EDUCATION & PROGRAM

EDUCATION AND PROGRAM

Hamilton Community Pre-School has adopted the Early Years Learning Framework (V2.0) for programming. We write daily jottings in our Reflective Daily Journal. These jottings note the fun interactions and tells a brief story about the child at play. This is then reflected upon by educators to promote and extend the child’s learning next time they are at Pre-School.

Educators’ area of strength is programming, which is play and interest-based. This means that educators intentionally plan how to use play-based activities as one tool to promote the learning that will achieve the EYLF outcomes. Throughout the day, educators use any opportunity to promote the children’s learning by providing both planned and spontaneous experiences, making our Pre-School a fun, motivational and educational service to be enrolled in.

Educators utilise their strengths, experiences and understanding of the children by providing challenging environments that will motivate them to discover, explore, invent, hypothesise and master skills. This is achieved by offering creative, innovative, spontaneous, insightful and fun experiences.

We support the children to develop relationships that enable them to work together, collaborate and be co-contributors. The experiences educators provide promote the children’s feelings of success and optimism as they have agency and make their own choices.

Educators also support the children to develop compassion, understanding, acceptance and tolerance through embracing inclusive practices. Hamilton Community Pre-School acknowledges and supports the process of children’s play. These are documented in the Daily Reflective Journal (or program), and we use Storypark, which holds detailed accounts of the children’s learning. We encourage our families to read, to comment upon and offer feedback and suggestions through Storypark.

Educators provide learning environments that are flexible and open-ended and provide children with the opportunity to take appropriate risks in their learning.

Storypark

Hamilton Community Pre-School uses Storypark - a secure, private online space which ensures your child receives the best support possible and that you are involved and up-to-date with your child’s development. The educators use Storypark to collect a range of observations, photos and videos that document your child’s interests, friendships, play and development. It is a unique way of showing you what your child does and participates in during their day at Pre-School. Storypark provides each child with an online community which you (their parent/guardian) own and control who has access to, for as long as you wish.

OUR RECONCILIATION ACTION PLAN (RAP)

A RAP is a formal commitment to reconciliation. It documents how the Pre-School will strengthen relationships, respect and opportunities in the service and with the community. We developed our RAP using the Narragunnawali platform to register and extend on existing initiatives, which then need to be reviewed and published by the organisation.