Park Street Child Care and Kindergarten Co-operative Limited

Early development and learning takes place through relationships and particularly within the family. they believe it is important to share the responsibility of educating children with  families.

Their programs support the National Early Years Learning Framework and embody its central idea of ‘belonging, being and becoming’. Park Street believes that play is crucial to the development of children. It is the way they explore, discover and learn about their world, each other and themselves. Learning through play allows children to explore, experience, communicate, observe, reflect, create, collaborate, cooperate, problem-solve and imagine.

Their curriculum emerges from children’s interests within the context of language-enriched play-based program, and they encourage inquiry-based learning with particular focus on nature. Children’s learning is extended through a combination of child initiated and adult guided experiences. Their programs encourage collaboration with adults and peers through guided participation and observation, as well as individual exploration and reflection. The educators develop children’s learning by planning experiences, choosing teaching strategies and designing the environment to build each  child’s skills, knowledge and understanding of the world.