Bruce Webb Crescent
Urrbrae (off Waite Road)
Netherby Kindergarten is a DECD (Department for Education and Child
Development) preschool providing a
play-based program which focuses on each individual child’s learning. The
program is planned using Belonging, Being, Becoming, The Early Years Learning
Framework for Australia.
Building strong relationships with and between the children and their families builds children’s confidence and sense of belonging.
Children are seen as competent and capable, and the curriculum is developed with the children to ensure that their questions and wonderings are explored, and their interests followed.
The children are challenged to think deeply and to reflect on their learning.
The Preschool Literacy and Numeracy
Indicators are used to determine each child’s knowledge and to plan and build on their skills and understanding.
Literacy and numeracy experiences are provided throughout each day through play experiences and also at group times. At Netherby Kindergarten children are organised in small groups to maximize their engagement in learning.
Excursions and incursions include
performances at the kindergarten and Grainger Studios by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, as well as attending the Patch Theatre.
These experiences provide opportunities for rich literacy learning as the children prepare for the event and then reflect on what they recalled from the performance. Parents are welcome to share these experiences.
explore nature, to climb and be active, to grow vegetables, and to develop projects together. The play area is being further developed with support from Nature Play SA to increase the opportunities for exploration and physically activity.
Sustainable practices influence the activities provided, the materials used and ensure that the children are involved in caring for the
environment, recycling, as well as growing
vegetables and cooking healthy food.
Each year a Family Art Show is held.Community links are explored and we have been able to use the artistic expertise
within our kindergarten families to offer the children a unique experience each year. Parents have introduced the children to making pots and medallions from porcelain clay, fractal art and mixed media on canvas. The children also produce a canvas painting as well as a craypas and wash picture. The process is documented and photographs and stories from the children are displayed with the art.
A bush garden has been planted by the kindergarten community and this provides opportunities for children to observe native birds, insects, as well as the occasional
koala, possum, lizard and native frog. Each August and November a Tawny Frogmouth nests in a tree by the fence and the children watch the nest and look for the new fledglings.
For more information
or to arrange a visit, please
Phone: 8313 7076
Email:Netherby.kindergarten20@schools.sa.edu.au
