Collaroy Plateau Community Kindergarten

Children attend the year before they are eligible to go to school. Some children do come for 2 years if they are born in Feb-July and the family feels the children would benefit from another year at preschool. Priority will be given to children who must go to school the following year. Our funding agreement with Department of Education requires us to firstly offer spots to those children eligible to go to school the following year.

Collaroy Plateau Community Kindergarten acknowledges that we are located on the land of the First Nations people, possibly the Gayamaygal clan. But because the people from this area were displaced and their culture hidden, their history has been lost.

We sincerely pay our respects to past, present and future elders and ancestors of the Gayamygal and continue to share our sorrow about such painful history and we pledge to stand together with respect and the common goal of protecting the land and all of her inhabitants.

Collaroy Plateau Community Kindergarten's centre philosophy has been developed to accommodate the cultural and social needs of our community. To ensure we meet these needs our teachers and educators provide a curriculum to support children's learning experiences, acquisition of skills, knowledge and values in all areas of their development.

When children become adults and parents themselves they often send their children to the same preschool they attended because they want their children to experience the fun, learning and preparation for life and school as they did.

Operating within the public school term, Community Based Preschools provide education through play, utilising the Early Years Learning Framework to incorporate learning outcomes for children that include literacy, numeracy, scientific reasoning and the skills children require to live a happy and successful life in today's society.CPCK relies on fee payments, funding from Department of Education and occasional fundraising to operate.

Collaroy Plateau Community Kindergarten aims to provide a meaningful child centred, play based curriculum that builds life skills, independence, confidence and resilience to support each child in achieving their potential and to make a smooth transition to school and society itself.

The Kindergarten offers a dedicated preschool program where diversity is embraced and celebrated and where families are welcomed as part of the community under the unique not for profit, community managed model of education and care service delivery.