The aim of St John's Anglican Kindergarten and Pre Kindergarten is to provide a high quality innovative educational program for all children in a nurturing, trusting and caring environment with a focus on celebrating and encouraging children’s individualism and creativity.
We achieve this by:
- Providing a warm, caring and welcoming environment where children feel safe, worthwhile and important.
- Valuing each child’s individualism by following their interests to develop appropriate open ended activities and experiences, fostering their creativity, celebrating and encouraging their efforts.
- Providing the opportunity for learning through play which is facilitated by:
- extended periods of non-interrupted play
- children choosing when to have their own snack
- indoor/outdoor play
- Treating all children and families with respect, communicating honestly with parents regarding their child’s developmental progress and maintaining confidentiality.
- Including all children as far as possible, with appropriate support for children with special or additional needs.
- Focusing on positive reinforcement of appropriate behaviours at all times, not using derogatory terms or labels.
- Valuing the contribution of children, parents, committee and staff in developing the program and facilities.
- Being as 'green' as we can be by engaging in such things as -using recycled products where possible rather than commercially produced products, lowering water usage, encouraging litter-free snacks with all food scraps being composted, emailing notices rather than distributing hard copies, recycling paper and ink cartridges.
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