Our Philosophy
Learning environment
The learning environment is an important deliberation when creating a safe area for the children to belong. As a service we pride ourselves on maintaining a welcoming, safe and inclusive environment. Our educators ensure that all children’s learning capacities and learning styles are catered for throughout our environment and educational curriculum. Our environment for play and exploration is inviting, flexible, inquiry based, responsive to the interests and abilities of each child and promotes a love of learning. At Kids Paradise we give the children the opportunity to decide for themselves whether they’d like to explore the indoor or outdoor environment. Educators throughout the service encourage all families and children to contribute ideas and interests to our play-based learning environment. ‘Hands-on exploration and play is driven by the children's interests, questions, and the world that they live in which is key to for the children to use all languages to express themselves.’
Partnerships with Families
We understand that families are a child’s first and most influential teacher, At Kids Paradise we strive to collaborate with families to assist in supporting children to achieve learning outcomes as we view families to be an essential resource to children’s learning. We aim to ensure our environment is welcoming for all families and individuals feel respected and valued. When partnerships are developed with families it enables collaboration about curriculum decisions and allows us to work together to explore each child’s learning potential. Each year our service celebrates and recognises events that are important to our families such as Christmas, Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and other celebrations and events requested by families. We strive to create a warm environment for our children to learn to respect these celebrations, events and gatherings as a community.
Sustainability
We are committed to contributing to a sustainable future. Educators at Kids Paradise Childcare centre promote children’s understanding about their responsibility to care for the environment and incorporate sustainable practices and learning into everyday activities and tasks such as maintaining edible gardens, re-using items and many other practices throughout the service.
Sense of Wellbeing
Children are encouraged to engage in a Healthy lifestyle guided by “The Victorian Healthy eating advisory service” and “Get up and grow”. Our educators role model healthy eating practices and ensure physical activity is incorporated into daily activities such as outdoor play, short walks, Bush Kinder, Sports Programs and more. Our service ensures that health and safety information is readily available for families and any relevant information is provided to families as required. Being healthy, well rested and free of illness assists children to be able to participate happily and successfully in their environment. Educators cater to all children’s physical, social, emotional and cognitive needs to ensure children have a strong sense of wellbeing.