3 Year Old
Kindergarten

We aim for all children to:

• Achieve a sense of belonging

• To develop positive self -esteem and experience success

• Explore and celebrate different perspectives, traditions, and practices across communities. This also includes gender, customs and rituals and diverse cultural identities including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identities. 

• Introduce and explore Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures to the land and how Traditional owners cared for the land and waterways.

• Establish trusting relationships with other children and educators

  • To develop independence and initiative

  • To engage in open-ended discovery and problem solving

  • To develop communication skills

  • To resolve conflict appropriately

  • To learn about personal safety

  • To understand and acknowledge their emotions and express them appropriately

  • To be resilient

  • To have control over their bodies, both large motor skills and fine manipulative skills 

• To have opportunities to develop a range of learning and thinking skills and processes, such as, problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, mathematical design, hypothesising, researching, and investigating.

• Develop a growth mindset and learning dispositions such as: enthusiastic, curious, confident, cooperative, committed, imaginative and reflexive learners in their play environment

• To explore different ways of communicating by being creative and expressive 

• Communicate through arts

• Oral, aural and nonoral language

• Describe ideas in mathematical design

• Creative, safe, and critical users of technology

• Strengthening active listening of oral language for literacy and learning

 

To have fun!