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GymbaROO is not a “gym” or “playgroup” for children and babies, but an educational centre aimed at helping parents and carers learn about the importance of each childhood development in relation to later school learning.
GymbaROO has been successfully operating in the Penrith region for over 20 years.
Unit 3, 21 Peachtree Rd
Penrith NSW 2750
Phone: 4732 6072
For more information on what GymbaROO has to offer go to www.gymbaroo.com.au/
What GymbaROO does (that nobody else does)
GymbaROO offers a comprehensive, early childhood development and parent education program for families with children 0 – 5 years of age. Parents/carers and their children attend a 45 minute session once a week to participate in a multisensory, sensory-motor, perceptual-motor program that is neuro-developmentally appropriate for each of the age groups.
These programs are based on over 30 years of research in the neuro-development field. While children have fun rolling, spinning, tumbling, climbing, dancing and exercising their way to developmental readiness for school, parents learn about their child’s development and how they can help their children be successful achievers.
What GymbaROO does for parents (that nobody else does)
Helping parents understand the importance of early development is a key to assisting children develop into successful learners and competent adults.
GymbaROO:
Provides, research- based, comprehensive, and timely developmental information for parents about their children’s development from the ages of 6 weeks – 5 years. This information is not just about “health”, it links development to education and learning.
Actively engages parents in their child’s development.
Explains to parents reasons why certain activities are developmentally beneficial (or detrimental) to a child’s development. i.e . too much television takes away from important play time. Tummy time helps develop strength in the upper body, so the baby can crawl & creep. This helps with stimulation of vision which is important for reading. Strength in upper body is directly related to hand grip and pencil grip.
Provides parents with ideas about how they can help their children’s healthy development i.e. activity ideas in the home to undertake with their infants and children in the home.
Information is provided in a number of ways - enhancing parent learning
- through verbal instruction during class sessions
- via information posters hung in the GymbaROO centres
- through weekly parent handouts
- via “First Steps” – the GymbaROO education magazine for parents, [published 4 times a year)
- through the activities that infants and children undertake at every GymbaROO session.
What GymbaROO does for infants and children (that nobody else does)
GymbaROO operates a highly researched program that provides infants and children with the opportunity to experience an environment that stimulates cognitive development, fine- motor and gross motor skill development, sensory development, perceptual development and vestibular development.
The program is based on 25 years of accumulated knowledge and is based on the neuro-physiological development of the brain. For children to learn to read and write they need to understand the spoken language, follow and sequence information, have good vision and be able to visualize, be able to hear and interpret sounds, coordinate and integrate their hands with their eyes, and their hands and eyes with their thought processes, as well as understand and interpret concept words.
Children who have good gross and fine motor skills, can balance, hop, skip, competently throw and catch a ball, and have good body awareness are most likely those who are also able to achieve easily in the classroom. These skills all form the basis of good cortical function, from where higher learning (cognitive) skills arise. Physical and intellectual development depends on the experience and experiment of the senses.
All GymbaROO classes (from 6 weeks of age through to 5 years) provide:
- age-appropriate equipment and class activities tailored to meet the developmental needs of the age of children attending
- opportunities for movement, sensory stimulation, gross and fine motor skill development, singing, dancing, age- appropriate exercises etc
- information for parents about the neuro-developmental basis for certain activities are being undertaken during the class
- highly trained, tertiary qualified teachers (teachers undergo on-going professional development in neuro- education)
- lots of time to have fun and play in an environment that is safe, and developmentally appropriate.
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