A Day in the Life at Our Family Early Learning.

From the time your child arrives at preschool until they finish at the end of a day they are learning.   

Our day begins from 7.30am with the children being encouraged to greet the teachers and other children when arriving.  This helps the children to learn about belonging and ownership.  They are affirmed as individuals and gain the confidence and knowledge of being polite and having good manners. 

8.30am Set Up.   Here they are learning self-initiated play, this contributes to their play and they develop their own sense of ownership and independence. 

 9.30am Group Time and Morning Tea.  At group time they focus on skills such as rhyming, letter/number/shape games.  This lasts for approximately 20mins.  While eating morning tea the children are supported to eat a selection of healthy fruit and snacks.  They serve themselves.  This supports skills such as hand/eye co-ordination and awareness of their own appetite.   

10am Exploration through Play.  These include art, water/sand play, drawing, large ball games, board games, storybooks, construction and dramatic play.   All of these activities support the development of their literacy (sounding of letters, drawing, reading, writing), math (number knowledge, cognitive thinking, seriation, patterning) language (speaking, listening and understanding), gross (large muscle movement) fine motor (small muscle movement) music, art, independence and social skills, such as sharing, turn taking, dealing with conflict.    

11.30am Music and Movement.  Here they are learning about the appreciation of different kinds of music.  Spatial awareness, body movement, coordination and a sense of melody and rhythm are explored and developed. 

12pm Lunch,then the younger children sleep, while the others have stories on the mat for approximately 15mins.  While the children are sitting listening to stories they are also learning to concentrate, retain information and retell this to the group.  The children are exposed to new information about the wider world through many different types of print rich media.  

12.30pm Table Top Activities.  This is where they sit at a chosen table and complete the activity on the table.   This time supports the learning of perseverance, concentration, self-choice, developing and extending on their own ideas.  

 1pm Exploration through Play continues, children then can go back outside if they wish or continue to play inside.   The repeat of the morning activities is offered so all children can have a turn, repeat or extend their knowledge of their chosen activity.  This is to encourage new interests, experiences and confidence with everything they try.   

 2.30pm Tidy Up, some of the outside areas, supporting the development of responsibility, co-operation, working together, respecting their environment and the belongings of our centre. 

2.45pm Afternoon Tea, again healthy fruit, water and savoury snacks.  

 3 pm Stories and a group game while many of our children leave for the day. 

 3.30pm the children are encouraged to continue to create their own play.  

 4.30 the children who are left help to close the sand pit and clean up for the day.  

We then have free play until the day ends at 5.30pm.