Top 10 benefits for your child attending a kindergarten and preschool program

By Marnie Adams, Contributor @ Kids In Perth 08 May 2024

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Your child might be heading off for their first day of school in just a few short months.

After a year full of change for many families, Jellybeans Child Care have good news.

If you’re thinking about enrolling your child into an early education or child care centre, it’s never too late.

It’s never too late for a child to receive the benefits of attending kindergarten or preschool before they begin their primary school journey.

This important year provides ongoing learning through which children make sense of their world as they actively engage with peers within specifically designed learning environments. In particular, those created at your local Jellybeans Child Care and Kindy!

Benefits of attending kindergarten or preschool

The kindergarten and preschool program at Jellybeans Child Care and Kindy are high-quality, government-approved early education programs which provide opportunities for your child to:

Grow in confidence, developing a positive view of themselves as a learner
Use language effectively to communicate ideas, feelings and needs
Gain experience in a group learning environment alongside their peers
Make friends and engage in group activities where they cooperate with their friends
Build positive relationships with their educators along with their new friends
Learn to look after their belongings
Develop resilience and self-regulation through engaging in activities that challenge them
Confidently communicate with adults outside of their family
Develop literacy skills, creatively expressing ideas and feelings through art, music, story-telling and dramatic play
Develop scientific and numeracy skills as they identify, explore, examine and questions to solve problems.

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Building relationships

Jellybeans educators and teachers are your child’s learning partner and a positive influence on their futures.
Developed and led by bachelor degree-qualified and registered early childhood teachers, their programs support children to the develop skills and dispositions to experience success as a learner in the kindergarten/preschool year and beyond.

Guided by the principles, practices and outcomes of the Early Years Learning Framework, their purposeful and engaging programs build on children’s interests and learning in literacy, numeracy, the arts and STEM.

As children progress on their learning journey, Jellybeans offers increasingly complex experiences to develop dispositions for life-long learning. Planning from children’s interests, they’ll work alongside them as they challenge themselves to take risks in their learning; be creative and curious problem-solvers; develop resilience as they persist with new challenges; and have confidence to develop positive and lasting relationships with peers.

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Important learning and development

In the final year before school, this includes:

Oral language, as this is the basis for all literacy learning. Children are supported to communicate with each other, with new vocabulary introduced as part of everyday conversations, modeling correct grammar and sentence structures, singing, playing games, and reading to children daily.
Social-emotional skills, including the ability to self-regulate one’s emotions.
Physical skills, developed through an active learning program.
Brain development, building the connectors for all later learning through active engagement, alongside their peers, in a play-based program.

Research shows children are more likely to learn when they are engaged in an activity. A play-based program encourages active engagement in learning and supports a range of positive developmental outcomes including resilience and independence, curiosity and creativity.

Learn more about Jellybeans Child Care and their kindergarten and preschool program by visiting their website or clicking the buttons below to schedule a tour.