School History
Established in the year 2012, The British Preparatory School of Bangalore (earlier known as The Maple Bear Canadian Preschool, MBKKR centre) is now an independent, co-educational, non-sectarian, bilingual, and child-centred preschool. We’ve been pioneering in early learning teaching methods with an endeavour to deliver high-quality education to preschoolers at an affordable cost to parents. Waldorf’s child-centred pedagogy prioritises systematic learning and mixing of staff and child-initiated activities. And added to this, the EYFS pedagogical methods, which are internationally acclaimed early teaching standards, focussing on the purpose in providing the most relevant and inspiring education for our students in an interconnected, changing world, while ensuring the environment is vibrant, thriving, and involved. In a short span of time we have become a hotspot for high quality early childhood education.
We are proud that we are a school where academics, art, creativity, dance and music come alive in a truly integrated curriculum of global standards designed to cultivate each child’s cognitive, creative, physical, emotional and social growth. In keeping with Waldorf’s keen commitment to educating the whole child, “head, heart and hands”. Also, we are governed by the policy document titled “Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage” wherein the Department for Education, U.K Gov. specified the standards for learning, development and care for children from birth to five years, which was published on 3 March 2017. The Department of Education, UK directs that
“Every child deserves the best possible start in life and the support that enables them to fulfil their potential. Children develop quickly in the early years and a child’s experiences between birth and age five have a major impact on their future life chances. A secure, safe and happy childhood is important in its own right. Good parenting and high quality early learning together provide the foundation children need to make the most of their abilities and talents as they grow up.”
We are privy to and the best source of your child’s information. In the absence of information percolation, the purpose of inclusive teaching including the parent would get defeated. Hence we will provide parents with all the appropriate and relevant information regularly which would be broadly based on child’s activities at activity centres, small and large group activities, free-play in outdoor and indoor areas and also based on child’s interaction with the teacher.
We’re moving forward as a school in incredible ways, and that largely due to the segment to which we are catering to – early childhood education and the part played by the faculty. The opportunity that we have as educators is incredible, and the responsibility is immense. The opportunity to reimagine education and to break free from traditional schooling is in our collective hands. We have the ability to transform how we teach our kids, and how we design and redesign learning spaces, and how we write and deliver curriculum, and how we prepare our students for a rapidly changing world. We have the opportunity to be courageous and innovative and transformational.
Our caring, experienced and dedicated teachers and carers provide opportunities to explore, question, communicate and create in a fun and supportive atmosphere that provide a rich and nurturing environment which will prepare the child to the next level of schooling. It is extremely important to make the children be their own thinkers. We firmly believe that our program has to be continuously upgraded to constantly challenge the child’s thinking and promote independence in an organized atmosphere.
We continue to explore new opportunities to engage, impact, and disrupt education for the good of children and families. Our community of researchers, teachers, parents, staff, students and trustees ensure that we continue to plan and develop as we work together to fulfil school’s core educational mission and objectives at all the times. This strategy affirms a path on which we need to do to remain the best school we can in the years to come. We are exploring ways to be a K10 school in our endeavour to give uninterrupted high quality and experiential learning to our students.
With over 1,000 Waldorf schools across 65 countries, we are excited to be inspired by Waldorf Global Schools. The new art of education that the founder of Waldorf education, Rudolf Steiner, knew would be essential if we were to achieve lasting change and social and personal transformation. It is fitting to note that the pedagogical movement was birthed to create positive change at a time of acute disruption, with social, political, and economic upheaval and a future that seemed both uncertain and unpredictable.
