Need and Importance of Pre- Primary Schools:

Pre- Primary education is of great significant to the physical emotional and intellectual development of children. 

1. Physical Development:

Children grow rapidly during early years of life. It has been discovered that physical deformities and abnormalities own their origin to infancy period. A medical check up and proper care of physical health is highly essential or children of the age 3 to 6 years. Pre - primary school take care of physical growth of children. They ensure fresh air balanced diet hygiene habits and muscular coordination through play activity.

2. Intellectual development:

Pre - primary education has significant intellectual value as it provides the opportunity for proper development of potentialities. Some of the intellectual uses of pre- primary education are as under:

(a) It sharpens imagination.

(b) It enhances thinking and reasoning 

(c) It widens power of judgement 

(d) It broadens mental horizon 

(e) It is helpful in the formation of new ideas concepts and thoughts 

(f) It provides opportunity for self expression and development of interest 

3. Emotional Development 

(a)It is helpful in developing emotional maturity by guiding the child to express, understand accept and control his feelings.

(b) It is helpful in developing love, security, understanding sympathy etc.

(c) It discourages day dreaming 

(d) It overcomes shyness, nervousness, moodiness over sensitiveness aggressive ess and withdrawing attitude.

4. Social and moral Development:

Pre- Primary Schools has tremendous social value. It helps in the following directions 

(I) It develops spirit of cooperation, attitude of give and take.

(II) It develops quality of obedience 

(III) It develops self confidence 

(IV) It develops fellow - feeling 

5 . Aesthetic development 

Pre- Primary Schools are helpful in developing aesthetic responsibility in children 

6. Helpful forwarding mother's 

The industrial and technological advancement had increased the number of working mothers. The working mothers in factories, school to their, health departments and of their children. Pre- Primary Schools institutions are needed to take care of their children.

7. Unsuitable home conditions:

Most of the pre school children live in adverse and unsuitable home conditions i.e in slums dark and dingy houses. They are little fed and little cared for. The poor child does not know even a few general rules of health and personal hygiene or sanitation. Hence there is direct need for the establishment of good pre primary schools in order to meet the needs of children.

8. Unhappy homes:

Love and security are the most important vitamins for the child. Pre education has very importance role to play in the satisfaction of these needs of children. 

9. Adjustment in the primary school:

It is found that children who receive nursery education and better achievement show better adjustments in the primary school as compared to those who do not receive nursery education. 

10. Foundation stage:

The first five or six years of life lay the foundation on which the superstructure of personality is based.