Our Learning Program
At Playmates Cottage Childcare Centre we are committed to providing individual developmental programs which highlight the care, education, interest and health of your children. Our program incorporates emergent curriculum, interest based programming style and Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework (2009).
As early childhood professionals, the educators implement programs which provide a rich and integrated range of experiences that enhance the children’s learning and development. These experiences cover the following outcomes and development areas:
Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity.
Children…
1.1 feel safe, secure, and supported.
1.2 develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency.
1.3 develop knowledgeable and confident self-identities.
1.4 learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect.
Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world.
Children…
2.1 develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary for active community participation.
2.2 respond to diversity with respect.
2.3 become aware of fairness.
2.4 become socially responsible and show respect for the environment.
Outcome 3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing.
Children…
3.1 become strong in their social and emotional wellbeing.
3.2 take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing
Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners.
Children…
4.1 develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity.
4.2 develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating.
4.3 transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.
4.4 resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials.
Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators.
Children…
5.1 interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes.
5.2 engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts.
5.3 express ideas and make meaning using a range of media.
5.4 begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work.
5.5 use information and communication technologies to access information, investigate ideas and represent their thinking.
What we Believe
The educator’s role is to observe what happens and guide the children’s learning through their play by demonstrating appropriate ways of doing things and by offering suggestions to extend their ideas. It is also to provide time and opportunities for the children to process information and to practice newly acquired skills. The educators encourage the children to see themselves as successful learners and to empower them through positive guidance techniques to accept responsibility for their own actions.
The growth and development of each child is watched with care in our Centre. Guidance and support provided through our programming attempts to foster the total development of the child. Regular group meetings are held to discuss the program, and/or the observations of your children carried out by the staff. The reason for the daily observation is to ensure that the staff are providing activities that are appropriate to the development level of your child, and catering for your child’s interest.
Our main aim is to guide your child in becoming an effective learner and to assist them in developing all skills necessary for success now and in the future.