The Preschool Program

Our program is based on the National Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) – ‘Belonging, Being & Becoming’ for Children’s Services.

Learning in early childhood is particularly significant as it lays the foundation for all future learning.  Our aim is to provide children with experiences and opportunities that encourage them to acquire skills, knowledge, attitudes and sensitivities that will allow them to make the most of their potential.  Learning in childhood largely happens through engagemnt with others and the physical world.

When we develop the program we consider the whole child and the inter-related nature of development and learning.  The key learning outcomes as stated in the EYLF are:

Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity

• Children feel safe, secure and supported
• Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sens of agency
• Children develop knowledgeable and confident self identities
• Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect

  Outcome 2: Children are connected with & contribute to their world

• Children develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the
• reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary for active community participation
• Children respond to diversity with respect
• Children become aware of fairness
• Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment

 Outcome 3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

• Children become strong in their social and emotional wellbeing
• Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing

Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners

• Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
• Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
• Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
• Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technoloigies and natural and processed materials

Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators

• Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes
• Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts
• Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media
• Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work
• Children use information and communication technologies to acess information, investigate ideas and represent their thinking