Our Philosophy
At Spotted Frog Kindergarten, we believe it is impossible to separate children's play, learning and development. We believe each child brings with them deep curiosity and potential and this curiosity drives their interest to understand their world and place within it. Our Play and Stem based curriculums provide children with inspiration for a lifelong love of learning and our programs encourage children to be capable and confident in making sense of their world, building relationships, learning conflict resolution, and regulating behaviours.
Our Centre believes rich engagements and observation is pivotal to understanding how children think and learn and these observations allow educators to continually provide stimulating environments to allow learning to be dynamic, complex, and holistic. We believe daily collaboration with families through different platforms ensures the best outcomes for children.
At Spotted Frog Kindergarten, we believe relationships with children and families are crucial to ensuring that our centre program reflects children and family interests as well the needs and expectations of society and the culture and community in which our centre is placed.
At Spotted Frog Kindergarten we place an emphasis on respect for the environment and aim to provide safe, natural and uncluttered settings where both educators and children have agency to lead learning and be active participants in matters affecting them. We encourage children to show respect for the natural environment and have a commitment to being sustainable and modelling sustainable practices with children and families as we believe natural environments provide children with endless opportunities to explore, investigate and grow.
Educators understand, respect and value that children are individuals who grow and develop at various stages therefore have a commitment to supporting each child’s developmental abilities and when needed educators work together with specialists and families to support all childrens needs.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island culture is extremely valued at our service and we believe in guiding and educating children to show kindness and respect for diversity by learning from the land and building a connection to country while embedding the 8 ways of learning. At Spotted Frog Kindergarten we aim to increase childrens knowledge about Indigenous cultures as well as create inclusive, respectful, and nurturing environments for all diverse cultures.
The Early Childhood professionals at Spotted Frog Kindergarten are committed to always demonstrating best practice and engage in professional development to keep knowledge current, ensuring the best outcomes for themselves, the children in our care and our families.
It is our belief that when children, long term educators and families intertwine, it creates the unmistakable essence that is uniquely recognised as that of Spotted Frog Kindergarten