Broad objectives of the Early Childhood Care and Education programme are to:
- Ensure each child is valued, respected, feels safe and secure and develops a positive self-concept.
- Imbibe good nutrition routines, health habits, hygiene practices and self-help skills
- Enable children for effective communication and foster both receptive and expressive language
- Promote development and integration of the senses
- Stimulate intellectual curiosity and develop conceptual understanding of the world around by
- providing opportunities to explore, investigate and experiment
- Enhance development of pro-social skills, social competence and emotional well being
- Develop sense of aesthetic appreciation and stimulate creative learning processes.
- Imbibe culturally and developmentally appropriate behaviour and core human values of respect and love for fellow human beings.
- Enable a smooth transition from home to ECCE centre to formal schooling
- Enhance scope for overall personality development
- Enable a sound foundation for physical and motor development of each child- as per each child's potential.
As per NEP 2020,
The overall aim of ECCE will be to attain optimal outcomes in the domains of: physical and motor development, cognitive development, socio-emotional-ethical development, cultural/artistic development, and the development of communication and early language, literacy, and numeracy.
- Teacher: Satadal Giri