OUR PROGRAMS

OUR PROGRAMS TAILORED FOR EACH STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT IN QUEANBEYAN

OUR PROGRAMS

Your child’s development is directly linked to the effectiveness of the Centre’s program. Staff continually evaluate and observe the program's effectiveness and relate these findings to each child in the Centre.


All activities and experiences are linked to centre goals, group goals, individual goals, philosophy, and group and individual evaluations. Parents are encouraged to comment and provide ideas to enhance the program based on their child’s interests.


We aim to provide different types of play and sensory experiences using exciting materials, identifying children’s interests and needs to support their development. The program will foster individual uniqueness, self-esteem, and independence and cater for all learning areas. The program is designed to stimulate and develop each child’s sense of self, communication, thinking, physical, social, feeling, creative and spiritual potential.


An inclusive program is provided, catering for children of all abilities and accommodating their social and cultural backgrounds.

ADDITIONAL WEEKLY PROGRAMS AT PRECIOUS MOMENTZ

Precious Momentz offers the children two additional programs at the Service every week (all running during the school terms).

HOLLY’S STORY TELLING

Holly attends Precious Momentz weekly and tells stories to the Nursery, Toddler and Pre-School children. Her stories are a delightful blend of interactive folktales, stories from her past, and audience participation. Holly enthusiastically uses props, puppets and participation to engage her audiences. Each program is designed specifically for her audience, inviting the listeners to help tell the story and experience the delight of communicating together.

Holly’s storytelling offers many benefits to the children - including:

  • Creating a warm social relationship between the teller and the listener
  • Improving listening comprehension, a vital pre-reading skill for children
  • Storytelling has been the best tool for passing on the values and morals of families and people for centuries
  • Increasing the children’s understanding and awareness of our world’s diverse cultures
  • Developing the children’s mental imaging ability, another skill necessary for reading comprehension.

SPARKLES DANCE AND MUSIC

Sparkles & Friends provides dance and music classes for Early Learning Services. The curriculum is progressive and designed to link precisely with the Early Years Learning Framework.


The creative dance classes develop self-expression and creativity while increasing body awareness and fitness. The sessions are themed according to popular topics and follow the Early Years Learning Framework. Each 30-minute lesson includes a warm-up, stretching, locomotor movement and exercises to improve finger dexterity; a choreographed dance; an action song; work with props; and a warm-down.


Sparkles & Friends music classes employ both Kodály and Dalcroze principles. Whilst no two lessons are the same, the teachers apply the same fun, thoughtful and tested structure to each weekly session to establish a comfortable and friendly environment for children. The teachers help the children to develop their musical, physical, emotional and intellectual skills through live guitar, ukulele or keyboard, a capella singing games, action songs, rhymes, parachute play, listening and moving to live and recorded music and by playing along on percussion instruments.

DAILY EXPERIENCES AT THE SERVICE

Precious Momentz provides children with various activities and experiences designed to foster, extend, refine and enhance all areas of each child’s development. Developmental records are kept for each child. These records are based upon Educators' observations of individual children and follow up with the planning and evaluating experiences/activities relevant to the child’s needs and abilities. 


The programs ensure a balance between activities and quiet time/rest, indoor and outdoor play and various materials and experiences from which the children may select. The underlying focus of the program is based on the individual needs of each child and the needs of the various age groups as a whole.


The programs include, but are not restricted to:

CREATIVE ACTIVITIES - for example, painting, drawing, water play, using recycled and natural materials (leave, flowers, bark, etc.) for college and gluing.

MUSIC / SINGING / ACTIVITIES - for example, musical instruments, singing, dancing, music and movement programs, listening to stories and developing expressive and receptive language skills.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES - for example, outside play - running, climbing, jumping, walking, crawling, throwing, hopping, etc. The Service also has programs (Get in the Groove and Growing Strong) focusing on muscle development and movement.

FINE MOTOR ACTIVITIES - for example, construction activities/experiences, cutting, threading, play dough, drawing, sorting and stacking.

IMAGINATIVE PLAY – for example: playing with dolls, teddy bears, housekeeping, pretend play, animals and transport toys.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES – for example: providing activities and experiences that foster and encourage sharing, turn-taking, and building positive relationships with other children and adults / Educators at the Service.

The above programming ideas promote mutual trust and respect, security and confidence, individuality and independence. The Pre-School program is designed to prepare your child for school, focusing on developmental and curriculum areas necessary for school preparation.

OUR MENU

The Centre runs a five-week rotating menu developed in line with Australia Dietary guidelines. We cater to any dietary requirements your child may have by altering the same meal the other children have, and we are a nut-free and egg-free Centre. Please see a sample menu below:

Menu — Queanbeyan, ACT — Precious Momentz Child Care

INCLUSIONS

  • Nappies
  • Sudocrem
  • Sun Cream
  • Additional weekly programs (storytelling and music/dance) as well as lots of incursions and exciting visitors regularly
  • A service operating under the National Quality Framework
  • Qualified early childhood professionals

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