We are an exclusive 5-star Pre-school for babies 3mnths - 6yrs(Gr R) aiming to provide the best comfort, care and safety for your child whilst promoting a solid, fun and interactive early childhood education. Prestige Empire Holdings is a private group of exclusive academies and pre-schools dedicated to children whose parents demand the best in education and baby development. Started under the name Prestige Empire Academy, these childcare franchises are guided by founder Judy Nieuwenhuizen under the brand Prestige Baby & Kidz Academy. Prestige Baby & Kidz Academy offers state of the art education with exceptional care, facilities, equipment and services. In fact, we follow a holistic and eco-friendly approach to education. The academy prides itself on ensuring that the needs of children are given top priority. All schools by Prestige Baby & Kidz Academy are managed under a single Head Office to ensure standardized education and top quality services as well as maintenance of the institutions. Prestige Baby Academy:
Nurturing Children from 3 Months to 3 Years. Right from changing and feeding your babies to introducing them to education, we do a lot more than just babysitting. We offer age appropriate solutions for your child to encourage learning, development and growing in fundamental concepts and areas. Prestige Baby & Kidz Academy offers unique baby programs targeted at children aged between:
3-24 months
The Prestige Baby Program
This unique program is designed to help your baby grow and develop in their formative years. Our baby programs include baby gym, baby massage, baby stimulation and development, language development, midline crossing, balance and muscle development and gross motor skills. We offer three unique batches of baby programs including:
•3 months - 12months (10-12 babies per class)
•12 months - 24 months (10-15 babies per class)
• 24 months - 3 years (16-18 per class)
(Classes and ages may vary from branch to branch dependant on demand)
At Prestige Baby & Kidz Academy, we are most concerned about the well-being of our students and therefore have designated experienced and qualified staff training in childcare, first aid and CPR. To ensure that your child grows healthily, we serve fresh, pure and homemade meals that are prepared on site. We also offer tasty snacks that are healthy for your child and are mild enough for their sensitive tummies. In fact, we offer these meals to your home on special request at some branches. Our monthly school fees are inclusive of many services including snacks, meals and refreshments, baby care products like bum cream, aqua cream, tissues and so on. We also offer baby development programs. However, our fees are not inclusive of nappies, milk formula, purity, wet wipes and other special items exclusive to your child. Prestige Kidz Academy
Our Prestige Kidz Academy caters exclusively to children between the age of 15 months and 6 years. Offering the best pre-schools in your city, we divide our classes into four sections:
• 15months - 24months (10-15 per class)
• 2 yrs - 3 yrs (16-18 per class)
• 3 yrs - 4 yrs (18-20 per class)
• 4 yrs -6 yrs (20 per class)
If you wish to contact us about admitting your child into the Prestige Kidz Academy, you can visit your local branch on weekdays (Monday to Friday) between 7 am and 5 pm. If you are looking for additional aftercare services, we offer both full day and half day care for your child as part of our extra benefits service. Important information
Prestige Kidz Academy is open throughout most of the year except for a week in April, a week in July and 4 weeks in December. We also take short breaks through the academic year and inform you well in advance. Our schools are closed on public holidays. If a special holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday of the week, we also close the Friday and the Monday to offer an extended weekend. During holiday seasons we offer extended holiday programs. All schools and institutions by Prestige are graded at the highest levels including A, A+, A++ and A+++. These grades are dependent on many factors including the location, premises size, school fees and services offered. While the exact nature of the services in our schools may differ slightly based on location and fees, we offer nothing but the best for your children.
• We hire professional, qualified and uniformed staff that is proficient in their fields
• We offer only the best equipment, care, services and facilities.
• We offer advanced development and educational programs.
• We limit our class size to keep the child to staff ratio in favour of children. Our class size is kept minimal to encourage individual attention. Not more than 20 children are grouped in a single class to award them individual care and love, which they need and deserve to learn as well as grow.
• We aim at creating a comfortable, fun and productive environment for your young one.
• We incorporate reading and writing programs like Letterland systems that are used in South Africa’s best private schools.
• We offer healthy, well balanced and freshly prepared meals, refreshments and filtered water every day. Following a careful diet suitable for their sensitive systems, we offer, high fibre diets with low salt and sodium content. We judiciously serve fresh fruits in the morning to encourage healthy eating habits and diet.
• We have state of the art CCTV camera systems to promise complete protection of your children. We offer parents a unique access code to keep a check on their toddler at any time. To maintain utmost privacy and security, we change the code every few months.
• We strictly follow an eco-friendly holistic approach to education and the premises. Depending on the size of the premises, some branches have their own vegetable and herb garden and petting corner, All our full day younger children either get a mattress for nap time and our A+++ schools use separate child friendly stackable beds.
• We use integrated Learning Boards and/or SMART board learning systems and use visual aids and presentations to make our lessons more attractive and engaging for inquisitive young minds.
• We also inform parents of the daily activities and remark on their child’s behavior as well as progress in the school.
• At Prestige Schools, our focus is on creating a holistic approach to teaching and helps your child develop overall. We consider that every child is unique with different needs. Our aim is to find these unique points and help them develop emotionally, academically, socially and physically.
• We train our kids in essential life skills with useful tactics. Using simple tasks, we instil qualities like anger management, self-confidence, communication, problem solving, friendship skills, respect as well as integrity.
• We offer assisted pick up and drop off services to ensure that your child enters and leaves our school safely and in the supervision of their parents or guardians.
• We offer a wide range of extracurricular activities throughout the year and the holidays where we coordinate with independent parties. (This may vary from branch to branch)
With our open-door policy, we encourage parents to visit us and feel like a part of the family. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us or visit us.
