Goals
In relation to the team:
- Continue to respect each other and respect each other's knowledge, experiences and background.
- Support and help each other not only on a professional basis but also on a personal basis. Give positive praise to each other.
- Work together and remember open, honest and clear communication.
- To remember to have fun.
- To encourage ourselves to try new challenges.
- Positive role modelling in all areas of development.
- Ensure that we continue to attend regular staff meetings and continue with effective communication between each other.
- Continue to work in collaboration with each other and myself to achieve your goals and objectives set from appraisals.
- Evaluate new programming and observation systems.
- Enhance feedback of communication between yourselves and parents, eg. verbal.
- Ensure that all policies, procedures, EYLF and current regulations are read and you become familiar with them.
- Contribute to policies when relevant.
- Ensure that OH&S, Safety and Hygiene practices are active and practiced at all times.
In relation to the children:
- To remember that children are capable and resourceful individuals.
- To continue to respect children as independent individuals.
- To offer the children more choices and self-direction.
- To offer the children more choices and self-direction.
- Acknowledge each child by name upon arrival and departure.
- To continue to provide the children with a safe, homely and secure environment.
- To continue to show tolerance to all children.
- To offer the children with more influences from within the community.
- Continue to focus on the process rather than the product.
- To offer the children more discovery.
- Continue to provide the high quality and enjoyable environment for all children and their families.
- Continue to provide a nurturing and challenges that are age/stage appropriate to each individual child.
- Engage in indoor/outdoor programme that includes walks around the environment regularly.
- Visiting the Park at least once a term.
- Continue to enhance portfolios.
In relation to the parents:
- To acknowledge each parent by name upon arrival and departure.
- To work in partnership with parents.
- To encourage more parent interaction through parent get togethers eg. Group Time participation.
- To encourage more parent involvement through more one on one communication when possible, using positive words. WATCH WORDS USED WHEN COMMUNICATING WITH PARENTS.
- Keep parents more informed of our programme and roles as early childhood educators.
- Continue to support all families and be aware of their home environment eg. single parents, change of home situation, change of address, arrival of a new baby.
- To continue to support all parents and continue to make them feel welcome at any time.
In relation to the Community:
- Involve the community through invitations to our special events, through walks around the community and through visiting the residents at the nursing home.
- To explore our surroundings through small excursions.
- To involve the Police and the Fire Brigade in our programme.
In relation to the Management Committee:
- To continue to respect the committees background knowledge.
- Effective, open and honest communication.
- Encourage staff to get to know committee.
- Encourage new families to join committee.
Individual Aims
The program at Sun Valley Preschool aims to encourage and further develop in children:
- Lively, inquiring minds, a love of learning and a willingness to apply effort to all tasks
- Ability to think rationally
- Use of their imagination
- Powers of self expression
- Physical and emotional development
- Self-esteem, self confidence, respect and consideration for others
- A coherent set of personal and social values
- Decision making and problem solving skills
- An understanding of themselves and their world
- Competence in intellectual, social and physical skills