Children have potential for holistic development through active learning and exploration both in and out of school. Their development is a gradual, continuous process across physical, social, cognitive, and emotional dimensions. For healthy development, children need opportunities to develop skills in all areas, meet challenges, and have fun while staying emotionally strong and physically fit. After school programs that focus on arts, sports, academics and more can provide these opportunities for holistic growth depending on the options available to each child. Both structured programs and unstructured free time can positively or negatively impact development.

1. Holistic
Development of
Children

2. Children have Potential
• Child is an active creator of knowledge
• They explore, discover, investigate and learn the
world around with the hands-on experience and
knowledge based activity
• Development is gradual and continuous process
and can happen during out-of-school hours
• Learning goals of young children are multidimensional

3. What is Important for the Child ?
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to develop skills in all areas
to keep the learning going
to meet the challenges
to enjoy the fun
be emotionally strong
be physically fit and healthy

4. How ?
• Depends on how the child spends their free time
before/after school hours
• Depends on what options are provided to the child
to grow and learn new skills

5. Out-of-School hours Preferences
1. Students find new opportunities to learn
developmental skills - especially through arts,
music, sports, physical wellbeing, dramatic play,
learning foreign language
2. Students have nowhere to go and are home alone
– doing cooking, cleaning, homework, enjoying
boredom busters
19% face latchkey situation. Of which 12% are between 6-8
years of age. More 23% are alone 2-3 times in a week

6. After-school apprenticeships offer Holistic
Development of Children
Focus on “Whole Child”

7. Development Dimensional
• Physically fit and healthy child can learn more
effectively and quickly
• Social aspect makes the child learns skills of
imagination, adopts to change
• Cognitive aspect covers a wide range of behaviour
such as development of memory, intelligence,
reasoning, problem solving
• Emotional aspect makes the child understand own
feelings and others emotions

8. Plus and Minus Points
• Emphasising on holistic development approach
ensures that the child is growing up competently
• Interventions are not limited to academic
development only
• Have fewer behavioural problems, more selfconfidence and can handle conflicts
• On the other hand, latchkey kids often become
more fidgety, lonesome and bored while being
alone for extended period

9. What can be done ?
• Finding a program that works best for the children
• By doing so parents allow the child to grow and
develop skills in all aspects

10. all about right choices