Our caring and supportive educators aid children in identifying and managing emotions, fostering self-control, self-soothing, and emotional resilience. By enhancing their emotional wellbeing, we aim to strengthen other areas of children’s development, including communication skills, self-esteem, relationships, and school readiness.

Our Mindfulness program fosters children's well-being by teaching coping strategies for self-awareness, stress management, and overall wellness. Through quiet meditation, yoga, and reflective storytelling, children learn to appreciate and navigate their surroundings. These skills empower them in Kindy and throughout their lives.

We acknowledge and say thank you to the Turrubal and Yuggera people for the land on which we play and learn. We pay our respects to all the elders -past, present and emerging. We believe that, together, hand in hand, we play, learn and grow. We support children to develop understanding, knowledge and an appreciation of ATI perspectives throughout our program.

Teaching children how to look after our world is a key focus of our program. From day 1, children engage in discussions about how our actions affect our world to build on their thinking, appreciation and sense of responsibility. This supports children to start the process of becoming competent global citizens and protectors of our environment.

Every day children engage in our PMP where we support children to ‘have a go’, build their gross motor skills and build on their confidence and curiosity to see if they can do it. This program challenges children to build on a range of fundamental movement skills including crawling, hopping and balancing as well as practicing their hand-eye coordination, locomotion, eye-tracking, balancing and fitness skills

Children engage in regular music and movement experiences to practice rhythm and rhyme, explore musical instruments, build on coordination, self-expression and well-being. These experiences help to build on children’s executive functioning skills including flexible thinking, working memory and inhibition control.

Children are encouraged to explore, investigate, build on their curiosity, encourage asking questions, hypothesis and enquire about topics of interest including the world around them, animals, plants and objects. Our loans from the Queensland Museum support this learning. Loose parts play provides opportunity for children to problem-solve, explore, negotiate and work together as a team.

Children learn various skills in the arts including drawing, clay work, woodwork and painting. We celebrate the process of learning and applying our new learned artistic skills while our end product is a reminder of all the hard work and effort the children put into creating it. Creating puppets to tell stories and use in our games while building toys and objects we see in the real world such as cars, flags and flowers are just some of the exciting learning we see taking place at Kindy!

Encouraging independence from the start, children learn to manage toys and space, care for belongings, share, communicate, and resolve conflicts during play. Educators guide them in developing these skills year-round, preparing them for increased responsibilities in prep and beyond.

Children are supported to learn language, literacy and numeracy through play. Daily story time, show and share, games, transitions and dramatic role play experiences allow children to build on these skills in a fun, supportive and exploratory way. Intentional teaching during these experiences along with learning through teaching moments provides the children with a solid grounding of language, literacy and mathematical knowledge and understanding to prepare them for their transition to prep.

Every child and family members is included at SHK, irrelevant of their differences. We embrace different cultures, languages, learning and social and emotional needs. We appreciate the different needs of our children and families and we work with you to develop streamlined strategies that can be used at Kindy and at home to support your child’s learning.

We connect regularly with our broader community to provide diverse and enriching experiences. Our children love attending their regular pre-prep sessions to Stafford Heights State School. We connect with our local Bunnings, the Police and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and Early Learning Development Programme and have visits throughout the year from Henny Penny (chicken hatching programme), the Tooth Fairy, Recycle Man and Reptile Experience. Our visit to Trevena Glen as a community is a highlight of our calendar year, as is our Art Show and End of Year Celebration. We are managed by a volunteer parent committee who donate their time, resources and ideas.