Toorkyaung Nature School
There are 18 months to 3 years old, 3-6 year olds, 7-15 year olds category.
Nature Preschool
We have programs for play in the nature in their daily curriculum which includes going camping, puppet shows, nature plays, imaginative plays with loose parts, story-telling, sensory gardening, mud kitchen cooking, singing and physical activities, grouping, coloring, washing bodies and hands, cleaning, Yoga and meditation. Teaching materials are made of natural products. Wooden toys, silk clothes, clay stove, playing with objects found in the environment, using natural colors. These are very comfortable for children unlike other traditional schools.
Play Date Program for children aged 18-months and their parents
We will discuss development of brain of the children. We will learn songs. We will produce and display creation of handy craft and pieces of art inspired by the beauties of nature.
By playing, children will understand their own worlds and be able to express their true desires. Parents will also create pieces of art depicting the beauties of nature.
Preschool VisitingProgram for 3-6 year olds
Children will be taught outside the buildings, out of the campus under every weather condition all year round to play and explore the deep forest. Adults will have to help them not to lead them.
Survival, risk and skill
Children, 7 – 15 years old,will learn to survive, by taking risks especially arranged for them, and eventually come to develop courage, self-confidence and endurance.
Nature Play and Camp
This camp will be available for all seasons for children aged 7-15 year olds. They will be taught the skills needed to survive, the skills such as packing the clothes needed for outdoor camp, making fire, learning to tie ropes, putting up temporary camps and food needed for outdoor camps.
Nature Family Club
We will arrange for family programs to visit our nature garden on public holidays and these programs are day programs and they do not include night stay.
When they visit our nature garden, they will be active all day long breathing fresh air.
They will be able to create products using things found in the environment.
They will be able to choose adventures and nature games suited to their needs.
They will boost self-confidence, self-respect, problem-solving skill and endurance.
They will make friends.
They will improve leadership skill by playing with friends.
Our well-trained, well-experienced staff will take care of them
Education
We believe that by playing and observing in the natural environment children will value the natural environment that we live in. We are connecting the children with the nature by using various bio species in the ecological system with an area of over 60 acres.
We will arrange one-day and two-day workshops for our teachers to improve and share basic principles of The Toorkyaung Nature School. The aim of this plan is intended to attain learning objective set out in our prescribed curriculum. If we can attain our learning objectives, we will be able to change teaching methodology in the future. By doing this, we are trying to put our Toorkyaung principles into the mainstream of current education.
We will hold one-day or two-day workshops to show the difference between our school’s principles and those of other conventional schools so that our teachers can be able to share and apply knowledge they gain from the workshops in their teaching.