Playgroundology is the educational philosophy that we follow through the early years of a child’s education at Elkanah House. Children are naturally curious and play is the most important way that young children learn. This has been demonstrated to be vital to human well-being throughout life. As a school, we facilitate developmental play to optimally nurture a child’s brain so that they are ready to thrive academically.

Our dedicated team of qualified educators are trained to inspire children, through playful discovery, prompting them to question their environment and develop their curiosity and enquiring minds. We pride ourselves on being a South African school and our children are taught Afrikaans as a first additional language and Xhosa as a second additional language.
Our whole-child educational philosophy is instilled at this young age through guided play and participation in our extensive academic, sports and cultural offerings.

At Elkanah House our young students develop:

? an enquiring mind, we encourage them to deepen their learning by letting their curiosity lead them to explore their environment.
? social skills: foundations are developed through caring connections that teach social norms, collaboration and natural human boundaries
? critical thinking: learning methods that encourage them to play, connect
and question deeply in a positive environment.

One of our main objectives at Elkanah House is to teach beyond the classroom, equipping our children with future-focused skills. Emotional Intelligence has already been highlighted as one of the most essential skills needed in the workplace, by including it as part of our curriculum, we are future-proofing your child. Our Emotional Intelligence Programme teaches our children to recognise their own emotions and those of others, to discern between different feelings and be able to name them.

This programme also grows the emotive vocabulary of our young children, equipping them with skills to self-regulate their feelings so that they can respond appropriately to difficult situations that they may experience. We introduced this programme over three years ago and we are delighted with the impact that it has had in growing the emotional intelligence of our young children.