Play Create Learn

• Recognition of the uniqueness of each child's capacity and potential
• An holistic view of each child's development
• Recognition of the importance of play as a central integrating element in a child's development and learning
• An ecological view of humankind in the natural world
• Recognition of the integrity of childhood in its own right
• Recognition of the child as part of a family and a community
• Their right to protection from harm or abuse and the promotion of their overall well-being

• Knowledgeable and appropriately qualified early childhood professionals
• Skilled and informed observation of children, to support effective development, learning and teaching
• Awareness that education relates to all capabilities of each child: imaginative, creative, symbolic, linguistic, mathematical, musical, aesthetic, scientific, physical, social, moral, cultural and spiritual
• Parents/carers and educators working in harmony and partnership
• First-hand experience, play, talk and reflection
• Activities and experiences that have sense, purpose and meaning to the child, and involve joy, wonder, concentration, unity and satisfaction
• An holistic approach to learning which recognises children as active, feeling and thinking human beings, seeing patterns and making connections
• Encouragement rather than punishment
• Individual and collaborative activity and play
• An approach to learning which develops children's autonomy and self confidence

Environment 

• Physically safe but intellectually challenging, promoting curiosity, enquiry, sensory stimulation and aesthetic awareness
• Demonstrates the unity of indoors and outdoors, of the cultural and the natural
• Allows free access to a rich range of materials that promote open-ended opportunities for play, representation and creativity
• Entails the setting being an integral part of the community it serves, working in close partnership with parents and other skilled adults
• Educative rather than merely amusing or occupying
• Promotes interdependence as well as independence, community as well as individuality and responsibility as well as freedom.