Tamana Kindergarten School

Tamana Kindergarten which started as a platform for providing preschool education to the disadvantaged has now taken a new vision and new meaning- it is now being projected as a landmark model of Reverse Integration. Since it is difficult to integrate our special children in the normal school. We have started mainstreaming the preschoolers of our morning session with our special children of similar ages. Initially the children are brought together for co curricular activities. Students of Tamana Kindergarten have been performing with Tamana students in all Tamana Events. This Kindergarten school will eventually lay the foundation for setting up a full fledged integrated set up at Tamana, since mainstreaming is the new mantra. We will keep on increasing classes every year as the students’ progress to the next academic level. Tamana Kindergarten provides free early childhood care and education for children living in the slums. Recognising the holistic nature of child development, viz, nutrition, health and social, mental physical and moral, emotional development, this programme of early childhood care and education gives priority to these areas. The programme is be child oriented and will focus around play, i.e. non formal education. The local community is fully involved in this programme. The programme is currently running in the premises of three schools of Tamana which remain unutilized for several hours in the afternoon. The project employs teachers trained in early child hood care. The working hours of existing administrative staff and class IV employees of Tamana have been extended to perform similar duties for afternoon school. This cost effective model will be easily replicable for the spread of non formal preschool education, accessible to as many children as possible.