Our curriculum
The Skippy curriculum and framework are what sets us apart from other programs and educational centres. After years of research and communication with organisations such as UNICEF, PISA, world leading early childhood education specialists and extended health care providers, we have tailor made a curriculum specific to the needs of children living in Sarajevo.
- Skippy P.P.U members board is backed up by an extensive 4 year study at Monash university, Melbourne, Australia, one of the top ten world leading universities for professors of education. With this degree and a high level of experience, Skippy members board were able to write a tailor made curriculum, that can be measured on a global scale.
- Skippy PPU implements in their curriculum, knowledged gained from experience in working along side some of the world´s most exclusive schools.
- The Skippy PPU Curriculum is inclusive of an outdoor curriculum, that focuses on fine and gross motor skills in an outdoor setting. Our center includes an outdoor space of 300m2, accessible and exclusive to our students.
- In order to create our curriculum, we did two years of ground research in Sarajevo, where we found out that children are three years behind in education marks when they graduate secondary school. The biggest fall back is in language and mathematics, where Bosnia is rated the worst in Europe. Language and mathematic skills develop in early childhood development, where the brain neurons develop most rapidly in the first 7 years of life. From this we concluded that the issue is in preschool education and developed our program accordingly.
- Our curriculum has a program for every age group; from 1 – beginning of school, no two age groups follow the same program.
- Younger children have a higher focus on gross and fine motor skills, along with sensory neurons to prepare them for learning once they understand verbal communications
- Older children are expected to know 18 lowercase and 22 uppercase letters before they leave the Skippy program, giving them the guidelines needed to begin reading in first grade.
- We are the first in Sarajevo to create a curriculum of this kind