Central Shoalhaven Mobile Preschool is a mobile service providing a comprehensive preschool program taught by university qualified teachers. Preschool services are limited to providing education to children who are 3 on or before the 31^st of July in each school year, the same as going to primary school. Our service follows the Early Years Learning Framework Curriculum for children preschool aged and focuses heavily on school readiness.

Mobile preschools have only recently fallen “into-scope” with the Department of Education meaning we are yet to be rated the same as a long day care centre would be.

School readiness is delivered in our service as a play-based curriculum which fosters many of the skills that will set your child up for success when they move to kindergarten. School readiness skills encompasses exploring aspects of language, literacy, numeracy, science, through play, and additionally has a strong focus on social capabilities to support children in their kindergarten classroom. This will look like empowering children to solve problems, interact with a wide range of people, encouraging respect for diverse views and opinions, and assisting children with developing the skills they need to meet their needs independently as required in primary school.

Central Shoalhaven Mobile Preschool places high importance on consultation with all parties when planning and implementing anything at all in the preschool. On enrolment and at the start of each school year, we ask families to provide an all about me sheet which outlines the children’s interests and what you, as the parent and expert on your child, have in mind for goals of the children. This informs our planning and practice, incorporating those goals, interests and expertise in how we set up our environments and the play-based learning experiences which are offered to align with this.

Each child has a personalised learning folder which at the end of their time with the preschool is provided to our families as a keepsake and clear display of the learning journey your child has gone on with our preschool. At any time, our teachers and educators are able to have discussions with you about changes to your goals for your child or how their development is tracking.

If you would like more information about enrolling, please call us or fill out the “contact us” form to receive a call back. On enrolment, we provide a parent handbook which details all of the information about your child’s day.

As we are a mobile Preschool and our focus is on school-readiness skills, we do not provide meals. Health and nutrition is part of our program, and encouraging and teaching children about healthy lunchboxes happens every day. Parents are asked to provide lunch and afternoon snack in a lunchbox for the children. Then, throughout the day, just like lunch and recess at school, the children sit together and eat their meals. This teaches the children respect and responsibility for their belongings and helps them develop the dexterity required to manipulate their own lunchboxes when moving off to school.

Our attentive teachers will provide you an update on pick up on how your child’s day went. At the entry of each venue you will find the iPad with the daily slideshow on it for you to view the fun experiences we got up to throughout the day. We also have private Facebook groups for our families at each venue where we make posts with what we have been working on.

We are currently transitioning to an online platform which will allow us to send our families updates in real time!

CSMP offers newly enrolling families an orientation day where possible. With covid, please check with the office on when we are able to accommodate your family to visit our service for orientation.

No, however we will work closely with your family to assist if this is a goal you have for your child’s development.

Please see the venue opening times and term dates on our home page. We do not operate school holidays.