School Readiness - St Patrick's East Gosford

School Readiness

Helping your child prepare for Kindergarten

If your child has been unable to attend preschool over the last couple of months, you may be concerned that they are missing out on developing some of the key skills needed to start school. Starting kindergarten is a new adventure for you and your child.  It is important that they are excited and proud to walk through the classroom door, ready to take their place in the ‘big kids’ school.

Catholic Schools Broken Bay has developed a range of resources featuring some helpful tips to assist you in preparing your child at home for kindergarten. Our Getting Ready booklet outlines a range of learning tools, each supported by an educational video, that will assist in helping to develop the necessary skills in your child to ensure a successful start to their schooling. To see our school readiness video tools please click here

LEAP into Learning @ Home

We have prepared some online materials for children who are starting school in 2022. Catholic Schools Broken Bay has assisted us in preparing these amazing online resource. Each download file below begins with a statement outlining the purpose of the resource followed by a story book reading related to the file. There are plenty of activities for hours and hours of learning, fun and engagement for your child.

Let’s get counting

Patterns, Puzzles and Numbers Pattern Colouring Sheets

Let’s get creating

My Creation Station

Let’s get exploring

Science Inventors

Let’s get reading

Activities Book – Loving Bears How to draw a teddy bear task card

Let’s get writing

Scribble, Snip Alphabet Matching Activity

St Patrick’s Preschool Fun & Games!

Please find below a link to download the St Patrick’s ‘Preschool Fun & Games’ activity booklets, or call us on 4325 1159 and we can mail a pack out to you!

Preschool Fun & Games - Activity Book #1 Preschool Fun & Games - Activity Book #2

St Patrick’s Storytime!

We are so disappointed that we have not been able to go ahead with St Patrick’s Playgroup as planned this term due to the current Covid restrictions.

Whilst it is not as good as having you join us in person, we thought you may wish to share the following St Patrick’s Storytime videos and activity booklets with your children at home.  Please let us know if you would prefer to receive a hard copy of the activity booklet and we can post one out to you.

‘Windows’ By Patrick Guest and Jonathan Bentley

Click here to view the video Click here to download the activity booklet

‘Where The Wild Things Are’ By Maurice Sendak

Click here to view the video Click here to download the activity booklet

‘Where’s Wally?’ By Illustrator Martin Handford

Click here to view the video Click here to download the activity booklet

‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ By Giles Andreae

Click here to view the video Click here to download the activity booklet

‘Too Loud Lily’ By Sofia Laguna & Kerry Argent

Click here to view the video Click here to download the activity booklet

‘We’re stuck!’ By Sue DeGennaro

Click here to view the video Click here to download the activity booklet

‘Grandpa & Thomas’ By Pamela Allen

Click here to view the video Click here to download the activity booklet