Mission Statement

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The Tarago Preschool believes that the following four values provides a foundation for our Preschool.

By following and believing in these four values we feel that we have an environment that supports continual quality improvement

 

CARE

INTEGRITY

COLLABORATION

EXCELLENCE

Approved learning framework The National Early Years Learning Framework supports our curriculum decision making reflecting on our practices and improvements.

We refer to the Early Childhood Australia Code of Ethics and the UNICEF Rights of the Child.

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Being

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• Happy, confident in their self-worth.

• To have a strong sense of identity.

• To have good self-help skills so that they can independently look after themselves at school.

• To help them develop their caring and nurturing side of their personalities.

• To be Friendly and respective to others.

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Belonging

 

• To have a strong sense of belonging.

• To feel that all the children have an input into their preschool environment.

• Having a sense of connectedness and a secure bond with their teachers

• Feeling a strong sense of belonging to their community Becoming

• Having a sense of connectedness and a secure bond with their teachers

• Feeling a strong sense of belonging to their community

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Becoming

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• Self-confident and feeling ready for school

• By loving the person, they are.

• Through exploring their environment and learning about their world.

• Through this we feel that we are achieving Best Practice for our service

 

Families and Community We believe our children, families and community strive to

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• Have collaborative relationships between families, staff, and the management to build an environment that is of high quality, safe and run as a community preschool by the community for the community.

 

Educators We believe our educators strive to

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• Be attentive to the needs of others when listening and responding to feedback from staff, families, and colleagues.

• Staff feeling safe in their workplace and to succeed in their profession.

• Be open, honest, and trustworthy in communicating with others.

• Be accountable, reflective, and open to feedback

• Treat everyone the same way with dignity and be open to diversity 

• Actively communicate to achieve the best results by giving time, and attention to the efforts of others.

• Respect and acknowledge everyone’s input, skills, and experience by working together and contributing to the innovative ideas and solutions.

• Share knowledge and resources willingly with other staff and colleagues.

• Develop and contribute to an environment where every member feels valued and respected for their knowledge and attributes, they bring to their job roles.

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 Child Safe Environment A commitment to Child Safe Standards

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All children and young people have a right to feel safe and be safe. Tarago Preschool is committed to embedding a culture where the safety, wellbeing, and participation of all children is paramount.

 

 We are always committed to acting in the best interests of children and ensuring Tarago preschool is a safe place to be where children's voices and concerns are herd and acted upon. 

 

We are committed to being an organisation that recognises and promotes children’s rights and empowers them to exercise them.

 

We have zero tolerance of child abuse and misconduct, and all allegations and safety concerns are acted upon.

Our preschool values, recognises and supports diversity, inclusion, and equality.

 

We are committed to the implementation and ongoing improvements and motoring of the child safe standards.

Our Staff and committee members are aware of their duty of care and responsibilities to the children and always act in the best interest of the children in our care.

 

Our Child Safe Statement of Commitment applies to all employees, volunteers, students, Committee members.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures

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 • To build relationships with traditional elders and custodians of country.

• To embed traditional Indigenous perspectives into learning.

• Acknowledgment of Country is embedded into our preschool environment.

• Learning about Indigenous art telling the story of land through stories.

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Wellbeing

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• To acknowledge that wellbeing is the foundation of feeling safe and loved.

• To embed wellbeing in the form of slowing down and becoming aware of our emotions and how we are feeling and how this affects everyone around us.

• To build resilience to deal with change and build confidence in self and others.

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Program/Sustainability

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• Children having input into their learning environment.

• To have an environment that is aesthetically pleasing, homely, warm, and relaxing.

• To provide learning spaces that are interesting, inviting and that stimulate a wonder for learning and discovery.

• To provide a literacy rich environment through books, pictures, and language.

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Continuous improvement

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• Be prepared for change and strive for continuous learning and improving quality in the seven quality areas

• Management systems in place to ensure safety is always upheld through imbedding child safe standards, policies and procedures, audits, code of conduct, UNICEF conventions of the Right of the Child and Mandatory Reporting.

• Staff, Management, Families and Children have input into the Quality Improvement Plan/Self-Assessment Plan.

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Staff pledge

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We pledge to establish a warm supportive, responsive, and stable environment for all children that attend the Tarago Preschool where the children feel both Welcome and Safe And to provide learning opportunities that extend from the child’s discoveries.