The age criteria is
2 years playgroup
3 years Nursery
4 years Juniors
5 years Seniors
We also take mid term admissions

Yes. We have this programme every month for children below two years of age.

The Planet Discovery Centre offers Playgroup, Nursery, Junior Kindergarten and Senior Kindergarten.
The centre proposes to have partnership with other centres offering Grade 1 to Grade 12. This is for easy transition from Senior Kindergarten.

Children can be admitted into
Playgroup if they turn 2 years of age by June 1ST that year
Nursery if they turn 3 years of age by June 1ST that year
Junior Kindergarten if they turn 4 years of age by June 1ST that year
Senior Kindergarten if they turn 5 years of age by June 1ST that year

The Planet Discovery Centre timings are from
9:30 am to 11:30 pm for Playgroup.
9:30 am to 12:30 pm for Nursery, Junior Kindergarten and Senior Kindergaten.
Saturdays and Sundays are holidays.
The centre office timings are 9:30 am to 12:30 pm

Yes, CEE offers a crèche facility which is open to all parents. It would be helpful for working parents to avail the crèche post centre hours. The timings are from 9.00 am to 6.30 pm. There is an additional fee for this facility.

The Planet Discovery Centre does not provide food to students at the centre.

The Planet Discovery Centre does not provide transportation facility to students.

The academic session will commence in the sceond week of June each year.

The Planet Discovery Centre teachers are qualified in early childhood teaching and with green teacher qualification. The teachers are trained by expert facilitators from CEE who have global experience in active learning pedagogy.

The Planet Discovery Centre does not prescribe a uniform. Children should be dressed in comfortable clothes and dressed for the weather.

At the Planet Discovery Centre, we follow a Pupil -Teacher Ratio (PTR) of 10:1

The Planet Discovery Centre has evolved its own curriculum. Based on our understanding of various International early childhood approaches we have tailor made our curriculum favouring our discovery centre philosophy and programme needs. CEE’s initiative is in collaboration with the ‘Natural Start Alliance: Promoting Early Childhood EE’ of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE). Children learn from real life problems and utilize nature and the community to make learning as real as possible.

The Planet Pre School prepares children for regular Primary School Grade 1 of any board for any public or private centre. The children will have all the competencies and developmental goals like a regular kindergarten centre. The children will have all the learning of a traditional centre with real life experiences to help children understand their concepts clearly and develop care and concern for the nature. Reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing for English Language development, Mathematics, Science, Environment studies, Music, Drama and Physical Education will be integrated with real life experiences and have an added goal to begin with to develop care and concern for the natural world.

The research is quite clear that the best practice in early childhood education is to break away from passive instruction and allow for more play and investigation, and this kind of learning early in life builds skills and interests that serve children throughout their centre years, and later in life (http://naturalstart.org).

Nature is important to child’s development and nature-based discovery centres are powerful programmes that can promote holistic development of the child. Positioning nature at the core of curriculum can stimulate creativity, arouse curiosity, and give children a deep respect for the shared environment and world we live in (www.antioch.edu). Without direct experiences in nature, research findings suggest that children are missing opportunities to enhance their health and well-being. Studies show that lack of interaction between children and their environment results in negative health effects on young children such as “childhood obesity, asthma, vision problems, and attention deficit disorder / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and vitamin D deficiency.

Studies in the US show that centres that use nature-based experiential education support significant student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math (American Institutes for Research, 2005). The global research has shown that an early start with nature based education leads to increased mastery of academic content, enhanced student enthusiasm for centre, a happy child with fewer discipline or behavioural issues, better teamwork and problem solving skills, improved social connectivity for students and teachers and increased levels of physical activity.

CEE’s Planet Discovery Centre set in a campus of 14 acres of wilderness provides a nature-based early learning programme that support growth across the development domains. The Planet Discovery Centre proposes to nurture young minds with nature as their learning environment. It aims to embrace natural surroundings and discover the joy of learning. The Planet Pre School brings over 30 years of CEE’s experience as well as international experience along with local adaptability to build synergies to infuse citizenship among children making the world a better place to stay.

The Planet Discovery Centre have a uniquely different approach to curriculum than the conventional indoor early childhood programmes which restrict the natural ability of the child to explore and discover. Here learning occurs in the context of nature and thus move early childhood programme far away from the “no nature” end of the range and closer to a full nature-based approach. Nature is put at the core of the curriculum and use nature to support both early childhood development and education. There is extensive daily outdoor time over the course of a centre year and nature is also brought into the classroom through physical materials. In other words, nature is infused into all aspects of the classroom and serves as a tool to achieve learning outcomes. Above all this, we have the advantage of binding nature's natural ability to inculcate green values in child’s development in our lush green campus close to nature.

Teachers at The Planet Discovery Centre implement high-quality early childhood practices set nature as medium of teaching and the pedagogy emphasize on inquiry and place based learning through play and hands-on discovery.

The concept of nature based Discovery Centre education is new in India. Centre for Environment Education (CEE) is pioneer in Nature based schooling in the country. Improving the quality of environmental education in centres of India was one of the key mandates of CEE when it was established in 1984. Its first focus at the centre level was at the middle centre. In 1986 it came out with the publication “Joy of Learning” for the NCERT. This in many ways pioneered activity based learning in EE particular and education in general. The publication which got translated into 19 languages, set the trend that later got incorporated into the curriculum.

CEE’s work in the ‘90s also looked at different approaches at the Higher Education level. The effort was to connect classroom work with sustainability concepts. In 2014 CEE started work at the Primary School level. In collaboration with the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE), a global network based in Copenhagen, it launched the Eco-Schools initiative. Eco-Schools is perhaps the world’s largest EE programme for centres.

CEE has implemented a number of projects with centres through a whole centre and curriculum linked approach with Science Technology Education Math (STEM) as inherent concept.  Today CEE’s Paryavaran Mitra programme reaches out to over 2 lakh centres spread across India.

CEE has been a member of the North American Association of Environmental Education (NAAEE) since its inception. Outstanding American programmes like Project Wild and NatureScope have been collaborating with CEE over these years. NAAEE has also launched a special initiative for Pre-School working with some of the best Nature discovery centres in the USA. CEE’s initiative is in collaboration with the ‘Natural Start Alliance: Promoting Early Childhood EE’ of the NAAEE.

CEE’s Planet Discovery Centre set in a campus of 14 acres of wilderness provides a nature-based early learning programme that support growth across the development domains. The Planet Discovery Centre proposes to nurture young minds with nature as their learning environment. It aims to embrace natural surroundings and discover the joy of learning. The Planet Pre School brings over 30 years of CEE’s experience as well as international experience along with local adaptability to build synergies to infuse citizenship among children making the world a better place to stay.

The Planet Discovery Centre have a uniquely different approach to curriculum than the conventional indoor early childhood programmes which restrict the natural ability of the child to explore and discover. Here learning occurs in the context of nature and thus move early childhood programme far away from the “no nature” end of the range and closer to a full nature-based approach. Nature is put at the core of the curriculum and use nature to support both early childhood development and education. There is extensive daily outdoor time over the course of a centre year and nature is also brought into the classroom through physical materials. In other words, nature is infused into all aspects of the classroom and serves as a tool to achieve learning outcomes. Above all this, we have the advantage of binding nature's natural ability to inculcate green values in child’s development in our lush green campus close to nature.

Teachers at The Planet Discovery Centre implement high-quality early childhood practices set nature as medium of teaching and the pedagogy emphasize on inquiry and place based learning through play and hands-on discovery.