Hatton Estate Pre Primary School

What a magnificent presentation by Jacques Fourie of Durban Metro Police Service! Our learners were enthralled by your Community Outreach presentation and especially enjoyed meeting your fellow officers from the K-9 Unit and learning the emergency number!

Every work tray and activity has a purpose! Fine motor exercises build the essential muscle strength, finger control, and hand-eye coordination required for writing!

Thank you once again Educate and Fascinate for a fantastic show! Our learners enjoyed every second! None of them believed they were brave enough to touch a snake before you arrived! 🐍 💪 🐊🐢 🦎

Thank you, Educate and Fascinate, for our FANTASTIC Fire Safety show last term! 👨‍🚒🔥🚒🚨🧯

We are really looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks to learn more about reptiles!

WHY TRAYS?
At Hatton's, we aim to create a play-based, learning-rich environment that draws from a variety of educational methods and ideas. In Montessori, trays are more than organisational tools—they’re a quiet invitation to independence. Each tray holds a complete activity, ready for a child to carry, explore, and return on their own.

A Father is someone you look up to, no matter how tall you grow!
Happy Father's Day to all our wonderful dads!

Earbud painting is a simple yet highly effective art technique that offers multiple developmental and creative benefits. It strengthens little hands for writing, improves hand-eye coordination and promotes creativity.

Open-ended play builds vital life skills by letting children explore without set rules or right answers. Along with many other benefits, it sparks creativity, improves problem-solving, boosts social teamwork, and builds mental flexibility.

Practical life activities foster independence, concentration, coordination, and a sense of order in children by engaging them in purposeful, real-world tasks like pouring, cleaning, and buttoning. These activities build self-confidence, fine motor skills, emotional resilience, and social responsibility while preparing the mind for academic learning.

When young children help prepare healthy food, they are more likely to try new foods - especially fruit and vegetables - and they develop long-term healthy eating habits. This hands-on involvement builds confidence, independence, and fine motor skills. Involving your child in food preparation at home helps reduce picky eating and strengthens the parent-child bond through positive, creative interaction.