Program and aims

Program

When children play they are showing what they have learnt and trying to understand. This is why play is one of the foundations of the Early Years Learning Framework.

The Framework focuses on your child’s learning. Educators will work with you in order to get to know your child well. They will create a learning program that builds on your child’s interests and abilities, and keep you in touch with your child’s progress.

We value and encourage independence, self-confidence and a desire to explore and find things out. We provide the children with opportunities to imagine, wonder, explore, create, manipulate, discover, practice, reflect, evaluate, laugh, sing, move their bodies and resolve conflicts.

Our educational program is designed with your child’s interests and strengths as part of our focus, is offered indoors and outdoors, with many open-ended activities on offer.

We look forward to working in partnership with you in further developing and strengthening these skills in your child.

Aims

• For the children and their families to feel safe, secure and supported.
• For the children to learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect.
• To assist the children and their families to respond to diversity with respect.
• For the children and their families to develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities.
• To encourage the children to become socially responsible and show respect for the environment.
• For the children to become strong in their social, emotional and physical wellbeing.
• For the children to continue to develop and extend on their curiosity, cooperation, creativity, persistence and imagination.
• For the children to develop a range of skills such as problem solving, experimentation and investigating.
• For the children to interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes.