Pre-School and Outside School Hours Care

Tamar Valley Steiner School has a partnership with Adventure Patch to provide a pre-school program and after school care. This partnership gives our families an exciting and unique opportunity for our children to engage with, and benefit from, two years of exceptional, best practice, Steiner based education and care from aged 3 to 5.

The program has been a new venture for Adventure Patch who have provided education and care for nearly 40 years in southern and now northern Tasmania. Their education philosophy of adventure, bringing fun, mess and play back into learning aligns very well with Tamar Valley Steiner School’s early years curriculum.

The pre-school program is an innovation in Tasmania as the program runs alongside the school’s kinder program. Combined, this will provide two years of preschool education which is the ideal being embraced across Australia. Research conducted both in Australia and internationally has consistently demonstrated that commencing a high-quality preschool program at age 3, and participating in that program for two years, is one of the few proven strategies for improving cognitive, social, and emotional outcomes for children. Furthermore, the often substantial and sustained gains achieved by children who attend two years of preschool, allows more children to start compulsory schooling with the capabilities that they need for a successful first year of school and beyond.

To enrol, fill out an expression of interest form which will be reviewed by Adventure Patch.