ABOUT US
Our mission statement
To ensure we strive in providing quality care in a safe, nurturing learning environment for every child, where they have a sense of belonging. To ensure we listen and respond to parents and fellow educators' in a respectful and professional manner. For educators' to strive in wanting to improve their knowledge through ongoing research and training.
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Quality – We believe that the first five years of children’s lives are the most influential regarding brain growth and development. Quality early child care and education received in these crucial years will impact a child’s future and lifelong success. Our commitment to realising quality is evidenced through research, informed practice, and critical reflection.
2. Educators Practice - Kindy Rocks early learning educators value and recognise the environment as the 'third teacher'. Creating play spaces that are welcoming and authentic that engages and informs children beyond the direction an educator provides. These practices support the contemporary theories and research by the 'Reggio Emilia' approach
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Relationships – Children develop a sense of belonging, being and becoming through the interaction they encounter from their families, carers, educators, and the wider community. These relationships become embedded through positive, honest communication, where collaboration and empathy are combined to build successful reciprocal partnerships.
4. Reflection – encourages Early childhood educators to adapt and adopt existing practices and acquire new skills and understandings. We need to analyse different aspects of experiences that we offer and what should be repeated, extended or changed.
5. Acceptance
– of families from a diverse range of backgrounds to foster a sense of unity, we all pay respect to the original owners of our land that we meet on. "The Dunghutti People as Early Childhood Educators, we endeavour to further our knowledge in supporting inclusiveness.
6. Sustainability
– is implementing practices that are sustainable, these practices ensure the continued viability of our resources, both natural and man-made which is explored both indoors and outdoors. As Early Learning Educators we need to positively model these practices to those around us.
7 Community – We will foster a sense of community within our child care centre, as well as being part of the local and wider community. We aspire to instil in children that we are all one.
8. Rights
– of children is central to our teaching. Children have the right to feel safe and have their basic needs met. Children have the right to play and make mistakes, where we support their individual thoughts, ideas, and suggestions. Our program will reflect the rights of children as it prepares them for their future.
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At Kindy Rocks Early Learning Preschool, we seek to engage and partner families to provide the best possible experience and educational outcome via a variety of deliverables.
Our popular child care centre in South West Rocks supports and encourages the use of the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF), which is the government initiative that we recognise to provide the outcomes required to enhance and enrich your child’s learning. Government websites such as
www.mychild.gov.au
provide a wealth of information in this area of professional child care.
Daily diary
The purpose of a daily diary is for carers to program on a daily basis using diary-like entries. Diaries will be available for our carers in South West Rocks to reflect further on how the child’s interest, curiosity, and learning is moving along.
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Documenting the learning
Children’s learning journeys will be documented for display in their room and within individual records in our system for you to review and provide feedback. Our trusted child care educators are encouraged to record events and photograph the children throughout the day for the best possible visual story of what the child has done for the week.
The displays we produce are creative stories of what the children are saying and learning about a particular subject, such as the human body, the environment, or the world, for example. We believe our displays will make the sharing experience with your child a memorable and exclusive one, giving you the chance to learn about their week and what they have enjoyed doing while in our care.
Time
Time is set aside for our team to take advantage of the impulsive interests and learning of the children as it happens to allow them to plan projects and gather resources that may be required. Children are given the necessary time to explore and expand on their interests to maximise their chances of building on their knowledge and learning while enjoying it as much as possible.
School preparatory program
Kindy Rocks Early Learning Preschool is developing a separate in-house learning area. The simulated classroom environment facilitates a preparatory learning space with an objective to prepare children for the next step to big school.
Consultant teachers with appropriate child care degrees and ongoing education development will prepare this soon-to-be-available school-based curriculum.
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Curriculum planning
As our educational leader, is currently undertaking our curriculum planning and setting the classroom components for next year across all our classrooms and age groups in South West Rocks. To support this process, Tour Director has asked that parents take the opportunity to update our record and to list some of their expectations and wishes for their children for the coming year. The form is available from each of our room leaders or the office.
The curriculum is being planned across four quarters. The first quarter will involve detailed learning outcomes with the following quarter’s outcomes being bullet pointed so that we can reflect and continue to build on each child’s interest.
Our current child care curriculum plans are available for review any time throughout the year as they are updated each June and November. Please feel free to discuss any queries with your child’s educator or Our Director at your convenience.
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