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Category: Kindy Blue

Kindy Days!

  • March 2, 2021
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold · Uncategorized

Kindy is the first learning experience your child has of school – of the wonder and excitement of learning, discovery and exploration.

There are a range of planned indoor and outdoor activity areas where children can discover, imagine, create and learn through play.Play gives children opportunities to be creative, develop their imagination, practise skills, communicate with others, take on challenges and solve problems in fun and enjoyable ways.In the Kindy year we develop the building blocks for early literacy and numeracy and important social and emotional skills.


In Kindy children learn about themselves and others, they make friends and grow in confidence day by day.

Kindy is a great place to belong to! πŸ™‚

Thanks for your support Mums and dads!

  • February 11, 2021
  • Tania Thuijs
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold

All 60 Kindy kids will be attending Kindy tomorrow.Β  With restrictions still in place, you are asked to please deliver your child to the door, to have a cuddle and then to place them in the care of our experienced staff. We understand that this is easier for some than others, however rest assured we will take very good care of them and that any tears usually quickly disappear with some kind words, a good book and some fun activities!

Thanks so much for all your support and understanding πŸ™‚

You have been AWESOME!

The Importance of Play!

  • February 3, 2021
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold · Uncategorized

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Kindy Parent Information Book

  • February 3, 2021
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold · Uncategorized

Dear Parents,

Please see the link below ‘Kindy Parent Information Book 2021’. We are looking forward to meeting our new Kindy families when it is safe for us all to be at school.

The Kindy Team

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Buzzing, Buzzing Bees!

  • November 17, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold · Uncategorized

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The Kindy classes have been learning about Bees and discovering how they make honey. The learning journey has helped the children make sense of the world around them, fostered an interest for learning about Science and promoted respect for God’s creatures and living things.

Honey Products

A Beekeeper checking the class beehive

You need to take care when handling bees!

The children have been curious about how bees make honey, how bees make beehives and how honey is collected from beehives. Their experiences have been extended by making a class beehive and investigating honey products. We have looked at the design of honeycomb from a beehive and the children enjoyed tasting, smelling and touching honey.

Let’s cook with honey!

We loved making ‘Honey Joys’ for our Teddy Bears Picnic, they were delicious!

Yummy Honey!

The children were inspired by the learning experience to respect their living environment. Through discovering the journey of the honey bee, they are learning to use information and communication technologies to investigate ideas and gaining an interest and appreciation in learning about Science.

The Busy Kindy Blue ‘Honey Pot Cafe’

The Kindy Gold Honey Shop

Welcome Back to Term 4!

  • October 14, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold

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I Can Be A Super Friend!

  • September 6, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold

From a young age children develop an understanding of what is expected of them in social interactions.

In Kindy we build on this understanding by drawing attention to positive peer behaviours as they occur naturally throughout the day.

One way we acknowledge positive behaviours is through the use of the ‘Super Friend’ social story and awarding ‘Super Friend Certificates’.

This helps children learn what good friendship skills are, and assists them to start to use them naturally as they play and interact with their peers.In the Kindy year children become more interested in other children, but they don’t always have the skills that they need to make and maintain friendships or engage in sustained cooperative play.

It is important at home and at school to provide ongoing support to help children learn and practice important social skills.

Let’s Go Camping!

  • August 20, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold · Uncategorized

Role play is an integral part of the developmental learning process, it allows children to develop skills such as abstract thinking and social skills in a natural manner.

Assigning roles in play

Dramatic play is the type of play where children accept and assign roles, and act them out. It is when they pretend to be someone or something different from themselves, and dramatise situations and actions to go along with the roles they have chosen to play.

Using props in pretend play

Social/Emotional Development – When children come together in a dramatic play experience, they have to agree on a topic, negotiate roles, and cooperate to bring it all together.

Negotiating and sharing roles

Physical Development – Dramatic play helps children develop both gross and fine motor skills eg dressing a doll, doing up buttons…

Gross Motor Development

Cognitive Development – When children are involved in make-believe play, they make use of pictures they have created in their minds to recreate past experiences, which is a form of abstract thinking. Setting a table for a meal, counting out change as a cashier… By adding props – road signs, food boxes and cans, paper and pencils to the materials included in the area, we help children develop their numeracy and literacy skills. When children come together in this form of play, they learn how to share ideas, and solve problems together.

Props in role play

Language Development – In order to work together in a dramatic play situation, children learn to use language to explain what they are doing. They learn to ask and answer questions and the words they use fit whatever role they are playing. Personal vocabularies grow as they begin to use new words appropriately.

Developing oral language

Dramatic play engages children in both life and learning. It builds their understanding of the world they live in, and develops the personal skills that will help them meet with success throughout their lives.

The Mud Kitchen

The Bushland

  • August 10, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold

Exploring nature

From trees and flowers to birds, animals, insects, sticks and leaves, nature has plenty of stimuli for children to explore, admire and have educational experiences with.

Bush Scavenger Hunt!

Encouraging this love and appreciation of nature from a young age can help children create a respect for the planet and a feeling of being connected to the world around them.

Exploring the Bushland

With less structure than indoor spaces, taking children outdoors promotes creativity. Being out and about in nature encourages them to think outside the box and explore.

Investigating and learning together

The benefits for children of being in nature include improved learning and development in physical, mental health and wellbeing.

Bush Scavenger Hunt

At St Emilie’s we are so lucky to have a natural bush play space for the children to explore, play and learn in our early childhood area.

Let’s investigate!

Nature play enhances the early learning and development of children while creating a more nature-savvy future generation.

Taking observations

Kindy Welcome Back to Term 3!

  • July 20, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold

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