After-school programs provide safe and structured activities that take place regularly after school hours, offering children opportunities to acquire new skills and grow into responsible adults. They provide learning opportunities, fostering creativity in children, promoting cognitive development, expanding social skills, encouraging extracurricular and physical movement programs, and supporting emotional development that is appropriate for a child's age. Additionally, these programs provide a balanced mix of arts and cultural enrichment, recreation, and nutrition. A well-designed after-school program can transform unproductive post-school hours into valuable learning time, which is especially beneficial for children with varied interests and learning needs.
Dibber’s After-school Club
Dibber’s After-school Club offers programs for children between 2 and 10 years with a focus on exploring new areas of interest, building skills, and fueling passions beyond academics. These after-school activities for creativity are unique experiences that will teach them valuable life skills by enhancing curiosity, sparking a love for learning new things, and nurturing the ‘whole child.’ All this while having an exciting time socializing with other children, cultivating cultural appreciation, and developing a sense of belonging.
At Dibber's After-school Club, children are encouraged to explore as many activities as possible, so they spend their time learning, enjoying, honing skills, and possibly finding their passion. The benefits of after-school clubs are many. However, the most notable benefit, for children and parents, is that it involves children in creative and productive pursuits effectively keeping them away from screens.
Highlights of Dibber’s After-school Club
All Dibber schools in India will conduct after-school activities.
Qualified professionals and trainers will visit Dibber units to conduct activities for children in their field of expertise, ensuring best-in-class offerings.
Each activity will be organized at different timings, allowing children to participate in a variety of activities of their choice without having to miss out.
A Range of Programs to Explore
1. Multi-sports
Our multi-sports program focuses on familiarizing children with the fundamentals of 3 sports: football, rugby, and athletics. We have enlisted national players with a comprehensive background in each sport as our coaches. Early exposure to sports can inculcate integral values such as discipline, sportsmanship, solidarity, integrity, empathy, and passion.
Program Duration: 60 minutes per session, 2 session per week
Age Groups: 2-6 years, 6-10 years
Adult-child Ratio: 1:15
2. Lights, Drama & Action
Drama is an enjoyable creative pursuit for those who would like to communicate thoughts and feelings using diverse tools and techniques. Through the power of drama, and by incorporating the principles of differentiated and trans-disciplinary learning, the program specializes in using theatre exercises to help children develop presence and become confident communicators. In this foundational course, children learn techniques such as exploring characters and voices, moving bodies, mime and imagination, dialogues and monologues, creating stories and music. Drama is a wonderful way to cultivate a sense of unity and teamwork through collaborative projects and group performances. There will be an annual showcase by children to exhibit their talents.
Program Duration: 60 minutes per session,1 session per week
Age Group: 4-6 years
Adult-child Ratio: 1:8
3. Ad-mad World
Much like the drama class, Ad-mad World explores drama while delving into the world of advertisements for older children. The annual showcase of making their own advertisement will put their skills at exploring characters and their body language, improvisation, scripting, inventing products, dialogues/monologues, creating jingles, scene and storyboarding to work.
Program Duration: 60 minutes per session,1 session per week
Age Group: 7-10 years
Adult-child Ratio: 1:12
4. Jack In the Box
If your child is all about rhythm, movement, and performance, the jack in the box dance program is perfectly tailored for them. We have a structured syllabus that ensures continuity and progression in learning, which is tailored to the unique needs of each age group. Instructional videos allow students to practice and perfect their dance moves at home and ongoing assessments and showcases every quarter will encourage young dancers to explore and express themselves, boosting their self-esteem, stage presence, and sense of accomplishment.
There are 2 age-specific programs offered:
Program 1: Introduction to fundamental dance techniques such as plie, releve, across the floor drills, bounce, and rock.
Program Duration: 60 minutes per session,1 session per week
Age Group: 2-5 years
Adult-child Ratio: 1:15
Program 2: Introduction to hip hop, Bollywood, shuffle, and house.
Program Duration: 60 minutes per session,1 session per week
Age Group: 6-10 years
Adult-child Ratio: 1:15
5. Music In Measures
This unique program uses multilingual, local, folk, and world music to give children exposure to singing, rhythmic awareness, and basic instruments. Literature and storybooks are used to instruct children through song and language, enhancing a child’s multicultural sensitivity and understanding through music competency.
Program Duration: 45 minutes per session,1 session per week
Age Group: 2-6 years
Adult-child Ratio: 1:10
6. Brazilian Martial Arts
This 500-year-old martial art form combines rhythm, movement, and play. The art form not only focuses on physical fitness and self-defense but also improves hand-eye coordination, helps channel positive energy, and supports cognitive development.
Program Duration: 60 minutes per session,1 session per week
Age Group: 3-5 years & 6-10 years
Adult-child Ratio: 1:15
Early child development focuses on all-rounded growth, which relies on continuity in learning and introduction to a range of creative and physical activities. Dibber’s after-school club combines the spirit of play with the joy of learning, focusing on cultivation of “active skills” that children may not routinely be exposed to during school time. The interests they cultivate at the after-school programs may lead the way to the development of lifelong passions or hobbies dramatically contributing to their skillset and overall satisfaction.
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