Fernside Pre-school

Location

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Fernside Preschool is a family owned purpose built preschool on a beautiful lifestyle block in Fernside, Rangiora. We have created a 'rural themed' preschool complete with farmyard for the children to observe and enjoy.

The Centre is licenced for 50 children catering from newborn through to 5 years of age, with excellent trained staff and low teacher to child ratios.

Outdoor play is important to our centre, and we have over half an acre of secure landscaped play area including special features such as a 100m bike track, natural grass areas, vege plots, oversize sand pits and plenty of room to run around. We encourage visits for the children and parents to our many animals, which include sheep, goats, rabbits, ducks, cows and our resident Kune Kune pig.

Transition to School Programme

In the preschool room (3 ½- 5 years) we offer a transition to school programme. This is done in the morning as part of mat time. We offer the children the Letterland programme which includes a letter for the week, a song and a story all based around that letter. This helps to teach the children the sound, words that start with that letter and the formation of the letter.

We then move on to the number of the week. The children get to count to the number and learn how to recognize the number. We also have a shape of the week. The children learn what the shape looks like, how many sides it has etc.

The children are split into three or four groups depending on stage. During this time the teacher focuses on the independent level of each child. We plan our activities based on the number, Colour, letter, shape or emergent curriculum. We also work on skills such as fine/gross motor development, scissor control, pencil control, self-help skills, listening and following directions. This is also a good time for small group games and learning to work alongside other children.