Curriculum Framework

The Early Years Learning and Development Framework addresses 5 key areas essential for children's learning and development - Identity, Community, Wellbeing, Learning and Communication.

The outcomes for each of these key areas are as follows:

Outcome 1 - Children have a strong sense of identity

  • Children feel safe, secure, supported.
  • children develop their emerging autonomy.  Inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency.
  • Children develop knowledgable 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 for 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, enquiry, experimentation, hypothesizing, 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, 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.