About Us

Our Aim

We believe that the early years of a child’s life are their most influential.  It is within these years that a child develops the foundation skills and abilities that will carry them through life. We feel that by being attuned to children’s thoughts and feelings, this supports the development of a strong sense of wellbeing. 

Our aim is to work closely with families to form a partnership, where our teachers can develop learning programs responsive to children’s ideas, interests, strengths and abilities, and recognise that children learn through play.

We aim to:

• Work as partners with parents and families of the children.
• Provide information, contacts and support for the children, parents, and families.
• Provide a high quality care and learning environment.
• Provide a program based on the Early Years Learning Framework where all children experience learning that is engaging and builds success for life.
• Provide a safe, secure, happy and loving home like environment where children have a sense of belonging.
• Provide a place where childhood is a time to be, to seek and make meaning of the world.
• Provide an environment that has vibrant and flexible spaces that are responsive to interests and abilities of each child.
• Provide an environment rich in resources to stimulate learning and development.
• Provide Educators/Staff that are experienced in nurturing, caring and valuing children.
• Recognise, respond, to all children’s strengths, abilities and interests. We value and build upon children’s strengths, skills and knowledge to ensure their motivation and engagement in learning.
• Respond to children’s expertise, cultural traditions and ways of knowing, the multiple languages spoken by some children, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, and strategies used by children with additional needs to negotiate their everyday lives.

Our Mission

At our kindergarten, we acknowledge the importance of play in early childhood development. Play is vital, is the most effective tool, and is central to a child’s learning and development.  It is non threatening, spontaneous, and meaningful.  Through play young children explore and learn to understand the world around them as they come to communicate, discover, imagine and create.  When children play they are showing what they have learned and what they are trying to understand. When children play with other children they create social group, test out ideas, challenge each other’s thinking and build new understandings. 

This is why play is one of the foundations of the Early Years Learning Framework.  By using this Framework, our teachers will guide children’s play by carefully designing learning activities and stimulating indoor and outdoor learning environments. We also acknowledge that each child is unique and therefore will progress at their own pace. The EYLF is a key component of the National Quality Framework which has been developed by Council of Australian Governments (COAG) to assist in providing young children throughout Australia in their early years, opportunities to maximise their potential and develop a foundation for success in the future.

The Framework’s vision is for all children to experience play-based learning that is engaging and builds success for life.  

• Belonging is the basis for living a fulfilling life. Where children feel they belong, because of the relationships they have with their family, community, culture and place.
• Being is about living here and now. Childhood is a special time in life, and children need time to just ‘be’- time to play, try new things and have fun.
• Becoming is about the learning and development that young children experience. Children start to form their sense of identity from an early age, which shapes the type of adult they will become.

Teachers will work with you in order to get to know your child well.  At Jolly Frog, we will create a learning program that builds on your child’s interests and abilities and keep you in touch with your child’s progress.  Through the Framework’s five learning goals, teaching staff will assist your child to develop:

• A strong sense of their identity (have confidence in themselves and to form friendships)
• Connections with their world (learn to respect the environment and cultural diversity)
• A strong sense of wellbeing (socially, emotionally & physically)
• Confidence and involvement in their learning (explore, create, learn, experiment)
• Effective communication skills (by using literacy and numeracy to communicate)