Our philosophy

The Beach Kids Early Years Learning Framework has been developed for the children in our education and care aged from six weeks to formal schooling. It is underpinned by the Early Years Learning Framework and a practice of emergent curriculum.

The goal of the Early Years Learning Framework (2009) is to extend and enrich children's learning from birth to the transition to school. Our program enhances community engagement by inviting members of the community into the centre to aid and participate in programming for children's learning. When children are exposed to a wider community group and see the involvement they have in the centre, their learning is enhanced through what those members of the community can offer.

Children's lives are characterised by being, belonging and becoming. Beach Kids supports this view of the child being, by providing an environment where children have time to be, to seek and to make meaning of the world. That environment includes internal spaces that are child-orientated, encourage exploration and contain open-ended resources for discovery, exploration and imagination. Becoming describes the process of rapid change as young children grow. Beach Kids was created to allow children to take risks and extend their opportunities and increase their achievements as they grow older and become more independent and competent learners.