Pre-Primary School

Literacy and numeracy are a key focus in Pre-primary. Development of critical and creative thinking skills, social and personal skills, as well as monitoring your child’s physical wellbeing are also extremely important.

The English learning area focuses on developing your child’s listening and speaking skills by engaging them in group discussions, as well as learning about rhymes, letter patterns and sounds. They learn the basic rules of writing, and begin to understand the alphabet and the sounds each letter represents. Reading is also important as it shows your child that stories are about ideas and feelings, and have characters and events.

With the Maths learning area, children begin to connect number names, numerals and quantities. They learn to count forward and backwards, and begin to understand and solve number problems involving adding, removing, grouping and sharing. They learn about time, patterns and positions, and compare objects using the language of maths (for example, How much and How long).

Skills in technology, the arts, science, humanities and social sciences, and languages are also developed.

Physical activity and activities to reinforce what has been learnt, are also considered.