Minister's Preschool Arts Award

Thank you to everyone who applied for the Minister’s Preschool Arts Awards 2025! Applications are now closed.

The Award will be presented at the SA State World Teachers’ Day Awards Night on Friday 31st October 2025.

The Minister for Education, Training and Skills is pleased to be offering an Arts Award to a preschool team from across Public Education sites in SA (stand-alone, school based or Children’s Centre). It is an Award to the preschool team, and not an individual within the site.

The award acknowledges excellent practice in Arts education in a Public Education preschool in any one or combination of the Arts forms; dance, drama, media arts, music, and visual arts. This may include one of or a combination of the following:

  • Integrating Arts provocations into the preschool’s program
  • Integrating one or more Arts forms as a specific program
  • Collaborating with artists in the preschool’s program
  • Working as a preschool team to undertake professional learning in the Arts and put this new learning into practice.
  • Other great Arts ideas, practices or initiatives.

The successful preschool will receive a grant of $8000 to further develop and implement its Arts program.

This could include acquiring resources, undertaking staff professional learning, involving artists in the preschool, sharing their Arts practices with other preschools, engaging their community in the Arts, or other relevant professional activity that enhances their Arts program.

Check out the information booklet here:

Information Booklet

Congratulations to the previous
Award Winner!

Minister’s Arts Education Awards for Preschools

2024 Winner: Lantana Kindergarten

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the traditional owners throughout South Australia and we pay respect to the custodians of the lands on which we live and learn. We respect their spiritual relationship with Country and acknowledge that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to those living today and we do so in the spirit of reconciliation.