Preschool Class

The curriculum for our one to three year olds is based on multi-sensorial experiential learning. The curriculum has been devised to provide the children with an enriched hands-on play based program. The weekly schedule includes messy play, sand and water play, swimming and physical education sessions (in the playground). The two year olds have cooking once a week which enables them to learn about biology, science and maths in a co-operative environment (a great favourite)!

The children have sessions of self choice (free flow) play most days which enable them to socialize with thechildren of other classes and be involved in long periods of self initiated play. This helps to develop the concentration span and to make choices.

The school has environments that support integrated learning with all areas of discovery set up for the children to access throughout the day. This is based on brain research that shows children make integral links and build new brain connections when they can manipulate and integrate materials and learning across the environment. We do not believe in moving young children to different centers every half hour since this interferes with the learning process and affects concentration, focus and the ability to stay connected with the learning materials.

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We also work on teaching them skills such as independence, responsibility, empathy and how to resolve conflict. Small class sizes (16 children with 4 adults in the 1-3 year classes and 16 children with 3 adults in the rest of the classes) allows for individual attention. 

Language and vocabulary are enhanced through conversations, singing, reading books and finger rhymes. We support the love of books by our home reading program which begins from the one-three year classes. 

Our educational programmes involve activities and experiences for children as follows:

• Communication and language

• Physical development

• Personal, social and emotional development

• Literacy

• Mathematics

• Understanding the world

• Expressive arts and design

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The three characteristics of effective teaching and learning are,

• Playing and exploring

• Active learning

• Creating and thinking critically

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Besides the school curriculum facets  the school is in of financial support to help run other supplementary extra-curricular activities like:

​ 1. Art

Art, Music, Drama and Dance enrich a child’s social and emotional development. We work towards developing a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary practice of art by striving to introduce a new culture of art to cultivate a broad-spectrum approach to artistic possibilities that respects tradition and encourages innovation.

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2. Sport And Outdoor Education

All children of all ages participate in a range of outdoor learning experiences during their time at school. We are aiming at raising sports young men and women of Zambia with positive mentality backed with the discipline and holistic education background as well as entrepreneurship mentality.

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3. Social Education

To achieve a balance between academic, social, cultural and physical activities, and to integrate emotional spiritual and intellectual development.

• To develop sensitivity, tolerance and respect within and beyond our community, in the spirit of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• To nurture a sense of moral and social responsibility, and responsibility for the environment.

• To affirm and celebrate our school’s diversity of cultures and nationalities.​​

 

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IMPACT

We can be lucky enough to have a donor who can help us a collection of desktop computers for children from grade 1-7 are able to start using the computer on a weekly basis to expand their technology skills and conduct research the pre-school and reception children use donated kindle fire for kids tablets where they have access to a variety of age appropriate apps which help make learning fun, internet access lets our children and staff access the rest of the world in a way that they could never do otherwise but the internet is a massive expense in Zambia as it is still considered a usually the current price for our internet is $550 per month or $6.600 per year.

If you feel you might like to help us with this high cost will be very happy to hear from you via email at info@lifasipreschool.org. we don't have internet at the moment.

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SCHOOL TRIPS

We would love to run more school trips for our children to broaden their knowledge of the area and keep with the understanding of their subjects. Even though we are a bit far about 195km away from the Victoria Falls.

​Most of our children have never visited the most iconic natural wonder in southern Africa. Running trips to the Victoria Falls, Livingstone Museum and the Livingstone Airport are all valuable for our children as well as being a fun day out to send a class on a school trip to the Victoria Falls, the costs are approximately £95/$10.5. This covers transport, entry fees and lunch for the pupils.