Flinders Preschool

Flinders preschool will continue offering fully funded kinder programs in 2025 for our 3yo & 4yo program. Join our play based community where children build skills for life.

2025 Session times:
3 year olds – Tuesday & Friday 9am – 3pm and Wednesday 1pm – 4pm
4 year olds – Monday & Thursday 9am – 3pm and Wednesday 9am – 12pm

At Flinders pre-school, our philosophy is centred around play being the means by which young children learn. Active, exploring children learn about their environment while developing literacy foundations, social skills, confidence, independence and creativity.

Children learn best by doing. Our programs have an emphasis on self-involvement and self-direction. Some learning at Flinders preschool is initiated by an adult and some the children create themselves. All learning is active learning, which involves thinking and experimentation to learn first-hand about the world in which we live.

Play-based Learning

We are a play-based learning environment. Play is an open-ended, enjoyable activity that lays the foundations for a child to become a curious learner later in life. Play-based learning is proven to help children develop social skills and creativity as well as early literacy and numeracy. Everything the children do at our kinder is a precursor to school learning.

The Resilience Project

Building resilience can help children develop life long skills to deal with everyday emotional and physical challenges. We have recently received department funding to bring the Resilience Project into our 4-year-old program. Resilience is also fostered through our beach kinder program and a range of play based activities

Community

We aim for all children to feel comfortable and confident within the group and our kinder’s community; to feel that they belong. Our pre-school is an active part of the Flinders township’s community. Families are regularly involved in local events such as the Anzac March and Flinders Art Show. See our events page for community gatherings this year.

Beach Kinder

A highlight of our kindergarten’s program is our weekly sessions at the Beach. Through child lead play in a beach environment, children experience challenges, developing self-awareness and, most importantly, resilience.