Tanunda Kindergarten

20/08/2026

Tanunda Kindergarten are taking Expressions of Interest for Preschool Enrolment for Term 1, 2027 and beyond.

Term 1 enrolment is open to children who turn 4 before 1st May, while Term 3 enrolment is open to children who turn 4 before the 31st of October.

For more information about expressions of interest and preschool enrolment, please contact Mel [email protected] or 8563 2796

27/07/2026

Time is running out! Support your local kindy and be in the running to win an amazing prize. The People First Community Lottery Early Bird draw closes at midnight Thursday 30 July.

06/07/2026

Tanunda Kindergarten is fundraising through the People First Lottery. Tickets are only $2 and can be easily purchased by clicking on the link below.

https://www.communitylottery.com.au/products/tanunda-kindergarten

We are currently fundraising to support the redevelopment of our kindy yard.

Please support our kindy and be in the running to win some fantastic prizes. ALL money from the sale of tickets goes to the Kindy.

24/06/2026

Enrolment offers for children starting kindy in Term 1 2027 will be made from August onwards.

Children are entitled to access 4 terms (1 year) of government preschool in the year before they start school.

Children who turn 4 years old:
- before 1 May are eligible to start preschool at the beginning of the year
- on 1 May to 31 October can commence preschool through the mid-year intake at the start of term 3 of that year
- after 31 October will be eligible to commence preschool at the start of the following year.

10/05/2026

15/04/2026

📣Have you heard about the mid-year intake for preschools? 📣

If your child turns 4 between 1 May and 31 October this year, they are eligible to start preschool in term 3 2026.

We are also taking expressions of interest for the start of 2027.

Register now to enrol in a government preschool to set them up for a great start in life and learning.

To learn more about government preschools and how to enrol, head to:
https://www.education.sa.gov.au/preschool-enrolment

07/07/2025

We have had a remarkably busy term, encompassing visits to local shops, the library, cafes, and a special visit from Nature Play. To celebrate our term of learning, we organised a special day featuring popcorn and movies. We bid farewell to six mid-year intakes from 2024, wishing them all the best for their future academic journey. Additionally, we said goodbye to a family who relocated. We look forward to welcoming seven new mid-year intakes at the beginning of Term 3. We hope our families enjoy a well-deserved two-week break and look forward to seeing you on Monday, 21st July.

05/06/2025

Last week and this week have been exceptionally busy. The highlight of last week was our visit to Wohlers, where each child received a hot chocolate, cupcake, and a choc chip cookie. We would like to extend our gratitude to Vicki and James Fear for organising our visit, as well as to the cafe staff, who demonstrated remarkable patience, kindness, and care. This week has been dedicated to music, with the children requesting upbeat dance music. They have been actively engaged in playing musical instruments and dancing. To further enhance this experience, the staff provided materials, including boxes, rubber bands, and seeds, which the children utilised to create guitars, drums, and shakers, ultimately forming a band. The music was truly impressive. That concludes weeks 5 and 6, and as we enter week 7, please note that Monday is a public holiday and Tuesday is a pupil-free day, with the children attending Kindy on Wednesday .

22/05/2025

Week 4. Another busy week has transpired. Measurement continues to be an area of interest, with children measuring doors and walls and comparing tools. We did some recognition of numerals and number order whilst stamping . We continue to use our 4 and 5 year old writing to write and draw pictures to our friends and family . We have discovered the conventions of envelopes and use these to post our work into . We did some investigations into eagle wings and created our own . The Farm table is growing and developing with the children adding silos and tractors to it . We have started a journey on making our own cafe and discovering how they work . We will be doing some special visits into the community and adding to our cafe after our visit a local cafe.
We had the pleasure of hosting special visitors to the Kindy, with photos taken by Nicky and Camp Quality puppets Ariel and Smiley visiting us.
Last but not least , we have a wonderful article in the Leader , please get one and have a read.

18/05/2025

What a busy week we had Last week at kindy. We went out into the community to the Tanunda library, we experimented with potions, we tried out some different climbing equipment and we measured and compared, using a range of measurement tools.