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SCHOOL
TRANSITION
PROGRAM

Transitioning to ‘Big School’ is an exciting time in your child’s life. Together with Erina Kindergarten we can make the transition from preschool to ‘’big school’’ easy and exciting. Our goal is to ensure your child is fully prepared in every way possible to transition effectively to the new set of learning objectives in the school environment.

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It is a big step to big school. And not just for the children!

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As much as the milestone of starting school is an exciting one, it can also be one that is fraught with worry. Is your child ready for school? And how can we at Erina kindergarten help prepare them for the transition?

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At Erina kindergarten we will dive into all things school readiness so we can support your child for the next stage in their educatio

  • Increases physical health and wellbeing

  • Encourages autonomy, resilience and a sense of agency

  • Extend social skills such as taking turns

  • Promotes lateral thinking and problem solving

Active Play

Block Play

  • Enhances visual perception and spatial

  • relationships

  • Extends early mathematical concepts

  • and language such as counting and

  • measurement

  • Promotes thinking, planning and

  • problem solving

  • Facilitates social skills such as

  • collaboration

eco-awareness

  • Facilitate an understanding and respect for the environment

  • Develop the ability to explore, infer, predict and hypothesise

  • Increased understanding of sustainability and children’s role in it

  • Enhances personal and cultural identity

  • Provides opportunity to express emotions and feelings

  • Develops body awareness, rhythm and coordination

Music and Movement

Creative Play

  • Provides opportunity to experiment with colour, shape, texture and line

  • Develops symbolic thinking and expression

  • Promotes the ability to make choices and decisions

  • Facilitates expression of ideas, thoughts and feelings

Manipulative Play

  • Enhance social skills such as sharing and collaboration

  • Develops hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills

  • Promotes logic, reasoning and systematic thinking

  • Improves concentration and persistence

  • Increases visual discrimination and spatial awareness

  • Stimulates the imagination and broadens understanding of the world

  • Extends speech, language and vocabulary

  • Increased awareness that ideas and feelings can be expressed in print

Reading

Dramatic Arts

  • Develop a sense of identity

  • Facilitate expression of ideas and feeling and strong emotions

  • Nurture empathy

  • Provide opportunities to explore other identities and points of view

Quiet Places

  • Develop the ability to enjoy moments of solitude

  • Provides time for reflection

  • Nurture emotional wellbeing and sense of identity

  • Enhance feelings of being and belonging

  • Enhances visual perceptions, colour, pattern, shape and detail

  • Facilitate social skills such as collaboration

  • Encourage persistence

Puzzles

Science Activities

  • Provide opportunity to explore, predict and infer

  • Promote logical thinking

  • Instil a sense of wonder and awe

  • Facilitate understanding of self and place in the world

Technology

  • Develops a positive attitude to new tools, new methods, new results

  • Promotes competence, skill and adaptability

  • Enhances functional life skills

  • Provides opportunity to investigate, imagine and explore ideas

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