The Kids Club – Cate Road
The Kids Club Cate Road caters for the educational needs of our younger children, those from two years to approximately three and a half years.
Aims
– To settle children into kindergarten routines and encourage participation in a range
of activities.
– To encourage self help skills and independence.
– To encourage and develop social skills.
– To encourage and extend verbal communication.
– To expose children to literacy and mathematical concepts in many forms.
– An emphasis on shapes, colours, counting, name recognition, alphabet letters and establishing a love of reading.
Session Times at The Kids Club Cate Road:
Children can attend a session, an extended session or a full school day.
Morning Sessions: 8:45am – 11:45am or 8:45am – 12:30pm
Friday: 8:45am – 12:45pm
Afternoon Sessions: 11:45am – 3:30pm or 12:30 – 3:30
School Day: 8:45am – 3:30pm
Children can attend either morning or afternoon sessions, or a school day for a minimum of two sessions per week. Each session will focus on the needs of individual children while being developmentally appropriate for the age group of the children.
Children attending Cate Road will be given preference to attend The Kids Club Halcione Close when spaces become available.
The Kids Club 2 – Halcione Close
The Kids Club 2 caters for the educational needs of our older children, those from approximately three and a half to school age.
Aims
– To encourage children to work together in groups, listening to others and building confidence to share relevant information.
– To extend task persistence and encourage task completion.
– To expose children to literacy in its many forms.
– To expose children to mathematical concepts and vocabulary
(eg size, height, weight, number etc).
– To extend knowledge of story writing concepts, letter sounds and basic
sight vocabulary.
– Recognition of larger numbers, number formation and early concepts of adding numbers together.
– To encourage an interest in the immediate and wider world.
Sessions are developmentally appropriate for the older children. The programme includes a structured story writing time and children have a homework activity to complete each week.
Session Times At the Kids Club 2:
Children can attend a session, an extended session or a full school day.
Morning Sessions: 8:30am – 12:00am or 8:30am – 12:45pm
Afternoon Sessions: 12:00am – 3:45pm or 12:45 – 3:45
School Day: 8:30am – 3:45pm
Children can attend a morning or afternoon session or school days and a minimun of two sessions per week is required. Preference of enrolment at The Kids Club2 will be given to children currently attending The Kids Club Cate Road.
B45 Programme
B45 is a very special part of the programme and children’s learning here at The Kids Club2. We saw a need for those children heading off to school to offer them some more intensive and specific learning in Numeracy, Literacy and science based activities before school begins.
The children have 2 sessions in this programme each week in small groups with a teacher. Activities range from number hunts to cooking activities to writing letters to reading and sound blending simple words in short stories to shape games and using mathematical symbols and concepts.
Children begin this programme when they are 4 ½ and it is a huge honour to finally make it to B45 time!! The children are very focused in their learning in this programme and are very excited about being part of something so important in their learning journey.
Happy Feet Programme
Happy Feet is a fun and active transport preschool programme targeting 3–5 year olds. The programme involves walking, scooting or triking the last 2–5 minutes of the journey to kindergarten.
Happy Feet aims to:
- Promote 'active trips' to preschool as a safe, healthy and enjoyable transport option
- Help shape a healthier active future generation
- Raise an early awareness of the Walking School Bus programme
- Ease congestion at preschool gates
- Improve safety on the roads
- Help reduce air pollution
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Homework
Here at Kids Club 2 we have weekly homework for all of our children. Each child has a homework book into which a homework task is put in at the beginning of the week by the teachers.
Homework tasks are often linked to what learning is happening in the Kindergarten for the term and is from across many strands of learning such as maths concepts /number/counting/shapes work or writing/letters/sounds work or finding out about and exploring ideas and the world around us and designing and creating things.
The homework is marked by teachers each week and lots of positive reinforcement of the children’s efforts is always paramount.
Read Write Inc Literacy programme
Read Write Inc is a literacy programme we use in both of our Kindergartens. This programme helps children to learn letter sounds and letter formation for reading and writing. Children learn letter sounds and how to sound–blend words for reading at the same time developing handwriting skills and spelling.
It is a fun way of learning literacy and we have noticed real results since we have been using parts of this programme in our kindergartens.
For more information please look up the following website.
www.oup.com/oxed/primary/rwi/
ICT
Information and communication technologies are an important part of life at The Kids Club. The children are encouraged to use the computers, big screen, flip video cameras, digital cameras to explore, answer their questions and to communicate with others.
