Pre-School FAQs

Classroom daily activities start from 07:30 and school ends at 12:45.

The gate will be closed at 08:15 but we encourage all children to be in class by 08:00

Yes, there is. The Aftercare staff collect all aftercare children at the end of the school day and escort them to the Aftercare facility. They are provided with a hot lunch and then supervised play. Aftercare is not included in the school fees and is an additional expense.

We offer a “Holding Class” for Quad Squad children that runs until 15:00 and is hosted in class.

Yes, we have a full extra mural programme available for our Pre-Schoolers that covers both sporting and cultural interests. The following extra-murals are available:

• Taste Buddies (Grade 000 – Grade 0)
• Pottery (Grade 00 – Grade 0)
• Little Kickers (Grade 0000 – Grade 0)
• Golf (Grade 00 – Grade 0)
• Ballet (Grade 000 – Grade 0)
• Cricket (Grade 00 – Grade 0)
• Big Builders (Grade 000 – Grade 0)
• Manners 4 Minors (Grade 000 – Grade 0)
• Modelling (Grade 000 – Grade 0)
• Dancing (Grade 000 – Grade 0)
• Explorative Art (Grade 000 – Grade 0)
• Wildlife Club (Grade 000 – Grade 0)
• Netball (Grade 000 – Grade 0)
• Little Splashes: Learn to Swim (Grade 00 – Grade 0)

No, the extra mural programme is an optional extra and will be billed directly to the parents by the service provider.

The school fee are inclusive of the following:

• Weekly Music & Coding & Robotics
• Weekly Edu-Tumble (specialized Physical education lesson hosted by the Eagle Tumbling squad)
• Annual Hearing Screening
• Annual Eye Screening
• Outings (1 per term)
• In-visits (Puppet, Reptile, Science shows etc.)
• Grade 0 Sport. Grade 0 sport runs from Monday-Thursday and it is a team based, informal sporting programme managed by the Edu-Tumble Team.

Yes, Little Splashes offers swimming lessons to our Pre-School children during the course of the school morning. This is charged as a separate fee directly to the parents.

We have the following Grades:

• Grade 0000 (Age Group 2 TURNING 3)
• Grade 000 (Age Group 3 TURNING 4)
• Grade 00 (Age Group 4 TURNING 5)
• Grade 0 (Age Group 5 TURNING 6)

It depends on the age group and the breakdown is as follows:

Quad Squad – 20 children with 1 class teacher, 1 teaching intern and 1 class assistant.

Grade 000 – 22 children  with 1 class teacher, 1 teaching intern and 1 class assistant.

Grade 00 – 20 children with 1 class teacher and 1 teaching intern per class.

Grade 0 – 22 children with 1 class teacher and 1 teaching intern per class.

No, there are no entry requirements for the Pre-School.

We are firm believers in meeting the children where they are at. We are a play-based Pre-School and we work incredibly hard to create an engaging, happy learning environment for the children. Skills are learned and understood concretely before they are applied and consolidated, abstractly.

No, it will be an internal move from Grade 0 to Grade 1 and from Grade 7 to Grade 8. You will not need to re-apply.