Our Program
Children learn best through play. Activities and experiences developed for the children will be play based and encourage them to take on new challenges and achievements in a safe and secure environment. Kindergarten tends to focus on lots of sensory experiences and supporting social and emotional development. Children at this age are just starting to form friendships and are learning new social skills that require practice and sometimes assistance from supportive adults in their environment. Ness Reserve fosters happy, self confident children – for they will be able to cope with life and will be eager to learn. A positive self esteem is something a child will carry with them onto school and though out life.
At Ness we utilise two different timetables for our 4 year old group depending on the number of enrolments in that year, which are a single group rotational timetable and a set two group timetable.
A single group rotational timetable is where children attend 3 allocated sessions per week for 5 hours each session. Children are allocated to a smaller core group that is a constant for every session they attend and then the rest of the children who make up the group will vary for each of the 3 sessions.
However if our enrolment numbers are high enough then we change to a set two separate group timetable with 3 allocated sessions per week at varying lengths of time, 4 hours, 5 hours and 6 hours.
Below are the details for the two separate timetables.
2019 Session Times
Monday
8:30am-1:30pm
(5 hours)
4 Year Old Rainbow Group
Tuesday
11:30am-4:30pm
(5 hours)
Wednesday
8:30am-1:30pm
(5 hours)
Thursday
8:30am-1:30pm
(5 hours)
Friday
8:30am-1:30pm
(5 hours)
3 Year Old Kookaburra Group
Tuesday
8:30am-11:00am
(2.5hours)
Thursday
2:00pm-4:30pm
(2.5hours)
Friday
Wednesday
Monday
4 year old Rainbow group children attend 3 allocated sessions per week, total of 15 hours.
3 year old Kookaburra group children attend 2 sessions per week, total of 5 hours.
2020 Session Times
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
8:30am-2:30pm
(6 hours)
Tuesday
11:30am-4:30pm
(5 hours)
Monday
8:15am-12:15pm
(4 hours)
4 Year Old Group A
4 Year Old Group B
Monday
12:30pm-4:30pm
(4 hours)
Tuesday
Friday
Thursday
8:30am-1:30pm
(5 hours)
Wednesday
8:30am-2:30pm
(6 hours)
3 Year Old Kookaburra Group
Tuesday
8:30am-11:00am
(2.5hours)
Thursday
2:00pm-4:30pm
(2.5hours)
Friday
Wednesday
Monday
