Welcome to our Kindy Community!
CALL US: 5494 1248
ABOUT OUR KINDY
OUR PHILOSOPHY
We welcome your family to Landsborough Kindergarten. We are a community kindergarten affiliate with The Lady Gowrie QLD. We believe that when families, staff and committee work together it makes it possible to provide the best possible learning environment for children.
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At Landsborough Kindergarten our teaching team is committed to providing a safe, caring, stimulating and educational environment for young children of Landsborough and surrounding districts. We will be excited by and respectful of each child's individual learning journey throughout their kindergarten year. We recognise that each child has their own learning style and we will nurture and respect their needs, abilities and ideas in a safe and secure environment. We promote a flexible program that encourages and supports investigation, creativity, problem solving and independent exploration. Children are encouraged to participate in the planning of their program and environment. Children learn through play and we will endeavour to provide an environment that is stimulating, challenging and builds upon each child's interests, knowledge and skills. We recognise the importance of providing children with the opportunities for taking considered risk in a safe and suitable environment and will encourage and guide children to do so.
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Providing a home-like environment is of high priority. We believe that families are their child's first and most influential teachers and we will work in partnership to ensure we provide positive experiences for their child. Each family is unique and we respect and embrace individual cultures and customs, traditions, life experience and welcome family participation. We pay our respects to the Gubbi Gubbi people and their country, as the traditional owners of the land that hosts our kindergarten.
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Landsborough Kindergarten operates under the National Quality Framework. The service must comply with the Education and Care Services National Law Act 2011 and the Education and Care Services National Regulations 2011.
These documents can be accessed via https://www.acecqa.gov.au/nqf/about
OUR CURRICULUM
We are proud of our education team at Landsborough Kindy and are constantly working to develop ourselves further as professionals and advocates for early childhood education.
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Our curriculum is based on the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guidelines (QKLG) which incorporates the early Years Learning Framework (EYLF). These curriculum documents place emphasis on play as learning and recognise the importance of communication, language, social and emotional development within the early years. Our program is designed to be collaborative and emergent in its very nature. Allowing planning to be fluid and spontaneous each day in response to the children’s interest and inquiry at the time. Through play children learn ways to communicate, cooperate, persevere, think and wonder, develop independence and autonomy, imagination and creativity. Our educational team support children throughout the day to delve deeper in their pondering and wondering and scaffold experiences for childrens learning through being present and active as collaborators within children’s play.
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We would love for your family to share any special events, cutural days, knowledge, talents and skills within our kindy community and always welcome families to join us to read a story, share a cooking and music experience, lead us in a small project or bring along artifcat from home life to share within our program.
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The Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guidelines can be accessed via
https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/p_10/qklg_2019.pdf
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The Early Years Learning Framework can be accessed via
PROGRAM HOURS
In 2023 we are excited to continue our two group model of Kindergarten delivery. This has come from a community need for more Kindy places and in response to community preferences for program times.
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KULIM Group
(Beginning of Week)
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- Mondays, Tuesdays and alternating Wednesdays.
8.30am - 2.30pm
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BULLA Group
(End of Week Group)
- Alternating Wednesdays and every Thursday and Friday.
8.30am - 2.30pm
In 2023 we are offering afterschool care from 2.30pm - 3.30pm. Please get in touch if this is of interest.
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Please ensure you child is collected by 2.30pm each day if your child isn't enrolled in afterschool care as late fees apply. If necessary to manage school collection of older children you are welcome to collect your Kindy child a little earlier. Thank you for your understanding.
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Kindy Terms 2023
Please note we follow QLD State School Terms. We do not operate in school holiday periods.
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Term 1: 23 Jan - 31 March
Term 2: 17 April - 23 June
Term 3: 10 July - 15 September
Term 4: 3 October - 8 December
RYTHYM OF OUR DAY
8.30: Families to sign in child and apply supplied sunscreen. Wash hands upon arrival. Place hand towel on hook in bathroom. Unpack lunchbox and drink bottle. Hat on, sunscreen applied. Children engage in outdoor play and greet educators and teachers.
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9.15: Group Session - welcome to kindy, discuss plans for day
9.30: Morning Tea
10.00: Unstructured play experiences. Opportunities to extend lines of inquiry and work on projects . Concurrent programming - children have access to both indoor and outdoor environments.
12.00: Children pack up outdoor space and move indoors to continue play. This is a sun safety consideration.
12.30: Tidy up time and reset for the following day
12.45: Group Session - extend plans for play
1.00: Lunch
1.30: Rest Period. Opportunities to sleep, rest and relax. Quiet activities available for children who do not wish to sleep. (This practice evolves as the year progresses and children’s sleep needs change)
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2.00: Group Session - music and movement
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2.15: Small group games and sharing