Grace Park Preschool

At Grace Park Preschool we believe:

• Children learn best with “hands on” active learning. Children also learn through collaboration and communication with peers, adults and their environment.
• A motivating and nurturing environment has the potential to stimulate imagination, promote creativity and enhance each child’s individual wellbeing.
• Children need opportunities to practice and consolidate their skills in key learning areas including:
  • Language and literacy
  • Creative and expressive arts
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Social and emotional development
• Education programs are designed and developed as a result of input from families, children’s interests and educator’s professional knowledge.

We provide an environment that supports a sense of wonder, experimentation, thinking and socialisation, has connection with nature and culture as well as being aesthetically pleasing.

We implement a flexible program that is responsive to the evolving nature of the early childhood environment and provides for different learning styles.

We use both indoor and outdoor environments to encourage the children’s ability to observe, explore, imagine, make choices, take calculated risks and problem solve.

At Grace Park Preschool our teaching team is made up of qualified and experienced professionals that are passionate about children’s learning and development. We are the facilitator of learning, partners, nurturers, guides and observers. We believe every child is unique, competent, capable, resourceful, imaginative and inquisitive. We do not always provide the solution but encourage curiosity and wonder in their own learning.

Inclusions:

• Regular nature garden excursions
• Regular inter-generational visits from local aged care facility
• Transition to school programs
• Cultural cooking and celebrations.

We aim to:

• Ensure that we operate within the guidelines set down by governing and professional bodies and evaluate our centre goals and programs regularly.
• To have strong connections to our local community through visits to local primary schools, shops, local parklands and inviting local specialists into our program.

The Victorian Government provides funding to support children to access a high quality kindergarten program in the two years before they start school. This helps to ensure all Victorian children get the best start in life.

From 2023, the Victorian Government is making kindergarten programs free for three and four-year-old children – saving you and your family up to $2,500 per year for their program. Free Kinder is a critical component of the Victorian Government’s Best Start, Best Life reform.