Why choose Yandell, aren’t all kinders the same?

As parents, we know how important a good education is for our children’s futures. The kind of start provided for a child will have a great effect on his/her attitude towards schooling for years to come. Experts around the world are expressing their concerns over the negative effects of “hot-housing” or rushing children to learn at a greater and greater rate. There has been so much emphasis on the development of children’s academic skills that other areas of development have been forgotten. Studies are now showing social and emotional skills to be of the most importance to success in school and in life.

Yandell Kindergarten is offering parents and their children a real choice in line with the latest findings of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and other expert studies in America and Australia. The program at Yandell is based on:

• Child Choice: teachers attend to the interests and needs of each child and provide opportunities to pursue these. Numerous experiences are planned and set up each day and children are free to choose which they would like to explore or experience. They are allowed all the time they need to explore these and are encouraged to make decisions within their learning experiences.
• Emphasis on social/emotional development: a child’s ability to get along with others and their confidence in themselves will affect all parts of their life now and in the future. More than just “caring and sharing”, your child will learn: to approach children positively to join in, to accept disappointment, negotiate with others, to ask for help and to identify and deal with their emotions.
• Teacher guidance rather than direction: the way the kinder is et up means that the children do not need the teacher constantly telling them what to do and how to do it. Teachers can then focus on guiding behaviour, questioning for development of problem solving skills, and encouraging children’s efforts. This means children develop creativity, independence, and learn “how to learn”.