Qualified staff prepare children for Primary School
The Kindy Room at mykindy is licensed for 30 children and is taught by a degree qualified teacher who is supported by two diploma or certificate qualified educators.
Our Kindy program includes a focus on:
- Preparing children for the next step in their educational journey
- Fostering and growing the social skills needed to successfully enter play experiences with their peers – interaction, cooperation, sharing, friendships
- Strengthening fine and gross motor skills through intentional teaching practice and through play
- Growing emotional resilience
- Coordination with active exercises
- Creativity – art, drawing and craft
- Discovering and experimenting – playing, digging, exploring
- Challenges and resilience – problem solving, show and share, reasonable risk taking
- Respect – for others and peers
- Numeracy and literacy skills – reading, story time, number concept, SSP Monster literacy program
- Musicality – specialty lessons with Victory College primary music teacher
- Weekly Library visits
- Special visits and events
- Preparing children for the next step in their educational journey
- Fostering and growing the social skills needed to successfully enter play experiences with their peers – interaction, cooperation, sharing, friendships
- Strengthening fine and gross motor skills through intentional teaching practice and through play
- Growing emotional resilience
- Coordination with active exercises
- Creativity – art, drawing and craft
- Discovering and experimenting – playing, digging, exploring
- Challenges and resilience – problem solving, show and share, reasonable risk taking
- Respect – for others and peers
- Numeracy and literacy skills – reading, story time, number concept, Ssp Monster literacy program
- Musicality – specialty lessons with Victory College primary music teacher
- Weekly Library visits
- Special visits and events
By the end of the kindy year, the children will have been encouraged and supported in the following abilities…
Social and Emotional
- Separate confidently from their family
- Socialise in a group setting
- Take turns and share
- Negotiate with peers
- Develop long term friendships with peers
- Express themselves verbally and emotionally in a group setting
- Develop a healthy self esteem
- Develop independence
Physical
- Develop eye-hand coordination
- Develop a pencil grip
- Strengthen fine and gross motor skills
- Take reasonable and calculated risks
- Develop core strengthening abilities to sustain concentration
Reading and Writing
- Recognise characters and numbers
- Introduced to SSP Monsters Literacy Program (as used in the prep at Victory College)
- Begin to write their first name
- Be exposed to a variety of books and text through our library visits and classroom storytelling
- Discriminate size, shape, and colour
- Match and sort
