What we offer
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We offer daycare from 2 years to Grade R and after school care up to Grade 7. Here at Mary Poppins, all learners are lovingly cared for by experienced, dedicated staff who enjoy a variety of activities with the children on a daily basis.
Parents/guardians can expect the following All parents receive a weekly agenda to enable you to continue discussions at home with your children. In this way, you always know what your children are doing in their classes. All pupils receive four progress reports during the year, at the end of each term. Parents are encouraged to attend "work in progress" mornings to view children's work in classes, look at their workbooks and chat to the class teacher. The Pre-School/Grade R pupils also complete a school readiness assessment. |
MealsAll learners are served cooked, nutritious meals every day and all meals are halaal. Full lunch is also served to all Aftercare leaners until 5:15pm.
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Extra murals
Both boys and girls are welcome to participate in all extra murals including rugby, dancing and soccer where the focus is mainly on ball skills and movement. |
Curiculum
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Our curriculum is an Early Childhood Development Programme based on the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) covering the 6 ELDA’s (Early Learning Development Areas) and is aimed at children from birth to 4 years.
The programme is theme-based. The 6 ELDAs are as follows: Early Learning Development Area One - Well-being The child’s voice: I need to experience an environment where I can enjoy good health, nutrition, safety and security and where I can develop confidence and resilience. I want to be happy. This is my right. I am usually physically very active and my body is developing and growing rapidly. I need enough nutritious food. Proper health care and a safe environment are very important to ensure growth and development. This is my right. Early Learning Development Area Two - Identity and Belonging The child’s voice: I need to experience an environment where I develop a strong sense of self, experience positive relationships and celebrate differences. Early Learning Development Area Three - Communicating The child’s voice: I need to experience an environment where I can learn to listen attentively, speak openly, learn to love books, stories and reading, record and to write and to get ready for formal reading and writing as I grow and develop. Early Learning Development Area 4 - Exploring Mathematics The child’s voice: I need to experience an environment where I can find patterns, make connections, recognise relationships, work with numbers, sort out objects, match and classify things. This helps me to think, solve problems and ask questions. Early Learning Development Area 5 - Creativity The child’s voice: I need to experience an environment where I can identify challenges and problems, try out solutions in safety and freedom and experiment with play, make believe play, drawing, painting, cutting and pasting, modelling and music, rhythm, dance and drama. ELDA 6 - Knowledge and understanding of the world The child’s voice I want to make sense of my world through active participation in my real world and through practical experiments. Please support my learning by providing me opportunities to learn about people, objects, places, plants and creatures from my natural environment. For Grade R, we follow the School Readiness Programme based on the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement known as CAPS. It is designed to confidently meet all the CAPS requirements listed by the Department of Basic Education. The programme is theme-based. We use the programme designed by Day By Day Early Childhood Development CC and Day By Day Pre-school Curricula who develop our programmes based on the CAPS and NCF documents. |
Our Social Responsibility
During the school terms, we have different events to help raise money for the Centre and for charity. Some of these events include our Market Days and Cake Sales. The funds raised at these events are either donated to a charity of our choice for example "TEARS", an animal shelter, or they are utilized here at Mary Poppins. We have had very successful Market Days, one of which raised over R5000,00, which was donated to charity. We have also had many cake sales here at the Centre. All the children here at Mary Poppins enjoy these events and that is why we have them.
