QLD Approved Kindergarten Program – Chermside West
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Our Kindergarten Program
Located in Chermside West, we have two Queensland Government approved Kindergarten programs and each of our kindergarten rooms has a Bachelor Trained teacher and Full-Time assistant. We focus on school readiness and preparing your child for lifelong learning.
As Educators, we use the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline document to support us in our professional practice and help us to link children’s learning to a variety of developmental areas of the curriculum.
Our program centres on the children’s interests and what comes from them each day. However, teachers also have many opportunities for intentional teaching, such as during our morning group times where we engage children in rich learning games, songs, gross and fine motor experiences, multicultural learning, alphabet and numeracy games and practising writing our names.
In Kindy, children will be observed as they engage in the following:
- Socialise, negotiate, discuss, explore, problem solve
- Make choices and investigate personal interests
- Talk with teachers and other children and contribute to discussions about stimulating topics
- Plan with the teacher the things they may like to do and follow up with those plans
- Design and make things with craft, play dough, blocks, box collage materials.
- Sing, rhyme, dance, paint, draw, cartoon, cut out
- Listen to, act out and make stories
- Play games both indoor/outdoor
- Climb, bounce, balance, jump
- Plan and share in make-believe play
- Use computers to draw pictures, make signs, problem
- Solve, make sense of the world
- Take part in real life experiences like cooking, gardening, cleaning up, routines
- Explore books, stories, information texts, alphabet letters, letter sounds and words
- Engage in early mathematics as they learn about shape, patterns, size and measurement during play and construction both indoors and outdoors
Our program implements all aspects of learning in readiness for Prep, providing rich learning experiences that include extensive hands-on activities and learning through discovery and play. It incorporates all contexts for learning including focused learning and teaching, real life situations, investigations, play, and routines and transitions.
The educator’s role is to make deliberate and well-informed decisions to promote and enrich children’s holistic learning and development, build respectful relationships with family, community and professional partners, promote children’s welbeing, and ongoing learning progress; interact with children, with a clear learning focus to promote learning; support children with additional needs; effectively monitor and assess children’s learning, and communicate appropriately with relevant partners about children’s progress and build connections between children’s prior, current and future learning experiences to promote continuity of learning.
Learning Through Play
It’s important that you know that our approach considers every aspect of your child – their physical, emotional, social and cognitive needs – we have one focus and that is your child’s development.
Children develop naturally and they don’t need pressure from anyone to do so. Our role is merely to enhance, encourage and nurture your child’s development by listening to them and observing them. That way, we can make sure we’re providing the right “match” of materials and experiences to fit in with your child’s needs, interests and behaviours.
For children over three and the Kindy classes, we provide a little more structure, supervision and enhancement because that’s what they need. We follow the QLD Curriculum guidelines, and link in with local schools e.g. Craigslea, Aspley and Queen of Apostles to ensure our children are ready to prosper in prep.
We email our daily programs to the families and families can be involved in their child’s program at the centre as little or as much as they like.
Our Nutrition Policy
Although we do not provide meals, at Bright Beginnings Child Edu-Care Centre we aim to assist children in receiving a safe and nutritious diet and to provide a climate for eating which encourages children to enjoy nutritious food and to develop their independence in the eating process.
Meal times provide a wonderful opportunity to create a sharing, family atmosphere. Food can be used to encourage learning if food awareness activities are carefully chosen. Good nutrition is the balanced eating of a variety of foods. The foods we eat should provide our bodies with the nutrients they need to stay healthy.