Our Team | UBIKA - India's Pioneering sustainable nature based preschool

Beyond the peripheries of our schools, we bring our Beyond Academics’ programmes to any
child outside of Vedanaya and open our doors to answer their call of learning

3-6 Years
7 years and above

Young learners at this age have a very active subconscious state of mind, keenly absorbing, exploring, questioning and imitating everything around them. UBIKA’s Enrichment Programmes offer carefully crafted experiences to cultivate a healthy and fertile consciousness in our children.

LANGUAGE ENRICHMENT THROUGH PLAY

We subtly nurture young minds to generate innovative ideas throughout their growing years with the proven art of 'Storytelling'. Our mentors go beyond books in this first discovery of the world of imagination and creativity. Through shadow play, finger puppets and narration focused attentiveness and empathy is encouraged and groomed.

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CREATION

We want our young learners to be creators and not just consumers of technology. This creative module focuses on problem-solving mechanisms through the structured approach of design-thinking. The journey of our learners, with our structured approach, will include: Framing a problem >> collaborative brainstorming for solutions >> creating prototypes >> testing prototypes >> finally using the product/solution and representing the products/solutions in real-time.

To foster solution-oriented thinking in their daily lives, our explorers will be encouraged to bring together the needs and problems identified by them through all their learnings (Creative Expression, Theatre, Wellness, Planet Savers) and ideate together with their friends to find solutions.

From creating a paper circuit to coding and digital fabrication, our learners will champion all tools in an open-access makerspace while they’re at play, with the help of their mentors, at every step.

CAPOEIRA

The Afro-Brazilian martial art form of Capoeira stands for liberty and expression of the free spirit residing within each of us. We have chosen this unique art form at UBIKA, as it combines movement, breathtaking acrobatics, music and dance, which renders great support to developmental milestones in the early years of our children. Besides being super fun, Capoeira helps our learners to develop motor skills, learn to express emotions and improve their overall balance and coordination.

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The segments and their rich learnings are as follows:

MOVEMENT

Little ones jump, run and crawl, while imbibing more acrobatic movements.

MARTIAL ARTS

Learning the foundational straight and sidekicks, which improves muscle strength.

MUSIC

Subconsciously learning the basics of beat and rhythm by way of clapping to Portuguese songs.

DANCE

Exploring a new culture through the fun Brazilian dance form - Samba.

THEATRE

"All the world's a stage," especially for the young learners. At UBIKA, theatre is a safe space for our learners to not just explore characters but also discover their own persona. Creating stories on our stage, young enthusiasts will learn to empathise, emote, express, engage and embellish thought and action. Mentors will introduce a basic appreciation of theatre arts and help our children discover and develop their self- image through many fun-fulfilled activities and exercises.

. Theatre will teach young learners respect for themselves and others in life as they work together to create something they all value and believe in.

The end of term will culminate with the learners proudly showcasing their theatrical plays with pride and confidence.

CREATION

Our growing learners need to be creators and not just consumers of technology. This creative module focuses on problem-solving mechanisms through the structured approach of design-thinking The journey of our learners in our structured approach will include: Framing a problem >> collaborative brainstorming for solutions >> creating prototypes >> testing prototypes >> finally using the product/solution and representing the products/solutions in real-time.

BORN TO MOVE

At UBIKA, we help our young learners adopt physical fitness as a way of life. In this module, UBIKAns learn fitness through conscious movement, explore how to listen to one's own body and adopt routines to use minimal efforts, yet achieve maximum fitness. Movers in this age group indulge in just one or two sports, hence, it becomes the perfect age to introduce the right foundational training in a fun manner and foster a lifelong relationship with a particular sport for their physical wellness and fitness.

For our young learners, our mentors work on fundamental movement skills and help create awareness of their own selves to enable their understanding of efficient and injury-free training modules.

The exercises aim at the development of RAQS - Reactiveness, Agility, Quickness, Speed intensity workout with fun activities, push + hinge exercises and movement prep skills, team-building exercises and FACEUP games (Fun, Authentic, Competitive, Effective, United and Physical).

CAPOEIRA