3 & 4 year old Funded Kindergarten
Educators value, respect, and acknowledge each child's individual capabilities and work with families and early childhood professionals to ensure the best possible outcomes for children's overall Learning and development.
Excited to Learn
Our holistic approach to education combines school readiness programs with learning experiences to foster the social and emotional development of young children. Our integrated indoor/outdoor curriculum is child-directed and engages children in meaningful learning experiences that get them excited about learning, and confident to start their formal education journey.
Confident and Resilient
The Curriculum is developed with purpose, encouraging meaningful learning through exploration, curiosity, critical thinking and problem solving by risky play and a variety of disposition. We offer a stimulating curriculum with the aim of building confident and active learners.
Ready for the Journey Ahead
At Playhouse Early Education and Care, we strive to encourage all children to develop the skills and knowledge to ensure they leave kindergarten with the confidence, resilience and independence needed for the school environment the wider world around them.
Learning and Discovery
At Playhouse Early Education and Care Child Care, we offer a comprehensive early childhood education program that emphasizes the development of skills in language, math, science, and social studies. Our curriculum is designed to provide your child with a strong foundation for future learning and to help them build confidence and independence. Our experienced and caring teachers work closely with parents to create an environment where children can thrive.
School Readiness
We believe the kindergarten years are a crucial time to support and prepare our children for school. We work in close partnerships with our families to accomplish goals, while encouraging and supporting each child’s personal achievements and accomplishments.
We focus on supporting children with school readiness through fun, innovative ways of learning to acquire and develop the necessary skills and areas required for school success.
Service Curriculum
At Playhouse Early Education and care we implement the Victorian Early years Learning Framework, a curriculum that guides early childhood professionals to work together with families to support their children's overall development.
The Framework forms the foundation for ensuring that children in all early childhood education and care settings experience quality teaching and learning. It has a specific emphasis on play-based learning and recognises the importance of communication and language (including early literacy and numeracy) and social and emotional development.
The Curriculum
The VEYLDF upholds the image of the child as a rights holder and a competent learner with capacities to learn from birth. The VEYDLF sets out outcomes and practices to guide early childhood professionals in their work with all families and their young children from birth. supporting children to progress toward
Belonging, Becoming & Being
Playhouse Early Education and Care value each child’s family as their first and most influential teacher. We are committed to working in partnership with families to ensure the kindergarten years and kindergarten experience is one that is meaningful and has purpose. We see children as capable individuals who are respected and valued as equal participants within the learning environment.
We recognise that culture; practices, values and beliefs are unique to each child and their family and honor this diversity in the pre-school curriculum. Our educators are also recognised as individuals with different ways of living, being and of knowing.
Our modelled respect for each other as individuals strengthens our kindergarten curriculum and unites us as a team.
