SBS Tiger Cubs Preschool
SBS Tiger Cubs
What is SBS Tiger Cubs?
SBS Tiger Cubs is a preschool experience that helps support early childhood development and school readiness. The experience consists of a number of programs to suit many different needs.
All programs are run by experienced early childhood educators, in a safe and secure learning environment.
They are specifically designed to support the early development of gross and fine motor skills, early communication, sensory development, and the building of social skills. It is the perfect environment for our littlest children to learn and grow.
Why should you enroll your child?
Early childhood learning is so important in a child's development. In the early years a child's brain is developing faster than at any other point in their lives. Research shows the human brain undergoes the most growth in the first 3 years of life. In this period children develop critical social, emotional, and cognitive skills. It is the time they start learning how to interact with others, their parents, their teachers, their peers. Therefore it is important children receive the right nurturing and care to provide the foundations for a fulfilling life later on.
- Tiger Cubs Pre-school (12months-2years) (Mon-Fri)
- BabySteps - Parent and Child Playgroup (0-3years) (Sat)
- SBS Daycare (12months-2years) (Mon-Fri)
Tiger Cubs Pre-school
SBS Tiger Cubs is a preschool for children 12months to 2years. This is a Playgroup for toddlers and babies in a safe and clean environment, that is set up especially for little learners to grow and learn. These classes will help babies and toddlers to develop their skills, help little one’s transition from home to a school environment, and is a precursor to our mainstream toddler program.
At Tiger Cubs Pre-school children will be encouraged to do what comes naturally, to play. Play based learning is the best way for children to explore their environment and learn about the world around them. In a learning center environment, children will be engaged in a multitude of different activities that will encourage them to become explorers, risk takers, problem solvers, and develop strong self management skills.
Time: 8am-14:30pm (12mths-2years)
Full Day Schedule:
9.00am-9.15am Morning Circle
9.15am-9.45am Sensory and Social Play
9.45am-10.00am Snack time
10.00am-10.30am Outdoor Exploration
10.30am-11.00am Music & Movement
11.00am-11.30am Visual Arts
11.30am-12.00pm Lunchtime
12.00am-13:30pm Naptime
13:30am-14:30pm Circle Time with Friends (Fun Activities)
Half Day Schedule:
9.00am-9.15am Morning Circle
9.15am-9.45am Sensory and Social Play
9.45am-10.00am Snack time
10.00am-10.30am Outdoor Exploration
10.30am-11.00am Music & Movement
11.00am-11.30am Visual Arts
11.30am-12.00pm Lunchtime
12.00am-12:30pm Pick-Up Time
BabySteps
BabySteps is a Parent and Baby class that will focus on toddlers and babies that are not old enough or not yet ready to go to school. These classes will provide both parent/caregiver and child with teacher led interactive activities that support a child’s overall developmental growth. BabySteps classes have specially planned activities that encourage self-expression, physical and sensory development, social skills and so much more. They are designed with both parent and child in mind and are meant to enrich the parent-child bonding process through instructional learning.
Time: 9am-11am Saturday Mornings
Learning Schedule:
9.00am-9.15am Morning Circle
9.15am-9.45am Sensory and Social Play
9.45am-10.00am Snack time
10.00am-10.30am Outdoor Exploration
10.30am-11.00am Music & Movement
Separation Program
The first few days of school can be very challenging for a preschool child, and the parents too. It is natural for everyone to feel anxious.
At SBS Tiger Cubs preschool we aim to reduce the stresses and anxiety for both parents and child. Our programs include a separation program where parents can join their children as they build their confidence in new surroundings and with new people. They can learn and play together.
As the child becomes more familiar with their environment, the parental support is reduced until a point where the child is happy on their own. This phased approach allows both parent and child to gain confidence in their environment, build familiarity and bonds with our caregivers, and provide a smoother transition to regular school experiences.
Advantages of SBS Tiger Cubs
All of our Tiger Cubs programs focus on 6 developmental areas
BRAIN POWER
Neuroscientists tell us that when a baby is born, the brain is the most developed organ in the body. A baby's early play experiences will continue developing parts of the brain as well as activating many genes.
EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
A unique skill base that requires young children to learn to regulate their emotions, feel good about themselves, take risks and develop resilience.
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
This affects how children interact with others, how they share, participate in play involving one or more children, accept rules and cooperate with peers. Often children around two years will find this a difficult stage in their development so repetition and patience is the key here.
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
This is commonly known as `head to toe' development and is divided into gross motor and fine motor skills. Gross motor is the development of large muscles that control different parts of the body such as legs, arms and trunk. Ball games, bike riding, climbing, walking, swimming and running all help develop gross motor skills.
LANGUAGE and LITERACY DEVELOPMENT
Language and literacy includes verbal and print media so books posters, signs and symbols in the environment stimulate conversations. Language also includes non-verbal communication through body language, gestures and facial expressions. The development of communication therefore, requires plenty of opportunities for children to practice speech.
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
This is also called Intellectual development and this is about developing thinking and reasoning skills. The ability to remember people, names, places, songs, rhymes etc. To be able to sort, classify, estimate and concentrate. Using information in order to hypothesize, solve problems and discover new ways of doing things are all important cognitive skills that lead to scientific, mathematical and linguistic concepts later.