Concord West Rhodes Preschool

What We Do...

- Our program develops multiple intelligences

- We have at least 40 different activity choices each day

- The children have story time and music/ news daily

- Children take part in an acknowledgement to country each day during our meeting time

- The children draw and write a story each day to add to their storybook

- The children have daily self help routines and are encouraged to solve problems

- The children can choose to play in the garden, playground or classroom

- Children have a choice of whether to rest or not with yoga and relaxation offered as an alternative

- We observe and program for children daily

- Children’s profile and work books are at preschool for parents to look through at any time

- Children take home their storybook, painting book and profile folder at the end of the year

- We have 3 external excursions and 5 in-house visitors per year

- We have special family and multicultural events: Welcome picnic and - Aboriginal Smoking Ceremony; Get to know you morning teas; Mothers, Aunties and Grandmothers night; Fathers, Uncles and Grandfathers Night; Yarn Times; Movie night; and End of Year Party

- We share family culture and celebrations through news time and our parent involvement program

- We provide a wide variety of occupational therapy tools and activities that support children’s health and wellbeing

- We have a multicultural program where:

- We greet each other using different languages

- We sing songs in different languages

- We have a large collection of books in different languages