Our Curriculum
Team members at Campus Kindergarten are professionally active and keep abreast of current research and thinking through professional reading, courses of study, seminars, networking and dialogue.
The Early Years Learning Framework guides our pedgogies and practices. This Framework describes the principles, practice and outcomes essential to support and enhance young children’s learning from birth to five years of age, as well as their transition to school. The Framework has a strong emphasis on play-based learning as play is the best vehicle for young children’s learning providing the most appropriate stimulus for brain development. Our Kindergarten classes also use the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline. The guideline provides advice for planning, interacting with children, monitoring and assessing, and sharing information in a kindergarten context.
- You can read more about the approach here.
- The Early Years Learning Framework.
- Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline
The Curriculum – what do we focus on?
Campus Kindy operates one Pre-Kindy and two Kindy programs. All programs follow the Early Years Learning Framework which assists educators to provide young children with opportunities to maximize their potential and develop a foundation for future success in learning from birth to five years of age.
Campus Kindy ensures that we are developing these three aspects in the following ways:
- Belonging – Supporting children to belong, providing them with the opportunity to be part of a community
- Being – Giving children the chance to be themselves. Allowing children the time to grow at their own pace, enjoy the wonder of childhood, learn about themselves, develop deep relationships and become fully involved with new ideas and interests.
- Becoming – Supporting children to realize their potential and also helping them to grow into active members of the community.
The two Kindy programs also follow the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline which specifically focuses on enriching children’s learning in the Kindergarten year. The guideline provides advice to support Kindergarten teachers to strengthen the children’s sense of belonging, being and becoming. The guideline has five learning and development areas that relate to the five broad learning outcomes in the Early Learning Framework which are as follows:
- Children have a strong sense of identity
- Children are connected with and contribute to their world
- Children have a strong sense of wellbeing
- Children are confident and involved learners
- Children are effective communicators
At Campus Kindergarten we embrace a wide range of perspectives and understandings. We are strongly based in an emergent curriculum where children are co-creators of the learning journeys. We support their developing of questions and help them seek solutions and encourage them to theorise and test out ideas. This is sometimes called socio-constructivism. We help children develop a cooperative culture in the rooms that supports taking risks and expressing ideas. We support the expression of ideas in a “hundred” different ways.
The program is derived from observations of the capabilities and interests of each child. This allows the program to be open and flexible as children explore their world, and grow more and more capable and confident in their own abilities. The program seeks to develop children's learning, development and wellbeing. Additionally, social skills, intellectual skills and emotional wellbeing are included as essential components of our holistic programs.
