CURRICULUM

Transition To School Program

"We don't stop going to school when we graduate." - Carol Burnett

Transition To School Program

Getting ready for school is an important milestone for children at preschool and it requires a strong foundation to help them start this amazing journey of learning. School readiness is not all about academics. We recognise that children up to seven years old learn best through play, and that more important than skill development is their development of social and emotional wellbeing, which is needed to be an active and positive learner. At Your Kids Our Kids, School Readiness doesn’t just start with the Preschool Room, it starts from the moment the children push the door and learn to say “Good Morning!”. It starts in our Nursery rooms, continues in the Toddlers Rooms and flourishes in our Preschoolers Rooms. The School Readiness Program is expanded for our preschoolers in their final year before school to ensure that they are given the maximum opportunities to learn new skills, as well as refine existing abilities. All our learning is based on the Early Years Learning Framework, the Australian National Curriculum.
 
Our holistic School readiness Program aims at supporting the development of confidence and independence skills that your child will need prior to starting school, helping to build a solid foundation for later learning. The School Readiness Program promotes interests and assists your child in becoming an active learner. The program and our extensive educational resources provide opportunities for your child to develop to their full potential whilst having fun at the same time. We focus on independence skills, the social and emotional self (the child must be able to socialise and cooperate with their peers and adults and being able to identify and communicate their feelings), routines (they give children the emotional stability they need and are essential to good behaviour and attention span), teaching respect for themselves and others, and academic skills.
Our educators will discuss amongst themselves your child’s readiness to start school, and provide you with support to help them to develop their school readiness skills at home. We work in partnership with your family and with local schools in our communities to assist you and your child with the transition and orientation process.
The following information covers the different elements combined in the School Readiness program.

  • MIND AND BODY - This area of our program is all about your child’s wellness. We want our children to live an active and healthy life and this program not only includes physical literacy but also yoga, meditation and mindfulness. With tailored fitness programs such as soccer, yoga, dance classes, at Your Kids Our Kids your child will always be involved in a physical program which also develops their gross motor and movement skills.
  • SCHOLASTICS - This area of the program covers all the domains of academic skills including literacy, numeracy, language, colour and shape recognition. Literacy is all around your child in their day to day life. At Your Kids Our Kids we harness this and embrace all forms of literacy and how your child can develop the appropriate skills to become a confident literate learner. Literacy skills are an extremely important part of the development for your child. At Your Kids Our Kids we believe that literacy skills include a variety of aspects, not just reading and writing.
  • CREATIVE - This part of the program is where your child will be encouraged to share and discover their creative talents. Whether that be drawing, dancing, singing or acting. It is an important part of our curriculum as children are learning to express themselves and begin to think on their own. Creativity includes, dancing, acting, singing and visual arts (painting etc.). At Your Kids Our Kids we believe The Arts gives your child another form of communication and a way for them to express themselves. Studies have shown that many children can grasp numeracy and literacy skills better through the arts. The Arts also offers your child a form of emotional release and is fun. At Your Kids Our Kids we provide dance programs as well as planned and spontaneous visual arts experiences.
  • SELF IDENTITY - Is all about your child becoming acquainted with themselves as an individual, learning how to express themselves and sharing their feelings and emotions. It is important that your child feels welcome and has a strong sense of belonging to the centre, to their friend and educators. Having world awareness is an area of our program that ties closely to our Your Kids Our Kids sustainability program. It is a way for your child to become in touch with the environment and to explore nature and what it has to offer. We encourage your child to have a positive impact on their environment by making environmentally friendly choices and changes. Self awareness is a part of the curriculum that your child will always be involved in. At Your Kids Our Kids we assist your child in becoming independent and an autonomous learner. 
  • COMMUNITY AND CULTURE - Understanding the word is an important part of the development for your child. At Your Kids Our Kids we believe that having knowledge of the world and how their actions impact their environment will assist them to be caring and nurturing towards their environment and aware of others. Using external resources like the ELLA Program (www.ella.edu.au) we engage your child in language lessons, challenging their cognitive skills. Our event calendar throughout the year celebrates, acknowledges and encourages a range of mixed cultural events like Chinese New Year, Christmas, Eid El-Adha and Halloween to name but a few.
  • EXPLORATION - Your child’s exploration is a powerful source of learning! We encourage your child to be inquisitive, exploratory of the world around them and use their inherent sense of wonder to make their learning fun, enjoyable and relatable. We use exploration for your child as an inquiry based learning and teaching approach. Studies have shown that children will learn best when they can connect with the learning. If a child shows interest, curiosity, inquisitiveness on a topic they are eager to learn and this provides our educators with a basis for exploratory learning.
  • THINKING SKILLS - The jobs your children will be applying for in 20 years’ time might not exist today. This makes teaching our children a challenge; however, we can teach and encourage them to be great thinkers and learners, truly giving them the best start to their future. The thinking skills component of our program offers a structured approach to your child’s cognitive and intellectual development. We use intentional teaching times to hold meaningful learning experiences, we use purposeful materials such as puzzles, Lego, concentration and memory exercises.

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13-15 Rugby Cescent
Chipping Norton NSW 2170
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Phone: (02) 9755 3555

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Moorebank NSW 2170
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Phone: (02) 9602 9555

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34-36 Waples Road 
Unanderra NSW 2526 
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