Quality Learning
Learning through play helps Prep children master skills while also building confidence, curiosity, thinking skills, and connection.
Our modern Prep classrooms are equipped with hands-on learning materials and interactive spaces that spark curiosity, thinking skills, confidence, and connection. Prep teachers balance challenge with support, coaching children's minds, hearts, and hands as they go on a journey of discovery.
Because Prep-aged children learn best through interacting, experimenting, practising, and playing, teachers use active learning alongside formal instruction to deliver the Australian Curriculum and help them meet Foundation standards in literacy and numeracy. You will see this in the way our Prep classrooms are set up: role-play stations, inviting reading spaces, construction and creativity zones, and collaborative play. You will see the signs of a vibrant and engaging literacy program.
Children grasp how to count, sort, and measure through guided, hands-on activities. They explore ideas, expand in creativity, and grow oral language skills through role-play and dramatisation. They learn early reading skills through visual cues, storytelling, rhyming games, and sounds and symbols, and develop hand strength and coordination for writing through craft activities that rely on fine motor skills, such as using scissors and threading beads.
Learning is not confined to four walls. Outside, there is plenty of space to move, climb, run and play games - activities that encourage cooperation and turn-taking. Supervised, unstructured play helps children learn social cues, build friendships, and return to the classroom ready to focus.
Our Prep children are exposed to key learning areas from the first day. Teachers work as a team to program and plan learning that allows children to interact with their neighbouring Prep class and benefit from working in differentiated learning groups.
Learning areas include:
- Design and Technology
- Digital Technology
- Drama
- English (literature and literacy)
- Health and Physical Education
- Integrated Studies (including Science, and Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Language Other Than English
- Mathematics
- Music
- Religious Studies (Encounter)
- Visual Art
