Our team at Little Dreamers ELC believe that the happiness and well-being of the children create a strong sense of identity and sets the precedence for children to become confident and involved learners. Educators provide this through respectfully supporting all children and scaffolding children’s interests. All educators initiating one to one interactions with children and connecting with families.

Each Child’s Learning includes daily reflections, family input, children’s portfolios and Story Park, we believe in reflecting on and valuing the many theories surrounding early childhood development and supporting children to develop self-regulation and resilience.

Healthy Eating and Active Play is promoted by educators and management through our program, role modelling and engaging activities are implemented throughout the year. Our indoor and outdoor experiences encourage children’s awareness of their bodies whilst further developing their abilities, skills, values and interests to the learning environment around them.

Environmental Sustainability is encouraged throughout; we create an increased awareness of environmental responsibility through practices that contribute to a sustainable future. Educators will embed sustainable practices within our programs each day such as, recycling, gardening, energy conservation and water conservation. We will up cycle equipment at times, and add some homemade equipment to our service to demonstrate the concepts of ‘reduce, re-use and recycle’.

Indoor Outdoor Equipment will be a combination of purpose acquired toys, natural, recycled and open-ended items. Some items will be complex that can be used in many different ways. Equipment will be set up and provided to offer challenges and risk taking within a safe environment.

Partnerships with families, we endeavour to build strong partnerships with families, children and the wider community and include them in our services day to day activities developing a sense of belonging to groups and community. Regardless of gender, religion and race children and their families are treated equally and are included, our belief is that in order to reflect the principle of belonging we need to accept and embrace each individual child, their culture and the family belief systems. We feel it’s our responsibility to share and educate the children within our centre on the beauty in diversity and to promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all races, nationalities and religions. We truly want to work towards sowing the seed of peace and unity in our amazingly diverse society.

Our Environments are known to us as the third teacher. Our educators deliberately set up our environments with purpose; they are homely with an inclusion of real-life items to provide concrete real-life experiences. They are aesthetically pleasing to children with a focus on attention to detail. They provide for the indoors to be used outside and the outdoors to be brought indoors with the use of natural and recycled materials. Equipment will be set up and provided to offer challenge and risk taking within a safe environment, layouts will change infrequently as we believe this predictability allows children to feel a sense of security, belonging and attachment through this consistency.