Primary Colours

Overview

Kindergarten

Primary Colours Waldorf Inspired Children’s Hub is a peaceful and warm oasis in the middle of Shanghai’s concrete desert. We work in a family and home like environment with parents being a crucial part of the community. Primary Colours is accepting children from 3 to 6 years old. Kindergarten allows children the time to enjoy childhood, not to be rushed or over-stimulated. Primary Colours is a non-academic stepping-stone between home and school. The staff strive to create a harmonious, secure and caring atmosphere in which the child’s imagination is nurtured. Children of this age learn primarily through play and imitation. Imaginative play is the ‘work’ of childhood and this activity begins every morning as the children arrive for Kindergarten. The children take inspiration from their surroundings and their experiences in order to initiate games using wooden blocks and planks, softly coloured cloths and pegs, pine cones, conkers and other simple toys to create the scene. As well as nurturing the imagination, play enables the child to develop in other ways – finding the physical skills needed to move a small tree stump or peg a cloth to a play frame, developing the social skills needed to work with others, and helping the child to make sense of the world around them.

Kindergarten children continue to refine their self-care skills and their expanding ability to help each other forms a close-knit class community. Older children help younger children and are given greater classroom responsibilities with daily activities tailored to their increasing capacities. The younger children learn from the older children by watching and begin to learn some of the steps, skills and expectations.

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