Being Alpha

Drama and visual expression are some of the most effective ways to develop soft skills and emotional intelligence. Drama promotes communication skills, teamwork, dialogue, negotiation, and socialization, which are often disregarded in traditional education. Through this module, we aim to provide students with a platform where they receive professional guidance to develop and hone their creative expression and appreciate drama as an art form.

Teaching children the basics of cooking is a great way to broaden their nutritional knowledge and give them practical experience in kitchen handling. At Alpha Core, we ensure that culinary arts cultivate teamwork in students and develop necessary life skills, allowing them to become well-rounded individuals in practical life.

Creating art may boost children's analyzing and problem-solving abilities. As kids spend time doing art and craft, their motor skills improve. In this module, experimentation and making mistakes are encouraged. Hence creative expressions redefine new ways of thinking, which extend well beyond the craft room.

Aerobics for children is a complete activity that can help children learn to love sports in general. It also brings other benefits, such as the value of effort and teamwork.

Along with its main benefits that include psychomotor development, motor coordination, social integration and agility, aerobics is helpful in letting the children develop their abilities to the fullest while they are still enjoying the activity.

At Alpha Core, we aim to make sure that the children utilize this opportunity to increase control, resistance and dexterity, and be aware of their bodies. As aerobics requires synchronization, the children must develop concentration and attention for each step, time and repetition. Lastly, since it is a group activity, the children get to increase their social capital in an environment that is conducive to meaningful, holistic learning.

Swimming is an excellent cardiovascular workout that promotes heart and lung health, improves strength and flexibility, increases stamina and even improves balance and posture. Swimming stimulates young children’s senses and is thought to improve brain and emotional development. Children can often be fearful of water if they are not sensitised to it. Overcoming this fear can be extremely empowering, boosting confidence and self-esteem. This newfound confidence can extend to social situations, which allows your child to interact with peers, developing their social skills and providing another self-esteem boost. Improving self-esteem instils a positive attitude towards physical activity which assists later in life.

We believe that swimming, while fantastic for physical health and wellbeing, has invaluable mental health benefits. As children grow and develop, the positive mental effects of swimming begin to align, if not exceed the physical benefits of swimming.

Coding or computer programming is the act of using languages to instruct a computer to perform functions and more schools are seeing the importance of teaching this skill to young students all over the world.

Learning to code calls for mastery of a problem-solving skill known as computational thinking: breaking down tasks into a logical sequence of smaller steps, discarding unnecessary elements, diagnosing errors, and inventing new approaches when the first fails. Coding provides techniques to attack a problem and creates logical connections which help kids to learn how to properly analyses different situations and problems.

We trust that this skill provides kids with the tools to create a world of limitless possibilities, one where they can build their own paths and solutions in their own way.

Clay, and its necessity to be touched, is at once familiar to children. The sensory experiences they encounter in our pottery studio are numerous and as they experience the texture and feel of the clay, the students express what they are sensing with uninhibited enthusiasm; “It’s cold, it’s wet and squishy, and it’s so heavy!” Clay asks to be poked, pinched, twisted and rolled and as they handle it, children develop both fine and major motor skills and realize that they have an effect on the clay as it responds to their manipulation. Children visually inspect the clay’s surface and color, they smell it and they laugh at the sounds it makes when it’s wet. For many, it’s perhaps the first time they’ve been encouraged to get wet and dirty in a classroom environment and there is an instinctive and uplifting response to the freedom they feel. Even when the finished product is ready to take home, the children hold and cradle their work, smoothing their fingers over the now colorfully glazed surface as they turn it around and around for inspection.

As soon as children are given clay, they immediately begin to mold and shape it. The feeling that they are in command of the clay gives the students the confidence to attempt any project which opens the door to greater self-expression and imagination. In our programmes, we often encourage the children to work on spinning decorating wheels or to get up from their seats and walk to the other side of the table so they can see their creation from all sides. They begin to understand shape, form, and perspective, and therefore get a first lesson in geometry. The child learns to really look and see the world around them and discovers their place in that world. They gain knowledge of planning methods and problem solving as they map out their three dimensional project. While there are rules and procedures that need to be followed when working with clay, we find that children are very good about understanding guidelines and respecting procedures. Through this understanding they learn something that is very important: discipline yields success.

Capturing aesthetically sound pictures has become an integrated part of our lives and opens doors to promising career paths. In our Photo Factory module, we encourage students to be creative, develop perspective, learn camera composition, and understand technical details about photography.

Taekwondo develops self-awareness and provides children with the ability to self-defence. It also brings other benefits, such as the value of effort and teamwork. Children begin by practicing basic patterns and forms, board breaking, kicking, blocking, striking, and punching. These fundamental skills increase their physical coordination, flexibility, balance, and mental strength.

At Alpha Core, we ensure that children utilize this opportunity to increase control, resistance, and dexterity, maintaining awareness of their bodies. As taekwondo requires synchronization, the children must develop concentration and coordination to pursue taekwondo and other physical activities.

The enhancement of physical and mental development of children is certainly the most important contribution of sports for children. Due to its vast reach, unparalleled popularity and foundation of positive values, sport is definitely one of the greatest things man has ever created. It’s also a powerful tool that breaks down all the barriers and helps us feel good about ourselves, both physically and mentally. Sport is quite beneficial for children too: by playing sports children develop physical skills, exercise, make new friends, have fun, learn to be a team member, learn about play fair, improve self-esteem, etc.

The enhancement of physical and mental development of children is certainly the most important contribution of sports, but the list of values the children may learn and acquire through sports does not end here. Other positive aspects are numerous, which reveals the true beauty of sport.

No other thing in life affords children such opportunity to develop positive character traits and to soak up many quality values as sports does. Here are some benefits that may come from playing sports:

• Kids’ character and moral principles are formed through fair play.
• Playing sports enables them to create friendships they otherwise might not have formed.
• Sports bring people together from all over the world, regardless of their nationality, religion, culture, or skin color.
• Teamwork and benefits of social interaction among children are best seen in sports.
• They view competitions on and off the field as opportunities to learn from their success and failure. In addition, losing often motivates kids to work even harder for next time.
• They learn to respect authority, rules, team colleagues and opponents.
• Sport is an important learning environment for children. Numerous studies have shown that children who play sports perform better at school. It is also within sport that peer status and peer acceptance is established and developed.
• Sports experiences help building positive self- esteem in children.
• Participating in sports can be a helpful way of reducing stress and increasing feelings of physical and mental well-being, as well as fighting against juvenile delinquency, conflict and aggressive outbursts.
• When children learn positive life lessons through sports, there is no doubt they will become honest, reliable adults who will try to help others in need at any moment.