Educational Program

Ocean Street Long Day Preschool is an innovative and inspiring approach to early childhood education and care which values the child as capable, strong and resilient, rich with wonder and knowledge.

Ocean Street Long Day Preschool offers a preschool program and long day care with qualified educators and ECT (Early Childhood Teacher, Certificate III, Diploma specifically trained in early childhood education and care).

Our preschool provides a play-based program that will support your child in learning the skills for school life. We record all our activities, provisions, experiences etc. as they happen through our daily curriculum planning sheets.

We provide monthly observations, daily diaries (were we record children’s voices) and daily reflections, along with a written summative assessment for each individual child every three months. Parent interviews are also in place to discuss each child’s individual development every six months for children 3 to 5 years of age.

Our preschool program assists each child to work effectively toward early literacy, mathematical, and science concepts along with their social and emotional development. We are also a Munch & Move service which promotes healthy eating habits and fundamental movement skills.

Our program is also evaluated within a government framework called EYLF (Early Learning Framework) through the principles, practices and the five learning outcomes.

Here at Ocean Street Long Day Preschool each child develops literacy and numeracy i.e. through children’s daily sign-in sheets, projects, excursions, letters learning, questioning/open-ended questions, discussions, spelling through play, songs, games and rhymes.

We also promote transition to school with Go Go sports twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday as extra curriculum activitiy. It is also beneficial that the same facilitators (Go Go Sports trainers) will continue these same learning experiences at the public school in our local area of Waverly Council.

Ocean Street Preschool leads and inspires the local community, in particular, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community through leading the children in daily Yarning circles, daily acknowledgement of country of the Gadigal Clan of the Eora Nation and incursions of Aboriginal cultural officers within.

We also transition children to primary school by inviting them to bring their own healthy lunch box towards the end of the year( for a week), conduct the same school arrival in the morning, communicating with their future teacher verbally and in writing through the “NSW Transition to School Statement” which will give your child’s school teacher important information that will help your child to have a successful start to school. Also we will visit our local public school and one of their kindergarten teachers will be invited to visit our children.