New Countdown Enhanced Blended Edition Nursery Teaching Guide

Early childhood experiences are the main determinants for future achievement. During the first five years, the brain is highly sensitive to environmental influences. These include quality of interaction with peers, teachers, and family members and whether a stimulating environment that supports cognition, language, and executive functioning is provided to children.

The new series for pre-primary: Pre-nursery, Nursery and Kindergarten, has been revamped with new activities, games, and flash cards – to provide pupils with a solid foundation in mathematics and prepare them for primary. The new edition follows a structured teaching approach to nurture cognitive development.

This series aims to nurture physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development with the aim to transition from rote learning to hands on, play-based activities – in alignment with the National Curriculum of Pakistan. The curriculum is structured to develop learning through purposeful activities and content curated for differentiated learning styles.

The activities are carefully designed with research-backed practices to develop knowledge, skills, confidence and pro-social behaviour.

Effective Pedagogy in Mathematics

• Provide a stimulating environment with diverse learning opportunities to encourage holistic development

• Pupils learn through play, observation, and expression to form familiar and new experiences

• Encourage positive contribution, exploration, and well-being

• Facilitate pro-social behaviour – respect for others, fairness, and justice

Therefore, in alignment with the core competencies in the national curriculum, the books have been structured to facilitate visual, auditory, and tactile-kinaesthetic development. Teacher’s notes have been provided to equip pupils with the skills they need.

The pattern followed throughout the series ensures development in key areas of early childhood development, with emphasis on number sense, quantity, and operations, measurement, comparison, ordering, geometry, and spatial sense. The objective is to foster success, build confidence and develop positive self-image through movement-based, language-rich, play-based and narrative-led pursuits.