Kindergarten
Nurturing Your Child’s Development
Our Kindergarten programs lay the foundation for lifelong learning in a nurturing and stimulating environment. Our curriculum helps your child to develop in a Christ-centred environment. With education options starting from just three years old, we can help your child develop during their early years.
Pre-Kindergarten
The Three-Year-Old Programme at St Brigid’s recognises the importance of quality early learning and the learning programme has been developed with an emphasis on the whole child and the interrelationship between mind, body and spirit. This holistic approach highlights the children’s physical, personal, social, emotional and spiritual well-being as well as cognitive aspects of learning. Learning is a social and collaborative activity and takes place when strong relationships are developed between children, families and communities. Strong connections are also made to the natural world in understanding and respecting the natural environment and the interdependence between people, plants, animals and the land.
Kindergarten
The Kindy curriculum is diverse and considers the children’s prior experience and builds on their current knowledge. Activities are designed to be ‘hands on’ and fun. This is where we start to build the cornerstone of learning in various areas such as phonics, Literacy, Numeracy, physical and developing social-emotionally, and many essential aspects for the student to be ready for their formal years of schooling.
Pre-Primary
Pre-primary is the first year of compulsory full-time education. The primary school takes pride in introducing evidence-based pedagogy into the class. Literacy and Numeracy are explicitly taught without comprising on the importance of play-based and investigative play. Students are always engaged and interested. The students in this year level have access to specialist teachers who are experts in their fields. They are exposed to different music genres, languages, coding, physical and health education.
Early Learning Centre
Our Early Learning Centre offers an environment, catering for three to six-year-old children, within a larger school setting. We aim to create a safe, supportive, nurturing and stimulating learning environment. This consolidates and extends the children’s interests and skills, enabling them to develop the dispositions to be life-long learners. We acknowledge that the early years plays a significant role in laying the foundations for continued success in learning.
Our approach to early childhood education is shaped by our image of the child as a competent and capable individual who is rich in potential. We recognise that children possess a wealth of experience, knowledge and understanding. This is reflected in our commitment to allow children to take an active role in their learning. They have the freedom to explore, experience and interpret their world. We intricately balance our knowledge through play-based learning, intentional teaching and explicit instruction. Also, we use the environment as the third teacher. The bush school embedded in the middle of natural flora and fauna allows students to stay outdoors to be noisy, messy ad use their senses to engage in rich learning experiences.
Kindy Questions
Children can start attending our Pre-Kindergarten program from the age of three, this program runs two days per week (Tuesday and Thursday).
Our Kindergarten classes start from four years old, with three full days (Monday, Wednedsay and Friday). From 2025 we’ll be running our Kindergarten classes five full days per week.
Absolutely, parents play an integral role throughout primary school, and kindergarten is no exception. Parents and families are always welcome at our Early Learning Centre. Our ‘open-door’ policy encourages parents to visit the Centre to discuss their child’s progress. There’s also a range of parent information evenings that provide opportunities for discussion about childhood development.