About our Preschool
At Cardiff Community Preschool we are fortunate to have access to an abundance of natural surroundings. From the moment you walk through our front gate you are greeted with an established Jacaranda tree providing a colourful and vibrant entrance for our families and children during the months of spring.
Along our entrance you walk alongside established plants and a paved sloped path that leads you to a warm and welcoming timber deck that overlooks our tranquil, natural environment. Our entrance supports access for all children, with wide paths, smooth surfaces and wide door ways.
Our Deck will lead you out to our outdoor environment, that offers an assortment of open ended, natural exploration spaces.
Our large established Gum Trees comfort us with cool shade in the summer, also providing us with bark for our art spaces, gum nuts for assortment, sequencing, pattern making, counting and dramatic play, and Gum leaves for our bush kitchen.
Our range of Fruit and Citrus trees allow the children to be a part of the value of home-grown foods, the delight and bliss in picking mulberries from our mulberry tree and our oranges and mandarins that become a part of the children’s afternoon tea if they wish.
We have an ‘Exploration Creek Bed’ that wraps around the sandpit, where children can walk through balancing and wrapping their toes over varieties of shaped river bed stones. Children can stack stones and explore our small fish pond that home two gold fish.
Our Bush Kitchen provides rays of opportunities and natural resources that support an inclusive environment, where children are encouraged to explore their imagination and creativity. This is provided through a open ended natural environment. Educators encouraging children to manipulate and create through use of water, sand and mud.
As part of Quality Area 3.2.3, ‘Environmentally Responsible’ we embed sustainability in our daily routine and practices, this is demonstrated through children feeding our morning tea scraps to the animals.