In the year before school, we encourage the 4 – 5 year old children to develop the many varied skills ready for their adventure into ‘big school’.
 

These include 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