Kindy is for kids turning 4!

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It’s always best for children to attend a quality kindergarten close to where they live, as it’s more likely they will have a friend or familiar face with them when they start school.

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Did you know?

A five-year-old child weighing 20kgs requires 860 calories a day. Half of that energy goes to the brain.

Zero to eight make life great!

  • zero to one

    Babies thrive off of interaction and attachment. Making sure your baby feels safe and loved is a great way of setting your little one up for life.
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  • one to three

    Babies learn all the sounds they need to be able to speak by one year of age, so from ages one to three it's all about growing, speaking, comprehension and co-ordination. How exhausting!
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  • three to five

    You’ll have a chatty chipmunk on your hands. Kids start talking in basic sentences and begin asking lots of questions from three, and so begins their social life, just in time for Kindy.
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  • five to eight

    They're growing up! The transition from kindy kid to big school kid is underway, learning lots of new and handy lifelong skills at big school.
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  • Kindy Kids

    Kindy teaches children skills, they can't learn at home, that get them ready for school and in life.

  • Prep Kids

    Prep is our kids first chance to experience school and is an exciting time for everyone! Enrol now for school in 2021!

  • Checklists

    We have a number of handy charts to check if your little one has the skills to get them off to a good start at school.

What part of kindy would you like to explore?

  • What is kindy!

    Kindy is a play-based learning program for children in the year before school. Learn more here!

  • Speak to someone about going to kindy

    Parentline and Kindy Champions are ready to answer any questions you might have!
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  • Kindy Scholarship Program

    With the Support of Logan Community Bank Group Bendigo Bank, Kindy Scholarships are available for eligible children. Learn more here.

  • KindyLinQ

    KindyLinQ is a play-based program that families living in identified locations can attend in the year before their child can start kindergarten. Find KindyLinQ in Logan!

Did You Know

The first five years shape the brain’s ability to organise, develop, and function.
Around the 28th week of pregnancy, babies can begin to smell the same smells as their mother.
Babies whose parents talk to them frequently know 300 more words by age two than babies whose parents rarely speak to them.
Babies are born with the ability to taste sweet, bitter, and sour; however, they can’t taste salt until they’re four months old.
A baby’s eyes are about 75% of adult size, but its vision is blurry at 20/400. It should improve to 20/20 by six months old.
Between ages one and two, a toddler’s cerebral cortex adds more than two million new synapses (connections between brain cells) every second.
By age two, toddlers have more than 100 trillion synapses, the most they’ll ever have in their life.
Social interaction increases the speed and accuracy of learning in all ages, including babies.
Holding and stroking an infant helps release hormones that are important for its growth.
If babies’ bodies grew at the same rate as their brains, they would weigh 77kg by one month.
From ages three to eight, childrens' brain tissue uses twice as much energy as adult brain tissue.
A five-year-old child weighing 20kgs requires 860 calories a day. Half of that energy goes to the brain.
A baby’s brain reaches 70% of its adult size by the first birthday, and 80% by the second birthday.
Multiple studies have shown that infant TV watching is correlated with poor language development
Playing is the most effective way for children to learn life skills and find out what they like.
All babies have a period of peak crying around the gestation age of 46 weeks.
"Parentese”, or baby talk, is seemingly instinctive. Its exaggerated musicality and slow structure helps a baby grasp words.
By kindergarten, a child’s brain has reached its full size but it won’t stop developing until their mid-20s.
60% of all the energy a baby expends is concentrated in the brain.
“Floor time” with a child including talking, singing, reading, playing, and exploring objects and physical space are the best ways to stimulate brain development.
Babies learn what is important to pay attention to by following the eye gaze of adults.
Babies use the facial expressions of adults to decide how they feel.
Newborns can recognise human faces, and can even discriminate between happy and sad expressions.
Newborns to three months are attracted to bright light, primary colours, stripes, dots and patterns.
In the first few months of life, a baby in an English-speaking home can recognise the difference between English and the sounds of a foreign language. This ability is lost by the end of the first year, as the brain is now wired for English.
Warm and loving relationships help children to develop confidence, resilience and communication.
Babies are social creatures. They need to chat, make noise, and be responded to. Talking and gesturing helps kids learn about communication, behaviour and emotions.
A daily routine helps structure a little ones life, and also helps them to prepare for the routine of school and life moving forward.
A preschoolers’ appetite declines because their growth has slowed.
Children mimic their parents' food habits. Parents who drink milk or soft drinks tend to have five-year-old children who like the same drinks.
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