OUR PHILOSOPHY

Here, at Peter Pan Preschool…

We play. It is our right.

Our Play is rich and meaningful and it belongs to us.

Play is how we understand our world and discover who we are.

Our Play is valued, protected, encouraged and understood by our educators.

Our play is documented and shared with families.

We get to take our time, explore and be curious.

Sometimes we wander and wonder….

We can revisit our play as many times as we need too.

We can choose where to play.

Here,

We respect the country we are on and give thanks to its custodians, the Kamilaroi people.

Our environment is authentic, natural and precious and teaches us so many things in so many ways.

We can swing “so high it feels like we are flying” (Marhni 2023).

We can walk barefoot in the water, run on the grass in the sun, throw and catch the autumn leaves, cover ourselves in sand and climb in the trees.

There are so many natural parts to look, touch, smell and listen too.

We take care of the plants and animals.

Here,

We are cherished as unique and wonderful people.

We treat each other with kindness, empathy and respect.

All of our voices are important and we are encouraged to use ours.

Sometimes we have big emotions and that is okay. We use strategies and techniques to help us learn to express our feelings in positive ways.

We learn to listen to each other.

We all belong in this space.

Here,

Learning happens everywhere.

We become joyful learners.

Our learning journeys are all different.

We learn to manage risk and to keep ourselves safe.

We can climb to great heights and physically challenge our bodies.

We follow our own interests and our educators help us when we need it.

We use our imaginations and have lots of resources and loose parts that we can use to create our play.

Connections are made and relationships formed, sometimes this can take time.

Educators talk to our families and share stories of all the things we do.

We discover that we can make friends when we are kind.

We laugh a lot.

Here,

There are always wonderful experiences happening.

Some are planned, some are spontaneous, some go for a long time and others are over quickly.

Educators here spend time playing and talking with us, they know lots about how we learn and grow and they like to include our thoughts and ideas.

The program is flexible and responds to what we need and when we need it to help us become the best we can be.

Here at Peter Pan, we are all shining stars who will leave a bright trail wherever we go.

We will take wonderful memories of our time with us when we leave, and perhaps bring our own children here one day as so many of our past families do…