Little Saints' Kindergarten
The staff at Little Saints Kindergarten has developed a philosophical approach which aims to provide our students with the best educational opportunities available. The children are encouraged to follow their own interests, investigate their queries, and represent their thinking. The role of our staff is to guide children in their learning, challenge them in ways that develop higher order thinking abilities and support and encourage their socio-emotional growth.
Our learning environment is designed to motivate the individual, facilitate cooperative learning and collaboration and celebrate growth and achievement on a daily basis in a climate of support, trust, respect and care.
Program Goals
- To respect, honour and celebrate the uniqueness of each individual child, supporting their understanding of their own identity within a multicultural community
- To create opportunities for each child to use and develop their natural curiousity – to seek, wonder and question
- To extend each child to explore and acquire further skills in areas of social, emotional, physical, linguistic, cognitive and spiritual growth
- To provide opportunities for each child to express themselves and to represent their thinking and understanding through varied language, art, drama, music and movement experiences
- To ensure each child has opportunities to use a range of critical and creative thinking strategies and processes
- To recognise that this is the first stage in a continuing education process for life and to work in partnership with parents to support the child’s preparation for more formal learning environments.
Teaching staff formulate their programs from their knowledge and observations of the individual child along with their personal practical experience and research base. The kindergarten program embodies our commitment to learning through play and to adapting our program to reflect individual and group needs. It is an expressive, creative and flexible program which allows staff and parents to negotiate experiences to reflect the current contexts and cultures.
Little Saints Kindergarten is proudly funded and supported by the Queensland Government
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