Programme

Our Philosophy

At Network Nursery and Preschool, the philosophy behind our curriculum is that young children learn best by doing. Learning isn’t just repeating what someone else says; it requires active thinking and experimenting to find out how things work and to learn first hand about the world we live in.

In their early years, children explore the world around them by using all their senses (touching, tasting, listening, smelling, and looking).

In using real materials such as blocks and trying out their ideas, children learn about sizes, shapes, and colours, and they notice relationships between things.

In time, they learn to use one object to stand for another. This is the beginning of symbolic thinking. For example, they might pretend a stick is an aeroplane or a block is a hamburger. These early symbols - the stick and a block - are similar in shape to the objects they represent. Gradually children become more and more able to use abstract symbols like words to describe their thoughts and feelings. They learn to “read “ pictures, which are symbols of real people, places, and things. This exciting development in symbolic thinking takes place during the preschool years as children play.
Play provides the foundation for academic or “school” learning. It is the preparation children need before they learn highly abstract symbols such as letters (which are symbols for sounds) and numbers (which are symbols for concepts.) Play enables us to achieve the key goals of our early childhood curriculum. Play is the work of young children.

The activities we plan for children, the way we organise the environment, select toys and materials, plan the daily schedule, and talk with children, are all designed to accomplish the goals of our curriculum and give your child a successful start in school.

Children may begin Nursery at 2-3 years of age. They begin Preschool at 3-4 years of age.