“Red suns, blue skies, yellow airs and green vegetation”. You teach your child how to draw. “When your child paint banana in Green, do you say it’s wrong? Who told you that all the bananas are yellow? And all the apples are red? What if the bananas your kid painted are raw? As an adult, we think all the decisions we make are correct and we should teach our kids how to do things. Yes, we should. But not everything. Especially, if your child draws a nice picture, please don’t force him or her to do what you like. It will kill the creativity of your child. “Children” they adore colours. They adore to spread colours and use the brush using free hands. As grown-ups, we should let our children find their own art. We should not ask them to make elephants or rabbits using clay.

Our special movie day is an opportunity for kids to enjoy their free time within school hours. On that day kids are taken into a special room and show a movie with an educational and social value. The expectation of the movie day is improving the creativity or the insight of the students meanwhile providing entertainment. After the movie, children will be engaged in a discussion with their teacher about the movie. That after movie discussion session will enhance the thinking capacity of the kids and improve their ability to express their ideas. When talking about the facilities of the AV room, all the high-quality equipment are used in order to give the best to the kids. Through the movie day, another expected result is the improvement of the listening and speaking skills of students.

Speech and drama is a perfect opportunity for anyone to have a balance in their life. if the persons know where he or she belongs, they can walk towards that path and achieve their lives. If we are capable of identify their abilities in very young ages, what a beautiful life theirs’ turned out to be. Among all the struggles, if speech and drama soothe your mind, why not that be the leisure time activity of yours? That is why BIS has included speech and drama in your child’s extracurricular activity list. The expectation of these extracurricular activities is to support your child to assist yourself. As we mentioned before, within our extracurricular activity rooms, we find future dramatists who expresses themselves using all the facial muscles in their faces and public speakers who speak out to the others in a very convincing manners.

Have you ever been to a musical show? From the classical musical shows to the common band shows in Sri Lanka, we can see musicians playing their instruments with passion. Some moves their whole body while playing the instruments. Some maintains the great calmness throughout their performance. Whatever the instrument they play, whatever the moves they do, the uniqueness and the beauty in their performance has magic in it. Playing a musical instrument needs the rhythm, inner peace and the little bit of soul into it. It is a good way to maintain a balanced life. spending hours and hours in the class room, your child learn basics of education such as Maths, science, Languages, civics and all. Nonetheless, at the end of the day is your kid happy? Think for a moment. Your kids need a bit of rhythm in their lives.

In this era of silicon chips, a child needs to have a good knowledge in information and technology. Understanding this requirement, BIS has included IT as one of their extracurricular activities. Through this course, we expect to equip the small minds with basics of information technology whereas they will be able to handle their technological future easily. Sometimes, belonging to a different generation you may think that making children aware of information technology at this young age is unnecessary or bad for the child’s health. However, according to our knowledge, it will do good than a harm, because all the issues come as a result of technology is due to the ignorance in Information and technology. Plus, may be your child is a born techie.

Numerical skills are an essential part of education. Nevertheless, it does not mean that you should only learn maths. If you provide your kid with the basic mathematical, he or she will be able to easily acquire the intermediate and advanced numerical skills in future. At the same time, if your child has an inborn talent in Maths, him learning maths in his early ages will take him a long journey. The maths teaches in the BIS Preschool are just basic numerical skills proportional to the child's brain. Plus, it will be done through creative activities and games. Most students lose their interest in Math at young ages and they started to hate the subject. What BIS does is totally different from the common practice. We have already found interesting and effective methods to teach children numerical skills.

Pre-schooler Communication skills include the ability to express needs, ask questions and clarify things, ability to express themselves verbally or non-verbally etc. If the child lacks these qualities at this very stage, he or she will not be able to express himself to the society in future which will result in lot of mental instabilities. That’s why BIS has included this subject in their curriculum. BIS uses specifically designed activities to improve these communication skills in children. Our experienced staff will be dedicated to spending time with children and engaged in solving issues with them while making them practice good communication skills through strategic activities.

“Reading makes a full man”, Sir Francis Bacon once said. What he meant was “reading gives the knowledge, information and entertainment to the reader” Thus, the reader’s mind will not be empty. He can interact with anyone due to his wide knowledge. Reading will give you the strength to face any situation with neutrality. In BIS, we practice reading as an activity using varied methods. We will plant the seed of interest to read in children’s minds. Therefore, children will be used to read something they like and when they are adults they will cope with lives in a very nice manner with love and calmness.

Science is about the earth we live; the air we breathe, the water we drink and the chemistry of ours. For a child, it can be the most interesting subjects whereas they can understand the simple but amazing mechanism of life. Watching stars in the skies, milky ways and other galaxies, learning about the planets, moons and the eclipse will blow their minds. The love for science can be discovered at very early ages. It needs the observance, care and guidance. The early science we teach through activities will find the scientists in your child. When considering the advantages of learning early sciences, arousing interest in science, developing life skills, developing critical thinking and good decision making can be mentioned.

Ballet is an emotion. You collect all the powers in our body to your finger tips and flow like a cloud. Concentration, listening, balanced body all these features are available in a ballet dancer. Once you used to be one, you become a different person with inner peace, romance and a well- balanced body. If a child can learn ballet at their early childhood, his or her brain will be improved. British International School added Ballet to their extra- curricular activities, because, Ballet · Improves muscular strength · Increases coordination and balance · Increase endurance · Improve body awareness and physical self-control · Improve children's mental and emotional health · Boost self-esteem · Can help young children to develop their social skills · Help children to build new friendships, · Help to overcome shyness or awkwardness in social conditions

Environmental studies is another activity we do in BIS Preschool. This subject focuses on making children aware of the environment around them. Just as in science, making them more familiar to the environment, make them understand the mechanisms of it and make the child love the environment. It will also make the child aware of the environment pollution and responsibility they have towards protecting the environment.

A child with all the classroom skills and extra skills will not complete a child. From the very tender ages, the kids should be guided to respect the values. They should be trained to care for each other, love each other and protect each other. Compassion and empathy should be planted in them meanwhile practising them to understand the differences and respect each other. Ultimately, the child will be a kind and great citizen in the society.These value education activities by BIS are designed for this purpose. It will not only make these kids great citizens one day, but also great parents to their kids, great children to their parents and loving siblings to their brothers and sisters.

Music is the spice of life. It can turn the dreadful deserts into oasis. It can turn thorns into flower. Whatever the struggle you are going through, music becomes a soothing balm to your wounded mind. Nevertheless, we as adults have a responsibility to strengthen their minds and prepare them to cope with the storms in a very calm manner. Music is the best method we can use in this process. Your child can be a person who enjoys singing all the songs he or she hears. Nevertheless, it is our responsibility to identify where he or she belongs and direct them into the right path which can be Music.When considering voice training, if you recognize that your child is a born vocalist who is regularly humming, murmuring or singing loud at home, that child needs the voice training where ultimately he can be a very good singer.