Jamboree Heights State School

The Queensland Government has introduced a Prep Year of full-time schooling for children who turn five by June 30 in the year they start school. An early years curriculum has been developed specifically for use in schools for prep classes. The Prep Year builds on your child's learning at home and in other places like kindergarten and child care.

The curriculum in the Prep Year is designed to provide the foundation that children need for success in later schooling. The learning experiences in the Prep Year will help children to:

• take on responsibilities
• become more independent
• respect other people
• cooperate with others
• make sensible choices about their health and safety
• develop their physical skills
• develop their oral language
• develop their understanding of literacy and numeracy
• learn how to be thinkers and problem solvers
• use their imagination and creativity
• learn about their environment

Activities for children in Prep will include the following:

• designing and making things
• singing, dancing and painting
• climbing, balancing, jumping
• investigating interests
• making choices
• taking part in everyday experiences like gardening, cooking and tidying up
• learing about size, mass and measurement as they construct things indoors and outdoors
• planning with their teachers about things they might do, and carrying them out
• planning and sharing in make-believe play