The Baby Steps Way


At Baby Steps, our mission is to create a learning center where every child feels safe, loved, and supported. Each day, we are inspired by the children, who teach us valuable lessons about unconditional love, forgiveness, simplicity, and the joy of life. They encourage us to pause and appreciate the beauty in the world.

Our environment is designed to foster exploration, learning, and growth, because we believe that happiness is the foundation of learning. Our fun and stimulating program is thoughtfully developed to meet the diverse educational needs of each child. With our advanced school readiness curriculum, you can be confident that your child will be well-prepared for the next step in their educational journey.

Our small class sizes ensure that each child receives the individual attention they need to thrive, promoting both personal and academic development. The only challenge you’ll face is that your child won’t want to leave!


Senior Phase of Preschool – What to expect at Baby Steps Early Learning Centre

Scholastic achievement at school is dependent on a solid foundation. We pride ourselves on making sure that your child gets the best care and is nurtured and loved.
A huge passion of mine is school readiness. There isn't a stronger foundation than the curriculum we offer at Baby Steps Early Learning Centre. It makes me happy to know that our learners leave us very prepared for Grade 1. 

 Preschool Curriculum

  • Gross Motor skills: An area often overlooked but very crucial to overall development and can impact performance in class. Core Strength, concentration, eye -hand co-ordination, crossing the midline, gross of fine motor strength and pre- sport skills are covered.

  • Music: Auditory processing, body awareness, rhythm, beat, timing.

  • Baking: Measurement, quantity, life skills and sensory development.

  • Perceptual skills: Auditory and visual memory and processing skills

  • Cognitive development: Thinking and reasoning skills

  • Pre math skills: Simple addition, subtraction, data handling, categorizing, and basic number concepts

  • Pre-reading skills: Eye-tracking, sound recognition, blends, rhyming words, and syllables

  • Language development: Vocabulary, articulation, and comprehension

    • English, Afrikaans,Zulu and sign language

  • Social and emotional: Independence, teamwork, sharing, and dealing with emotions

  • Life skills: General knowledge is enhanced weekly with our changing themes and experiments.

  • Computer and Robotics- Critical thinking, coding, sequencing and technology

  • Chess- problem solving, concentration and cognitive processing skills

  • Teaching: Children learn in different ways, and we need to cater to all the different styles of learning. We try to make use of learning through all our senses. We incorporate technology with our touch screen, smart T.V, and PowerPoint presentations. We offer whole class teaching, small group teaching, and one-on-one lessons (with a specialized aid teacher). In this way, we can ensure that every child gets what they need and can reach their potential. 

We pride ourselves on offering the BEST education possible for a solid foundation!
                                                            
Success Begins with Baby Steps!

Tracey Urquhart
Principal
Baby Steps Early Learning Centre