Our Little Geniuses (3-4 year old) room offers a pre-kinder program that is provided by a Diploma Qualified Early Childhood Educator who is supported by a qualified early childhood educator.
We provide a nurturing environment as we continue to support children to develop their confidence, independence, sense of self and agency. We recognise that each child is unique in personality, their stage of development, culture, customs, values and abilities. We embrace this individuality and use it to create a learning environment that encourages children to capitalise on the individual strengths they bring to their learning. We do this by providing rich learning experiences that build on children’s current knowledge and culture in a warm and responsive environment to help them develop the skills and dispositions they need to become world-ready individuals.
Our programs focus on challenging children to extend their current knowledge and understanding. We achieve this by observing children individually to understand their specific needs. We use this information to develop programs that are responsive to these needs. As with the other rooms, our families are able to access and contribute to our observations and programs at any time using our online system, LIFT. As with all our rooms, we continue to focus on developing the pre-number, pre-reading, pre-writing and attentions skills children need to prepare for school.
We continue to engage children in the Abecedarian Approach (Abecedarian Approach Australia) as one of our teaching strategies. With a language and responsive teaching focus, this approach uses the three key teaching strategies of Enriched Caregiving, Conversational Reading and specific Learning Games to enhance learning.
We also provide a funded Kindergarten program delivered over a minimum of three sessions (15 hours) each week. This program is very special and is delivered by a university trained Early Childhood teacher, Michael.