Prep is a full-time program that children attend from Monday to Friday during our school hours.
Children must be aged 5 years by 30 June in the year they start Prep (t
o see when your child is eligible to start, please use the online calculator External link).
Prep provides the foundation for your child's success at school by developing:
- the knowledge, understanding and skills detailed in the Australian Curriculum for English, mathematics, science and history (Foundation Year)
- independence and confidence
- creativity and problem-solving skills
- physical abilities, including gross and fine motor skills.
In Prep, teachers support children's learning by making connections between school and their experiences at home, kindergarten or childcare.
Prep curriculum
Prep students are taught the Foundation Year of the Australian Curriculum for English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, The Arts and Health and Physical Education.
Learning in Prep
In Prep, your child will have opportunities to learn in many different ways. This includes active learning such as play-based and enquiry-based approaches. They make decisions, solve problems, develop thinking skills, collaborate, communicate and develop a positive sense of self.
Children learn about:
- speaking, listening, reading and writing
- mathematics and problem solving
- science, exploring interesting and important questions about the biological, physical and technological world
- humanities and social sciences, understanding their world, past and present, and develop a capacity to respond to challenges, now and in the future, in innovative, informed, personal and collective ways
- the arts, making, performing and responding to different art forms
- health and physical education, flourishing as healthy, safe and active citizens in the 21st century.
Prep children also learn about:
- negotiating rights, roles and responsibilities and developing social skills for working and playing with others
- diverse social and cultural practices of people in their community
- making healthy choices
- experimenting with materials in a variety of creative, imaginative and innovative ways
- technology in everyday life
- music and movement
- regulation and engagement skills taught through explicit lessons to support consistency of language and reinforcement of skills. Students will learn to identify emotions, access calm down and problem solving strategies to promote positive engagement in the curriculum as they build skills as learners.
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