The Infant Program (6 weeks to 13 months)

The Malvern School provides a warm, nurturing environment for infants.  Our teaching staff gives our infants many opportunities to explore their world through observation and movement.  Developing a personal relationship with a cherished teacher is an important part of this stage of infancy.

Our goals for the Infant class are:

• A nurturing and secure environment with lots of tender loving care
• Communication though postures, gestures, facial expressions, laughs and other sounds, and after 12 months with words and phrases
• Physical awareness through leg exercises, head control and mobility, creeping and crawling, climbing stairs, pulling up, rolling over, walking, climbing and dancing
• Explore new things and be drawn to objects with vivid color and interesting textures
• Social and emotional growth encouraging our infants to carefully observe and interact with the world around them
• Eye-hand coordination though sucking, grasping and object permanence
• An interest in others though smiling, bonding and social amusement