The Smart Start Preschool program will encourage, challenge and inspire children to engage in a life-long enthusiasm and love of learning, ensuring optimal opportunities for success by:
- Providing a holistic approach to learning that develops the whole child.
- Being responsive to the children's stage of development and interest.
- Engaging and empowering children through a play-based teaching and learning.
- Focusing on motor development, literacy, numeracy, science, social concepts, music and movement, art and craft and games, while integrating technology.
- Encouraging curiosity, exploration, shared investigation, thinking, problem solving and enhancing individual learning styles.
- Enabling children to become increasingly independent and confident learners.
- Respecting the needs and rights of the children to make choices and decisions to empower them to take responsibility.
- Working in partnership with parents through regular reporting of their child's progress.
