School Readiness
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In order to move on to the next stage of their educational journey, children need a strong foundation that will help them transition to school with confidence and enthusiasm.
While every child is different, by the time they leave our child care centres to go to school we would like them to have developed:
- Early literacy and numeracy skills such as:
- Name recognition and writing
- Alphabet recognition and letter sounds
- Counting and number recognition
- Matching 1 to 1
- Characteristics needed for ongoing learning:
- Taking an interest
- Communicating with others
- Persisting with difficulty
- Being involved
- Taking responsibility
- Confidence in self help routines such as:
- Being able to go to the toilet and change clothing by themselves
- Managing their lunch box so they don’t eat all their food at morning tea and are left hungry for the rest of the day
- Packing their bag at the end of the day
- A good grasp of problem solving skills including:
- Asking questions
- Developing a hypothesis
- Negotiation
- Willingness to try a number of approaches and not being discouraged by failure
- Sound social skills such as:
- Working collaboratively with peers
- Having confidence to contribute ideas in both formal and informal settings
- Solving conflicts themselves
- Making friends and showing empathy
- Managing their emotions
Caption: How Early Childhood Education at child care flows onto further education. Source – Ministry of Education
