We understand that choosing a nursery or pre-school that is right for both you and your child can be a difficult decision, which is why we do our best to make it as easy as possible.

We offer everything you would expect from a registered pre-primary school such as excellent standards of daily care and education, a nurturing and safe environment, freshly prepared food, and well maintained facilities with ample outdoor areas. But what makes Jacaranda Pre-Primary School popular with parents is that we make the child the centre of everything we do and every decision we make.

We believe that you will find that our approach to childcare and education sets the standards rather than just simply following them; an approach that sees beyond the ‘requirements’. For children to be happy they need to be busy and to be busy they need to be engaged with their environment.

Play is a means to early learning that capitalises on children’s natural curiosity and exuberance. Play is a vehicle for learning and lies at the core of innovation and creativity. It provides opportunities for learning in a context in which children are at their most receptive. Play and academic work are not distinct categories in early years education for young children, and learning and doing are inextricably linked for them.

It has long been acknowledged that there is a strong link between play and learning for young children, especially in the areas of problem solving, language acquisition, literacy, numeracy, and social, physical, and emotional skills. Young children actively explore their environment and the world around them through a process of learning-based play. When children are manipulating objects, acting out roles, or experimenting with various materials, they are engaged in learning through play. Play, therefore, has a legitimate and important role in early learning and can be used to further children’s learning in all areas of the curriculum.

Our effective early childhood learning classrooms make use of play and embed opportunities for learning through play in the physical environment and play activities. Both child-initiated free play and more structured play-based learning opportunities form the foundation of our early learning classrooms.

Children are offered choices of learning activities that reflect their developmental stages. The learning activities are designed by the educating team to encourage the children to think creatively, to explore and investigate, to solve problems and engage in the inquiry process, and to share their learning with others.

Our curriculum meets all the expectations and requirements set in the draft South African National Curriculum Framework for children from Birth to Four, but are specifically enriched in the areas of Language, Mathematical, Art and Gross Motor development.

Our curriculum is researched-based and continuously updated to ensure relevance for early year learning today. We embrace the principles of brain-based learning, multiple-intelligences and concrete learning through play.

Our curriculum is an agreed framework through which knowledge is gained, skills are developed, and experience is widened.