School Readiness

What is School Readiness?

At Lily Valley, we look towards preparing children not just for school readiness, but for them to develop a love for lifelong learning beyond schooling years. Our beliefs in school readiness includes developing children with a set of skills that goes beyond being “kindergarten ready” and prepares children for success in school and in life. When school readiness goes beyond traditional academic learning and incorporates future forward skill building, the result is children who are not only prepared for successful transition to kindergarten, but who are independent individuals, confident communicators, risk takers and creative thinkers.

School Readiness

These are the broad skills we aim to develop to support children’s transition to Primary School:

Knowledge Application in project tasks
Knowledge Application in project tasks
Social-Emotional Skills, self regulation, resilience and confidence
Social-Emotional Skills, self regulation, resilience and confidence
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Innovation and Creative Thinking
Innovation and Creative Thinking
Positive Dispositions for Living and Learning
Positive Dispositions for Living and Learning
Independence and Team Collaboration Skills
Independence and Team Collaboration Skills

 

Our educators and team adopt the 6Cs approach by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek (2016) and provide various developmental opportunities through play as well as projects for the development of the 6Cs in young children.

These six essential skills and competencies are what children need in order to be successful in the 21st century:

Collaboration
Collaboration
Communication
Communication
Content, which includes literacy, math, science and language experiences.
Content, which includes literacy, math, science and language experiences.
Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking
Creative Innovation
Creative Innovation
Confidence
Confidence