Prep at St Kilda Road Campus

With a ratio of two educators to a maximum of 24 students during morning classes, we ensure that your child is known, noticed and observed. Our highly skilled educators deliver differentiated teachable moments and interactions in response to the specific needs and progress of your child.  The strong relationships and high levels of trust established between our teachers, the students and their families, means your child will develop a love of learning that will help them flourish – both at school and in life.

Building a strong foundation in literacy and numeracy grows confidence and develops capabilities that will benefit your child throughout their educational journey.  We deliver explicit literacy and numeracy lessons each day, followed by instructional sessions with smaller groups of up to five students, led by an educator with a targeted focus.  This approach helps ensure students engage with, and develop core literacy and numeracy skills.

Wesley is an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School and one of the few to apply the globally recognised IB framework from Junior all the way to Senior School, giving your child a continuum of learning as they progress through their educational journey.

The IB puts young learners’ natural curiosity at the heart of inquiry-based learning. Our carefully crafted units of inquiry present our youngest learners with countless opportunities to gain a strong understanding of the world they live in, as well as their individual and collective responsibilities.

The wellbeing of our community is our highest priority. Wesley College has partnered with Grow Your Mind, an award winning social and emotional wellbeing program for schools. Grounded in four key pillars of research: positive psychology, public health, social and emotional learning and neuroscience, our educators are equipped to support our young people to better understand their amazing brain and to build healthy mindsets that allow them to thrive.

The Prep program is complemented by our rich specialist offerings in Visual Arts, Dance and Drama, Music, Chinese and Physical Education providing your child will numerous enjoyable opportunities to discover their passions and try new things as they progress through the Junior School.

International mindedness is a central theme of the IB and is developed is through language acquisition and cultural learning. Our Prep to Year 4 students learn Chinese through listening, speaking, reading, writing, and presenting.  From Year 5, students choose Chinese or French.

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With access to whole-of-campus sporting and learning facilities, a dedicated Year 4 leadership program and the consistency of learning through the IB framework, your child will transition to Middle School (Years 5 to 9) with excitement and confidence.

At our St Kilda Road campus, our young people start each day by making their way through the Prep tunnel to their very own learning hub, which overlooks the newly renovated playground. The classrooms, playground and breakout spaces are designed specifically to meet the developmental needs of our young learners in Prep.