Leaping Learners Believes:

• Children are individuals with rights and choices for learning.
• Early Childhood is a significant time during which early experience influence development.
• Learning occurs through play (Froebel), sensory exploration (Montessori) and social interactions (Vygotsky).
• Education should be individualised and meet children’s/ families/communities needs.
• Education should be sensory, follow the children’s needs interests (Reggio Emilia) and be relevant to their lives.
• Education should be holistic and develop the whole child (Steiner)
• Education should develop skills for life (Montessori)
• Education should promote individual growth, equity and social change (attitudes/ dispositions)
• Education and teaching should involve families and the community
• Teaching should balance teacher directed-child directed experiences and structure-flexibility
• Teaching should develop relationship and encourage interactions
• Teaching will be based on current research and theory
• Professional development is important to teach effectively
• The environment should be safe, appealing, secure and offer free choice.

At Leaping Learners Early Education Centre we aim to provide a service that meets and reflects the needs of children, families and the community and promotes quality outcomes for children through high quality, continuities care and positive relationships.

We aim to provide a program that follows a constructivist approach that incorporates a flexible balance of adult directed and child directed activities.

We also believe that it is important to balance a focus on developmental domains with that of the children’s interests, themes, projects, learning centres and some emergent curriculum.

We aim to provide a flexible, individualised, multicultural and anti-biased play based approach with a focus on relationships and collaboration.

Our program and practice will always be based on current early childhood research and theory.