Programs - Ganeinu

Ganeinu Programs

Ganeinu's Approach to Early Childhood Education

Balanced Learning Approach

Our approach offers a blend of play-based learning, structured activities, and opportunities for creativity and exploration, both indoors and outdoors. Programs are tailored based on children's interests, aiming to develop skills such as curiosity, critical thinking, and creativity. (Britt & McLachlan, 2015)

Jewish Cultural Education

Morah Time introduces children to Jewish culture, traditions, and Hebrew language through songs, stories, and hands-on experiences. Each Friday, we create a special atmosphere for Shabbat, where the community gathers for activities such as baking Challah, reciting Kiddush, and singing Shabbat songs.

Pre-Literacy with Letterland

Letterland is one of our key pre-literacy programs, designed to teach children phonic skills through fun, imaginative characters. These characters help children associate letter shapes and sounds with stories, enabling quick progression to word-building, reading, and writing.

Parent Communication via Kinderm8

We use the Kinderm8 app to keep parents connected to their child’s daily activities. Through this app, parents can receive photos and updates on what their child is learning, their meals, and other activities, creating a comprehensive insight into their time at Ganeinu.

Framework and Individual Focus

Our programs are guided by the Early Years Learning Framework and adapted to each child’s physical, emotional, and cognitive needs, with input from parents. The Whole Child approach focuses on building secure relationships between children and educators, and supporting social skills development.

Munch & Move: Health and Well-Being

Our programs integrate the Munch & Move initiative, a NSW Health program designed to promote healthy development in children from birth to 5 years. It encourages physical activity and healthy eating.

Yoga for Kids

Yoga is incorporated into our programs to help children develop lifelong skills such as relaxation, coordination, and mindfulness. This program enhances balance, strength, flexibility, body awareness, and listening skills, while also encouraging creativity and imagination.

Commitment to Child Safety

Ganeinu-Gan Izzy is dedicated to providing a safe, supportive environment where children feel secure and valued. We are committed to ensuring all children feel culturally, emotionally, and physically safe, and we handle all concerns transparently and confidentially.

Tiny Treasures (0-2 years)

We believe in secure relationships as the foundations of learning and our infant room offers warmth and love in a safe and stimulating environment. Our educators value the individual routines of each child to ensure smooth home to daycare transitions underpinned by a close family connection between family and educators. As children learn through play, educators provide a variety of developmental environments encouraging children to explore and develop within a loving and nurturing environment. Throughout the day, educators involve the children in music, movement and stories, essential for developing children’s language and coordination, varying activities and set ups to accommodate the interest and abilities of the children in our care.

Torah Tots (2-3 years)

In Torah Tots we provide a program that offers balance between educational and play based activities while incorporating the development of language and socialisation, both critical during this fundamental stage of childhood. The children in the group will be enhancing their turn taking and listening skills while realising their place within their class environment. We work with children to develop their own individual sense of belonging within the group. We promote rewarding relationships for children with their peers as well as their teachers. Our educators work with you as part of a team, supporting your children with toilet training, personal hygiene and other self help skills, providing group learning and social experiences both indoors and outdoors.

Wombats Preschool (3-4 years)

Our Wombats program offers the opportunity to extend children's basic physical and cognitive skills and develop the fundamental social, emotional, fine and gross motor skills they will require moving forward. Educators ensure the learning environment is rich and stimulating, building on both group and individual interest areas to allow children opportunities to start to make sense of their world and communicate their understandings to others through one on one interactions as well as group presentations in a "news" format. We believe children’s learning is accelerated when you create strong connections between their interests and home life. We expose the children to literacy through the introduction of Letterland where they will begin learning their sounds through colourful and musical characters, encourage development of story-telling skills as well as early sequencing and numeracy development.

Numbats Preschool (4-5 years)

The emphasis on our Numbats program is school readiness; literacy, numeracy, science, fundamental movement skills and overall health and wellbeing . We facilitate OT and speech testing from local professionals and make recommendations to parents based on our teacher's knowledge and experience. From a social and educational perspective, we provide our children with the necessary skills and development to be able to enter their first year at primary school with confidence and the potential to be leaders, making recommendations to parents throughout the year regarding their child’s readiness for school, and any areas of focus based on our educators observations.