FUNdamentals Merivale

At FUNdamentals, we provide spacious inside and outdoor areas with many  programmes that provide not only fun, but more importantly, they  stimulate developed learning skills.:: We aim to develop the "Mind-Body, Mind-Brain" connections ::The  provision of the gym / Numeracy & Literacy / Extension Group  balanced programme provides an an active-learning early childhood  environment with special emphasis on balancing the body and brain.Kinesthetics  is vital particularly to preschoolers for their developmental learning  processes. The physical balances with the intellectual. The FUNdamentals  programme allows teachers to extend their expectations of our  preschooler{s ability to understand and learn. It is a high expectations  programme providing fulfilment as children learn how to learn.:: Total Mind & Body Learning ::Gym,  classroom and computer times are balanced with free-choice times. We  offer sand, woodwork, waterplay, art, drama and teacher-guided  activities based on science and maths. We practice phonological based  reading extension and games from the FUNdamentals Guidebook. We also  offer activities such as puzzles, shape games, games with small  manipulative tasks (like threading), gross motor gym room activities,  stories, creative art and music.	:: Our exciting Perceptual Motor gym programme offers ::Extension  and remediation using movement as a teaching tool to balance the  "blocked circuits". Routines to music, rolls, crawls, rocking, spinning,  balancing, hanging from bars and swinging. We have activities that work  on memory, gross and fine motor skills, body awareness, balance and  sensory motor development.The integrated nature of this programme will encourage noticeable language development.Fundamentals  has a full day licence. We cater for a maximum of fifty children, of  which thirty-nine are preschool children and eleven are nursery age  children. The child teacher ratio is one teacher to eight preschoolers  and for nursery age children one teacher to four.