Rolling Hills Pre-school

3-year-old Program

Our goal for the 3-year-old program is to assist children to develop a positive self-image and awareness of the needs of others around them, to enable each child to develop skills that will give them the ability to operate confidently in a changing world.

To achieve this goal the children will need to be exposed to experiences that develop the following skills:

1. Emotional skill – to be aware of their individuality, as well as aware of self in relation to others and caring about others.

2. Verbal skills – talking and listening. Communication.

3. Physical skills - fine and gross motor.

4. Literacy skills – written and spoken language.

5. Intellectual skills – problem solving, seeing cause and effect.

6. Decision making skills – understanding consequences of decisions.

7. Organisational skills – thinking logically.

8. Emergency skills – acting and coping

9. Creative skills – trying something new and different

10. Leisure time skills – able to initiate experiences for the pleasure of doing.

· The teacher and assistant for our 3-year-old program have many years of invaluable experience and knowledge in teaching and nurturing young children.

· We recognize the need to keep class sizes below average, and take no more than 21 children per 3-year-old session.

· There is also an opportunity to participate in a parent/teacher interview near the end of term 2.

· 3-year-old groups usually have two incursions a year, plus a Teddy Bear picnic week.

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