Abacus Pre-School

Abacus Kindergarten preschool program has been developed to serve as a foundation between early childhood education and the first year of school, kindergarten. A quality preschool program supports your child to be a competent and capable learner. From birth, your child is developing skills and dispositions that enable them to experience success as a learner in school.

The preschool year cements these skills through play-based learning. Guided by qualified educators and teachers, the curriculum builds on children’s interests. This way, we can provide children with a purposeful and engaging program in the year prior to entering formal schooling. Preschool programs in our centres offer parents the flexibility of convenient hours without compromise on the quality of learning provided.

We help children to develop a broad set of skills important for school through:

• A comprehensive curriculum embedding literacy, numeracy, arts and craft.
• Stimulating environments that are purposeful and inspire curiosity.
• Qualified teachers who facilitate a government-approved preschool program, taught by 4-year bachelor degree-qualified early childhood teacher, working collaboratively with the Educational Leader to get the best out of this program.
• A fun, play-based learning approach that engages active young minds.
• A focus on social-emotional development.
• Learning to problem solve
• Becoming creative
• Using critical analysis
• Using critical analysis
• Building on teamwork
• Independent thinking
• Showing initiative
• Better communication
• Confident using digital literacy

Our programs maximise learning outcomes for children. We ultimately aim to ensure that each and every child develops skills and gets the exposure they need to excel to be successful in school and life.

Childcares Online Tool

Abacus Kindergarten use an online tool called ‘Childcarers’. Childcarers offer a range of online things whilst completely secure:

• Learning Journeys / Port folios - An online portfolio filled with children’s artworks, observations and photos which are sent to our parents.
• EYLF - Early Years Learning Framework is the framework we use for our curriculum and programming.
• Programming - Educators create and share the programs with our parents.
• Daily children’s updates - Daily, weekly updates for each child or by a group is sent via an email.
• Parent central - Once app is downloaded you have access to news, policies, forms and daily updates.
• Smartphone app - Once your child start’s at Abacus, we enter their details into Childcarers and a welcome email is sent out to that parents, which will be advised to download the app Apple App Store and Google Play and start to receive updated educators email an update of your child’s day. As a parent it is important to know how their day is going. Plus, you can reply back to your Educators email.
• News - Parents can access centre news.
• Policies - As a parent you can access online polices.