The Johanna Malan ECDC, serves 65-75 children annually with formal pre-school education. These children benefit from a highly respected and successful school readiness programme. Apart from our Maria Kloppers campus toddlers, the children come from poor families in Yeoville and surrounding areas. This provides them with an important educational foundation, essential to their development and growth.

• The children's emotional well-being is continuously developed and regularly evaluated.
• A balanced activity programme helps develop each child and ensure that he/shehas a myriad of experiences.
• Dysfunctions in the early development of language skills are detected and referred for corrective speech therapy.
• Foreign children are provided with an opportunity to improve their language skills, which helps prepare them for mainstream education.
• Cultural boundaries are crossed by teaching children from different language and ethnic groups to socialise in play and learning.

Pre-schoolers in our community programmes are also enrolled at early childhood development centres to ensure that they are ready when the time comes for big school.