Loquat Valley Anglican School

Pre-School/Early Learning Centre

• Taylor Early Learning Centre
• Caring for our Students
• The Learning Program
  • Aims of the Early Learning Centre
  • Curriculum
  • Extra Subjects
  • Teaching & Learning Strategies
  • Interaction with Junior School Students
• Attendance Options
• School Hours
• Outside School Hours Care

Many of our TELC outcomes are taken from the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia:

'Belonging, Being and Becoming'

Children have a strong sense of identity

To assist our TELC children to:

• Feel safe, secure and supported
• Develop their independence, inter-dependence, resilience and ability to act confidently
• Develop knowledgeable and confident self-identities
• Interact with others with care, empathy and respect

 

Children are connected to and contribute to their World

To assist our TELC children to:

• Develop a sense of belonging to groups and the TELC and School communities, and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and understandings necessary for active community participation
• Respond to diversity with respect
• Become aware of fairness
• Become socially responsible and show respect for the environment

 

Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

To assist our TELC children to:

• Become strong in their social and emotional wellbeing
• Take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing

 

Children are confident and involved learners

To assist our TELC children to:

• Develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and awareness
• Develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, 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, places, technologies and natural and processed materials

 

Children are effective communicators

To assist our TELC children to:

• 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 represent their thinking