Preschool

A preschool (also nursery school, kindergarten outside the US and UK) is an educational establishment offering early childhood education to children between the ages of three and five, prior to the commencement of compulsory education at primary school. They may be privately operated or government run, and the costs may be subsidized.

Terminology

The following terms may be used for educational establishments for this age group:

  • Kindergarten is used in many parts of world, with the exception of the UK, as well as the US, Canada, and some states of Australia, where the term is used to refer to the first stage of compulsory education offered at the age of five.
  • Pre-K (or Pre-Kindergarten) is an initiative to improve access to preschool for disadvantaged children in the US.
  • Nursery School (UK and US)
  • Grade 0, which is also sometimes classified as "a mixture between preschool and a school regime".
  • Pre-Primary

    • History

    Origins

    In an age when school was restricted to children who had already learned to read and write at home, there were many attempts to make school accessible to the children of women who worked in factories or were orphans.

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