A Learning Journey Designed For Every Stage.
At Lara Day School, we provide a strong educational foundation that supports every child from their earliest learning experiences through their primary years, helping them grow academically, socially, creatively and emotionally.
Where Curious Minds Begin To Grow.
Lara Day School curriculum begins with a focus on the children who come to us, but it extends into the future as well, envisioning the adults these children will become. Beginning in our nursery classes, we develop learners capable of finding and solving problems, collaborating with others, and accessing, organizing, and presenting complex information. Every day we support students in mastering the basics and moving into the sophisticated reasoning and communication skills which will prepare them to create and care for the world of the future.
In Lara Day School classrooms, children are immersed in environments that reflect five essential characteristics:
Challenging
They learn by being engaged in complete and complex tasks.
Balanced & Flexible
They learn in their own individual ways.
Collaborative
They learn by working together.
Experiential
They learn by doing.
Building The Skills That Shape Tomorrow.
During these early years, our curriculum covers six broad areas of learning. These learning goals focus on what children need to learn and set out what children are expected to achieve by the end of the foundation stage. Personal, Emotional & Emotional Development (Social Studies) Children will learn to be confident, take an interest in things, know what their own needs are, tell the difference between right and wrong, and be able to dress and undress.
During the years in the nursery classes, the organizing theme in social studies is family and community celebration. Nursery pupils learn social studies by:
- Comparing and contrasting the past with the present
- Demonstrating understanding of how geography affects the way people live
- Comparing and contrasting people of the same and different cultures
- Demonstrating understanding of bargaining, bartering and money
- Participating in the democratic approach to decision making
- Understanding how current events affect our daily lives
Communication & Language
Developing listening, speaking, understanding and expression.
Physical Development
Supporting movement, coordination, independence and healthy development.
Personal & Social Growth
Building confidence, relationships, responsibility and independence.
Creative Expression
Encouraging imagination through art, music, movement and play.
Preparing Learners For A Changing World.
During the primary years, all the children build strong skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and take essential steps in science, social studies, computers, French art, music and physical education. The children gradually become assured readers, understanding what they are reading and eager to read more. Above all, we aim to instill in every child a love of reading books for life. Right from the start, we emphasize correct grammar, spelling and punctuation.
We help the children balance creativity with accuracy. Poetry and drama are used extensively to help language development. In early mathematics, a practical approach creates an understanding of the basic concepts on which all future study is based. Computers are introduced from the first year of primary school to ensure all children are computer literate.
Literacy
Numeracy
Science
Technology
Creative Arts
Physical Education
Inspiring Confident, Capable Future Leaders.
Our primary school curriculum is organized around essential classroom practices in addition to being organized around units of study.
English
Through carefully planned involvement in reading, writing, listening and speaking activities, pupils develop a high level of proficiency and lifelong love of the beauty and power of language.
Shared Reading
Pupils read together and share what they have read in order to learn from each other and to analyse their thought based on the responses of others.
Independent Reading
Pupils read on their own for growth and for pleasure from a wide array of materials.
Assigned Writing
Pupils develop specific writing skills when they work on writing assignments given by the teacher.
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