Kindergarten at Great Start

The year before school begins is an incredibly important milestone for your child, as they begin the transition into a structured routine and a more formal learning environment.

Choosing the right kindergarten is essential to ensure that your child develops a love for learning, stays on track for primary school, and feels comfortable in an academic environment. 

At Great Start Kindergarten, environment is designed to enable children to explore their own individual interests. Engaging indoor and outdoor environments provide areas for active play, messy play, wet play, and creative play, and also include dedicated spaces for quiet time. 

At Great Start Kindergarten, program is tailored to individual children’s development, to allow all children to feel a sense of success and accomplishment. We embrace our connections with our families and our local community as the foundation for our Kindergarten/Preschool Program design.  

Our high quality program meets affordability

If you’re looking for a play-based + structured kindergarten program to support your child’s preparation for school, consider Great Start Kindergarten.  

•  GSK has higher National Quality Standard ratings for kindergarten program for early childhood education and care.  Teachers record these observations to reflect on developmentally appropriate ways to help children expand their academic and social potentials. 
• We offer a Government approved Kindergarten Program taught by Degree–Qualified and passionate Teacher who is committed to supporting your child to develop a love of learning that will set them up for future learning as they transition into their school life.   
• Programs are based on the National Quality Framework and the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework. 
• Children get a tailored approach, based on their interests and individual ability and strength, inquiry base plan for each term and needs as they prepare for school and life.
• Provides a very exciting calendar of events including special days, educational visits, excursion, incursion concerts, graduation and much more.

School Readiness at Great Start Kindergarten 

The School Readiness Program prepares your child to successfully make the important transition from 4 year old Kindergarten into Primary School. A smooth transition from Kindergarten to school lays the foundation for future positive learning experiences.

We encompass a range of specific content rich experiences within our kindergarten curriculum that reflect the Early Years Learning Framework as well as the Australian School Curriculum. This has specific learning areas that enable children to become successful, confident and creative individuals and active and informed citizens. As well as the outcomes listed earlier these learning areas include; Language & Literacy, Numeracy, Science, Humanities, Arts, Technology, Health and Physical Education. 

The year before children transition to Primary School is crucial for so many reasons. It is important for children to start Kindergarten with the basic foundations for literacy and numeracy, including how to recognise their name and possibly even write it.  To be able to possibly recognise numerals and count with meaning.  We are confident that the children who participate in our Kindergarten Program will feel confident as they start their first year of school as social, confident, resilient, independent children.  This includes being able to share, co-operate in a variety of situations, look after their belongings, negotiate with peers during conflict situations and concentrate on a task for long periods of time.

Through a holistic approach to school readiness we believe the children will be more prepared for school as they will have had time to develop the life skills necessary to aid for a smooth transition into their Primary School journey.  Through our Kindergarten Program, we support and help prepare the children for the next step in their educational achievements.