SOUTH Kingsville Pre-School is moving ahead with plans for an inspirational sensory garden thanks to funding received under Mobil Altona Refinery’s Bright Future Grants.
The $4000 grant enables the kindergarten community to bring this much-anticipated project to life, with parent working bees planned for the coming months.
“The kindergarten has a big emphasis on nature and play-based learning and this funding allows us to extend that philosophy into our outside area,” South Kingsville Pre-School director, Elissa Stafford said.
“We are a community kindergarten run by qualified educators with a volunteer committee of parents managing operations,” she said.
“Our budgets are always very tight, so funding like this is such a windfall. Everyone is absolutely over the moon.”
The Mobil Bright Future Grants provide financial assistance to schools and kindergartens close to its Altona Refinery to support maths and science education initiatives.
The sensory garden is aimed at extending the children’s fascination with the natural world and enhancing opportunities for exploring the foundations of science and maths.
The garden will include many textures and patterns to touch, vegetables and herbs to taste and smell and wind chimes and bamboo poles to generate sound.
A rain gauge, weather station and sundial will inspire further exploration.
The South Kingsville Pre-School has a number of vacancies in its three-year-old programs.
For more information please contact the kindergarten on 9399 3000.
