Early Years

Esplora remains a favourite destination with children and our students especially. Brought up in an atmosphere where learning by doing through the principles of Think, Understand, Learn is the order of the day, they feel at home working out and interacting with scientific projects.

Using a giant number line to further your number understanding skills is fun. Jumping along it to develop your problem solving skills is great fun.

KG2x has been exploring the famous story of the Gingerbread Man. The boys created their own Web plan which started with exploring what ‘ginger’ is exactly. Most students weren’t very taken with its smell but enjoyed exploring its texture just the same. They later participated in a number of games linking their numeracy development with…

As part of our classroom topic ‘Space and Beyond!’ we conducted an experiment using rockets. The boys prepared their bottle rockets at home using a few objects, and we launched the rockets outside on the lawn. The boys needed baking soda and vinegar for the reaction to occur. They observed that baking soda and vinegar…

Number jumping games, sensory trays and Goldilocks puppet shows – great fun happening in KG1Z

This week some of our early years’ classes had their gardening sessions with Joey our college gardener. These yearly sessions are always eagerly looked forward to and this year the students are planting beans and potatoes in their designated garden patches. Next week the rest of the classes will have their sessions. Each time Joey…

And the early years did, in style and in numbers. Road safety is a major issue not only in our country but even when these children and their families travel abroad. The importance of recognizing signs and symbols, discipline and courtesy on the roads and attention at all times are drilled into the minds of…

Almost two weeks into the scholastic year and the summer holidays seem like the days of ages past. For adults, time travels at a speed different to that experienced by children. And thank goodness for that, since in that way, they settle down to a different lifestyle fairly rapidly. On the upside, the littlest ones…

Love of animals and nature enriches a human being. We start this in the early years and encourage it actively throughout the years at St Edward’s College. These are some pictures taken when our young ones were taken to the Sunflower Stables.