Foundation Program
Grade: Kindergarten - Grade 2
Age Group: 2.10- 8 Years
The initial seven years of a child’s life are the most crucial in terms of designing their basic personality. At Capstone High, we believe in child-centric experiential learning that focuses on developing the 21st century skills: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity & Critical Thinking (4C’s). Our Pedagogy is based on the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) UK curriculum framework, revolves around the 3 pillars namely Unique Child, Positive Relationship and enabling Environment which leads to Learning and Development.
We aim to create our learning experience by providing real life learning situations, hands on learning activities and collaborative time to interact with peers and adults. Our framework of teaching and learning is designed around seven areas of Learning and Development based on EYFS Framework. EYP believes that children need to be able to use concrete experiences to provide the building blocks for learning.
The course curriculum is affiliated with CBSE Board and focuses on Multiple Intelligence. The facilitators of our early year program are outcome-oriented and aim at a holistic approach by working on the student's overall development.
At Capstone High, multiple events that are organised throughout the year enables experiential learning.
The events like CapSci-Fi, Capella, CapsKala, EYP Habba and Capstonia etc. enables the students to apply their knowledge in reality.
Multiple Intelligence
At Capstone High we consider every child is unique and has their own learning style.
To cater to each child's learning needs we use the Multiple Intelligence (MI) approach, mapping it to Bloom’s Taxonomy and Maslow's Law to nurture and strengthen the child's potential.
The 7 Areas of Development
The Frame work revolves around seven areas of Learning and Development, The facilitators plan the classroom experiences
based on these age wise goals. There are 17 Early Learning Goals (ELG) a child achieves by the age of seven years. These
goals are further divided into small objectives. At Capstone High we follow these Early Learning Goals as our Learning and
Development guideline. These learning and Development is divided in the two major areas Prime Area And Specific Areas.
Our Early Years Program focuses on 7 areas of development based on EYFS UK curriculum framework.
These areas are Prime and Specific areas. The three Prime Areas are Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSPD), Communication and Language Development (CLD) and Physical Development (PD).
The Four specific areas Literacy, Numeracy, KUW (knowledge and understanding of the world, EAD (Expressive Art and Design).
Personal, Social & Emotional Development (PSED)
During free play time, students interact with each other and build their social skills.
Students discussing their thoughts around a story with each other during story time.
Role play, an effective way for children to make sense of the world around them. Students during pretend play, in a shop setup in Role Play corner.
Show and Tell – a classroom exercise in which students display an item and talk about it.
Parent Connect -
A program to partner with the parents to facilitate their child’s learning journey
Students learning self-discipline by discussing golden rules of the class during QCT (quality circle time)
Story Time
Students expressing their feelings during the Morning Circle time
Communication & Language Development (CLD)
Arrival Activity
Students engaged in color sorting and lacing activity
K1 students during an engaging discussion on rail transport
Show and Tell –
a classroom exercise in which students display an item and talk about it.
Role play, an effective way for children to make sense of the world around them. Students in a pretend play, in a doctor’s clinic setup in Role Play corner.
Physical Development (PD)
Crawling through the loops during Physical Education session
Let’s warmup with Ms Ashwini for the Physical Education session
Winding up the Physical Education class with a relaxing exercise
Students’ rope climbing during their outdoor free play
Sack race during Capstonia Junior – Annual Sports Day
Students gearing up for Capstonia Junior – Annual Sports Day
The Four Specific Areas of Development are
Literacy, Numeracy, KUW (knowledge and understanding of the world), EAD (Expressive Art and Design)
Literacy
Students are learning about sounds through roleplay.
Students sorting and matching pictures with its name.
Students practicing letter formation with fingerprint painting.
Sound hunting – Students finding sound-related objects.
Learn to Read; Read to Learn
Learning literacy during outdoor play.
Numeracy
Learning Tens and Ones through bundling of straws
Students learning number name formation using newspaper crumpling
Students sorting different shape objects
Students practicing number formation in a sensory tray
One-to-one number correspondence
Students learning the concept numbers through role play
Students learning the concept Numbers through outdoor play
Students exploring the concept fractions through Hands-on activities
Knowledge & Understanding of the World (KUW)
Students learning about different emotions in the block centre
Students learning about emotions by sorting and matching the emotion card with its name
Students making outline of the body using blocks as a part of the theme ‘My Body’
As a part of the KUW theme My Family, students made a family photo frame and decorated it.
Students exploring different fruits and Vegetables through restaurant role play set up
Students visited a planetarium as a part of the theme ‘Solar System’
Students sorting activity theme seasons
Students exploring theme Neighboring Countries through a pretend play Airport role play set up
Students exploring theme 'Our Food' through a Cooking project
Expressive Art & Design (EAD)
Students exploring colours during Expressive Art and Design session.
Students learning about clothes, cutting, pasting and texture representation with painting.
Students exploring colours during Expressive Art and Design session.
Students learning about parts of a face using fruits and vegetables.
Students exploring the concept primary colors
Students exploring the concept of dot at Art class