The years in the lead up to primary school are some of the most important in your child’s life. It’s when they learn critical social skills, develop a strong sense of identity and build a strong foundation for learning.
Our Preschool & School readiness Program helps children build and extend their language, literacy and numeracy skills, learn to be creative, and build their independence, so they can enter ‘big school’ with confidence. Our program is based on well-researched learning experiences and complements the national Early Years Learning Framework.
What we offer
- Evidence-based research shows that preschoolers learn best through play, so our teachers embed elements of teaching and learning into every play experience children participate in, through both structured and unstructured learning.
- We explore more advanced literacy and numeracy (including STEM) experiences and help build each child’s confidence in recognising things such as letters, numbers and colours in their environment
- Intentional activities to develop children’s foundation strength and dexterity skills for school such as cutting, writing, holding a pencil as well as social skills such as language, communication and attention.
- We encourage children to learn through a combination of child-directed learning, small group educator-guided sessions and brief large-group sessions.
- Families can expect a range of centre initiatives that build a child’s school readiness such as excursions to the local school and library and ‘lunch box’ days to build a child’s independent skills
- Teddy Bear partners with local schools to help tailor our programs to support each individual child to transition smoothly.
