Succeed Curriculum

Families are a child’s first teacher so we continue to build on your child’s existing knowledge from home in the early childhood service. Our professional educators provide a balance of structured and unstructured learning opportunities and a curriculum that incorporates planned and monitored outcomes for each child.

Your child will be in an inspiring environment that will allow them to be active participants in their life and society, promoting connections to who they are and who they will become.

Programs are developed for group and individual work so children experience one on one interactions and cooperative group learning. Our professional educators listen to the children, observe their actions and seek input from families to learn about the children’s interests and how we can extend their understanding of the world. We understand that to provide quality early learning education we need to have an outstanding team.

The planned program includes opportunities for your child to participate in projects and extended investigations that are developed from the children’s interests, ideas, and questions. Projects help children thoroughly explore ideas, make discoveries, construct knowledge, and solve problems; this all leads to learning and understanding.    

Our educators plan the learning program for your child on an ongoing basis, using a planning cycle in which they:

  • Identify your child’s strengths and interests through observing and interacting with them, and speaking with your family
  • Plan experiences, choose teaching strategies and design the environment to build on your child’s skills and knowledge
  • Assess and document the learning outcomes for your child to inform further planning.

Arts

Through our Arts program children spend part of their day exploring their expressive, artistic and creative talents. Arts enhances communication, confidence and self-esteem.

As young children are captivated by music and sounds, our music areas are environments where children experiment with sounds while creating their own music. In this environment the children are the musicians, composing and often sharing their music with others.

We encourage and nurture realistic expectations through meaningful activities and involvement in a sensory-rich environment in our dedicated music and arts areas, giving your child a special space to be creative and find new ways to express their ideas and feelings.

Arts focuses on:

  • Art
  • Music
  • Movement

 Active

The importance of children’s physical and emotional development in preschool years cannot be underestimated. Physical activity behaviour patterns are established early in life and set the foundation for a healthy adult life.

Our Active program is not only fun and exciting but extremely beneficial with a focus on:

  • Gross motor skills
  • Fine motor skills
  • Body awareness
  • Gentle stretches and breathing
  • Being healthy

As a part of the ‘being healthy’ component of Active, children gain awareness of healthy eating habits. Children discover the importance and understanding of food that they should be eating ‘everyday’ and food they should be eating ‘sometimes’. This concept establishes sound eating habits encouraging a healthy lifestyle for their present and future life.

Positive eating habits are strengthened and encouraged through children being involved in food preparation and cooking experiences.

We have developed a partnership with sports professionals to help facilitate our passion for games and activities that help encourage children to run, spin, turn, jump, climb, tumble and exercise. In addition, our team are trained by a qualified physiotherapist (Lauren Shead) and our educators practise age appropriate stretches and gentle breathing to promote body awareness, gross motor skills and relaxation.

Language

The growth of literacy skills is a vital part of a child’s overall development. It’s central to their future success at school and later in the workplace. Before children learn to read and write, they need to develop the foundations for literacy – the ability to speak, listen, understand, watch and draw.

The Language program supports children’s understanding of the connection between letters on a page and spoken words. For this understanding to flourish, we will provide children with plenty of experience with:               

  • pictures and objects – how you can use words to talk about them
  • letters and words – their shapes, sounds and names
  • sounds – how words can rhyme, begin and end with the same letters.

The Language early literacy program is integrated with a recognised phonics program as used in primary schools. Our program allows the children to be introduced to a letters and sounds to assist with the implementation of early literacy skills.

We have developed a partnership with a qualified speech pathologist, Linda Hurst, to further facilitate our language and literacy program. Linda has provided an overview of our educators can further enhance children’s language and literacy development through everyday activities and experiences.

Discover & Explore

The Discover & Explore program understands that children are naturally equipped to learn through observation and investigations and all learning spaces, resources and activities are hands-on, child-driven, authentic, and active. The Discover & Explore program ensures educators provide safe, readily available materials that children can experiment with to nurture their curiosity, discovery and exploration of their world.

Each room has a dedicated scientific and exploratory area that offers children the opportunity of developing scientific concepts such as, predicting, classifying, hypothesising, experimenting and communicating. Educators make use of planned and spontaneous teaching opportunities for children to regularly use different scientific concepts.