Oatley Red Bear's program is designed to foster self-esteem, self-confidence, competence in self-help skills and those inner controls and language abilities necessary for effective social interaction.
Children are guided to question, experiment, think and reason, to help children develop into self-confident, caring, competent individuals.
They encourage emotional development through verbal expressions of thoughts and feelings, the experience of rules, limits, kindness, justice and empathy, recognising and accepting emotions in others, so as to develop respect for others.