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Three Year Old 

In our Three Year Old program, we begin the year with settling children into their kindergarten year by establishing relationships and routines with children and families. We use a variety of programs, intentional teaching and incursions throughout the year to support children's social, emotional, physical and cognitive development. 

To support children's focus on learning, we start the day with Brain Gym. Brain Gym movements helps children to increase energy and concentration levels, improve coordination, and control energy levels. Animal Fun is a unique program designed to promote motor skills and social skill development through imitating animal movements. Children participate in a structured 'Sports Tots' program. The program supports children with the develop of listening to and following instructions, team work, social skills as well as developing gross and fine motor skills.

The Abecedarian approach is an evidence-based educational method that prioritises high-quality adult-child interactions and focuses on children's language acquisition. Children develop their understanding of themselves and the world around them through participating in Recycle Man, Drama Tool Box and Wild life Incursions. At Creekside Kindergarten we understand that children use math concepts to make sense of their world and connect these concepts with their environment and everyday activities. 

Our mathematics program is based on the universal mathematical concepts of locating, counting, explaining, designing and playing. Our literacy program encourages children to communicate through verbal and non-verbal means, including expressing ideas, sharing experiences, and engaging in discussions. Through intentional teaching, we help children to understand that print carries meaning, that words are made up of letters and sounds, and that print is read from left to right. Educators read aloud to children, pointing to the words as they are read, modeling fluent reading, and encouraging children to participate through song, rhyme, dance and play. We provide ongoing workshops for families on routines, transitions and child development. 

We create ample opportunities for our families to join us for various events, festivals and to celebrate children's learning. Our families receive ongoing updates about their child's goals and their development at kinder through parent teacher interviews, catch ups and weekly updates on our online learning portal.

Four Year Old

In our Four Year Old program we begin the year by establishing relationships and routines with children and families. We use a variety of programs, intentional teaching, an excursion and incursions throughout the year to support children's social, emotional, physical and cognitive development.

To support children's focus on learning, we start the day with Brain Gym. Brain Gym movements helps children to increase energy and concentration levels, improve coordination, and control energy levels. Animal Fun is a unique program designed to promote motor skills and social skill development through imitating animal movements.  

Our We Thinkers Social Explorers curriculum assists young learners to be flexible social thinkers and social problem solvers. Through collaborative play, children are provided with opportunities to develop flexible thinking by using language to explain their thinking and how to use social cues to navigate social situations. Children develop their understanding of themselves and the world around them through participating in Body Safety Superstars, Recycle Man, The Flying Bookworm, Road Safety incursions and Animal Land excursion. 

We value the importance of collaborating with our teachers in primary school to build strong foundations in children’s learning through exploring mathematical and literacy concepts through a play based approach. Children learn to identify numbers, count objects accurately, and understand the concept of one-to-one correspondence.  They develop an understanding of quantity by comparing groups of objects, ordering them, and estimating by counting toys, blocks, fingers; singing counting songs; and playing games. Children learn to recognise and understand shapes, spatial relationships, and patterns in their environment through solving puzzles, building structures with blocks and playing games. Through hands-on experiences such as cooking, children explore measurement. Our literacy curriculum aims to foster emergent literacy skills in young children, preparing them for future reading and writing success. It focuses on building foundational literacy skills through play, interaction, and engaging experiences. This encompasses a broad range of skills, including the understanding that print carries meaning and has a specific direction. 

Through intentional teaching educators model the phonological awareness skills through modelling the sounds of language and manipulating them (e.g., rhyming, blending sounds). Through immersion with books, play and oral language experiences, children are exposed to the relationship between letters and sounds.Educators use intentional teaching to engage children in shared reading experiences, pointing out letters, sounds, and words while reading aloud. Developing vocabulary, sentence structure, and conversational skills. 

Children develop their fine motor skills through playing with playdough and other tools to ensure hand strengthen. We encourage children to write in various formats, such as drawing, creating lists and writing their name. 

Our kinder to school transition program includes weekly library visits and termly visits to different areas of the school and kinder occurs throughout the whole year. We provide ongoing workshops for families on school readiness, transitions and child development. We create ample opportunities for our families to join us for various events, festivals and to celebrate children's learning. 

Our families receive ongoing updates about their child's goals and their development at kinder through parent teacher interviews, catch ups and weekly updates on our online learning portal.