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The Preparatory Year is designed to
provide children with a solid base to the early years of education and make
the transition to Year 1 easier. The Preparatory Year has been developed to
link with the early phase of learning – Prep to Year 3.
The planning of teachers is guided
by the Early Years Curriculum Guidelines.
The learning experiences in the
Preparatory Year will help your child to:
- take on responsibility
- become more independent
- respect other people
- co-operate with others
- make sensible choices about their health and safety
- develop their physical skills (gross and fine motor)
- learn about their environment
- develop their oral language
- develop their early mathematical understandings
- learn how to be thinkers and problem solvers
- use their imagination and creativity
- develop their early literacy understandings
Your child will be:
- investigating interests
- making choices
- talking with teachers, other staff members and other
children
- designing and making things
- singing and dancing
- painting, drawing and modelling
- listening to stories
- playing games indoors and outdoors
- climbing, balancing and jumping
- planning and sharing in make believe play
- using computers
- taking part in everyday experiences like gardening,
cooking and tidying up
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