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ELC Curriculum

Emmanuel Anglican College Early Learning Centre participates in the National Quality Standards for Early Childhood Education and Care and School Age Care and follows the Early Years Learning Framework. The Framework is a National Early Childhood Curriculum that has a holistic approach and encompasses a wide range of teaching strategies. This approach provides scope for flexibility in the education of the children at the Early Learning Centre. The purpose of the curriculum is to provide a framework that forms a basis for the consistency of the programs, education and environment for all Pre-school and Pre-kindy children across Australia.

The Early Years Learning Framework and My Time Our Place are embedded throughout our daily practice and learning programs. These learning frameworks are aimed at extending and enriching children’s learning from birth to 12 years of age

The Early Years Learning Framework –
Learning Outcomes (Birth – Five Years)

Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity

  • Children feel safe, secure and supported
  • Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency
  • Children develop knowledgeable and confident self-identities
  • Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect

Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world

  • Children develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary to active community participation
  • Children respond to diversity with respect
  • Children become aware of fairness
  • Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment

Outcome 3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

  • Children become strong in their social and emotional wellbeing
  • Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing

Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners

  • Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
  • Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
  • Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
  • Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials

Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators

  • Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes
  • Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts
  • Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media
  • Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work
  • Children use information and communication technologies to access information, investigate ideas and represent their thinking

My Time, Our Place Framework (5-12 years)

Outcomes 1 to 4: as above

Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators

  • Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes
  • Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts
  • Children collaborate with others, express ideas and make meaning using a range of media and communication technologies