With Kinda/pre school in Victoria - I don't think they have to 'teach' the kids anything academic - reading, writing, numbers etc. I think there are goals, like recognising their own name and some numbers. As well as the social and independence stuff.

Caits kinda teacher used to do a thing where the kids stood in a circle and counted around in the circle until they got to 10. The child that was 10 went and washed their hands ready for snack time. One of the mothers saw this and cracked it and said there was too much pressure to learn to count.

Off track a bit, about Play School ... I used to be quite fond of Andrew McFarlane in his Flying Doctor days ... someone told me recently that he was gay, is that right ?