Growing Socially

Self-awareness

To promote self-awareness in our children at Bright House Academy, we are trained to respond positively to every child’s questions. We understand that children need attention, patience and a lot of face-to-face interaction. We encourage them to try new things, and help them do what they are capable of. This builds self-awareness in a child and they become aware of their capabilities.

Social awareness

Social awareness is very important for behavioural development in our children at the academy. By attending our academy, they are exposed to playing and interacting with other kids. We teach them to show empathy and understanding towards others. Knowing how to positively engage with others and understanding their feelings will have lifelong benefits.

Growing Academically

Intellectual development in children is usually characterized by various mental processes—attention span, understanding information, reasoning, learning, remembering, problem solving and thinking—develop from birth until adulthood. Understanding the different areas of development gives us the insight about your kids’ ability of logical reasoning at different age levels.

Here’s how we promote intellectual development in your kids at the academy:

Develop problem-solving skills

Building problem solving skills during the formative years of your kids can be extremely helpful for their lifetime. We encourage them to play board games, brain games and puzzles. Encourage them to come up with original ideas, while waiting and listening to them patiently. Children are also easily frustrated when they can’t solve a particular problem. The academy encourages them to continuously try and teaches them to remain calm and how to react in such situations (i.e. Try again, asking for help, observing how things are done and remaining calm).

Improve attention spans

Increasing attention span can play a vital role in the cognitive development in your kids. How much attention your children pay on a task depends on whether they are enjoying it or not. Since kids entering school have to perform more structured, repetitive, and academic tasks such as writing and reading, we ensure that their tasks are interesting for them. We use structured fun play to increase attention with the aim of completing the tasks at hand.

Improve memory skills

Since memory is a complex process, we employ a range of strategies to help your kids recall information. We teach them how to remember the sequence of letters of different words, names of animals using their unique attributes, and names of places with specific landmarks. We also use repetition to craft the skills of building memory.

Overall, we incorporate best practices to nurture and pamper your kids. It is important that from the early stage of their life, we focus on their physical, emotional and intellectual development.

Growing Physically

Physical development is the process in which your child’s body grows and acquires movement, which includes gross motor skills, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination. Gross motor skills refer to controlling large parts of the body such as arms and legs. Fine motor skills refer to coordinating small body parts such as hands and fingers. Hand-eye coordination is the skill that enables the eyes to guide the hands in accurate movement. It builds on fine motor skills.

This area of development provides children with the ability they need to explore and interact with the world around them. Thus, the academy reinforces your kids’ development and fosters further progress wherever necessary, for example, providing new opportunities to practice new skills.

Here’s how we promote physical development in your kids:

Healthy Food

A healthy and nutritious diet is one of the most important factors for ensuring that your kids reach optimal development. In general, a child needs adequate dietary intake to have enough nutrients and energy to grow. A healthy diet rich in calcium, protein and other essential vitamins and minerals, enables optimal skeletal and physical growth.

Physical Sports

Encouraging your kids to take up sports offers many opportunities for improving coordination, strengthening muscles, body speed and agility. Along with boosting health and fitness, sports will encourage your kids to utilize all their senses, locomotor system and brain capacities. By choosing sports in their lives, your children can not only become physically stronger but mentally tough as well.

Exercise

If your child isn’t the sports type, regular exercise has long-term health benefits for your kids, including from a stronger immune system that increases their body’s ability to fight diseases to a reduction in type 2 diabetes. Exercise also helps build a strong cardiovascular system and optimum blood pressure level, stronger bone and muscle structure. Kids are less likely to become obese as exercise enhances the body’s metabolism.

Parents are the ones who mostly inspire their kids for taking up exercises and physical activities, or any other good habits for that matter. So you also have to keep yourself fit and healthy in order to work with your kids.

Growing Emotionally

Under social-emotional development children acquire skills that allow them to interact with other people, and to express and control their emotions. It includes forming relationships, learning social skills, caring for others, sharing of toys, self-reliance and making decisions.

Here’s how we promote social-emotional development in your kids:

Create a loving environment

A loving environment is an essential factor for the emotional development of your children. A comfortable and supportive atmosphere helps boost their self-confidence. They learn how to express affection and successfully use body language as a means of communication.