At Explore & Develop Artarmon, it is our vision to create a high-quality Early Childhood environment that strives to continually grow and evolve and impacts the lives of children, families, educators, and the wider community, in many ways. Our service's philosophy supports this, drawing on the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, and the Australian National Law and Regulations.
With these, and our professional ethics and Reconciliation Action Plan, we aim to create an environment that promotes diversity, inclusion, and social equity. Supported by strong relationships created at the service, our objective is to provide a play-based curriculum for children that encourages thinking, investigating, exploring, and problem-solving, using a variety of mediums. Our curriculum is guided by the National Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) as well as many other Early Childhood teaching theories and curriculum perspectives. In relation to school readiness and transition to school, Explore & Develop Artarmon has a strong commitment to providing an environment that focuses on developing skills that will not only benefit children when they go to school but also throughout life. We begin this process right from the baby's room and focus on developing skills and dispositions such as perseverance, conflict resolution, empathy, curiosity, creativity, and self-expression. It is our aim to develop diverse strategies and approaches to learning to ensure children transition to school feeling confident and capable about their ability to take on learning challenges.
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