NDCKA PHILOSOPHY
At NDCKA our philosophy is to provide a warm, safe, happy and stimulating environment for all children and their families. Throughout our 3 services our goal is to assist each child into making a smooth transition from home to kindergarten and then onto school.
We strive in helping each individual child develop self-esteem, confidence, and a positive attitude to learning.
Throughout their kinder journey our children will develop knowledge, skills and attitudes which will lay down the foundations for later formal learning in life.
We respect, value and embrace the diverse values, beliefs, family and cultural backgrounds, traditions, life experiences and knowledge that all children and their families bring to our kindergartens.
Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity
As a result of this learning outcome, children:
- feel safe, secure, and supported
- develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency
- develop knowledgeable and confident self identities
Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world
This outcome enables children to:
- develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary for active community participation
- respond to diversity with respect
- become aware of fairness
- become socially responsible and also show respect for the environment
Outcome 3: Children have a strong sense of Wellbeing
In achieving this outcome, children:
- become strong in their social and emotional wellbeing
- take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing
Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners
As a result of this learning outcome, children:
- develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
- develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
- transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
- resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies, as well as natural and processed materials.
Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators
As a result of this learning outcome, children:
- interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes
- engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts
- express ideas and make meaning using a range of media
- begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work
- use information and communication technologies to access information, investigate ideas and also represent their thinking.
