At Skallywags Preschool the programs we provide for your children are based around your child's individual interests and needs.  We are here to support and guide their early learning and to provide skills to help prepare them for their school years.

Your child will have an individual program set for him or her by a designated teacher who will record their observations and plan activities from within small focus groups.  At the end of the year each family will receive a portfolio which sets out their child's development and learning programs from within that year. All of the teachers work as a team and everyone provides input for your child's development and early learning program. All development records are confidential and can only be viewed by the child's parent/legal guardian, staff or persons authorised, such as Department of Community Service employees.

We implement the NSW Curriculum and Early Years Framework with the "Emergent Curriculum" which combines contemporary and traditional ways of thinking and planning care and educational programs. Our programs at Skallywags Preschool emerge from the observed interests and developmental areas of your child, and the group and are provided for within the indoor and outdoor environments.  These areas of development include: physical (fine and gross motor), cognitive, social, emotional, language, literacy, art/craft, music, science, maths, drama, movement, dance and construction.

Our early learning programs evolve over the week allowing your child time to explore, investigate and experiment with the environments and activities presented to them. We facilitate this through individual, small and large group experiences.  Our role at Skallywags Preschool is to enhance learning through planning and interacting with your child, while encouraging, extending and valuing your child's spontaneous learning.  Children are the focus of the curriculum and your child is viewed as a co-constructor of learning, as well as an individual learner where opportunities are provided in the curriculum for your child to use and develop his/her particular abilities and interests.  We facilitate learning by extending, applying and introducing new experiences that stimulate each child's interest and learning.