Academics @ My Steps Junior School
Pre School
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults”. – Frederick Douglas
Perhaps understood the values and relevance of early childhood education. Researchers shows that emotional, social, cognitive and physical development of young children has a great effect on their overall development as an adult.
The four specific areas of learning:
- Language development - English and Hindi. Literacy involves encouraging children to link sounds and letters along with letter activities and to begin with read and write. In Pre school we only emphasize on Hindi reading and recognition.
- Mathematics involves Pre number concepts, recognition of numbers and counting, shapes, count and write, between numbers and after numbers.
- General Awareness means knowledge about the present happenings. It also focusses on routine happenings for the news around the world. In Preschool, general awareness includes colours, fruits, vegetables, plants and animals, helpers, transport, national symbols etc.
- Art and craft include colouring, tearing and pasting, paper folding, printing and letter activities etc.
Pre Primary
In My Steps Junior School we provide children various opportunities to experience rich language, allowing them to listening and speak. We also help in the physical development of the young children in developing their co-ordination, control and movement.
The specific areas of learning:
- Language development - The curriculum for pre-primary teaching imparts two languages- English and Hindi. Literacy involves encouraging children to link sounds of letters, blending of letters (2,3,4 letters) and formation of sentences.
- Mathematics involves providing children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, calculating simple addition and subtraction, shapes, Number names, before and after numbers, Bigger and smaller numbers etc.
- To make them generally aware of their environment by guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community to observe, explore and find out people, places etc.
- Arts and Design involves enabling children to explore and play with different materials and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, dance and role play.
- Newsletter - Every year our school newsletter is based on a theme. Children at all levels provide articles for the newsletter.
Grade I - II
“The main objective of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
Education is an important part of human life. An educated society is an enlightened and empowered one. Our focus is on the overall development of the child. Keeping this in mind My Steps Junior School aims to develop a student holistically, emotionally and spiritually.
The curriculum is enriched by integrating Concepts, cultural and social activities, art and craft and hobbies.
For grade I & II the school follows CBSE prescribed syllabus that enables the child to develop a strong hold on fundamental concepts and also helps in developing critical thinking skills.