1. Agentic Ensuring that children have voice in their learning. Their ideas and interests initiate, support and extend learning possibilities in order to build on their real‑world understandings and experiences.
2. CHILDREN ARE CONNECTED WITH AND CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR WORLD
2.1. Creative Inviting children to consider ‘What if?’ they encourage investigation, inquiry and artistry to explore new possibilities and ways of thinking.
3. CHILDREN HAVE A STRONG SENSE OF WELLBEING
3.1. Learner focused Recognising that all children learn in different ways and that learning is a highly individualised process. They also acknowledge differences in children’s physical, intellectual, cultural, social and personal experiences and perspectives.
3.2. Playful Encouraging children to make connections through imagination and creativity to explore alternate worlds and ways of thinking. These worlds, not bounded by reality, offer the freedom children need to innovate and enact new possibilities.
4. CHILDREN ARE CONFIDENT AND INVOLVED LEARNERS
5. CHILDREN HAVE A STRONG SENSE OF IDENTITY
5.1. Play based learning
5.2. Inquiry approach
5.3. Active Requiring physical and embodied engagement across all areas of learning. Whether this is indoors or outdoors, activity is essential in order to activate children’s full potential. Their focus, concentration, motivation and self regulation are enhanced through moving, doing and interacting within a range of learning environments.
6. CHILDREN ARE CONNECTED WITH AND CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR WORLD
6.1. Explicit Making conscious for both learner and educator the relationships between the learning purpose and processes employed and the skills and understanding these processes support.
6.2. Scaffolded Including such actions as modelling, encouraging, questioning, adding challenges, and giving feedback, to provide the support needed to extend children’s existing capabilities. Effective scaffolding by both educators and other children provides active structures to support new learning; it is then progressively withdrawn as learners gain increasing mastery.
7. CHILDREN ARE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATORS
7.1. Collaborative Being social and co‑constructed. Children and educators work together to identify ways of learning and understanding through sustained shared thinking and action.
7.2. Language rich and dialogic Ensuring that learning occurs in environments where rich language is modelled and employed by both children and educators. Meaningful dialogues between children, as well as between children and educators, are created to support thinking, learning, engagement and imagination.
7.3. Narrative Acknowledging the important role that personal, written, oral and digital stories play in all our lives. They support both the production and comprehension of narratives through active processes, especially play.
