Benefits of Playgroup

How will your children benefit from playgroup?

A safe and nurturing environment where children can play and learn.

Enhance healthy early brain development through play.

Opportunities for children to create, invent, reason and problem solve.

Opportunities to build attachment between adults and children as they play together, and share time and experiences.

Learn social skills as they negotiate with peers, resolve conflict, take turns, share and make friends.

Build resilience to enable them to cope with new situations and manage stress and adapt to change.

How will families benefit from playgroup?

A space where families can create their own locally based friends and social networks.

A place where parents and caregivers can support each other through sharing ideas, parenting experiences, concerns and information.

Build family capacity through peer support.

A place where families can build long-term friendships as their children grow and transition to school.

An affordable and regular opportunities for families to enjoy a shared outing.

Ten ways to impress parents

Keep the updates about their child’s performance by writing diary regularly and maintaining assessment cards for all the students.

Conduct events like sports day, annual day, nutrition day, arts and crafts exhibition and other events which include parents’ participation Grandparents day is another event which is conducted in some schools.

Celebrate special events like festivals, fancy dress where children get ready with parental participation.

Prepare ‘take-away’ activities for kids.

Conduct parents’ orientation classes where parents get a know how about positive parenting.

Regular online update about the events is a good way of keeping parents updated about various celebrations at school. Their links will be forwarded to their friends and neighbors and a good publicity for the school is gained.

Conduct parent-teachers meetings at least once in a month where student’s progress can be reported.

Conduct regular health check-ups for students.

Make a child psychologist available for parents to discuss everyday problems they face with their kids and help them resolve such issues.

Last but not the least,care well for the kids by giving individual attention.

Early Intervention and Early Childhood

The cumulative deficit, shown here, represents the idea that the later the investment in improved caring for a child , the wider the gap that has to be closed. This is illustrated by showing the top curve, which represents the normal course of development, and the bottom curve, which shows the course of development for a child who is “developmentally delayed” - in other words, has a slower rate of development, and may be at risk for mental retardation.
The key message is that the later you intervene, the greater the gap that has to be closed.

The Y axis (vertical) is the child’s developmental level - both cognitive and social. The X axis (horizontal) is the age period. The list of factors on the right side of the graph represent all of the factors that may affect the magnitude of the developmental delay. Some of these are characteristics of the individual, such as responsiveness, and others are characteristics of the situation (timing, intensity of the intervention, breadth of the intervention), and a third refer to cultural and developmental appropriateness.

Economics of Early Childhood

On a purely economic basis, it makes a lot of sense to invest in the young… Early learning begets later learning. And early success breeds later success.

--James J. Heckman, Ph.D., Nobel Prize Laureate,Economist

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