Kindergarten

With more opportunity to learn and develop through play, our Kindergarten program offers your 4, 5 or 6 year old a setting reminiscent of home. Each class welcomes up to 18 children with an experienced teacher and assistant.

Strengthening the cognitive, physical and social skills lays the foundation for success in school and life’s challenges to come.

We lay the groundwork for future success in these early years by developing gross and fine motor skills through movement, creative thought through imagination, and positive social skills through a young child’s innate capacity for imitation of worthy role models.

Schedule

• 5 mornings a week (8:45am to 2 pm)

Play as a Foundation for Healthy Development

• The foundation developed in Kindergarten will support learning in Lower and High School and life beyond. This groundwork is laid unconsciously as your child plays, developing language and social skills, imagination and a healthy, active body.
• The rich language of stories, songs and verses will enhance your child’s language development, a precursor to reading skills
• Storytelling, songs and verses also help children develop the capacity to create their own visual images. Future reading comprehension and creative thinking will draw strongly on this capacity.

Activities in the kindergarten could include;

• Unstructured play time indoors and out.
• Art: Watercolour painting and drawing.
• Eurythmy (movement).
• Circle time with rhymes, songs, finger plays and movement games.
• Storytelling accompanied by table puppets to provide concrete visual experience and rich language models.
• Regular adventure walks into the playground.
• Special activities such as celebration of festivals.