Our school offers a nurturing environment for children between the ages of 14 months and 5 years.
Our passionate team of teachers brings a contagious enthusiasm to the classroom. Their warmth, creativity and commitment to early childhood development make them exceptional educators.
We follow a hands-on approach that supports each child’s growth and learning journey, helping them develop with confidence and joy.
Everything you need to know is right here — from clothing guidelines to daily routines — all in one place for your convenience.
Thank you for considering Oakview Academy. We’re proud to offer excellent facilities for children from young toddlers through to Grade 00.
We understand that choosing a school for your child is a big decision, and we’re honoured that you’re exploring what we have to offer.
The early years are among the most important in a child’s development. Our goal is to provide a strong foundation that helps children transition confidently and comfortably into Primary School and beyond.
We focus on all areas of development, offering a safe, spacious, and secure environment where each child is supported to grow at their own pace. Learners are encouraged to think critically and creatively, develop independence, and solve problems in imaginative ways.
We also recognise the challenges modern families face, which is why we provide a supportive and comprehensive service to meet both your child’s and your family’s needs.
We invite you to take the next step in your child’s bright future — and make happy memories along the way.
Our curriculum is theme-based, with a new focus each week. Activities vary according to the weekly theme and are tailored to each age group — from young toddlers up to Grade 00 (Pre-Grade R). The emphasis is on development through age-appropriate activities that are fun, educational, and enriching.
While we are sensitive to each child’s unique needs, pace, and learning style, all children are encouraged to explore a wide range of skills and experiences. This lays the foundation for developing into well-rounded, socially aware, emotionally secure, and intellectually confident individuals.
Our teachers follow a whole-child approach, focusing daily on nurturing every aspect of a child’s growth — physical, emotional, social, and cognitive.
Children are introduced to essential life skills through everyday experiences and meaningful activities. They learn by interacting with real-world objects, observing others, and following the positive examples set by adults. These enriching tasks promote independence, coordination, and confidence.
Language development begins with strong passive language skills, which are essential before active use can flourish.
Passive language activities include listening to stories, rhymes, and poems; paging through picture books; and interpreting drawings or pictures.
Active language is nurtured through opportunities to speak, describe, relate, express, and role play. Children’s vocabulary and conversational abilities are continually developed and enriched.
Early maths learning focuses on building a concrete understanding of quantities through concepts such as more or less, full and empty. Using games and perception-based activities, children explore problem-solving and gradually develop core mathematical skills.
Refining the five senses is a vital part of early development. From birth, children begin using sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell to explore the world. Activities in this area support and enhance their ability to observe, compare, and understand their environment through sensory experiences.
This development refers to overall intellectual or mental development. It includes the ability to perceive a problem and to solve it in an effective way.
Children’s intellect must be stimulated from birth. Children must be encouraged to ask questions, examine things, read, be creative, and play thinking games.
Activities in the form of play is encouraged to develop logical reasoning and free-thinking. Some examples of this are: discovering and naming the attributes of things, observing and describing how things are similar or different, sorting and matching, comparing and distinguishing, mechanical and rhythmic counting, fitting things together and taking them apart, learning to locate objects and places in the classroom, etc.
Each child is encouraged to express their creative side and enjoy freedom through art, drawing, colouring, painting, crafts, music, etc. creativity is equally as important as academics and gives the child a sense of freedom and self-expression and individuality.
The development of motor skills is vital to a child’s development as a whole. During a child’s Preschool years (from baby to age 6), he/she makes rapid progress with regard to motor skills which enable him/her to explore their world and manipulate objects in their environment. A child develops and grows physically to such an extent that by the age of 6, they are able to climb, run, go up and downstairs with alternating feet, hop, skip, jump, catch a ball, etc. – these are all gross motor movements. With regards to fine motor movements, the child will progress with continuous practice to cut with scissors on a line, dress and undress, tie shoelaces, manipulate the different size and textured objects such as playdough, draw pictures, learn to write, etc.
These are all fun, play activities which are focused specifically on movement for muscle development and control and important for the child’s physical well-being. Through stimulating play, the child also learns about the world.
Different types of play are: discovery play, constructive play, manipulated play, skill mastery play, fantasy play, and problem-solving play.
Development in this area has to do with the ability to interact with other human beings. A child is not born a social being and does not intuitively know what behaviour is socially acceptable. Through interaction with various personalities (teachers and peers) children gain early social skills. We encourage kindness, awareness, acceptance of others, willingness to share and being considerate towards others.
The children take an active part in caring for their school and for each other, they learn how to work together in a group, to share, to take turns and to be considerate of other people. This promotes an atmosphere of respect for others and for the environment in general.
Each class has a specific age appropriate and comprehensive daily routine which is both balanced and well planned to provide our learner’s an opportunity to experience many fun, exciting and stimulating activities throughout the day in the best possible environment to grow and develop.
With hands-on guidance, we encourage our young learner’s to explore and discover things for themselves. We aim to develop and build a good self-concept by creating situations in which our young learners are able to achieve success. By moving easily through the daily routine, we facilitate a sense of self-worth in our learners.
We offer a home from home experience for our children as they spend their day in a warm, friendly, and safe environment. We believe in giving each child love, encouragement, support, praise, and positive reinforcement.
Essential life skills are developed and Learners are encouraged to work at their own pace towards reaching their full potential. We do not lose sight of the fact that creativity is more important than the final result.
Children will attend the class which is age appropriate for them.
Older Toddlers – 2 turning 3
GR 000 – 3 turning 4
GR 00 – 4 turning 5
GR R – 5 turning 6
GR 1 – 6 turning 7
GR 2 – 7 turning 8
GR 3 – 8 turning 9
We have five play areas so that children making use of the various playgrounds will be of similar ages, have similar energy levels, be of similar size, and have similar play interests.
We offer many different Extramural Activities at school, which are presented by qualified Coaches and Instructors in their respective fields. Each EMA takes place at school, during school time. Please kindly note that these activities are completely optional, at an additional nominal fee which is paid directly to the chosen EMA, either monthly or termly.
As part of our healthy outlook at school, we believe that all children deserve to lead a healthy lifestyle and should be introduced to fun exercise, movement and social skills that will benefit them long-term, from an early age.
We have incorporated a weekly fun and interactive program where the children are encouraged to express themselves through music and dance, team-building exercises, obstacle courses, sports activities and positive sportsmanship. Teachers join in all the fun with the children and it is a wonderful weekly activity.
Applies to: Younger Toddlers (14–24 months), Older Toddlers (2–3), Grade 000 (3–4), Grade 00 (4–5)
For your convenience, you can also download the full uniform guideline as a PDF document using the button below.
Children generally learn in different ways and at different paces, and some learners may require assistance in developing increased competencies in order to perform to the best of their ability.
The benefits of smaller classes enable our dedicated Teachers to identify any learning barriers through our continuous observations, and assessments.
We are privileged to have SPEECH THERAPISTS and an OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST on-site at school.
If a learner is referred to our therapy support team, the class teacher and the therapists will work hand in hand to support the needs of the learner.
Parents are continuously updated on their child’s progress.
Our chef at school will provide:
Breakfast
We start our day with a nourishing, delicious hot porridge.
Lunch
A healthy cooked lunch Monday to Thursday and on Friday the children enjoy hot dogs and chips.
Mid-Afternoon Snack
We enjoy a group picnic at school at mid-afternoon every day. Our children are served a healthy snack.
Parents Are To Provide
Snack Box
A healthy Mid-Morning Snack box. We will supply many snack box ideas in our School Prospectus.
Refreshments
x 1 water bottle filled with water.
x 1 bottle filled with a juice and water mix.
We take note of children’s medical dietary needs and we are respectful of religious dietary requirements.
We do not use boxed or pre-cooked foods.
Oakview Academy Pre-primary and Primary School situated in Richwood.
Oakview Academy is a small private independent school by design with an attentive sense to nurture tomorrow’s leaders today.
