Our Curriculum
Carlingford Kindergarten offers a curriculum for children based on the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) and focuses on the individual child’s strengths, interests, and needs. The curriculum provides for all areas of development creating opportunities for children to enhance their social, language, physical, and learning skills.
Children love to play, learn, and explore, and at Carlingford Kindergarten our dedicated and talented educators create learning environments where the children are encouraged to grow and develop. Our enthusiastic educators create an educational curriculum that focuses on the development of each child’s interests by learning through play. At Carlingford Kindergarten children meet important milestones and have lots of adventures and experiences along the way.
Individual Digital Portfolio
At Carlingford Kindergarten our curriculum provides opportunities for our educators to encourage our children to:
Create …rather than duplicate.
Move …rather than wait.
Attempt to solve their own problems …rather than tell the teacher, to have her solve them.
Speak …rather than listen passively.
Explore their interests …rather than just learning about what the teacher thinks they should learn.
Make choices …rather than just being told.
Make their own lines …instead of colouring within the teachers lines.
Write their own books …rather than fill in workbooks.
Create art …rather than do pre-planned crafts.
Decide …rather than passively submit.
Learn through experience …rather than by rote.
Appreciate the process …rather than the end product.
Ask questions and then figure out the answers …rather than being told facts by teachers.
Learn and use skills that are of interest and that are meaningful …rather than vague, abstract concepts that have no real significance to them.
Have a schedule based on their needs …not the needs of the teachers or the program.
Adapted from “The Butterfly Garden” by Sandra Crosse
