Plunkett Street Public School Preschool has developed a daily routine to ensure children have time inside and outside for uninterrupted play. Educators engage with children and support them in their play. Educators know when to support children and when they may need to continue observing. Our daily routines are flexible and the educators are aware of the children’s needs. For example, if children are engaged in an activity and are cooperating with each other during play, we wait until there is a pause in the play, before we ask the children to pack away. We are spontaneous in our approach to children and flexible with the program based on the children’s interests and participation in an activity. We discuss children’s interest and levels of participation.
Each week the following opportunities are provided:
Planned experiences and intentional teaching
Provisions provided to extend on children’s interests (based on observations)
Project work
Parent input and family contribution
Changes to routine or special events (preschool, whole school and community events)
Provocations set up inside and outside based on interests
Health and wellbeing (fundamental movement skills, interests, health topics, games, obstacle course focus and fine motor skill practise)
Whole group intentional teaching (literacy, numeracy, song, dance)
Documented spontaneous experiences children were involved in throughout the day
Future planning based on observations and conversations between educators and children (educators discuss their ideas and add them to the program)
Evaluation and reflection on the program
As observations are recorded by educators in our shared observation book they are then uploaded to Educa which the application we use to share observations and learning experiences with families. Families who may not have access or limited access to technology, we also print these observations and learning experiences from Educa and place them into their individual ‘Celebration of Learning’ folders.
