Stirling Pre-School aims to help foster the whole child in a fun and exciting way, not just from the traditional academic point of view.
We look at everything that has an impact on your child’s development. Our curriculum covers all areas of development, from social and emotional development, gross and fine motor development (big and small muscles), language skills, including articulation and how a child expresses themselves, and how they receive and process information.
DIVERSITY
Stirling Pre-School celebrates the rich diversity that South Africa has to offer.
We encourage a learning environment that makes all children who come from a variety of different cultures and upbringings feel accepted and appreciated in everything that we do.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Our curriculum includes activities that encourages an articulation of words and develops the skills a child needs to adequately express themselves, and how they receive and process information. We also try to build your child’s confidence with Show and Tell, sharing news, encouraging responsibility and having your child perform songs in front of others in weekly assemblies, as well as in a concert.
FUN IN LEARNING
We aim to help foster all of our students in a fun and exciting way, not just from the traditional academic point of view.
We encourage students to express their unique skills and personalities in all areas of learning.
We believe that fun is the best way to teach and mold a developing mind and approach all learning activities with this concept as the foundation to our teaching styles & curriculum.
CURRICULUM
We follow the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) using ELDA. (Early Learning Development Areas).
The standard daily programme comprises of a morning ring, daily tabletop activities to develop fine-motor skills, promote creativity and independence, outside play, gross-motor play, music rings, language development, story time and perceptual work. We have a vegetable garden and a mud kitchen for daily sensory stimulation. Discussions, activities, artwork, music and drama all revolve around the weekly theme. There are also weekly music lessons in Zulu.
There is a heavy concentration on developing the large muscles, as we have found a huge need for children to be more active. The children run up the sidewalk four/five mornings a week to get a little cardiovascular workout. This also helps with overall coordination and leads to better focus during the morning activities.
The older classes have interactive Smart Boards for educational use only. Two comprehensive reports are handed out throughout the year. There are parent/teacher meetings twice a year, and Eye and Ear tests are performed. The teachers keep up to date with new teaching methods. We have a privately run, in-house Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist and Speech Therapist for children who need extra input.
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