The
Early Years
Programme
Eastwood International School Erbil is a Candidate School for the Primary Years Programme and Middle Years Programme. Eastwood International School Erbil is pursuing authorization as an IB World School.
These are schools that share a common philosophy—a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that Eastwood International School Erbil believes is important for our students.We love children. We love learning. We love growing. Learn more about our flagship school today.
Learning Through Play,
Transforming Little Minds
The value of quality, developmentally appropriate early childhood education cannot be overstated. Children who receive high-quality education in their early years reap benefits in their cognitive and social development, and in the development of their language skills and thinking skills in both the short-term and long term.
Play is at the heart of programs that produce such exceptional results for children in their earliest years.
In learning, there is no divide between work and play. In the early years, play is the work of the child. It is through play that the child learns. For the child, play is so much more than entertainment. Play is complex; it is experimentation; it is scientific. It is how the child learns about the world around him or her and develops cognitively and socially. Through play, the child constructs hypotheses about the physical world, about the social world, tests these hypotheses, and develops theories, always testing, always revising based on what happens during play.
At Eastwood, we value play as the child's work and believe it is the most developmentally appropriate, joyful, and natural way to learn.
You need only watch a child in the process of learning and discovery to see that learning is an inherently joyous endeavor. Imagine the laughter and smiles of an infant learning that your face, when it disappears behind your hands in a game of peek-a-boo, will reappear, that it hasn’t really gone! Imagine the child who crouches transfixed over an insect in the garden, or who peers through the window of an oven as cookies rise, or who creates a structure with blocks, standing proudly with their hands on their hips to admire their work.
Learning experiences in the early years begin with the interests of the child; we trust that children are interested in things that truly matter as they work to discover and learn about the world around them.
We offer children learning contexts that are many, varied, and above all, inspire joy and a love of learning and challenge. Welcome to the Early Years at Eastwood International School.
Play is at the heart of programs that produce such exceptional results for children in their earliest years.
What are the courses our Early Years students take?
KURDISH AND ARABIC
FOR ENGLISH SECTION
Students are exposed to the language through songs, conversations, and varied fine and gross motor skills activities.
PERFORMING ARTS
An introduction to music, public speaking and dramatic arts designed to reinforce self-esteem, foster communication as well as imagination through music, pretend play, and theatrics.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Our PE classes focus on building core physical skills and emphasize the importance of group work and establishing communal rules to promote safe play.
MONTHLY FIELD TRIPS
Our units of inquiry incorporate age-appropriate field trips to explore a topic in depth and its relation the world around us.
MUSIC + MOVEMENT
A daily occurence in the Early Years Department where motricity and spatial skills are practiced and learned.
DAILY STORYTIME, NAPTIME
AND 2 RECESS BREAKS
Stories are read on a daily basis as part of the theme of the unit of inquiry. Circle time is used to foster student's inquiry and promote discussion and dialogue. Students have two recesses, and rest/nap in the early afternoon after lunch.
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