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The goal of the staff working at Little Saints Preschool is to develop the ‘whole child’. We recognise the individual potential in each child and guide and extend their development by providing opportunities for maximum growth in every Learning Development Area – Identity, Connectedness, Well-being, Active Learning and Communicating. Little Saints Preschool provides a broad, integrated, caring and educational program within a Christian context. The program is developed from a holistic perspective so that the following learning domains are addressed for each individual child: Social, Emotional, Cognitive, Language, Physical, & Spiritual.
At Little Saints we strive to be the best. We uphold to the Seven areas of the National Quality Standards and the Early Years Learning Framework. These guide us in our practices and delivering quality learning to your child.
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Play is a vital part of childhood and growing up. At Little Saints Preschool we believe children learn much from being outdoors in an environment with challenges and elements essential to well-rounded learning. Children learn to develop social, physical and emotional skills through play. Children are naturally driven to play.
A play-based program uses this as a context for learning. Children are able to explore, experiment, solve problems, develop life-skills, and discover in creative and playful ways. There is much research demonstrating how play-based learning improves academic and developmental learning results in children (Robertson, Morrissey, & Rouse, 2018).
Little Saints Preschool also provide extra curricular activities to provide a variety of opportunities to learn and to assist the child to develop and grow into independent learners that are ready for School.
Children have the opportunity to be involved in extra curriculum education within the school such as: