Fridays Child Gold Coast Montessori Preschool

Justine Jones

Friday’s Child has been a wonderful experience for my son and a massive relief for me as I found it extremely difficult to find high quality child *care* (not child minding) on the Gold Coast. The staff are caring, loving and passionate about their work. They treat children as individuals and every child is given one-on-one time, their progress (socially and educationally) is monitored and recorded each day and they are genuinely interested in helping each child develop their skills, confidence and unique personality. Some kindies offer little more than supervised free-play all day. My son, like most pre-schoolers, has an enquiring mind and needed more than this. As well as a massive range of Montessori activities he can select from in the morning, he enjoys music/dance lessons, Jolly Phonics, computer work, small group activities and games, science and culinary experiments … and a wonderful playground for the (still important) free-play in the afternoon. The school is small (all children in one class) with a real family atmosphere and kids are taught to look out for each other and care for one another. My son was initially very distressed to be separated from his mum but I was very impressed at the time and care the staff gave him to help him through this – Laurena even had a box full of special toys (distractors!) to engage him and he was given a very funky little sand clock to play with at nap time to help him focus and drift off. Another teaching assistant would sit by him and stroke his head to help him settle in nap time in the early days. We have tried a couple of other kindies on the Gold Coast, which were truly awful, and I haven’t found anything quite like Friday’s Child. My second child will certainly be attending in a couple of years’ time. Highly recommended.

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