Why Choose us?
Family is the first place where the child learns about people and the world around them. Bringing our family into this Early Years Learning Services elucidates importance of how we have essentially understood the pivotal role of families in the child’s life. There’s a beautiful focus on the growth of the child at our centre and that’s what’s so endearingly special about our centres.
We are believers of ensuring that the children have a good sense of belonging, being and becoming through our centre setup. Our centres have zones that focus on the child’s well-being ie. safety, learning numbers, learning shapes, reading zone, colour zone and story place.
Apart from this the activities ensure that the children are ingrained with a high sense of rootedness and belonging to the community and the place they live. This local context then helps them understand the regional, national or international contexts later in life. Our curriculum framework prepares the child in the foundational early years to become a better learner. The transition is smooth for the kids of our centre to move into school life with adaptiveness and eagerness to learn more.
Learn Smart Early Learning Centres have established within their centres a love for curiosity, play, reasoning and awareness with the immediate environment that impacts the child. We amplify the fact that children are inherently curious and therefore our features; be it facilities provided or curriculum designed, brings out the curious nature that anticipates the emergence of thinking, questioning and understanding.
The foundational early years for the children, educators, parents and us as a centre are through the strengthening of the meaningful experiences that the children undergo every day here. Watch your children become independent, social and cheerful beings!
The Belonging, Being and Becoming theme is concurrent to the EYLF of childhood education as espoused by the NQS of Australian Education and our childhood educators are thoroughly indoctrinated into the guidelines of the same.
Our Vision… Philosophy
Our vision is to nurture smart children who are enabled to face the future by the foundational skills gained early on through play-based learning and curriculum standards.
Every child’s learning and development is our core focus at our childcare centres at Berwick and Lyndhurst. With qualified guidance and support we aim to develop smart children who are enabled to face the future by the foundational skills gained early on through play-based learning and curriculum standards.
Mission
To inculcate the love for new learning in ways that makes the children embrace the benefits of knowledge, understanding and skills for upscaling to the primary school level.
Core Values
- Best practices in teaching-learning
- Stimulating, secure and safe environment
- Early childhood code of ethics and australian curriculum pedagogy
- Heartfelt continuing development of quality methodology
Our Team
Our qualified team consists of educators and professionals who have the necessary Certifications, Diploma, Bachelor and graduate school educational merits. Not only are they experts in best practices in teaching and learning but they also have amazing experience in creating stimulating, secure and respectful environments for learning. They’re highly committed to ensuring children’s health, safety and well being at all times.
A Personalised and Collaborative Approach
Our child centred curriculum programs are prepared keeping in mind the chronological age, cognitive development and skills to be optimised for different age groups in a collaborative learning setting. Our learning objectives are focused on children with different levels of ability, ensuring that the transition from one stage to the next is individually structured. A child’s home language, culture and religious practices will be inclusive in the program.
Get in touch with us today for more information about the curriculum setup at our Berwick and Lyndhurst centres.
The National Quality Standards
Our Centres are registered with and regulated by are registered to and regulated by the Department of Education and Training (DET). Our educators are hence appropriately qualified and work in accordance to the Acts and Regulations dictated by DET. We are routinely assessed and rated in accordance with the 7 quality parameter areas of the National Quality Framework (NQF). These are:
- Educational Program and Practice
- Children’s Health and Safety
- Physical Environment
- Staffing Arrangements
- Relationships with children
- Collaborative partnerships with families and communities
- Governance and Leadership
Our NQS Ratings
Our Centres work in accordance with the NQS to improve the outcomes of education for young children. Our educators are trained to incorporate a curriculum that reflects each child’s individuality.
Our curriculum is designed in a way that upholds the interests and skills of each child. These skills are observed and extended to make the foundation of the program stronger by encouraging families to participate, and being open to sharing information about your child’s interests, new skills, likes and dislikes.
Our Program
The Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VEYLDF) – is built on the recognition that children start learning from birth. Providing the children with the right environment and appropriate ways of teaching and learning can aid in developing their abilities as they grow.
Our Kindergarten and Childcare centre at Thornhill Park inculcate a holistic program with a structured framework and outcomes that is developed to assist each child’s development and enhance their learning. This Framework is based on the Concept of Being, Belonging and Becoming.
The 5 Learning Outcomes are:
Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity
Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to the world
Outcome 3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing
Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners
Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators
Documenting the learning of children
In accordance with the National Quality Framework, our Educators implement a curriculum which will reflect each individual child. Our program is developed to assist each child’s development and enhance their learning.
Our program will ensure that:
- Children are encouraged to express themselves creatively through a wide variety of indoor and outdoor activities.
- Children’s fine and gross motor skills are strengthened and developed through a wide variety of both indoor and outdoor activities including manipulative play, block play, carpentry, water and sand play, dramatic play, drawing and other physical activities such as running and skipping.
- Maths and science concepts along with natural aspects of our environment are encouraged through block play, building, cooking, water play, collecting harmless leaves and insects.
- Language development is encouraged through staff modelling, news, show and tell, story time, games, poems, and drama.
- School readiness as well as social/emotional and independence skills are strengthened through a wide range of activities designed to enhance a child’s senses.
- Music and movement activities encourage physical, social, intellectual, and fun areas of a child’s development.
- Children are taught the importance of essential risky play that will help boost children’s wellbeing; will help children learn about managing situations and are able to assess risk.
Program Outcomes
- Creative expression through variegated activities and games inside the rooms and within the centre premises (outdoors under supervision).
- Manipulative play, block stacking, water activities, sand play, drama and drawing focus on the fine motor coordination and development while skipping, running and other gross motor activities too are encouraged to strengthen holistic physical development of the children
- Maths and science concepts are integrated into the natural world and environmental studies through heatless cooking, building blocks, collecting leaves and insects
- Language assimilation and development is encouraged through staff modelling, news, show and tell, story time, games, poems and drama.
- Peer interaction and more opportunities to become independent helps school readiness. This is solidified through a wide range of activities that require life skills.
- Music, dance and movement activities spark physical, social, intellectual and fun areas of the brain.
Our program outcomes adhere to our curriculum objectives and are aligned to the Early Years Learning Framework and National Quality Standards.
We Make The Future Possible
Learn Smart Early Learning Centres are fully assimilated with an impeccable Australian Education and highly intuitive educators. With this amazing combination facilitated with our centre setup at Berwick and Lyndhurst, we boast of good expertise in childcare and educational objectives to be realised.