Playschool, creche, daycare centre
A Word about Kimmi’s Playschool & Babies
🌳 My PASSION:
Early Childhood Education (At the forefront of this is your child)
🌳 My MISSION:
Your family (At the forefront of this is you, your family and your child - We aim to accommodate, support and truly be your home away from home.)
🌳My PROMISE:
Excellence in Early Childhood Education (0-4)
🌳 At Kimmi’s, we have a fun, nurturing, educational and inspiring learning environment where children are happy, heard, safe, relaxed and guided.
⏰ Times:
We are open from 6am-6pm. There is no extra charge for holidays, basic extra murals, security, early bird care and aftercare. Fully inclusive. My aim as an educator is of course to give your little one the best foundation…However, it is also to support the family infrastructure and to make the experience an add value for all.
🏝 Holidays:
We are open during the holidays and only close for public holidays and one religious holiday. (Yom Kippur)
📝 Fees:
I have a unique fee structure that I’ve been using since the inception of Kimmi’s - It’s based on individual family needs, affordability and honesty. I always say that at the heart of the school is a triangle. We work together as a team with your little ones best interests at heart
👫 The Daily Schedule:
This is very detailed and differs from age group to age group. It is a child led philosophy facilitated by the educator. We have a truly South African environment as well as a Judaic and Secular Curriculum. Our facilities allow for indoor/outdoor education with the focus on play as a means to an end. We are situated in the heart of Norwood and are Blessed to be nestled in a wonderful tree-lined suburb with a forest feel. Truly under African Skies 🙏🏻
✅ Milestone Checklists:
At Kimmi’s I follow a continuous observation form of evaluating as a tool to gather and provide guidelines. Observing and documenting a child’s play and performance over the course of a year allows me to accumulate a mental note of the child’s development.
👀 Observations are made with minimal or no intrusion into children’s activities. We can observe all facets of development, including intellectual, linguistic, social-emotional, and physical development, on a regular basis without disrupting the organic flow of play and learning. This is a given irrespective and is monitored to ensure that the activities provided reinforce what they have already achieved, but also challenge them to explore other possibilities.
🏆 I use a combination of 3 syllabi that underly the holistic education at Kimmi’s. The preferred month for DC’s (Developmental Checklists) is March and September (last quarter of the year) as well as the final Summary and Observation Report at the end of the year.
🖼 We are not living in conventional times and many conventional approaches no longer apply. While the foundation to learning is the same, the spontaneous play (ie learning) was lost during the isolation of Covid19 lockdown and subsequent lifestyle changes in general. We have created an environment that counters this and allows for development to occur organically.
♥️ We believe in people. In Families. In connection and in Staff. The pupil-adult ratio is less than 4:1 and we are able to guide, nurture and nudge the play-based exploration, thus building the body of experiential knowledge. (ie Expanding their experiences). The first 1000 days are the most crucial days of a child’s development and we are there every step of the way. We have all the ingredients and expertise necessary to cease every window of opportunity. I’ve no doubt we will tick all your boxes.
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Fully inclusive of:
✅Child led/teacher facilitated
✅ Private, International and SA ELDA Curriculum
✅ Early Bird drop off
✅ Late collections
✅ School Holidays
✅ Aftercare
✅Only close 15 December
✅ Security
✅ Basic Extra Murals
✅ Specialised Perceptual Program, Developmental Screening and Ongoing Observation
✅ Parties