Environments
0-2 Room
Our educators in the 0-2 room work closely with families to ensure the needs are met of every baby in our care. Following the work of Magda Gerber, we engage in attuned, respectful relationships with our babies and provide secure attachments for them within the learning environment. Caring is at the forefront in this room and spaces to bond and build relationships are paramount.
Children at this age are driven by sensory input and are making approximately a million neural connections a second! With this in mind, we provide a calm environment with space for children to practice the important gross motor skills which develop rapidly in this age range. We encourage their increasing autonomy and communication skills through thoughtful and intentional approaches to learning experiences and routines. Sensory experiences are highly encouraged allowing the children to connect with their world. Routines in this room consider the child’s individual home routine first and foremost, and follow a rhythm, ensuring they are predictable and flexible at the same time.
Room Provisions:
Hat
Nappies
Cot Sheets
Breakfast
Morning Tea
Lunch
Afternoon Tea
Note: Formula to be supplied by individual families to ensure children are being provided a consistent diet.
Water bottle and at least two changes of clothes must be provided by families each day.
2-3 Room
In the 2-3 room we recognise children’s growing autonomy and independence. As such our routines become more flexible, allowing children to take more ownership over their day. Our routines follow a rhythm that allows for a predictable yet flexible day, and within these, the children are offered many opportunities to engage in self-help skills such as self-serving food and looking after their belongings.
Educators will work collaboratively with families on emerging skills such as toilet training and ensure children are properly supported in their growth and development. More choice surrounding their own learning journey starts to emerge and the children become active co-constructors of their curriculum. The environments are designed to encourage this with accessibility and provocations at the forefront, and educators embedding theories such as loose parts into the spaces.
Room Provisions:
Hat
Nappies
Breakfast
Morning Tea
Lunch
Afternoon Tea
Supper
Water bottle, sheet set/ rest time blanket and at least two changes of clothes must be provided by families each day.
3-5 Room
In the 3-5 room we understand that children are showing their emerging initiative and growing autonomy and we encourage this through a daily rhythm that allows children to practice their independence and decision making. Our environments in these rooms are designed to encourage small group experiences and project work which allow children’s increasingly complex investigative skills to direct the learning. For various parts of the day, children will be split into two distant groups of 3-4 years and 4-5 years.
Children in this age range have an increasing ability to assess risk and we encourage this through supervised and assessed risky play experiences. Furthermore, they are starting to refine their independence and thus are given even more opportunities to take on responsibility within the room, and for their own bodies and belongings.
Children in this room are preparing for one of their biggest transitions through life and learning - the transition to formal schooling. We take this into account in all the rooms, believing it is important for children to learn to cope with the change of all types, but in this room, we start to really focus on school-specific transitions. We will give the children opportunities to practice important autonomy, social, STEAM, and literacy skills that they will need prior to entering the formal school environment (ask us about the links between our curriculum and the early stage 1 outcomes taught in kindergarten).
Room Provisions:
Hat
Breakfast
Morning Tea
Lunch
Afternoon Tea
Supper
Note: Children will be expected to be fully toilet trained before moving to this room.
Water bottle, sheet set and at least two changes of clothes must be provided by families each day.
