The primary curriculum aims at enhancing children’s natural desire and strategies to learn through the integrated, interlinked and interwoven approach combining all the disciplines together. The CBSE based curriculum recommends weaving all the areas of learning into one string to promote aesthetic and personal awareness and the ability to express oneself in different ways and styles. The enquiry and skill-based approach contributes to the trans-disciplinary structure. This ensures developing curiosity, enjoyment of learning and achievement in young children. It is important that the learning experiences provided to young children in the formative stage have sufficient opportunity for exploration and a good balance between teacher led and child-initiated activity. As teachers plan learning experiences for young children, it is essential that full account is taken of the links that can be created across the areas of learning to ensure that such experiences contribute to the broad and comprehensive learning development. It provides support for them to be active enquirers and life-long learners.
Broad Objectives of Curriculum at Primary
- Think creatively, analyse critically and synthesize clearly
- Develop and apply effective listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.
- Understand and value the relationships between creativity, imagination and problem solving and the linguistic, artistic, ethical, literary, and philosophical traditions that shape human cultures and interdependence of groups in a global society.
- Understand the interdisciplinary nature of knowledge and apply an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving
- Provide holistic situations for proper learning.
- Provide rich and comprehensible input for acquisition of knowledge
- Develop a link between natural, cultural and social environment.
- Develop critical thinking to deal with challenges of everyday life
- Nurture natural curiosity and creativity.
- Engage and be curious about the environment and harmonize with it
- Acquire the basic cognitive and psychomotor skills through observation, exploration and practical experience.
- Develop scientific temperament
- Develop basic language skills through analysis, application and appreciation.
- Encourage inventiveness and creativity.
- Raise awareness to critical exploration.
- Create a strong sense of human values.
- Recognize and value the collective heritage, ideas and values of a multicultural world and demonstrate
- Sensitivity to socio – cultural diversity
- Develop ethical reasoning skills including one’s physical and mental wellbeing.
Assessment in Class I
In the first year of primary school education a student will be informally assessed and the results of the performance of the students will be used to make plans, set targets, and identify students of special needs.
In class I students will be assessed for each half term in a year to ensure that learning is smooth and effective and to help students make progress. The class teacher will not give grades or marks. The Performance Profile will be filled with emoticons only based on:
- Reading
- Conversation
- Writing
- Conceptual understanding
- Mental ability
- Environmental Sensibility
- Activities/Project
- Group Discussions
- Performing Arts
- Visual Art
During the initial years, students will be assessed on the basis of the teacher’s continuous observations in the following scholastic and co-scholastic areas of learning.
Scholastic Areas
- English
- Hindi
- Mathematics
- Environmental education
- Computer
Co-scholastic Areas
- Visual and Performing Arts
- Physical education
- Life skills
- Each student’s development and achievements shall be recorded in the Performance Profile.
Assessment in Classes II - V
Students of Class II to V will be assessed on the basis of their performance throughout the year via periodicals, the Half-Yearly and Yearly Examinations and co-scholastic areas:
Scholastic Areas
- English
- Hindi
- Mathematics
- Environmental education
- Computer Science
Co-scholastic Areas
- Visual and Performing Arts
- Physical education
- Life skills
The grades will be awarded as given below : –
| GRADE |
MARKS RANGE |
| A1 |
91-100 |
| A2 |
81-90 |
| B1 |
71-80 |
| B2 |
61-70 |
| C1 |
51-60 |
| C2 |
41-50 |
| D |
33-40 |
| E |
0-32 |