What is a School readiness program?
It is throughout term 3 and term 4.
SRP is child-centred, Teachers and educators acting in the best interests of all the children, leading to the realisation of the child’s full potential, and concerned both about the "whole" child with including their health, nutritional status, and well-being and about "what happens to children" — in their families and communities — before they enter school and after they leave. (UNICEF, 2012).
School readiness is defined by two characteristics in four dimensions. The characteristic features are ‘transition’ and ‘gaining competencies’.
Transition is defined as children moving into and adjusting to new learning environments, families learning to work with a sociocultural system (i.e. education), and schools making provisions for admitting new children into the system, representing individual and societal diversity.
Gaining competencies is about children entering the pre primary education with having the necessary social, emotional, cognitive and language competences, and skills in order to be able to engage in and benefit from early learning experiences, be able to successfully learn and progress to later stages of learning, and for each to child to gain confidence with feeling comfortable and safe, making friends and participating and showing positive attitudes and dispositions to learning.