Curriculum

Sarina Kindy follows The Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline (QKGL). These guidelines support kindergarten teachers’ professional practice in a range of contexts across Queensland. QKGL is based on the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia (EYLF).

While the EYLF focuses on children from birth to five years, the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline aims to specifically enrich children’s learning in the Kindergarten Year. In Queensland, the Kindergarten Year is the year before the Preparatory Year of schooling.

Throughout the Kindergarten Year, children’s right to experience the joy of childhood is fundamental and learning is promoted through play, and emergent and planned learning experiences and interactions.

The EYLF describes a vision of children’s learning, characterised by:

• belonging— recognising that knowing where and with whom you belong is integral to human existence, providing a basis for children’s interdependence and
  relationships with others.
• being— recognising and valuing the “here and now” in children’s lives, and viewing childhood as more than simply preparation for adulthood or for the future.
• becoming— recognising the rapid and significant learning and development that occurs in the early years, and the capability and potential of all children.

Providing a balanced program that emphasises the centrality of play in young children’s learning is the focus of the Sarina Kindy program. As current research highlights, play is an essential context for supporting young children’s language and literacy development.

Play offers a chance to provide experiences which replicate or approximate the ways literacy is genuinely used in everyday life, thereby offering children insights into what it feels like to be literate.