REDDAM EARLY LEARNING SCHOOL
LINDFIELD NEWSLETTER 4th November 2022
Principal’s Message
By Christine Irwin
Dear Parents, As you may have noticed our children have been enjoying their play outdoors and mastering skills in many gross motor experiences. Soccer and other sporting games are always popular and the natural plays spaces that have been provided with natural logs are consistently used by the children during their outdoor play. The team have also been happy to see the care and empathy that the children show to others and this transfers into building friendships and social skills preparing some of our children for their next big step setting off to primary school in 2023. School readiness has been a primary focus for our stage 4 children. This incorporates 4R’s current project of “Getting Bigger” Discussions include going to big school and what this looks like for the children and how they feel, this incudes reading literature about what to expect at the new school in children’s group times. In 4E, emotions and feelings are being explored including emotional regulation and interacting with others around the, This includes topic of moving onto primary school. Our educators are preparing the children through their observations of children’s ongoing emerging development and providing children tasks to follow in preparation for looking after their own possessions and using self-help skills throughout the day. The team is also providing opportunities to follow simple classroom rules that may be expected at school and completing simple routines such as opening lunch containers, opening wrappers and peeling fruit to eat . We have been in contact with our local schools in regard to Reddam children moving onto primary school and the educators in both 4R and 4E are completing T2S (transition to school statement) for each child . This will be given to parents before the end of the year to pass onto the teacher at the child’s new school next year. Constantly, our overriding concept for all the children here at Reddam is caring for and helping our friends . The list below is what we here at Reddam are working towards for children to be ready for school. It might be interesting to note that these skills are what children need to be able to learn and transition effectively to school. Although pre-reading , pre-writing, pre-maths and pre-science skills are implemented into our program the below skills from ‘Kids sense’ website are the foundation for all learning/