Colourful report cards introduced for pre-primary kids

Avneet Kaur

Jalandhar, July 20

After animated content and theme-based curriculum, the Department of Public Instructions (Elementary Education) has come up with colourful report cards for pre-primary kids.

These cards have pictures depicting various elements of pre-primary sections. Kids’ performance will be evaluated after every three months.

The objective behind introducing a colourful report card is to understand and enable development of a child by their teachers and parents. These will be handed over to the parents at parent-teacher meetings.

Besides the colour-coordinated report cards, these will also include the details of physical-cum-activity development, social and emotional development, intellectual development, language development and mathematics development of the children.

These cards will also have various subjects and columns for marks scored by the student.

Varindervir Singh, district coordinator, Padho Punjab, Padhao Punjab, said, “We have distributed these report cards and these are a detailed account of development, growth and areas of improvement of the children. It is not something like test, but an observation that teachers will make during the course of study.”

“Teachers have been asked to observe a child for minimum 15 days and do evaluation on 22nd day of the month. The cluster master trainer and block master trainer will collect the assessment data in the last three days of the month to upload it on the pre-primary portal,” he added.

Varindervir said the pre-primary portal would have all necessary information required for accessing the learning outcomes of pre-primary classes.

The teachers had been given special trainings on how to manage and deal with all these outcomes, he added.

Parameters for evaluation 

Physical-cum-activity development

• Skipping rope
• Catching the ball with both hands
• Filling colours in 

A picture

• Holding a pencil in a right way
• Joining dots Maths development
• Counting objects 
• Identifying numbers (1-9)

Social, emotional development

• Telling name and address
• Telling names of brother, sister and friends
• Interacting and playing with peers
• Conversing without hesitation with teachers and peers
• Maintaining hygiene in the school

Language development

• Identifying first alphabet of ‘said word’
• Recognising a picture
• Reading easy words
• Writing easy words

Intellectual development

• Identifying objects
• Thinking and speaking properly
• Solving puzzles