Branxton Preschool is a not for profit community based preschool providing education and care for children aged between 3-6 years. The Preschool is set on Wonnarua land in the heart of our community. We have a long established history within our community and place a value on building a sense of community connection amongst the children, families, and educators. We recognise our cultural connection to our local community, and we welcome families from all cultures and respect the important role they play in their child’s first education.

Our Purpose Statement

Your children...... will actively engage in play! This will stimulate a sense of wellbeing, allow a freedom to express their own personalities and uniqueness, assist in developing relationships, enable connections to be made and enhance curiosity and creativity. Play enables children to develop a positive attitude to learning.

Their future....... will include an approach to pedagogy that provides young children with opportunities to maximise their potential and develop a foundation for future success in learning. As a team, we will advocate for their rights under the “United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child” and the Early Childhood sector as a whole.

Our educational journey at Branxton Preschool is one that we collaboratively share hand-in-hand with our children and families.

Our community..... plays a significant role in your child’s early years of learning. The creation of strong, trusting and long-lasting connections with our families and our community, allow for a flow of learning and the sharing of valuable resources and knowledge. We encourage and recognise the contribution our children make not only to their community, but their world.

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FUTURE - Growing a community of citizens and life ready learners, encouraging independence and a thirst to explore learning through our curriculum.

Creating a sense of belonging  and understanding of what has come before and working together for what is to come with a proactive attitude for a sustainable future. 

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ACCEPTANCE - We acknowledge that there are multiple ways of knowing, doing and being. We value each of our families and recognize their importance as contributors to our learning to seek a better understanding.

Advocating for the UN convention rights of the child and for the rights of our Educational team to continue to grow our professional image and the importance of Early Childhood Education. 

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MEANINGFUL - We practice holistic, integrate and interconnected approaches in order to build responsive and meaningful learning relationships with our children, our families and our community.

Our Educators ensure that we are attuned to and respond in ways that best suit each child's strengths and capabilities. Promoting self-regulation, self esteem, resilience and well being.  

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IMPROVEMENT - We embed practices that promote continual, purposeful and authentic improvements.

Our Preschool is committed to promoting a culture of accountability and critical reflective practices with all citizens of the Preschool community.

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LEARNING - Happens organically within our environment with a calm, familiar and natural atmosphere.

Is a continual journey and educators are committed to injecting pedagogical practices that support individual styles of learning, enhance developmental skills and build true connections. 

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YOUNG CHILDREN - Children are recognized as capable, involved explorers and investigators. Who make a valuable contribution to not only their community but to the world.

Branxton preschool will always advocate for children's needs and provide an opportunity to rest for both their physical and mental wellbeing.

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The learning
environment

The learning environment has been carefully planned and landscaped to invite children into learning play spaces, that allow them to explore, engage and plan self-directed play. Our indoor open planned spaces allow the children to feel at home with furnishings that would be seen in their home environment. The play spaces allow the children to be creative, innovative and extend onto their existing knowledge and skills. Our outdoor environment enables the children to experience all that nature has to offer. We have incorporated the surrounding landscape and vegetation to bring nature to children's daily outdoor play and learning environment. A natural creek bed, loose parts, sandpit, mud kitchen, STEAM station, edible garden are just a few of our beautiful invitations to play in our outdoor setting.