PR E PA R ATORY S C HO OL
Out Of School Care
2014 is, in the Chinese calendar, the year of the Horse. In Out
Of School Care it has been the year of the vegetable! Our vegetable
gardens are a joy to behold, complete with their own scarecrow. We
have so far enjoyed broccoli, snow peas and cauliflowers as well as a
variety of herbs. We are even selling herbs to the parents to raise the
money for the next crop. We have tomato trees ready to plant and
corn to be sown. The children are learning so much from this and we
are nurturing interests in gardening as well as the plants. Gardening
has become an integral part of the curriculum we deliver and covers
a number of the Learning Outcomes the framework expects us to
deliver.
We have embraced creativity here as well and discovered that with a
little bit of imagination from the staff, the children can develop their
own activities. We have built cubbies, gone camping, ridden horses
in showjumping competitions and become superheroes. All from a
few dress up costumes and some starting points. My Time Our Place
embodies everything we wish the children in our care to experience
and by tapping into their likes and interests we hope to create new
memories and possibly new hobbies. The removal of technology from
the Centre in the form of tablets and handheld computer games has
been a suc