Building Bright Futures: Preschool’s Innovative Learning
Our Preschool and School Readiness program for children aged three to five offers unique and dynamic learning experiences that further develop children’s learning dispositions such as curiosity, cooperation, building confidence, creativity, and imagination skills. They also develop problem solving skills, critical thinking skills by researching and investigating which are all implemented achieved through play.
Educators take cues from each children’s interest, and support them bring their ideas into unique and fun projects and activities that further develop their creativity and support foundational academic skills such as early literacy and numeracy skills.
Through interest based exploration, group projects, science topic inquiries, our preschoolers are nurtured to become confident and independent, to ensure that they are well prepared to make a successful transition to a primary school environment.
Key Learning Areas
Identity
Oxford nurtures children's sense of identity by encouraging their interests, fostering independence, supporting resilience, building connections, encouraging exploration, and enhancing self-esteem and belonging.
Connection
Children learn about their connection and contribution by exploring diversity, culture, sustainability, community, and the principles of fairness, taking turns, group projects, and shared play.
Wellbeing
We cultivate positive attitudes towards health, wellbeing, and nutrition through daily movement, healthy habits, mindfulness exercises, bodily awareness, emotional learning, and the Munch and Move Program.
Learning
We provide engaging learning experiences through play, interest projects, and intentional teaching that foster problem-solving, fine and gross motor skills, resilience, creativity, concentration, and foundational academic skills.
Communication
We support the development of communication and pro-social skills through early literacy activities, storytelling, group activities, music and movement, child-directed learning, asking questions, group time, show and tell, and self-expression.
Aboriginal
Educators embed aboriginal perspectives into the curriculum by providing resources for play. We also build on children’s cultural capital through wall displays, cultural toys, and diverse storybooks.
Sustainability
We provide meaningful hand on learning experiences in order for children to become environmentally responsible. This supports their learning about sustainability and enables them to appreciate and respect their natural environment.
Materials and Activities Include:
Identity
- Independence skills
- Home corner
- Dress up and Role play
- Storytelling and self expression
- Name recognition and writing
- Nature Exploration
- Family Involvement
Connection
- Reading books about different cultures
- Participating in linguistic and cultural events such as Diwali, Easter, Harmony Day, NAIDOC, Eid, and Christmas.
- Parent involvement – telling stories, participating in cooking activities
- Learning about community helpers
Wellbeing
- Fun games about the 12 fundamental movement skills
- Identifying & Understanding and learning how to communicate emotions
- Learning about healthy eating
- Learning about oral health
- Learning about the body
- Cooking experiences
- Yoga
Learning
- Engaging in interest based project topics
- Alphabet recognition, sounds and games
- Number 1-20 recognition and games
- Advanced and complex puzzles
- Threading and Weaving
- Scissor skills
- Balancing and stacking objects
- Art and Craft
Communication
- Reading books
- Free drawing and painting
- Embedding children’s voices to activities
- Show and Tell
- Reading Eggs and learning activities on the ipad
Aboriginal
- Reading aboriginal dreamtime stories
- Listening to aboriginal music
- Using aboriginal instruments
- Acknowledgement of country
- Learning about aboriginal hunting tools
- Learning about aboriginal dwellings
- Learning about bush tucker
Sustainability & Environment
- Caring for the garden
- Using recycled materials for loose parts play
- Planting
- Worm Farm
- Learning about animals and plants
Early Years Learning Framework
The Reggio Emilia curriculum and the Australian Government’s Early Years Learning Curriculum: Belonging, Being & Becoming work together to nurture children’s potential. The EYLF incorporates five outcomes:
- Children have a strong sense of identity
- Children are connected with and contribute to their world
- Children have a strong sense of wellbeing
- Children are confident and involved learners
- Children are effective communicators
