Section 5, The Education Act, 2004

(l) Pre-primary education shall be the education given topupils between the ages of three and six years in kindergarten or nursery schools. (2) Although optional and outside the formal system, preprimary education shall continue to be supported by Government because of its use in preparing children for primary education by– (a) enlarging and enriching their use of language and giving them other communication skills; (b) furthering their acculturation into the values and mores of their society; (c) enlarging their social awareness beyond the confines of their family and helping them to relate to people other than those in their homes; (d) refining their manipulative skills in such basic areas as eating, dressing and bowel movements and developing their control over their bodies in order to accelerate the learning process during formal schooling. 6 7 P r e - p r i m a r y Cap. 44. Principle of nondiscrimination. (3) Pursuant to subsection (2), Government shall continue– (a) to control pre-primary education through specific divisions or units of the Ministry, the Nursery Schools Association and other similar private associations; (b) to give help to the teachers colleges producing teachers for the pre-primary sector; (c) the assistance in the development of curricula and the raising of standards of pre-primary institutions, and (d) to issue binding guidelines for opening and maintaining pre-primary schools which shall be published by the Minister by Government Notice.