Our Philosophy
We believe in embedding deep respect for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
We acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the Traditional Custodians of this land. We operate on the sacred land of the “WANGAL” Clans people. We pay respect to them and endeavour to represent their history, culture, values, and traditions in every educator’s residence and Coordination unit
We believe in advocating for child’s rights and empowering the child’s voice
We believe children have the free will to create their own space, enhance their ability to make decisions, promote confidence in their own abilities, encourage healthy self-esteem, and support them to develop in their own
environment.
We believe children’s health and safety are at the forefront of our practices.
While in our care the children’s health, safety, and well-being are paramount. Educators maintain, promote, and implement high-quality standards of hygiene, infection control, monitoring risks, cleanliness, healthy eating, food safety, and safety practices. All incidents, emergencies, illnesses, and injuries are recorded and communicated to families in a timely manner.
We value setting the foundation of lifelong learning
We embrace a play-based curriculum, based upon the principles and outcomes outlined in the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) and My Time Our Place (MTOP), that provides children with freedom of choice through offering a wide variety of age-appropriate learning opportunities and resources that are easily accessible. Hence supporting children to develop at their own pace, whilst encouraging children to share thoughts and ideas, collaborate, explore, experiment, imagine and problem-solve.
We believe in celebrating children’s play discoveries and our programs reflect planned and spontaneous experiences along with intentional teaching opportunities that are deliberate, purposeful, and meaningful.
We believe having an authentic, respectful, and positive relationship with families is paramount.
We believe in building a positive and trusting relationship with all families, children, and communities. We value the unique care opportunities that Family Day Care provides to the community and the need to offer families quality and flexible care for their children. We believe that the child’s family plays a significant role in their lives so we
encourage and invite all families to become involved in their child’s curriculum on a regular basis. As our children and families are bilingual, we support educators to communicate and document in their home language which builds on their cultural respect and relationship.
We value community involvement and endeavor to acknowledge and support cultural diversity.
We acknowledge and respect the cultural diversity of the community we live in, we encourage values and rights, and ensure that each perspective is respected. We acknowledge that cultural diversity relates to gender, ethnicity, lifestyle, customs, beliefs, backgrounds, and experiences. We encourage Educators to promote inclusive practice in their care service, and children’s learning, development, and curriculum, in the wider community
We value our world and embed practices to ensure we respect our environment
We believe in the importance of the natural environment and educate children about sustaining natural resources by recycling and up-cycling wisely and the impact that we have on the world we live in. We encourage Educators to embed sustainability in their programming daily.
We believe in continuous improvement.
Our Family Day Care services have a commitment to continuous improvement and maintain a culture of ongoing learning, reflection, and self-assessment. We are committed to implementing effective self-review processes in consultation with children, families, and the community, which enable our educators to continuously reflect upon and improve our policies, procedures, and practices. This in turn enables the delivery of high-quality practices from our management and educators, which contributes directly to improved learning outcomes for children.