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Please check the Photo Galleries for Prep photos.
Come and join our exciting and engaging Prep Year at Eatons Hill! Enjoy and learn through our play-based program in our inviting learning environment.
What is different about Prep at Eatons Hill State School?
- Teachers who have experience across the Early Years (Prep-Year 3), providing an understanding of both the wider curriculum and the developing child.
- The six Prep teachers work as a team with decision-making, while each class has a unique program which caters to the children’s needs and interests while being guided by the Early Years Curriculum Guidelines.
- Prep is considered part of the Early Years team, which provides easy transition and continuity of learning.
- Encouraging independence and responsibility through a classroom monitor/helper program
- Prep is an integral part of the school with full access to specialist programs (Physical Education, Music, Library), facilities (computer lab), and whole-school events (Gatherings, Anzac Commemorations, sports days, Book Week) and activities (Frequent Reader Club)
- Access to buddy programs with older classes.
- Structured opportunities for students to interact with Prep students outside their home groups
- Virtues program
- Parent representative program which bonds and supports community networks
- Wide-ranging visitor program that encourages the children’s understanding and interaction with the extended community
- Focus on environmental awareness through active involvement in litter-less lunches, composting program, worm farms and recycling
Our Prep environment includes many unique features such as:
- Central proximity to most school services and facilities such as Library, tuckshop, car-parking, oval and Administration
- Located adjacent to Early Years 1 and 2 classrooms to support an easy transition to formal learning the next year
- Airy, bright, roomy classrooms
- Flexible, fully-networked technology for children's use
- Fully-equipped kitchens
- Spacious outdoor wet areas
- Shaded, secure play areas, with access to more challenging play zones
- Large sand-pit areas with appropriate equipment
The Basic Facts about the Preparatory Year
- Children need to be five by 30 June in the year they enrol in Prep.
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- Prep program is a full-day, five-days-a-week program
- The new Early Years Curriculum is built around identified factors for success in schooling and identified learning expectations that lead to the Year 1 curriculum and life-long learning
- Expanded learning situations within the Early Years Curriculum include:
Ø Investigations
Ø Real-life situations
Ø Play (socio-dramatic, fantasy, exploratory, manipulative, physical, games with rules)
Ø Routines
Ø Focused learning and teaching situations
Ø Our student's progress is monitored using an early learning record that includes phases of learning that are linked to the Year 1 syllabuses.
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