Our Philosophy

Cherrybrook Community Pre-school Inc gives children the best start in life through:

Positive relationships between children, their families and educators.

Educators, children and families working together in a partnership to support children’s learning.

Play-based learning that engages children in interesting and meaningful experiences. Play-based learning fosters individual development, interest, skills and knowledge, while instilling a lifelong love of learning, enabling a smooth transition to school. These experiences include the physical, social, personal, cognitive, creative, numeracy, literacy and spiritual aspects of learning.

A program that offers support and opportunities for children to discover, create, construct, imagine, question, problem solve, engage in critical thinking, and promote positive ways to relate to others in a caring, fair and respectful manner. This promotes a child’s sense of belonging, being and becoming within our pre-school community, while developing interests, constructing their own identities and understandings of the world as they participate in everyday life.

Educators place children first and are motivated to do what is best for them. By integrating the Child Safe Standards into our program, we embed child safety in the attitudes, behaviours, and practices of those working within our Pre-school to put the interests of children first to keep them safe from harm.

Our learning environment is one that is happy, safe, secure, welcoming and respectful. It also reflects and enriches the lives, cultures and identities of the children, families and educators within our community.

Definitions:
Belonging:- knowing where and with whom they belong,
Being:- the significance of the present,
Becoming:- the process of change with learning and growing (pg 6, EYLF).