Philosophy
Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY
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The Ends Statement...
Griffith Child Care Centre Inc- through its early childhood services Dorothy Waide Centre for Early Learning and Griffith Central Preschool is committed to provide the best quality early childhood care and education for children and families within the Griffith and surrounding community.
Griffith Child Care Centre Inc does this by:
• Creating an early childhood centre that values children’ s learning and understands the critical nature of connection between families and early childhood educators in delivering the best experience for children
• Providing affordable, accessible and equitable care for families across the whole community
• Valuing child’ s play as a critical learning principle that underpins practice
• Valuing quality environments and resources to stimulate and engage children and adults.
• Providing a values based service
• Building strong, healthy families and communities
• Building confidence and selfesteem in individuals and communities.
• Building community capacity
• Developing social networks for parents and children
• Exercising an advocacy role for children and families
• Developing individual potential.
• Of significance is our acknowledgement and respect for our nations first people. Respect comes from understanding, and it is our aim to ensure our practices acknowledge the unique cultures of all peoples and to ensure that no one is disadvantaged while accessing our service. It is our aim to reflect each person and families unique culture within our day to day program, and find ways that celebrate this. Of particular note is that our practice will find ways to interweave aspects
Values
This is articulated through the adoption of a set of values by staff and management of the Centre that underpin purpose and practice.
These are:
· Each child has the right to be an individual and to have its physical and emotional needs catered for at all times.
· Our care and child-centred early learning program are of the highest possible standard and reflect the latest knowledge and ideas.
· The individuality of parents and families is respected, and our practice of care and education is appropriate to the child’ s family situation.
· Our practice respects and reflects the community’ s aspirations for care and education of young children.
· Our Centre is responsibly managed and the service provided is affordable within our community.
· The individual needs of staff are respected and the Centre provides a supportive environment for their personal and professional needs.
of Aboriginal culture and practice within our program.
The Centre’ s overall aim is to allow each child in our care to achieve their potential and to find ways to achieve this creatively.
Overall, we hope to create an environment where children can become enthusiastic, inquiring and challenged. Children are encouraged to follow their own interests; they become in a sense the catalyst for their own curriculum.
The children provide the lead for the teachers within the centre, involve themselves in individual and group projects and where possible are encouraged to record what they have done in their own words- through paint, craft, clay, song or drawing.
Our curriculum is based around a number of key concepts and focus points reflecting the National Early Years Learning Framework( EYLF)- Belonging, Being and Becoming.
These are the values which are enshrined within the Framework and which we also strongly believe:
• Openness
• Diversity
• Respect for others and the physical world
• Service, commitment to others well being and to the good of the community
• Connection, relationship and collaboration
• Validity of Feelings
• Resilience and perseverance
• Appreciation of aesthetics
• Thoughtfulness and critical
reflection
• Pursuit of knowledge and
understanding
The EYLF has five key learning outcomes, which are mandated.
1 The ENDS concept— unique to Policy Governance— is a very special type of goal, one that designates the results for which the
organisation exists, the recipients or beneficiaries of those results, and the worth of the results or the results for certain recipient groups ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Handbook for Parents Griffith Child Care Centre Inc 4