2 years turning 3 years
(we help potty train)
Grade RRR
3 years turning 4 years
Grade RR
4 years turning 5 years
Grade R
5 years turning 6 years
Grade R
5 years turning 6 years
The children may be dropped off from 7h00 in the mornings, but no later than the following official starting times:
Clivia follows the Government school terms and will be closed during School holidays and Public holidays. The Aftercare facility is open during most school holidays. Please check with the school. Parents receive a term planner and letter at the start of each term.
Every child is greeted as they enter the school where they also say ‘goodbye’ to their parent, guardian or lift club, as this gives the children that feeling of self-worth and independence as they then proceed to their classroom on their own, taking responsibility for their own bag and snack. It is rewarding to note how well this works, right from the start of the year.
There are always a range of activities available in the classroom and the teachers use this time to work one-on-one with each child, developing weak areas and reinforcing skills and concepts. The children all help to then tidy-up and pack away the toys and activities.
This is followed by Good Morning Ring where the Group helpers get involved, share news, observe and discuss the weather, days of the week, count the children, talk about absentees and events happening at school, etc. The older children do Small Group time which consists of periods of individual and group activities and teacher-directed activities, before joining the younger children participating in Free Choice time
The Grade R's carry out Individual and Group work based on the three main areas of the CAPs curriculum, namely Life Skills, Literacy and Mathematics, all of which are also worked on during other parts of the Group’s daily programme. After this, they too join in free choice time with the rest of the school.
During this time, the children can choose any of the five, fully supervised play areas while those who choose to not utilise a specific area, will be encouraged in order to ensure they benefit developmentally from the full range of available activities. The older Groups also do Plan-do-review, where they choose a few specific play activities during Good Morning Ring, which they have to remember to carry out and then review their choice at the end of the morning. The children always help to tidy-up the indoor areas as these rooms are then utilized for the following routines.
During this routine, the children are with their own group and teacher. The focus here is predominantly on Life Skills thereby developing the child’s independence, sense of responsibility, personal hygiene and manners. While the daily ring deals with a variety of topics, themes and skills.
Another session of Free Choice time. With this being the end of the school morning, the children will once again assist with the tidying up and packing away in all the areas, including the Garden.
At the end of the morning, the younger groups have another Toilet time before proceeding to their own room for Story Time. The Grade Rs come in a little earlier to do language skills, poetry, etc. before they listen to their story. This is an enjoyable end to the morning, where not only vocabulary and general knowledge are developed, but through the teacher’s questions, the children are required to problem solve and encouraged to think about feelings and values, etc. and not just the plot of the story. All Groups pack bags before their story time and end the session with a quiet rest period before the doors are opened.
The doors are opened at 12h00 for the half-day children who are allowed to be collected from their classroom.
At 12h10, children doing extra-mural activities are dismissed and the aftercare children are taken to Aftercare.
Singing, body percussion, percussion instrument playing, musical concepts, etc.
Creative exploration of body movement.
Story, poem, theme related, etc.
Free and creative exploration of body movement to music.
Usually done outdoors and involves large and small muscle skills, climbing, balancing, co-ordination, working with balls, etc.
Exploring and discussing the current theme.
Messy Play - very popular and mainly for our younger groups.
Where an object is explored physically and discussed.
Done mainly by our older groups.
Library books are issued every Friday, and all books need to be returned by the following Friday.
Books are an integral part of every child and we want to foster a love of books and reading. The children learn to handle books with care and responsibility.
Clivia library bags can be purchased from the school to keep the books safe.
Every child has the opportunity to be Baker-Baker and it is looked forward to.
Baker-Baker is held on Tuesdays and we encourage parents not to buy, but rather to make something with your child’s help.
Parents are warmly invited to attend their child’s birthday ring, by arranging it with their child’s teacher.
If your child’s birthday falls within the holidays, you are welcome to arrange an alternative date to celebrate your child's birthday either before or after the school holiday.
The Daily Programme supports our open plan environment and the five Free Choice areas are vital in their contribution to the child’s overall development. Every area is fully supervised and allows for periods of play that are at times, child initiated, teacher initiated and teacher directed, always with specific aims in mind in order to ensure on-going assessments are carried out of the child’s development.
Here the children are given the opportunity to be creative and resourceful. Every child’s response to the materials has the potential to be different due to their creativity and imagination. While different techniques and skills are developed and encouraged, the emphasis is always on the process and not on the end product.
The five types of activities are:
Painting, drawing, cutting and gluing, dough play and a ‘special’ activity - all of which are changed daily.
A variety of Cognitive skills such as, questioning, spatial relationships, problem-solving, memory, number, classifications, etc. are being actively used, explored, and developed in this play area through the following activities: books, puzzles, self-corrective games and teacher-directed games.
Imaginative fantasy play can also be observed in this area while the children play and interact with the various manipulative and construction toys and LEGO.
This is undeniably one of the most popular indoor play areas, where the children’s imaginations really come to the fore.
Here the children enjoy role-playing and exploring true-to-life and imaginary situations within the domestic corner (kitchen, bedroom and nursery, etc.), the special interest corner (e.g. hairdresser, restaurant, office, hospital, mermaids, etc.) and the dressing-up clothes (e.g. police, doctors and nurses), and carpet toys (e.g. trains, farms, wild animals, blocks, etc.)
In Garden 1, the children have the opportunity to swing, climb and balance at various heights along a large variety of static apparatus and apparatus with moving parts. Over and above this, the ladders, beams and frames are set up every day in different formations, ensuring that the child is always being physically challenged and extended as they develop their core and large muscles, their coordination, confidence, vestibular and proprioceptive senses.
We are proud of our playground area and our monkey bars are quite unique as is our high tower. Within this area, there is a boat, wooden cars, a wendy house, a sensopathic tray and a mud kitchen where the children can freely use their wonderful imaginations as they fantasize and dramatize different roles.
The main activities within Garden 2, are the water tray, the large, round sandpit and the cycle track, where the children learn to balance and co-ordinate their way around the track at varying speeds on plastic motorbikes, balance bikes and scooters.
There are also more swings to sit or stand on and two types of hanging swings. This area also has a sensopathic tray and a painting easel, all of which engage the children in a variety of play experiences.
A variety of materials, e.g. gravel, shells, fine sand, straw, kitty litter, etc. along with toys are placed in the sensopathic trays in the two areas to encourage not only imaginative play, but conversation and tactile exploration.
The aftercare takes over at 12h15, with the three scheduled finishing times being 13h30, 15h00 and 17h00. There is also a casual, hourly rate for parents who are unable to fetch at their normal 12h00 pick-up time due to unforeseen circumstances. The school needs to always be informed should this option be needed. Half day children not collected by 12h15 are automatically sent to aftercare by the teacher and the hourly rate will be charged.