5 REASONS WHY PLAYGROUP IS IMPORTANT
First-time separation between a parent and child can be overwhelming for both but the benefits of enrolling your child in a playgroup are worth it. For most kids, it takes 2 weeks or even more to adjust and adapt to the new environment, but at Coast Academy, most children usually settle in within the first week. All children are respected and their individuality and differences are embraced. Here are 5 reasons why Playgroup is Important for your child’s overall growth.
1. DEVELOPS SOCIAL SKILLS
Statistics state that social skills development in children starts between the ages of 1-3. Most kids today spend the whole day with their nannies at home. This could slow down their growth and social skills. In playgroups, children get to socialize, which helps build life skills such as self-expression, sharing, cooperation, consideration, and mutual respect, which also add up as conflict resolution skills. Our very able and qualified team inspires the children to thrive and maximize their potential by exploring and discovering the world around them.
2. ENCOURAGES PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
While most children spend their entire day at home on screen time, playgroups offer an enabling environment for a variety of age-appropriate activities ranging from physical activities such as running, jumping, balance, and swimming to block play, painting, and molding which build the children’s gross and fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and balance.
3. DEVELOPS CREATIVITY, IMAGINATION, AND MOTOR SKILLS
90% of Brain growth happens before kindergarten. Exposing your child to a playgroup environment will trigger their creativity and imagination through dress-up, role plays with the other children, music, puppet play, and other games. Storytime aids in speech, language, vocabulary development, auditory perception, and imagination whereas visual perceptions are developed through activities such as Identifying different shapes and colors and building puzzles.
4. BUILDS CONFIDENCE AND INDEPENDENCE
The warm and loving nature of our staff helps develop the child’s confidence and resilience. Children that go to playgroup turn out to be strong and independent individuals as they learn to take care of themselves and show a sense of responsibility and a desire to be competent. They learn how to manage separation anxiety, clean up after themselves after free play, make choices throughout the day, and adapt to a new environment.
5. PLATFORM FOR BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
Playgroup is hugely beneficial in building trusted relationships with each other and with their teachers and helpers. Our small class sizes help in developing close, healthy, and positive relationships. It also serves as a base for parents to meet, make friends, learn parenting tips, and network. We pride ourselves in maintaining close, healthy, and positive relationships with our parents and most importantly, vibrant and happy children.
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5 Interesting things about Coast Academy’s playgroup
Choosing a good playgroup for your child is very important because it shapes your child’s entire educational journey.
The Coast Academy playgroup is by no doubt the best place for your toddler. We offer the best to help nurture the little minds as they start their educational journey. The warm, loving and safe environment helps your little one grow up to be a self-dependent, confident and outgoing child ready to learn and grow. Below are 5 reasons why you should entrust us with your child.
1. Low teacher-to-student ratio
At Coast Academy, we believe in the power of giving every child their own personalized attention. This allows the teacher to attend to every child’s unique needs and identify their strong points. The result of this is that no child is left behind. This is evident from all the learner’s work displayed in the class.
2. A well Rounded Curriculum
Our teachers work hard to ensure that the learners grasp their motor skills through colouring, artwork and building blocks. Listening to stories from the teacher promotes good listening skills while the audio songs and stories grow their auditory perception. P.E class helps with the development of their gross-motor skills through jumping, balancing and running among others.
3. Availability of Extra-Curricular activities
At Coast Academy playgroup, children engage in a lot of extracurricular activities which include, swimming and athletics. These activities build their creativity, boost their confidence and strengthen their growing muscles. It also creates an opportunity to identify and grow a child’s talent.
4. Conducive learning environment
Our school is located in the serene environment of Kizingo. Our classes are spacious and airy with different sections such as a reading corner, play area, napping zone, and an assigned diaper change corner complete a nanny. We have excellent facilities ranging from the beautiful classroom to the well-maintained playground, we boast of a clean swimming pool and an excellent music room.
5. A multi-ethnic community
Our playgroup consists of children from different cultures, races and religions. This teaches the art of cultural relativism which is very essential in our multi-cultural society.
CHILDREN ENJOYING FREE PLAY
“We not only teach the children to recognize sounds and numbers but also in cooperating problem-solving, sharing, learning polite language and many more. They also get to learn more skills through play such as eye-hand coordination and independence.” Miss Firdaus, Coast Academy’s playgroup teacher.
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