Pyramid Pandas

The Pyramid Pandas program is an age specific curriculum that focuses upon improving preschool children's basic motor and listening skills. These skills will help them enter society with a more confident and enthusiastic outlook. They will become better students at school, better listeners at home and are more ambitious towards the future. We believe the time between the ages of 3 and 6 are the most important years of a child's development.

Our program will enhance positive development in a fun and motivating way, exposing your child to positive social interaction. They will learn how to work with others and follow directions from their instructors. Our Pyramid Panda Instructors are good role models and are specifically trained to work with pre-school children.

The Pyramid Pandas curriculum consists of developing 8 Major skills that are necessary for participation in any sport or activity, along with an additional 8 Personal development skills that are used to reinforce family values. Upon completion of our Pyramid Pandas program, your child will become focused and motivated to achieve any goal they set in life.

The 8 Pyramid Panda's skill requirements are composed of physical and mental benefits;

Skill #1: FOCUS – This skill will help your child's aim, listening skills and reaction skills. They will excel faster in any physical activities. Your child will also become a better listener and more focused student in school.

Skill #2: TEAMWORK – Teamwork is necessary for any young child to develop. The more confident your child is willing to work with others, the more he or she will accomplish. Your child will develop character, which will help him or her make new friends and become a better leader in life.

Skill #3: CONTROL – Having control means making good decisions. Whether your child is handling a pet or handling a problem, he or she will learn to make the right decisions. Control helps to build confidence.

Skill #4: BALANCE – This skill is crucial to develop at an early age, your child is beginning to participate in many physical activities that are challenging, like riding a bike. Your child will develop good balance and better posture.

Skill #5: MEMORY – Developing a good memory is exercise for your child's brain. The sooner your child exercises, the smarter he or she will become. Our drills are constantly helping your child think and make smart decisions.

Skill #6: DISCIPLINE – Our instructors use the Pyramid Panda drills to help create the vision that discipline is fun and rewarding. Your child will take pride in doing the right thing. Your child will also follow directions better.

Skill #7: FITNESS – It is important for children to understand the importance of being healthy and physically fit. If your child does not burn off excess energy exercising, how will he or she burn off all that energy?

Skill #8: COORDINATION – Your child will learn left from right. They will become better physical participants in sports and activities. The better coordination your child has, the fewer injury’s your child will sustain.

In our Pyramid Pandas classes, we make learning fun and educational.

Our goal is to help your child be the best they can be at everything they put their minds to.

How your child will advance through our program

At the end of each class, your child will be rewarded with a skill stripe for developing that skill. Each skill stripe is a different colour and your child must earn all eight coloured stripes in order to qualify to advance to the next level. Each Panda with all eight skill stripes will perform at the Pyramid Pandas belt promotion to be held every eight weeks. The Pyramid Pandas belt promotion gives your child the opportunity to show the instructors and parents how developed each skill has become. After the performance, the Pandas will be rewarded with their new belt, with which offers your child new challenges for each skill. Your child again begins to collect the coloured skill stripes as they set their goal for the next belt performance. This keeps the program exciting and challenging, giving your child set goals to achieve by accomplishing their new belts. The following is a list of each skill with the colour of the skill stripe:

1. Focus – Red

2. Teamwork – Blue

3. Control – Green

4. Balance – Yellow

5. Memory – Orange

6. Discipline – White

7. Fitness – Black

8. Coordination – Brown

Available Classes

For our Pyramid Pandas we want them to learn as effectively as possible, therefore classes are half hour. This is so we can ensure that your child takes in all the valuable skills learnt for that day, puts 100% effort in for the whole class, and doesn't start to loose focus and attention. This way we guarantee that your child is learning to the best of their ability and maintains a high level of enthusiasm.

Mondays & Wednesdays	5pm – 5.30pm	Pyramid Pandas Program 5-6 years
Tuesdays	4.30pm – 5.00pm	Pandas Introductory course 3-4 years

The Pyramid Pandas Introductory course is specifically for children aged 3-4 years and runs once a week. The course will cover all the eight development skills as in the Pyramid Pandas Program, the difference being that the children will not be assessed and follow the belt structure until they reach the age of 5, with which they will then promote onto the full Pyramid Pandas Program.