Kids

The Moral Values Enrichment Programme is designed for children between the ages of 6 and 14 years.

However, as parents and teachers start to employ this programme they will discover how easy it is to adapt this material for younger ages.

Primarily, this methodology works to instil values-based habits intrinsically within the child. It can be described as a nutritional exercise to enhance and strengthen that which is pre-existing within all of us.

The programme consists of three phases of 9 books each, namely:

Ages 6 to 8

Ages 9 to 11

Ages 12 to 14

The books are used ideally in the school classroom but can also be used in home schooling environments.

Each book contains enough practice material for four months and covers two major values. Thus a child would typically be exposed to three of these books per year, amounting to six values which are internalised thoroughly.

Over a period of nine years the child would internalise these 18 values by two repetitions within their growing age group.

Simply stated the child who starts the programme at age six will learn 18 values in three years then repeat the same values for the following three years but within a new age bracket of 9 to 11 years. Thereafter, another three year stint using the same values upgraded for application to 12 to 14 year olds.

It can be clearly seen how a child who embarks on a programme of this nature will benefit! (see why learn values)

To implement the programme we invite parents and teachers to contact us to discuss the ease with which this is possible.

Although we focus attention on only 18 core values, all values are interconnected and by default include many others as well as nuances of character etc. Thus the programme becomes far more than a simple "learning-values" project.

Besides the 27 books within the 9 year programme, there are PowerPoint Presentations which assist in graphically reinforcing advantages and consequences of choices made.

We also have scripts for school plays which dramatically imprint these values on the heart and mind. These plays can be used by the schooling system as end-of-term dramas to "end off" the "values" learnt during the preceding term.

Within the programme we use memorable characters such as Mirrorman who acts as an example or mentor as well as someone who can be called upon to explain certain values and help reason on consequences and rewards of actions taken by the children.

The storyline in the books include a demographically chosen group of kids known as the "Junky Gang". These kids find themselves in situations which challenge the value in question and are then assisted, via the methodology, to understand and implement or internalise the given values.