The play is very important for children. Through play babies and young children explore and learn to understand the world around them as they come to communicate, discover, imagine and create.

When children play they are showing what they have learned and what they are trying to understand. This is why play is one of the foundations of our Program. By using it, our Team will guide your child’s play by carefully designing learning activities and stimulating indoor and outdoor learning environments.

In this area of our program, we aim to promote early social interactions and conversations, develop facial expressions to communicate and support self-identity. Social and emotional development is the key to successful learning and happiness, therefore, it is an area of development that we want to encourage on a daily basis. The current early years learning framework for Australia believes (as we do) that there are 3 words to describe the fundamental characteristics that
support and encourage a child’s development and sense of identity. They are belonging, being and becoming. Experiencing belonging – knowing where and with whom you belong – is integral to human existence. Being – childhood is a time to be, to seek and make meaning of the world. Becoming – children’s identities, knowledge, understandings, capabilities, skills, and relationships change during childhood. They are shaped by many different events and circumstances.

Children are provided activities to help develop skills in an environment rich with sounds, sights and consistent exposure to speech and language. To encourage the development and confidence of language we provide activities such as story time, action songs, group discussions and personal interactions. We also provide visual aids to help enhance the children’s connection between words and pictures or actions.

This area of our program offers experiences to enhance and develop physical strength and motor co-ordination. Children will learn to explore through sight, sound and touch. Learning opportunities offered will include building using blocks and mobilo, soft foam shapes, digging in the sandpit and manipulating dough and clay. It is through the continued involvement in these types of hands on experiences that infants and toddlers will develop and increase their hand/eye co-ordination and general whole body coordination and movement.

In this area of our program we aim to promote early social interactions and conversations, develop facial expressions to communicate and support self-identity. Social and emotional development is the key to successful learning and happiness therefore it is an area of development that we want to encourage on a daily basis. The current early years learning framework for Australia believes (as we do) that there are 3 words to describe the fundamental characteristics that
support and encourage a child’s development and sense of identity. They are belonging, being and becoming. Experiencing belonging – knowing where and with whom you belong – is integral to human existence. Being – childhood is a time to be, to seek and make meaning of the world. Becoming – children’s identities, knowledge, understandings, capabilities, skills, and relationships change during childhood. They are shaped by many different events and circumstances.

Imagination is at the heart of all creativity. One way we can help children develop their imagination further is to transform the space they play and learn in, so that children are inspired by their surroundings to engage in play. Hands-on, sensory spaces encourage children to experience new things and give them the opportunity to play and learn at their own pace, and in their own way. By letting the children direct their own activities they become more confident about their own creativity, and value it more. In this spontaneous area of our program we also encourage family involvement. We welcome your suggestions and want to work in partnership with families to help see all the children in our care reach their full potential.

Being healthy physically is a necessary pre-condition to being able to develop in all areas. Physical health is the basic foundation for children’s learning and development. Physical development of coordinated motor skills is a large part of an infant’s first year. Fitness Foundations activities help build
physical strength and motor coordination with daily experiences that allow infants to practice fine-motor skills, hand/eye coordination, full body movement, and more.

Creativity occurs naturally within babies and toddlers. If nurtured creativity will grow and expand throughout your child’s lifetime. Creativity can be expressed in many different forms. In the infant and toddler age group we use music and dance as a focal point for creative development as well as tactile experiences such as painting, goop and dough. We also encourage creative expression through spontaneous activities such as drawing patterns in the sand.

Cognitive Development – This part of the program focuses on developing your child’s cognitive development and their thinking skills. Signs of cognitive development during this stage include: smiling, laughing, looking towards sounds, imitating tongue movements and repetition of actions. As your child develops cognitively, our program will encourage hand-eye coordination, learning through sensory experiences and explorations.

• Story time and language experiences
• Music, singing, and dance
• Construction and manipulative play
• Puzzles and cognitive games

• Drama and imaginative play
• Drawing, painting and craft activities
• Puppets and cuddly toy games
• Sensory activities, sand and water games