St Peter’s Preschool is an Education and Care Service whose policies, procedures and program are under the EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS 2011
St Peter’s Preschool works under the National Quality Standards which are under the umbrella of the National Regulations. Under the standards lies the Early Years Learning Framework which is the basis of the early learning curriculum.
Within this framework there are 5 Learning Outcomes:
- Children have a strong sense of identity
- Children are connected with and contribute to their world
- Children have a strong sense of wellbeing
- Children are confident and involved learners
- Children are effective communicators
Adapted from ‘Belonging, Being & Becoming’ the Early Years Learning Framework V2
Remember: Every child is unique and will possess strengths and weaknesses in different areas. As educators our role is to enable, support and encourage the child to be the best they can be, working in partnership with you.
Your Child's Learning Journey
- We will continually discuss your child’s journey of learning with you and celebrate their achievements.
- During Term 3 we offer an opportunity to meet with each family individually and review their achievements and developing skills.
- We may suggest further assessment: hearing, speech, paediatrician, doctor, after discussion with you.
- Routines and consistency are important for your child’s development and confidence in the preschool setting.
- If anything changes at home: moving house, visitors, death of a pet, new baby, illness, etc., notify educators – little things can have a big impact on your child and their behaviour.
Fundamental to St Peter’s Preschool education and care is the belief that children’s lives are characterised by a sense of:
- Belonging – knowing where and with whom they belong
- Being – the here and now in their lives
- Becoming – the process of rapid and significant change as they learn and grow: learning to participate fully and actively in society
Early Years Learning Framework V2
At St Peter’s Preschool we have 2 groups – Platypus and Bilby.
- Both rooms contain mixed age groupings, comprising of a mix of 3 – 6 year old children.
- This has been proven to benefit children in a variety of ways
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Working with you and supporting your child’s learning journey at St Peter’s Preschool
When your child first starts at St Peter’s Preschool, our focus is helping them with social and emotional development, confidence and independence as well as helping them to enjoy their adventure into Preschool.
In these initial stages, we provide support in:
- Saying Goodbye to Mum or Dad or family member and feeling safe, secure and supported with other adults
- Interacting with others within their community
- Sharing toys, space, adults and equipment
- Waiting and taking turns and developing confidence
- Starting to become interdependent and develop resiliency
- Listening and responding to directions
- Becoming familiar with and confident in routines
Whilst your child is becoming more confident and settled in the Preschool environment, we are also supporting them in other ways. This can include their the ability to:
- Become caring, empathetic members of the preschool community
- Develop autonomy and self-confidence
- Learn and appreciating differing views and opinions
- Appreciate how all children are all unique and special
- Become more responsible for their own physical wellbeing
- Create, construct, cut, paint, paste, count, sort, thread, manipulate
- Develop curiosity, cooperation, creativity, enthusiasm, persistence
- Make new friends and work with a variety of children
- Recognise and write their name and recognise words and sounds
- Climb, run, catch, throw, dig, sing, dance, move, play, imagine, pretend, wonder
- Look after their own belongings and put them back in the right place
- Experience and become familiar with pre-maths and pre-science concepts – sequence, shape, volume, cause-effect, value, number, time
- Become even more independent and self-reliant
- Say “Stop it I don’t like it” if I need to
- Ask and answer questions, remember and recall things
- Make their own decisions about things, solve problems and work things out – inquiring, problem-solving, researching, investigating
- Listen to instructions and then complete tasks
- Enjoy the experience of learning
