Preschool

Our Preschool (Kindergarten) Program is developed and implemented by our Early Childhood Teacher. Our preschool program is customised to meet the individual needs of each enrolled preschool child, in accordance with the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline – QKLG – January 2019.

Our educators will actively encourage your child’s interest in literacy and numeracy as well as social and problem-solving skills and will provide them with the building blocks to develop and practice these skills. The preschool year is an especially important year in a child’s development as it prepares them for transition to primary school, our program is designed to prepare children socially, emotionally, physically, and cognitively. Primary schools are challenging place for young children. In the year before your child’s primary school journey begins, our educators, in their daily interactions, will encourage your child to develop a passion for learning and support them to begin this exciting journey to big school.

Preschool caters for up to 33 children, aged 3½ to 5 years with a 1: 11 ratio.

Some examples of activities that the child at this developmental stage should be doing:

• Develop friendships and skills for playing with other children.
• Learn to use symbols in more complex ways and in two-dimensional form.
• Expand their ability to attach language to actions and ideas.
• Explore relationships between objects and how parts and wholes fit together (as in making constructions).
• Experiment with how to make desired effects happen with objects and people.
• Develop increasingly complex large and small motor skills.
• Learn how to plan ahead.