An Emergent Curriculum

Children learn best when their themes of learning stem from their interests and experiences.

Our curriculum at The Atelier emerges from the interests of the children.

An emergent curriculum is a whole child experience - involving the child in social, emotional, cognitive

and physical realms of learning and development.

The adults closely observe to understand what interests the children and create varied experiences

to help them construct further knowledge, explore their interests, gain new perspectives,

discuss and represent ideas and form new theories.

These interests gradually take the shape of a project lasting weeks or months depending

on the sustained engagement of the group of children involved in the project.

Co-construction of

understanding

The early phases of the project, involve constructing meaning and understanding. Children form meaning from their everyday experiences, their routines and

their surroundings.

The adults help the children build further understanding by contemplating on the children’s current perceptions, supporting them in answering their questions and providing them with

new experiences.

Our Inspirations

Goethean Science

Howard Gardner's philosophies

The Reggio Emilia

approach

Tagore on Education

Design Thinking

Our inspirations

Whole Child Learning

Our objective towards learning is to make the world and everyday life available to children as a whole.

As children learn facts and theories about the world in their own unique ways through self exploration and expression, they also learn critical skills along the way which they will need to be

contributing citizens of the ever-changing world.

Whole child learning