A Truly Child Centered Nursery School

As a truly child centered nursery school, our play areas are designed to focus on each child’s individual needs, and are well equipped and age appropriate.
Our main aim is to give your child a stress-free, safe, comfortable and a stimulating atmosphere where learning takes place naturally.
We follow a structured schedule, but activities are time negotiable to best entertain a child’s needs. You will be informed of the activities lined up for the month through a news letter. Also the yearly plan is designed and posted for the interested parents to go through.
We plan the day with different play stations for the children to choose from, encouraging the children to explore the available play opportunities and be independent learners.
The children who come under our care will be developed as persons who are critical thinkers and caring world citizens with a high degree of self esteem and creativity.
Medium of communication is mainly English but would encourage to converse with each other in their mother tongue whenever the child has the need.
We have a thematic approach thus the activities lined up are in cooperated with the ongoing theme. The current theme is “Who am I?” The children are encouraged to inquire about themselves. (Why they are alike and different!!)
Our vision is to promote children’s natural curiosity and understanding about their surroundings.
We ensure well equipped learning stations with highly motivated and qualified teachers promoting child centered education at the playway nursery.

It is necessary to create an understanding between parents and children, parents and teachers and teachers and children, as the ultimate foundation for learning is the partnerships and connections children make in early childhood. The home and nursery need to have a strong connection. Your co-operation in this regard is integral.
Our program consists of various learning experiences, which will help to develop children psychologically, emotionally, physically and cognitively.
We divide our mornings for discussions, (circle time), Free painting and various types of art and craft sessions (for creativity), Introduction to manipulative toys, Threading, (for eye-hand coordination), Action songs, Rhymes and Music, Constructive Play, Imaginary Play, Sand and Water Play (pre mathematical skills, language and social skills are developed in these areas), Outdoor Play for gross motor skills, social and emotional development.
At the quiet area: Story time plays a vital part at our nursery, where children spend time looking at age appropriate books and listening to stories read aloud.
Listening to stories at the earliest age give the children the opportunity for imagination and character build up. Lots of discussions, estimations, predictions take place before and after each successful story cultivating confidence in little children and a love for literature at a very early stage.
At the home corner: Role Play is strongly recommended for Early Childhood Learners for social, emotional and language development.
At the messy meda-midula: As an integral part of our program we let our children have a messy play experience with a lot of encouragement to be messy and have fun at the same time. Here we introduce them to play dough, clay, dry & wet sand, corn flour mixtures and different types of grains.
We believe: As we believe the environment makes a great deal of teaching material for the early learner we choose to work closely with the environment in teaching be it number, language, art and craft or motor skills at our nursery school. (We make use of re-usable and recyclable material as we care for the environment.)
We encourage children to bring in healthy snacks for their snack time. We introduce the fruit break twice a week making sure everyone brings a fruit for their snack.
After snack it will be outdoor play, where children will be supervised by the teachers closely and carefully.

Neelika Edirisinghe,
Director, the playway