It is a happy talent to know how to play.’
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Playing allows us to connect with the world around us, understand our environment, and shape our sense of self. It's a way for us to bond with others. A play-based learning environment encourages talking, reading, writing and thinking.
Play is at the core of our teaching- learning methodology. Through ‘Play’ children engage, explore, experiment and experience; learn to blend the known with the new and thereby, turn opportunity into possibility. Play encourages a ‘Try-It-Out’, DIY kind of attitude that children need to succeed in whatever they may choose to do.
As part of the annual Shiksha theme ‘Building Blocks for a new imagination- Why play matters?’, therefore, the children explored different aspects of play through the year. While the Junior school children ‘toyed’ with traditional games, puppets and doll houses, the Senior children ‘tinkered’ around with magnetic and mechanical toys, puzzles and mazes.
They designed and ‘manufactured’ toys in their very own Toy Factory, detailed factory norms that they religiously followed and collected raw material and resources for their warehouse.