Preschool and Childrens Centre

This term the Preschool and CLP children will be participating in wider school experiences that support children to develop their sense of belonging beyond the Preschool. These planned experiences include walks around the school, library visits and gross motor skills in the gym, on the courts and on the oval. The Preschool children have been enjoying exploring and utilising the wider surroundings.

Planning for and documenting  children's learning and development in the Pre School 

We use the Early Years Learning Framework as our curriculum. It is a national curriculum for Early Years education (birth to 5) in Australia. We also use the Preschool Numeracy and Literacy Indicators to inform our understanding and track children's growth in Literacy and Numeracy. 

We use a cycle to observe, reflect and plan for  children’s learning.  The planning cycle has 5 key processes:

1. Observing the children to gather data on their perspectives, knowledge, strengths, and needs.
2. Questioning and analysing the observations to pick out the learning that is taking place, finding where the children need extending, scaffolded support or intentional teaching.
3. Planning possible provocations and experiences based on the data collected.
4. Acting on these plans by implementing the experiences, supporting children’s learning with questions and conversations.
5. And finally, reflecting on what we have noticed-what went well, what still needs more work, what strategies were most effective, in order to design our next planning cycle.

The cycle then begins again. We may also dip in and out of different parts of the cycle, questioning and analysing our reflections, implementing more strategies, making further observations, and then reflecting on those.