More importantly, they also learn how to get along with other children, share, contribute, while gaining knowledge through inquiry and experimentation. As a concerned parent, choosing the right preschool for your child may seem to be a daunting task. There are multiple factors that you need to consider before you take the decision on whether you should enroll your child in any preschool. Is the curriculum grounded in good philosophy? What is the teacher quality? Is the infrastructure safe and inclusive? What is the teacher-student ratio? What kinds of activities are children doing? How do parents get involved in the school? Does the school have an outdoor space and how often is it used? At Sesame Street Preschools, we place your child at the centre of everything we do. Keeping your concerns in mind we train our teachers on internationally acclaimed standards to provide the Sesame Street Preschool child a high quality educational experience. Our curriculum combines the best practices from six key global thought leaders in education and marries it with our unique Sesame Street content to instill in children a sense of self and confidence - making them ready for school and for life.
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Our philosophy is grounded in our mission – to help all children reach their highest potential. We understand that children need a new set of skills to succeed in today’s complex and dynamic world that is increasingly powered by technology. Along with knowing their ABC’s and 123, they also need to develop basic 21st century skills – critical thinking, appreciation of other cultures, good communication and learning to work collaboratively. At Sesame Street Preschool, our educational goals are designed to help your child: • Understand themselves and the world around them • Appreciate various diversities such as human, culture and art • Develop tolerance and respect towards others • Take beginning steps toward reading, writing, and maths By encouraging your child to develop the confidence and skills to succeed in school and in the community around them, Sesame Street fosters a lifelong love for learning.
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High quality preschool programmes expose children to academics through play, movement and exploration. It should integrate the critical domains of all round development so that they can feel good about themselves and take pride in what they do. Our curriculum is aligned with the National Curriculum Framework and is structured to cover the six critical domains of development: cognition, language, social, emotional, physical and creative. • We integrate best practices from thought leaders around the world including Montessori, Reggio Emilia, Dewey, Vygotsky, Piaget and Howard Gardner along with Sesame Street’s unique methodology that combines entertainment and education. • The curriculum is mapped according to age and developmentally appropriate outcomes that are designed to help a child start from discovering themselves through their school environment and eventually the world. • Our approach to language learning focuses on the “form” of the letters (how letters are made/ recognize letters) and their “function” (letters, words & pictures are a powerful way to express and communicate). • We follow a unique progression for learning letters, which uses knowledge of letter sounds that are familiar to a child in India. This helps children feel comfortable in speaking a language which may not be their first language. • We move beyond numbers: In mathematics we encourage children to go beyond number recognition and focus on how to apply maths concepts in everyday life.
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The education system in India is mostly based on didactic form of teaching and learning – what is popularly called learning by ‘rote’. The new way of learning relies on helping children understand the concepts and teaching them how to apply those concepts. Our methodology is based on research and scientific facts on how children learn, and also WHAT they learn. This process of learning ensures that children develop conceptual understanding of various topics and how to apply these concepts across various subjects in their later school years.
Introduce the concept through a stimulus (using our proprietary Sesame Street material)
Recall the concept through conversations (verbal), creative (visual), kinesthetic (body movement) and rhythm
Apply (Games/conversations/ stories/arts)
Demonstrate hands-on activities (outdoor or indoor choice time, experiments, creation/arts)
Reflect (Worksheets/art, environment)
Reinforce through Sesame Street audio-visual segments, teaching aids in classroom and the environment
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We make learning fun through innovative ways.
Sesame Street materials: All our core concepts are taught through the world class and
globally acclaimed Sesame Street educational materials, teaching aids, Sesame Street books, audio-visuals and games. Numerous studies have proven that children who are exposed to Sesame Street content are more confident, better able to make connections between diverse sources of information and are more active, curious and inclusive.
Interactive Outdoors: All progressive curriculums emphasize on the connection between the indoors (classrooms) and outdoors (play area). This approach is integrated in our curriculum. Our schools are designed with a distinctive play area that encompasses nature, sound, science, maths along with challenging and fun swings and climbs to develop their motor skills. Power of Media: Sesame Street was the first to use the power of media to educate children. Today’s children are as likely to learn from the television, computers, games and cell phones as they are in classrooms. Our content integrates video, audio and digital along with a print rich environment to provide your child with a learning experience like no other. Extending learning to home: It is well acknowledged that learning happens
everywhere – including at home. A plethora of resources that extends the learning are available at your fingertips – from our acclaimed television show Galli Galli Sim Sim, to our award winning website, the specific materials and parent guides are aimed at providing the necessary 360 degree experience to your child and to you.
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Educators are central to learning and quality in a preschool. A good educator is a positive role model for your child, promotes a culture of inquiry and facilitates a learning environment that is fun, creative and safe. At Sesame Street Preschools, we are committed to provide good quality educators. We insist on hiring educators with a college degree and early childhood training. We orient and induct them into the Sesame Street methodology and approach, with an intensive week long training. We track and assess the quality regularly and we support them throughout the journey with continued training and skill building through online and offline platforms.
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Assessment is an opportunity for the parents and caregivers to gather information about a child to help make decisions and determine the best possible way to enhance and promote further development. It should be a positive experience for all involved, focusing on accurately defining the current skill levels in all areas of each child’s development.
Our innovative assessment model is comprehensive and is designed to provide you with an in-depth understanding of your child’s progress and learning. We employ a series of on-going assessments that uses a combination of observation and portfolio methods to provide information about a child’s participation, skills, abilities and social interactions in class.
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Times are changing. The dawning of the 21st century, with its new discoveries and technologies are changing the way children play and learn. To succeed in this world we have to equip children with more than the 3Rs (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic). The 4Cs (Critical thinking & problem solving, Communication, Collaboration & Creativity and Innovation) are the essential skills that children will require to compete in a globalised world. Come unlock your child’s potential with us.
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A recent test (PISA by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) conducted globally for science, maths and reading, have put India at the 2nd from bottom position out of the 73 countries that participated. The result clearly shows that is there is no focus on practical learning of science and mathematics in our education system and reflects a serious lack of critical thinking in children. These concepts are the building blocks for higher studies. Sesame Street afterschool, is a unique concept that offers a perfect mix of hands-on experiments, computer based games and art & craft activities to give children a rock solid foundation in science & maths and develop their critical thinking skills.
Curriculum Sesame Street afterschool draws its focus areas from topics children are learning in school as part of the Class 1-3, NCERT EVS and Mathematics curriculum. On a typical day, children may be inventing their own animals, conducting an experiment to understand how sound travels or taking inspiration from nature to create the best possible disguises for themselves. There are three modules under the Sesame Street afterschool programme:
Detective: The Detective module is set up as a series of small mysteries that the children –
as detectives – solve in order to understand the world around them.
Explorer: The children turn into explorers as they go on imaginary journeys, exploring science and maths concepts and performing tasks that facilitate learning in real world contexts. Inventor: Children satisfy their curiosity about ‘how things work’
as they act like inventors & apply design, test and then re-design fun contraptions and models.
Advantage
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• Integrated curriculum that combines hands-on and computer based activities and learning with audio-visual aids • Access to the SUGAR platform, an operating system designed specifically for children • Develops a lifelong love for science, mathematics and technology • Builds strong creative and critical thinking as well as decision making skills in children
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Sesame Street Preschool Playgroup: 2 – 3 years Pre Nursery: 3 – 4 years Nursery: 4 – 5 years Prep: 5 – 6 years The Playgroup programme is for 2 hours, while the Pre Nursery, Nursery and Prep programmes are for 3.5 hours.
Sesame Street afterschool* Detective module Explorer module Inventor module These are open for children aged 6 to 8 years. 1.5 hour classes are held twice a week. Each module runs for 12 weeks. * Please check with the centre on modules currently on offer/being run.
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Centre Address:
Corporate Office: Sesame Schoolhouse Pvt. Ltd. E-1/A, 2nd Floor, Kailash Colony, New Delhi - 110048, India email:
[email protected] website: www.sesameschoolhouse.in
as seen on: Mon - Fri: 8:30 am
Sat: 9:00 am
SESAME STREET, The SESAME STREET street sign, design and associated characters, trademarks and design elements are trademarks owned and licenced by Sesame Workshop. ©2012 Sesame Workshop USA.
