Prepare Early Education Centre - St Ives

2 years - 3 years

The educators provide an environment that is inclusive, warm and secure for each child.  The highly trained and enthusiastic educators will respond to children’s ideas in play, follow their evolving interests and extend upon their learning. The toddlers have the opportunity to grow their independence, create friendships with others and learn new life skills.  The children enjoy the centre’s fun phonics program, large construction areas, as well as music and movement activities.

3 years - 4 years

The educators offer an inquiry based and play based learning environment that promotes children to use open-ended questioning, predicting, explaining, shared thinking and problem solving supported by a diverse range of learning materials to extend and enhance the children’s ideas and interests. The children prepare for their school readiness journey but also with the skills and strategies to support a love of lifelong learning. The children enjoy the focussed literacy and numeracy program, investigations, research and project-based experiences, and other activities within literacy, numeracy, science, creative arts, health and wellbeing and sustainability.

4 years - 6 years

The preschool programs are run by experienced university qualified teachers and offer each child a range of stimulating and thought provoking opportunities to grow and develop in all areas, ensuring that preparation for school is at the forefront of the curriculum. This will ensure that the children will be able to challenge and extend their own thinking, understand various concepts, create new knowledge and are given opportunities to enhance their skills and learn to value a love of lifelong learning.  The educators take a holistic approach to teaching and learning and focus on children’s physical, personal, social, emotional and cognitive development and wellbeing. The centre’s transition to school program includes school orientation visits and various incursions, lunch box weeks and school uniform week, to ensure that each child develops the necessary independence and self-help skills to assist with their school transition.

Morning

Harry is two and a half years old and loves to play outside. He and his friends head straight for the sandpit and slide.

Lunchtime

After lunch, Harry decides to visit the arts and crafts area, where he has been busy working on a robot. He adds the finishing touches to his project and sets it aside to dry so that he can take it home that day.

Afternoon

Harry and his friends are playing in the construction zone. Harry pretends to be a builder making a new road for the trucks to drive on.

Morning

Maddy is four and a half years old and loves to begin her day in the home corner with her friends. They are pretending to be a vet clinic, using stuffed animals as patients; learning through play is a key focus for the centre. Maddy and her friends take part in the Prepare Early Education program that is getting them ready for school. 

Lunchtime

Maddy is off to school next year and can’t wait for today’s visit from the local school. A teacher is going to talk to them about what a typical day at school is like, and what they’ll need to pack in their bag. 

Afternoon

Maddy is having some fun in the sandpit. Her educator has set out some cooking equipment, so Maddy pretends to bake some cupcakes with her friends, decorating them with leaves and twigs.