Beacon Hill Community Kindergarten

Beacon Hill Community Kindergarten (BHCK) is a not for profit community based preschool. The Centre is partially funded by the Department of Education and Communities and is operated on a not for profit basis with all revenue reinvested in the Kindergarten. BHCK is managed by the Teaching Director with the governance role taken by a Board of volunteer Directors from Kindergarten community.
The Centre is open from 8.15am until 3.45pm each day and operates according to school terms. The children bring their own morning tea, lunch and drink.
The children enrolled at BHCK go on to a variety of schools in the area depending on which is their local public school. BHCK provides transition to school support for all children regardless of the school they will attend.
Our program is based on the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF), the first ever national curriculum for early childhood. The ideals of children Being, Belonging and Becoming provide us with the framework on which to base our observations of the children. We believe that the greatest motivation is provided by offering the children choices that are based on the things they like doing or where they already have some skill or knowledge because they feel confident to engage and this enables them to grow and learn. It also empowers them to be co-constructors of the curriculum and to make well founded decisions and choices about their learning.